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On-line Text: "What is Culture?," by Richard Law, Eric Miraglia The Long Foreground: Human Prehistory," by Richard Law World Civilizations Glossary: "world view," "culture," "tradition," "modernity" Is the Super Bowl Culture? |
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On-line Text: " The Agricultural Revolution," by Richard Law Human Prehistory and the Agricultural Revolution |
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On-Line Text: "Mesopotamia" Text File:
Mesopotamia
Text File: Mesopotamia Reader World Civilizations Glossary: " Cuneiform," "Law"
On-Line Text: "Ancient Egypt" Text File: Ancient Egypt On-Line Reader: The Book of the Dead, chapter 125 Text File: Egypt Reader World Civilizations Glossary: "Ma'at, "Hieroglyphics"The Egyptian Underworld |
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On-Line Text: "The Hebrews" Text File: The Hebrews On-Line Reader: Genesis: The Creation, The Flood, The Tower of Babel, Abraham and Isaac, Exodus (The Decalogue), and Judges Gideon Text File: Hebrew Reader World Civilizations Glossary: "Torah," "covenant," Yahweh and His People |
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On-Line Text: "Bureaucrats and Barbarians: Minos and Mycenae" Text File: Minoans and Mycaeneans On-Line Reader: "Homer," "Polyphemos" Text File: Minoan and Mycaenean Reader World Civilizations Glossary: " areté, "
On-Line Text: " Ancient Greece" Text File: Ancient Greece On-Line Reader: Thucydides, " Pericles's Funeral Oration," The Melian Controversy," Plato, " Democracy and Democratic Man" Text File: Greece Reader World Civilizations Glossary: " Democracy," "Aristocracy," " polis" Democracy Debate |
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On-Line Text: Read the Greek Philosophy chapters in the learning module, " Ancient Greece" On-Line Reader: " Pre-Socratics" (first chapter in "Greek Philosophy" on the Internet); The Apology of Socrates Text File: Greek Philosophy Reader World Civilizations Glossary: " "The One and the Many,"
On-Line Reader: Plato, " The Divided Line," "The Allegory of the Cave," Aristotle, "The Four Causes," "The Doctrine of the Mean" Text File: Optional Readings
On-Line Text: " Hellenistic Greece" Text File: Hellenistic Greece On-Line Reader: " Hellenistic Philosophies" Text File: Hellenistic Greece Reader Hellenism and Judaism |
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On-Line Text: " Rome" Text File: Rome On-Line Reader: Epictetus, selections; Cicero, "The Dream of Scipio" Text File: Rome Reader World Civilizations Glossary: Officium, Pietas, Virtus
On-Line Text: " Early Christianity" Text File: Early Christianity World Civilizations Glossary: "Typology," "regio dissimilitudinis," Internet discussion, "From Rome to Christianity" |
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On-Line Text: " Ancient India" Text File: Ancient India World Civilizations Glossary: "Atman," "atmansiddhi," "Brahmin," "Brahman," "dharma," "karma"
On-Line Text: The Bhagavad Gita Text File: The Baghavad Gita The Bhagavad Gita and Hindu Ethics
On-Line Text: "Buddhism" Text File: Buddhism On-Line Reader: selections from The Dhammapadha Text File: Buddhism Reader |
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On-Line Text: " Ancient China" Text File: Ancient China World Civilizations Glossary: "T'ien," "T'ien ming," "Tao"
On-Line Text: "Chinese Philosophy" Text File: Chinese Philosophy On-Line Reader: Selections from The Text File: Chinese Philosophy Reader World Civilizations Glossary: "jen," "Tao"
On-Line Text: The Chinese Empire Text File: The Chinese Empire On-Line Reader: "Neo-Confucianism," Text File: Chinese Reader World Civilizations Glossary: "wu hsing" Confucianism and Chinese democracy |
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On-Line Text: "Ancient Japan," "Feudal Japan" Text File: Ancient Japan, Text File: Feudal Japan On-Line Reader: selections from the Nihongi World Civilizations Glossary: "kokugaku," "aware," "miyabi"
On-Line Text: Japanese Buddhism Text File: Japanese Buddhism Zen and the Japanese Rock Garden |
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On-Line Text: " Islam" Text File: Islam On-Line Text: "What is Science?" On-Line Reader: Selections from The Qur'an Text File: Islam Reader World Civilizations Glossary: "tawhid," "dhikr," "iman," "The Five Pillars"
On-Line Text: "Islam," "Shi'a Islam" Text File: Shi'a Islam World Civilizations Glossary: " wahdat al-wujud" Ethics in an Islamic Context |
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On-Line Text: "Civilizations in Africa" Text File: Africa On-Line Reader: selections from "African Proverbs," " Leo Africanus, 'Description of Timbuktu'," "Richard Eden 'Decades of the New World'" Text File: African Reader African Gallery "Gallery 1," "Gallery 2"
The Diversity of African Civilizations |
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On-Line Text: "The Middle Ages" Text File: Middle Ages World Civilizations Reader: Boccaccio, "The Death," from the Decameron Text File: Middle Ages Reader Multiculturalism medieval style |
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On-Line Text: "The Italian Renaissance" Text File: Italian Renaissance On-Line Reader: Pico della Mirandola, "Oration on the Dignity of Man," Leonardo da Vinci, "The Painter," "Linear Perspective" Text File: Italian Reader From Renaissance to world culture |
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On-Line Reader: Iroquois Creation Text File: Iroquios Creation On-Line Text: " "Native American Languages," "Beginnings," "The Land." "Social Life," "Languages" Text File: Native American Reader Native American Cultures: Then and Now
On-Line Text: " Civilizations in America" Text File: Civilizations in America |
