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January 30, 2017 by kevinstilley

Early Western Civilization classroom resources

EARLY WESTERN CIVILIZATION – HIS1103

Prolegomena

  • About Your Professor
  • Reading List For Life & Thought Seminars – SWBTS program texts
  • Digital Nation (video)
  • Reading Your Textbooks

Class #1 – Introduction

  • Syllabus HIS 1103B Fall 2013 – [pdf]
  • Introduction to the Course – Syllabus — Spring 2013 [class slides is pdf format]

Research Paper Preparation

  • Developing a Research Paper Topic
  • Tips For Better Writing

Class #2 – What is History?

  • Why Study History (pdf of class slides)
  • History – select quotes
  • The Value of Learning History, by John Piper
  • Reasons Why Christians Should Study History – student responses
  • A Worker Reads History
  • Old Testament Times, chapter 1 – Recovering Near Eastern Antiquity [pdf]
  • Exponential Times

Class #3 – Pre-History

  • Prehistory [pdf of class slides]
  • The Everlasting Man (Chapter 2), by G.K. Chesterton – [pdf]
  • World History According To Students – [PowerPoint]
  • The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy [pdf]

Class #4 – Mesopotamia – Sumer & Akkad

  •  Mesopotamia – Sumer & Akkad (class slides)

Class #5 – Egypt

  • Ancient Egypt – (pdf of class slides)
  • History of Empires – video
  • Genesis 1 and Ancient Egyptian Creation Myths, by Gordon H. Johnston [pdf]

Class #6 – The Patriarchal Period

  • Egypt & The Hebrew Patriarchs – (pdf of class slides)

Class #7 – The Hittites

  • Hittites –  (pdf of class slides)

Class #8 – Western Semitic Power Grabs / David, Solomon, & Rehoboam (The United and Divided Kingdom)

  • United and Divided Israel – [Powerpoint slides]
  • Hebrew History Spring 11 – [Powerpoint slides]

Class #9 – Assyria, Babylon, the Medes & The Persians

  • Assyrians Babylonians Medes and Persians – [Powerpoint slides]
  • Daniel Spring 2011 – [Powerpoint slides]

Class #10 – Examination #1

  • Midterm Examination
  • Preparing for the first exam [pdf of class slides]

Class #11 – “Meanwhile in Greece…”

  • Greece: The Minoan Period Through the Trojan War

Class #12 – Greek Mythology & Religion

  • Greek Mythology, History, and Religion

Class #13 – The Persian Wars

  • — Marathon, Thermopylae, Sparta

Class #14 – Birth of Democracy

  • The Cradle of Democracy

Class #15 – The Peloponnesian Wars & Alexander the Great

  • The Peloponnesian Wars & Alexander the Great [lecture slides]

Class #16 – Pre-Socratic Philosophy

  • The Cradle of Western Philosophy [lecture slides]

Class #17 – Socrates, Sophists, Plato

  • Socratic Method – “Define your terms, please.”
  • The Sophists, Socrates, & Plato [lecture slides]

Class #18 – Aristotle

  • Aristotle [lecture slides]

Class #19 – Hellenistic & Early Roman Philosophy

  • Hellenistic and Early Roman Philosophy [lecture slides]

Class #20 – Examination #2

Class #21 – Romulus to Hannibal

  • Roman Beginnings [lecture slides]

Class #22 – Roman Prosperity

Class #23 – Roman Empire

  • Roman Emperors [lecture slides]

Class #24 – Six Flags Over Israel

  • The Intertestamental Period: Six Flags Over Israel [lecture slides]

Class #25 – Roman Provinces & Israel During The Intertestamental Period

  • How Did the Romans Govern Palestine? [lecture slides]

Class #26 – The Jewish War With Rome & The Destruction of the Temple

Class #27 – Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (Ancient Art, Science, Literature, etc.)

Class #28 – Western Civilization & The Kingdom of God

Class #29 – Final Examination

  • Early Western Civilization Final Exam – 2007

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January 24, 2017 by kevinstilley

Early Western Civilization Final Exam

The following is a final exam that I gave to my Early Western Civilization students back in 2007. How would you have performed on it?
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Final Exam – Early Western Philosophy

Match the following emperors with the events at right that occurred during their reign.

____ Nero A.     Destruction of Jerusalem
____ Diocletian B.      Edict of Milan
____ Titus C.      1st to spend time fighting barbarian invaders
____ Tiberius D.     Burning of Rome
____ Octavian (aka. Augustus Caesar) E.      Birth of Christ
____ Marcus Aurelius F.      Death of Christ
____ Constantine G.     “The Great Persecution” of Christians

 

Match the following places and entities with the best description or event  from the second column.

____ Rome A.     Located in North Africa
____ Jerusalem B.      Cradle of Western philosophy
____ Mesopotamia C.      Cradle of Western civilization
____ Miletus/Ionia D.     Destroyed in 70 A.D.
____ Carthage E.      Aristotle’s school
____ Hadrian’s Wall F.      Located in Britain
____ Bosphorus G.     City of seven hills
____ Lyceum H.     Plato’s school.
____ Academy I.       Strait connecting the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara.

