HISTORY 151                      
CLASS UNITS
 

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January 12 – 19

GO TO: UNIT ONE - THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION

CHAPTER ONE -           Opening Remarks

CHAPTER TWO -          The Paleolithic Lifestyle

CHAPTER THREE -      The Shift to Agriculture

CHAPTER FOUR -        The Agricultural Revolution  

 


January 19 – January 26

GO TO: UNIT TWO - EARLY RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS

CHAPTER ONE -        Early River Valley Civilizations

CHAPTER TWO -       Geographic Comparison

CHAPTER THREE -   Mesopotamia - Key Characteristics

CHAPTER FOUR -     Ancient Egypt - Key Characteristics
 

GO TO UNIT THREE -  EARLY EMPIRES AND SMALL KINGDOMS
                                        OF THE NEAR EAST

CHAPTER ONE -        Overview: Near Eastern Civilizations

CHAPTER TWO -       Early Empires in the Near East

CHAPTER THREE -   Era of Small Kingdoms

CHAPTER FOUR -     The Hebrews: History and Religious Development

 


January 26 – February 2

 

GO TO: UNIT FOUR-     ANCIENT INDIAN CIVILIZATION

CHAPTER ONE -         Indus Civilization

CHAPTER TWO -       The Development of a Traditional Society

CHAPTER THREE -   Vedic Traditions and Hinduism

CHAPTER FOUR -      Buddhism

 

GO TO: UNIT FIVE-     ANCIENT CHINESE CIVILIZATION

CHAPTER ONE -         Early Patterns in Chinese Civilization

CHAPTER TWO -       The Growth of a Unified State

CHAPTER THREE -   Confucianism

CHAPTER FOUR -      Daoism

 


February 2- February 9

 

GO TO: UNIT SIX -     EARLY ASIAN EMPIRES: INDIA AND CHINA

CHAPTER ONE -      The Mauryan Empire

CHAPTER TWO   -   The Gupta Empire

CHAPTER THREE -  The Han Dynasty in China

CHAPTER FOUR -    The Golden Age of China

GO TO: UNIT SEVEN-     ANCIENT GREECE

CHAPTER ONE -         Early Development

CHAPTER TWO -       The Lyric Age

CHAPTER THREE -   The Polis

CHAPTER FOUR -      The Classical Period: Sparta and Athens

CHAPTER FIVE  -       The Classical Period: Cultural and Intellectual
                                            Achievements


 


February 9- February 16

 

GO TO: UNIT EIGHT  -     ALEXANDER, HELLENISM AND THE EMERGENCE OF ROME

CHAPTER ONE -        The Decline of Hellenic Greece

CHAPTER TWO -        Alexander the Great

CHAPTER THREE -    Hellenism

CHAPTER FOUR -      Early Development of Roman Civilization

 


February 16- February 23

 

GO TO: UNIT NINE-     THE RISE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

CHAPTER ONE -         The Roman Republic

CHAPTER TWO -       The Roman Empire

CHAPTER THREE -   The Decline of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER FOUR -      Christianity

CHAPTER FIVE  -       The Fall of Rome

 


February 23- March 2

GO TO: UNIT TEN -   THE EMERGENCE OF EUROPEAN  CIVILIZATION: THE MIDDLE AGES

CHAPTER ONE -         The "Barbarian " West

CHAPTER TWO -       The Early Middle Ages

CHAPTER THREE -   The Central Middle Ages: The Military Elite

CHAPTER FOUR -     The Central Middle Ages: A Reciprocal Society

CHAPTER FIVE  -       Revival in the High Middle Ages


GO TO: UNIT ELEVEN  -   EARLY MODERN EUROPE

CHAPTER ONE -          European Political Development

CHAPTER TWO -       Crises of the Late Middle Ages

CHAPTER THREE -   The Renaissance

CHAPTER FOUR -      The Protestant Reformation

 


March 2 – March 9

 

GO TO: UNIT TWELVE  -   KOREAN AND JAPANESE CIVILIZATIONS

CHAPTER ONE -         Early Korean Civilization

CHAPTER TWO -        Early Japanese Development

CHAPTER THREE -    The Nara Period

CHAPTER FOUR -      The Heian Era

GO TO: UNIT THIRTEEN   - THE EMERGENCE OF ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION

CHAPTER ONE -        The Arabian Peninsula

CHAPTER TWO -         Islam

CHAPTER THREE -     The Spread of Islamic Religion and Culture

CHAPTER FOUR -       Tensions in the Islamic World


March 9 – March 16

GO TO:  UNIT FOURTEEN -     LATER ASIAN EMPIRES: MONGOL AND  ISLAMIC
                                                                    EXPANSION

CHAPTER ONE -         Islamic Expansion into India

CHAPTER TWO -        The Mongol Empire

CHAPTER THREE -    Consequences of the Mongol Emipire

CHAPTER FOUR -      The Ottoman Empire

 

GO TO: UNIT FIFTEEN-     THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICAN   CIVILIZATIONS

CHAPTER ONE -      African Geography and Traditions

CHAPTER TWO -       African Civilizations: North and South

CHAPTER THREE -   East African Civilizations

CHAPTER FOUR -     West African Civilizations


March 16 – March 23

GO TO: UNIT SIXTEEN -    THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN   CIVILIZATIONS

CHAPTER ONE -         The Americas - Geographic Influences

CHAPTER TWO -       Mesoamerica -  Valley of Mexico

CHAPTER THREE -   Mesoamerica -  Mayan Kingdoms

CHAPTER FOUR -     Empire of the Inca

CHAPTER FIVE  -       Conclusion


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