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		Reading Assignments: *Washington State University: World Civilization to 1500:* The Age of Augustus Imperial Rome *14-180 CE* Map: The Roman Empire at the Death of Augustus 44 CE	Class Presentation: Roman Emperor Octavian Biography Roman Emperor Tiberius Biography Roman Emperor's Caligula & Nero	Reading Assignments: *Washington State University: World Civilization to 1500:* The Calamitious Century. *180-284 CE* The Late Empire	Class Presentation: Imperium The Battle for Rome	Video Presentation: The Western Tradition: *The Decline of Rome* The Fall of Rome
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	Class Presentation: Francis Schaeffer: *How Should We Then Live "The Roman Age*"	Reading Assignments: *Washington State University: World Civilization to 1500:* The Byzantines *Video Presentation:* The Western Tradition: *The Byzantine Empire*	Reading Assignments: Remnants of the Roman Empire Class Presentation: When Jesus Became God *The pagan emperor Constantine calls the Council of Nicea in order to determine, among other things, if Jesus is God, Man or some combination thereof.* Who was Constantine? *What was the Council of Nicaea all about?* In The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown claims that Jesus was made divine by a vote at the Council of Nicaea, in 325 AD. This was at the insistence of the Roman Emperor Constantine. What was the Council of Nicaea really about? The Hagia Sophia Hagia Sophia was not only the world's biggest church but the tallest, largest man-made enclosed space when it was constructed in 532-537AD for the Emperor Justinian.	Reading Assignments: *Making Way for Islam* *Washington State University: World Civilization to 1500:* Islam	Reading Assignments: *Making Way for Islam* *Washington State University: World Civilization to 1500:* *Pre-Islamic Arabic Culture* *Class Presentation: Islam:* *Empire of Faith* Part 1 PBS has produced a 3-part series narrated by Ben Kingsley. This excellent documentary explores the history of Islam	Reading Assignments: *Making Way for Islam* *Washington State University: World Civilization to 1500:* Muhammad Messenger of God The Quran
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	Reading Assignments: *Making Way for Islam* *Washington State University: World Civilization to 1500:* *Islam:* The Caliphate *Class Presentation:* *Making Way for Islam* Islam: *Empire of Faith* *Part 2*	Reading Assignments: *Making Way for Islam* *Washington State University: World Civilization to 1500:* *Islam Shia* *The Abbasid Dynasty*	Class Presentations: *Making Way for Islam* Andalusia, Spain-Spain Travel Video PostCard™ The Transmission of Knowledge From Arabia to Europe Muslims Were the Custodians of Greek Knowledge Muslim Spain: A Major Center of Civilization	Reading Assignments: *Early Medieval European History* *Europe's Dark Age* Video Presentation: Time Team Digs: *The Dark Ages*	Reading Assignments: *Early Medieval European History* Slavs, Bulgars and Magyars Class Presentation: The Crusades Ex-Monty Python member, Terry Jones, takes us through 200 years (1096 to1270) of medieval history, explaining the Crusades and the religious conflicts of the era, using re-enactments and reconstructions.	Reading Assignments: Christendom, Africa and the Americas, to 1500 CE *Europe, the Church and Economic Growth to 1300s* Plague, Crusades, Heretics, Ideas and Medieval Barbarity *Rising Economies, Disease, Turmoil and Growing Towns* *Education, Heresy, and Abelard* *Knights, Chivalry and the Church*
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	Reading Assignments: Christendom, Africa and the Americas, to 1500 CE Europe, Plague and Progress in the 1300s More Crusades, Including against Heretics *The 1200s - New Thinking and New Technology* *The Beginning of Church Decline* *William Wallace, Scotland and Medieval Barbarity* Class Presentation: *History's Turning Points* *"1347 CE* *The Black Death"*	Reading Assignments: Christendom, Africa and the Americas, to 1500 CE Europe in the 1400s Heresy and the Hussite Rebellion *More of the Hundred Years' War* *Dracula (Vladislav II of Romania)* *The Decline and Fall of Constantinople* *Video Presentation:* History's Turning Points "1453 AD The Siege of Constantinople"	Reading Assignments: Christendom, Africa and the Americas, to 1500 CE Europe in the 1400s Patriotism, Central Authority and the New State *Moscow and the Mongols* *The Rising Powers of Portugal and Spain* *Class Presentation:* Lost Treasures of the Ancient World: *"Empires in the Americas"*	Reading Assignments: Christendom, Africa and the Americas, to 1500 CE African Empires *The Kingdom of Askum and Africa in General* *The Kingdom of Aksum* *West Africa* *South Central Africa* *Eastern Africa* Video Presentation: "The History of Man's Greatest Obsession" *1492 Gold in the New World Spanish quest for gold and conquest of the Americas.*	Reading Assignments: Christendom, Africa and the Americas, to 1500 CE The Americas The Maya, Aztecs, the Inuit (Eskimos) and Plains Indians *America before Columbus* *Vanishing Civilization of the Maya* Class Presentation: Bridging World History: Early Empires What makes an "empire"? Through the Mongol empire, the Mali empire, and the Inca empire, this unit examines the construction of empires, their administrative structures, legitimating ideologies, and the environmental and technological conditions that shaped them.

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Christendom, Africa and the Americas, to 1500 CE

The Americas

Gods Give Power to the Aztecs

Civilization of the Inca

The Inuit of Alaska and Greenland

Between Alaska and the Rio Grande

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National Geographic

Pyramids of Death

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5

Even the ferocious Aztec were awed by their first glimpse of Teotihuacan. By the 13th century when the Aztec swept into central Mexico, the once teeming city—which reached its zenith around 400 CE.-had been long since abandoned by its mysterious builders.

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Video

Lost Civilizations: History of the Incas

Part 1 - Part 2 Part 3 - Part 4 Part 5 - Part 6

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"The Spirit World"

Archaeologists look at ritual behavior and sacred spaces and objects in archaeological and ethnographic settings to attribute religious meanings. Examples from present-day, traditional societies show the complexity of spiritual life and the limits and possibilities of archaeological reconstruction