 

Match the stories, statements, literary works, and cultural constructions below with the best correlate in the second  column.

____ Romulus & Remus A.     Plato
____ Agrarian Law B.      Aristotle
____ “Veni, vidi, vici” C.      Designed to provide plebians with land.
____ The Aeneid D.     Oracle at Delphi
____ “You can never step in the same river twice.” E.      Written by Julius Caesar in a letter to the Senate.
____ “Man is the measure of all things.” F.      Protagorus
____ No living man is wiser than Socrates G.     Babylonian creation epic
____ Nicomachean Ethics H.     Founding of Rome
____ Enuma Elis I.       Early collection of laws from ancient Babylon
____ Hammurabi Code J.       Heraclitus
____ Theaetetus K.      Publius Virgilius Maro (Virgil)

 

Fill in the blank.

“All western philosophy is a __________ to Plato.” (Alfred North Whitehead)

Match the people below with the best correlate from the second column.

____ Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus A.     Teacher of Alexander the Great
____ Hannibal B.      Roman general/dictator to whom George Washington is often compared.
____ Spartacus C.      Julius Caesar’s chief rival for power in Rome.
____ Pompey D.     Argued against the possibility of motion.
____ Xerxes E.      Carthaginian general in 2nd Punic War.
____ Thales F.      Leader in the Gladiatorial War
____ Zeno G.     King of Persia
____ Aristotle H.     Early western philosopher who predicted an eclipse.

 

From Student Presentations:  Select any ten of the following and in one sentence share with me a general description of each person selected.  (Nitocris, the Amazons, Helen & Paris, Leonidas, Lycurgus, Plutarch, Solon, Pericles, Themistocles, Parmenides, Zeno, Cimon, Nicias, Alcibiades, Agesilaus, Antisthenes, Diogenes, Democritus, Alexander, Cato the Elder, Aemilius Paullus, Tiberius & Gaius Grachus, Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Antony, Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, the Cynics, the Skeptics, Philo, Plotinus).

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Short Answers

Name one conspirator in the death of Julius Caesar.

What school of early western philosophy is noteworthy for its interest in numbers?

What did Francis Schaeffer say was the main reason the Romans could not tolerate Christianity?

What is henotheism?

What is an oligarchy?

What is a polis?

What role did a Tribune play in Roman society?

 

Chronology

____  Select the correct order for the following births.

  1. Birth of Christ 2. Birth of Socrates    3.  Birth of Julius Caesar   4.  Birth of Daniel the prophet
  2. 1, 2, 3, 4
  3. 4, 3, 2, 1
  4. 3, 2, 4, 1
  5. 4, 2, 3, 1

____  Select the correct order for the following philosophers, earliest to latest.

  1. Thales 2. Socrates    3.  Plotinus   4.  Augustine
  2. 1, 2, 3, 4
  3. 1, 2, 4, 3
  4. 1, 3, 2, 4
  5. 1, 4, 2, 3

 

____  Select the correct order for the time in which the following kingdoms/empires were prominent.   1. Egyptian     2.  Babylonian      3.  Roman     4. Greek    5.  Medes & Persians

  1. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  2. 5, 1, 2, 3, 4
  3. 1, 5, 2, 4, 3
  4. 1, 2, 5, 4, 3

True/False (circle the correct answer)

True / False The sophists were more concerned about what is objectively true, than with what is useful or expedient .
True / False Socrates’ book “Escape From Reason” played an important role in leading Augustine to Christianity.
True / False When condemned to death, Socrates was given the chance to propose an alternative penalty and he suggested the he receive free meals in the Pryntaneum.
True / False Aristotle did not believe that politics was an appropriate subject for philosophy and that Plato was wrong to have inquired into the nature and practice of politics.

 

Essay Questions:

On separate sheets of paper, give comprehensive well-ordered treatments to the following topics.

  1. Either, (a) based upon our discussions in class, define history and explain its importance for those holding a Christian worldview, or (b) explore some Biblical texts which have been intertwined with our study of Early Western Civilization.

 

  1. (a) Julius Caesar’s rise to power, or (b) Daniel’s visions and the flow of human history.

 

  1. Compare and contrast Plato and Aristotle, their ideas, and their influence.

 

 

 

Grading for this exam:

Essay questions  – 10 points each

Short answer & chronology – 2 points each

All other questions – 1 point each

 

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January 24, 2017 by kevinstilley

How Did The Romans Govern Palestine? [lecture slides]

















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Six Flags Over Israel: The Intertestamental Period [lecture slides]























































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January 24, 2017 by kevinstilley

Roman Emperors [lecture slides]


































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January 24, 2017 by kevinstilley

Roman Beginnings: From Romulus to Hannibal [lecture slides]























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January 24, 2017 by kevinstilley

Hellenistic & Roman Philosophy [lecture slides]


















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January 24, 2017 by kevinstilley

Aristotle [lecture slides]



































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The Sophists, Socrates, & Plato [lecture slides]
































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The Cradle of Western Philosophy [lecture slides]



























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