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