HISTORY 4B

COURSE: History 4B,History of Western Civilization

SECTION ID: 1124

ROOM: S75

PARTICULARS: 3 weekly lecture hours, 4 units

MEETING: Tuesdays & Thursdays 7:00 pm-7:40 pm

CLASS DATES: begin TUesday, January 8th, end Thursday, March 22nd

INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Marder

EMAIL : guerre1859@yahoo.com

Instructor Website: www.debellum.org

Mid Term: To be Announced

RECOMMENDED TEXT: The Making of the West, Hunt

FORMAT: Lecture/discussion/participation. All students are expected to be prepared to discuss the text material and topics presented in lectures.

GRADING POLICY: there will be weekly quizzes (usually Thursdays) on the lectures and chapter readings (around a dozen quizzes in all). Tests will have essays and/or multiple choice questions. Questions come from the texts or the lectures. Missed quizzes may not be made up. There will also be a midterm exam and a final exam. Exams will cover readings, and lectures. Your final grade will be based on your quizzes (20%), class participation (10%), your midterm (30%) and your final (40%). On the midterm and final, students have the option of taking: 1)multiple choice only, 2) multiple choice + essay, or, 3) essay only.

COURSE OUTLINE AND SCHEDULE (A ROUGH GUIDE)

COURSE OUTLINE AND SCHEDULE (A ROUGH GUIDE) Week 1, Jan. 9,11th Introduction: History: mirror, echo, omen; Why medieval history? AD 300 The Humanities and Mankind; The Social “Sciences” Setting the stage: the European theater The Roman Empire: Retreat, Retrenchment and Reform

Week 2, Jan. 16,18th Paganism, Christianity, mystery religions AD 500 Barbarians: Goths, Vandals ‘Fall’ of the West The Empire Strikes Back

Week 3, Jan. 23,25th Merovingians, Lombards AD 600 Byzantines and Sassanians

Week 4, Jan. 30, Feb. 1st Anglo-Saxon England, Monasticism AD 700 Islam on the march, Empire Aflame

Week 5, Feb. 6, 8th Carolingians, Birth of Europe AD 800 Demographic rebound; the Slavs

Week 6, Feb. 13, 15th The New Invasions AD 900 Vikings and Magyars, Khazars

MID-TERM EXAM

Week 7, Feb. 20, 22nd Emergence of national feudalism, The Normans AD 1000 The Crusades, the Knights, Crescent and Cross

Week 8, Feb. 27, Mar.1st Demographic upswing, climate warming AD 1100 Cultural broadening, the Turks

Week 9, Mar. 6, 8th Peril from the steppes: the Mongols AD 1200 The Italian blossoming (Dante, the vernacular), the Kings

Week 10, Mar. 13, 15th The Hundred Years’ War, The Plague AD 1300 Guns and ships, Decline of Feudalism in the West

Week 11, Mar. 20, 22nd National States AD 1400 Merchants and trade