Western Civ Class

[Property Is Robbery]

Arrghh. I slacked off all semester and now I'm fucked. Would any historically learned comrades like to help me with this outline? Thanks in advance.


Prompt 1
The Ancient World: Mesopotamian, Near Eastern, and Egyptian Civilizations
A. Discuss the events in each of these regions which had the greatest impact upon their respective developments.
B. Analyze the major cultural and ideological influences that each of these regions had on the development of Western civilization.

Prompt 2
The Classical World: the Ancient Mediterranean (Minoans & Mycenaeans), the Greeks, and the Romans
A. Discuss the events in each of these regions which had the greatest impact upon their respective developments.
B. Analyze the major cultural and ideological influences that each of these regions had on the development of Western Civilization.

Prompt 3
The Medieval World: the Early, High, and Late Middle Ages
A. Discuss the events in each of these periods which had the greatest impact upon the development of European history and civilization.
B. Analyze the major cultural and ideological influences that each of these periods had on the development of Western Civilization.

Prompt 4
Early Modern Europe (the Christian Humanist Movement, the Renaissance, the Reformations, European Expansion)
A. Discuss the major events and achievements associated with each of these movements.
B. Analyze the greatest cultural and ideological influences that these movements had on
Western civilization.

[Tablo]

Damn, was going to help you out, but I haven't taken 101, just 102.

[Property Is Robbery]

Damn, was going to help you out, but I haven't taken 101, just 102.
so pretty much 1700's to present? Well thanks anyway :)
It's my own damn fault. Been smokin cannabis too often :laugh:

[Tablo]

so pretty much 1700's to present? Well thanks anyway :)
It's my own damn fault. Been smokin to much cannabis :laugh:
I know how you feel. I smoked through my entire US history class and would have failed if it weren't a class I took in high school. I can help you out more when you take 102 though. :thumbup1:

[Property Is Robbery]

I know how you feel. I smoked through my entire US history class and would have failed if it weren't a class I took in high school. I can help you out more when you take 102 though. :thumbup1:
Well if I decide to take it again then that will be helpful :p

When you take it feel free to ask me any questions (I did learn a couple things)

[Tablo]

I for sure will!

[Property Is Robbery]

Well this thread is not concluded comrades. I need help :bored:

[Rooster]

http://www.google.com/search?q=st+petersburg+college+western+civilizatio n&tbo=p&tbm=vid&source=vgc&aq=0 ?:confused:

[PhoenixAsh]

Well this thread is not concluded comrades. I need help :bored:

This is not that easy a question. Its actually pretty elaborate...and their answer pretty much depend partially on the personal input of your teacher.


For example...

early middle ages: What area? Is he talking about the restabilisation and growth in the west? Rise of Islam? Byzantine Empire? The Vikings?

high middle ages: rapid population expansion. herecy in the church? The church schism? Crusades?

late middle ages: famines, plague, 100 year war, 80 year war. colonialism. military revolution..


Its really not that clear cut,

[Property Is Robbery]

No I'm aware I'm not asking an easy question.

All of the above.

[Red Commissar]

Regarding the last prompt, here is two pages from a "summary" of European history for the time period of the reformation, renaissance, etc. There are four other pages to this, but they are modern history topics.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v456/MercZ/D19240-europeanhistoryPage1.jpg?t=1305872121
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v456/MercZ/D19241-europeanhistoryPage2.jpg?t=1305872127

If you save these images, you can use the zoom function on image editors to read it better.


You get pretty much all the major events packed into those two pages. If you need help later on I can post some brief summaries tomorrow. It's past midnight here and I need to sleep.

[#FF0000]

Working on it

[#FF0000]

Mesopotamia:

Large scale irrigation. Farmers flooding and draining fields/preventing the buildup of salt in the soil.

Mesopotamia also had the Sumerians who developed writing with pictographs called cuneform. They also started schooling, which was adopted by the Akkadians and the Babylonians.

This writing, mind you, was developed for economic purposes. Record of transactions, basically. Those schools I mentioned taught scribes who were big in administration and business.

Religion for the Mesopotamians is also something you might need to know about. Their religion was basically the typical polytheistic thing. Many gods, some gods more important than others (gods of law, music, etc.). Anthropomorphic. Kind of like greek gods in that they were very human like, except with baller fucking powers like turning invisible. Mesopotamians didn't worship them, though. Mortals are too insignificant to pass judgement on gods and they were p. nice gods anyway.

Then you have the Babylonians and Akkadians... With the Babylonians, you'll definitely want to mention Hammurabi's law, which was something like the first code of laws. I don't think it was really the first, but it was important, though how important is debatable. A lot of people think it just sort of codified and made official what were already social norms and mores. I think that's bullshit considering how culturally diverse the Mesopotamians were, but there might be something to it, since "Mesopotamian culture" spread among other groups like wildfire too. If any of this makes sense.

I'll work on the rest in the morning or something. Or maybe now. When do you need this by?

[bailey_187]

J.M Roberts The Penguin History of Europe, should be able to answer most of that. Its a fairly readable book too. Questions are too broad to answer without puting in alot of effort, and i cba.