Week One (August 17-20)
Monday: Lecture: Dr. Bill Trimble - The Paleolithic & Neolithic Eras  
Tuesday: Course Introduction
Thursday: Reading: Chap. 6 - Jared Diamond "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race"  
          Internet - "A visit to the cave at Lascaux"
http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/
Click on the opening image and then the "Discover" link  (follow the links through Time & Space, 1940: The Discovery, Virtual Visit, and Closing of the Cave). Explore anything else you find interesting as well.

Week Two (August 24-27)
Monday: Lecture: Dr. Michael Kozuh - Ancient Mesopotamia     Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from 3:00-11:30 PM
Tuesday: Reading: Chap. 7 - Peter F. Drucker "The First Technological Revolution and Its Lessons"
Thursday: Internet - "About Cuneiform Writing..."
http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Games/cuneiform.html

Week Three (August 31-September 3)
Monday: Lecture: Dr. Angela Lakwete - Ancient Egypt     Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from 3:00-11:30 PM
Tuesday: Internet - "Building the Pyramids"
http://puffin.creighton.edu/museums/cohagan/egypt_build.htm
                   "Architectural Composition of a Pyramid"
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/pyramids_of_egypt/building.php
Thursday: Reading: Chap. 10 - John Keegan "Flesh: The Charioteers"

Week Four (September 8-10)
Monday: No Class - Labor Day Holiday
Tuesday: In class lecture: Ancient Mediterranean Societies
Thursday: Reading: Chap. 11 - Willard Bascom "Ancient Ships and Shipping"

Week Five (September 14-17)
Monday: Lecture: Dr. Guy Beckwith - Hellenism and Ancient Rome     Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from 3:00-11:30 PM
Tuesday: Internet - "Archimedes"
http://www.crystalinks.com/archimedes.html
                           "Discovering Roman Technology"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/tech_01.shtml 
Browse the first five pages
Thursday: Reading: Chap. 14 - Henry Hodges "Late Greek and Roman Engineers and Their Devotion to Machinery"
  -  Exam One Study Guide Posted  

Week Six (September 21-24)
Monday: Lecture: Dr. Angela Lakwete - Ancient Tropical Africa     Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from 3:00-11:30 PM
Tuesday: Reading: Chap. 18 - Graham Connah "Brilliance Beneath the Trees: The West African Forest and its Fringes" 
Thursday: First Midterm Exam

Week Seven (September 28 - October 1)
Monday: Lecture: Dr. Bill Trimble - Ancient India     Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from 3:00-11:30 PM 
Tuesday: Internet - "Harrappa and the Indus River"
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ANCINDIA/HARAPPA.HTM  
Follow the link to "The Aryans."
Thursday: Internet - "Hinduism: A General Introduction"  
http://www.religioustolerance.org/hinduism2.htm

Week Eight (October 5-8)
Monday: Lecture: Dr. Angela Lakwete - Ancient China      Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from 3:00-11:30 PM 
Tuesday: Internet - "Engines of our Ingenuity - Su-Sung's Clock"
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1580.htm
                          "The First Emperor of China"
http://www.heritageeast.com/history/qin.htm 
Thursday: Reading: Chap. 17 - Lynda Norene Shaffer "China, Technology, and Change" 

Week Nine (October 12-15)
Monday: Lecture: Dr. Guy Beckwith - Ancient American Societies     Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from 3:00-11:30 PM
Tuesday: Internet - "Tour of Chichen Itza"
http://www.mysteriousplaces.com/mayan/TourEntrance.html
Follow all the links from El Castillo to Cenote.
                          "The Khipu: String, Knot, and Theory of Inca Writing"
http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/abacus/inca-khipu.html
Thursday: Reading: Chap. 20 - Jared Diamond "The Accidental Conqueror"

Week Ten (October 19-22)
Monday: Lecture: Andrew Baird - Islam and the Muslim Empires     Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from 3:00-11:30 PM
Tuesday: Internet - "The Travels of Ibn Battuta - A Virtual Tour with the 14th Century Traveler"
http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/Ibn_Battuta/Ibn_Battuta_Rihla.html
Read the Introduction and follow the links to The Hajj: Medina to Mecca (1326), and Writing the Story of Ibn Battuta's Travels - The Rihla (feel free to browse other parts of his travels that interest you).
Thursday: Reading: Chap. 21 - Richard W. Bulliet "How the Camel Got Its Saddle"
 -  Exam Two Study Guide Posted
 
Week Eleven (October 26-29)
Monday: Lecture: Dr. Guy Beckwith - Medieval Europe     Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from 3:00-11:30 PM
Tuesday: Reading: Chap. 23 - Jean Gimpel "The Agricultural Revolution"
Thursday: Second Midterm Exam

Week Twelve (November 2-5)
Monday: Lecture: Dr. Bill Trimble - Renaissance and Reformation     Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from 3:00-11:30 PM
Tuesday: Internet - "Brunelleschi's Peepshow and the Origin of Linear Perspective"
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.geometry/unit11/unit11.html
Thursday: Reading: Chap. 29 - Michael Olmert "The Gutenberg Revolution"  

Week Thirteen (November 9-12)
Monday: Lecture: Dr. Kristen Haring - The Scientific Revolution     Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from 3:00-11:30 PM
Tuesday: Internet - "The Galileo Project - The Congregation of the Index"
http://galileo.rice.edu/chr/congregation.html
                                 "The Galileo Project - Longitude at Sea"
http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/observations/longitude.html
Thursday: Reading: Chap. 41 - Timothy Ferris "Newton's Reach"

Week Fourteen (November 16-19)
Monday: Lecture: Dr. Alan Meyer - Exploration and Imperialism     Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from 3:00-11:30 PM
Tuesday: Reading: Chap. 31 - Victoria Schofield "The World in 1492" 
Thursday: Internet - "The European Voyages of Exploration"
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/geocart.html
Start with Geography/Cartography, then follow the links to Ships & Navigation, Maritime Superiority, and Religion & Exploration.

Thanksgiving Holidays (November 23-27)

Week Fifteen (November 30 - December 3)
Monday: Lecture: Andrew Baird - New World Colonization     Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from 3:00-11:30 PM
Tuesday: Internet - "The Early Life of Columbus"
http://www.columbusnavigation.com/early.shtml
Follow the link to "First Voyage"  
                             "Columbus and the Destruction of Native Peoples" 
http://www.columbusnavigation.com/destruct.shtml
Thursday: Reading: Chap. 37 - Pico Iyer "A Whole Subcontinent Was Picked Up Without Half Trying"  
 -  Final Exam Study Guide Posted

Week Sixteen (December 7)
Monday: Lecture: Dr. James Hansen - World Trade and Capitalism     Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from 3:00-11:30 PM
 

Final Exam - Section 03/LC2 (8:00 AM class) Wednesday, December 9 - 8:00-10:30 am in HC 3238
                      Section 04/LC3 (9:30 AM class) Tuesday, December 15 - 8:00-10:30 am in HC 2218