Chapter+Reading+Assignments

Chapter 1 [|The Epic of Gilgamesh] [|The Code of Hammurabi]

Chapter 2 [|"In the Beginning ... ": The Hebrews Explain Creation] [|Moses and the Ten Commandments]

Chapter 3 [|Plato and the Equality of Women] [|Gender in the Hellenistic Age] The Iliad

[|The Funeral Oration of Pericles]

Chapter 4 [|"The Tyrant is Dead"] [|Justifying Caesar's Assassination, Book III, section XXI] [|The Man of unlimited ambition: Julius Caesar]

Chapter 5 [|Corpus Iuris Civilis] [|The blessing of the Pax Romana] [|A different view of Pax Romana: Tactus, "Agricola"]

Chapter 6 [|Excerpts from The Qua'rn by Muhammad] [|"Forcible Conversion Under Charlemagne"] Call for Crusade [|Domesday Book] [|The Magna Carta]

Chapter 7 [|Summa Theologica] [|The Plague Hits Florence] [|Warfare without Chilvary] [|Trial of Joan of Arc]

Chapter 8 [|The Prince] [|Utopia] [|Advice to a "Wise Princess"] [|95 Theses] [|Peace of Augsburg]

Chapter 9 [|Edict of Nantes] [|The social contract] [|Peter the Great]

Chapter 10 [|Copernicus] [|Montesquieu] [|Rousseau]