Week Two (August 20-23)
Monday: Lecture: Dr. Bill Trimble - The Paleolithic & Neolithic Eras     Lecture Quiz on WebCT from 3:00-11:30 PM
Tuesday: 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.
Thursday: Reading: Chap. 6 - Jared Diamond "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race"   

Week Three (August 27-30)
Monday: Lecture: Dr. Michael Kozuh - Ancient Mesopotamia     Lecture Quiz on WebCT 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.museum.upenn.edu/new/Games/cuneiform.shtml 

Week Four (September 4-6)
Monday: No Class - Labor Day Holiday
Tuesday: In-class lecture: Ancient Egypt
Thursday: Reading: Chap. 10 - John Keegan "Flesh: The Charioteers"

Week Five (September 10-13)
Monday: Lecture: Dr. Guy Beckwith - Ancient Mediterranean Societies     Lecture Quiz on WebCT from 3:00-11:30 PM
Tuesday: Internet - "History of Aegean Civilization"
http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?ParagraphID=cdj&HistoryID=ac39#cdj
                               "History of the Phoenicians"
http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab89
Thursday: Reading: Chap. 11 - Willard Bascom "Ancient Ships and Shipping"

Week Six (September 17-20)
Monday: Lecture: Dr. Michael Kozuh - Hellenism and Ancient Rome     Lecture Quiz on WebCT 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"
 -  First Extra Credit Assignment Due
 -  Exam One Study Guide Posted  

Week Seven (September 24-27)
Monday: Lecture: Dr. Angela Lakwete - Ancient Tropical Africa     Lecture Quiz on WebCT 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 Eight (October 1-4)
Monday: Lecture: Dr. Bill Trimble - Ancient India     Lecture Quiz on WebCT 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 Nine (October 8-11)
Monday: Lecture: Dr. Angela Lakwete - Ancient China      Lecture Quiz on WebCT 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 Ten (October 15-18)
Monday: Lecture: Dr. Guy Beckwith - Ancient American Societies     Lecture Quiz on WebCT 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 Eleven (October 22-25)
Monday: Lecture: Dr. Michael Kozuh - Islam and the Muslim Empires     Lecture Quiz on WebCT 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).
-  Exam Two Study Guide Posted
Thursday: Reading: Chap. 21 - Richard W. Bulliet "How the Camel Got Its Saddle"
 -  Second Extra Credit Assignment Due

Week Twelve (October 29 - November 1)
Monday: Lecture: Dr. Guy Beckwith - Medieval Europe     Lecture Quiz on WebCT from 3:00-11:30 PM
Tuesday: Second Midterm Exam
Thursday: Reading: Chap. 23 - Jean Gimpel "The Agricultural Revolution"

Week Thirteen (November 5-8)
Monday: Lecture: Dr. Bill Trimble - Renaissance and Reformation     Lecture Quiz on WebCT from 3:00-11:30 PM
Tuesday: Internet - "Brunelleschi and the Origin of Linear Perspective"
http://www.kap.pdx.edu/trow/winter01/perspective/
Follow the links to Part II and Part III.
Thursday: Reading: Chap. 29 - Michael Olmert "The Gutenberg Revolution"  

Week Fourteen (November 12-15)
Monday: Lecture: David Burke - Exploration and Imperialism     Lecture Quiz on WebCT from 3:00-11:30 PM
Tuesday: Reading: Chap. 31 - Victoria Schofield "The World in 1492" 
Thursday: 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

Thanksgiving Holidays (November 19-23)

Week Fifteen (November 26-29)
Monday: Lecture: Andrew Baird - The Scientific Revolution     Lecture Quiz on WebCT 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 Sixteen (December 3-6)
Monday: Lecture: Andrew Baird - World Trade and Capitalism     Lecture Quiz on WebCT from 3:00-11:30 PM
Tuesday: Internet - "VOC: The First Multinational"
http://www.sabrizain.demon.co.uk/malaya/dutch1.htm
                                "Adam Smith"
http://www.economyprofessor.com/theorists/adamsmith.php 
Read first about Adam Smith and follow the links for Invisible Hand and Laissez-faire
Thursday: Reading: Chap. 37 - Pico Iyer "A Whole Subcontinent Was Picked Up Without Half Trying" 
 -  Final Exam Study Guide Posted

Final Exam - Tuesday, December 11 - 2:00 - 4:30 pm in HC 2461