Before Modern Civilization, 1200-1450 (relation between nomads and civilization?)

week 1. Society and Civilization; Early and Modern

• 26 Aug. Introduction
  • 13th century Mappa Mundi (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
  • 16th & 17th century maps (1, 2, 3, 4)
• 28 Aug. Kishlansky, “How to Read a Document” (on a selection from Marco Polo, handout)
  • Marco Polo & Silk Road (1, 2, 3)
  • Early English Books Online (on campus link only)
  • Travels of John Mandeville (c. 1366)

Marco Polo

week 2. Pre-Modern Civilization: India & China as an Archetype

• 2 Sept. Brummett, ch. 10 (pp. 288-304)
  • Song Dynasty in China (960-1279)
  • Indian Textiles: Trade and Production
• 4 Sept. Equiano, The Life, chs. 1-2 (to p. 37)

Song dynasty, scholar and monk converse

week 3. Mongols (Yuan Civilization)

• 9 Sept. Brummett, ch. 10 (pp. 304-309)
  • Mongols in World History
• 11 Sept. Secret History of the Mongols (eReserve); Marco Polo (handout, "Of the City of Caracoron"; "How the Great Kaan causeth the bark of trees, made into something like paper, to pass for money")
  • Secret History of the Mongols (Mongolian, Chinese, English, additional excerpt)
  • Caracoron
  • Marco Polo's Route
    • Marco Polo Quiz
      

Khubilai Khan on a hunt

Europe and the Gunpowder Empires, 1450-1700 (relation between arms and politics? between Church and State?)

week 4. Islamic Gunpowder Empires

• 16 Sept. Brummett, ch. 12
  • Rise of the Great Islamic Empires
  • Safavids
  • Mughals
• 18 Sept. Reilly, docs. 14-16 (de Busbecq, Chardin, The Jahangirnama)
  • Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq (a review)
  • John Chardin (biography)
  • Nur ud-Din Jahangir (pictures)
    

Taj Mahal, built by Mughal emperor, 1631-1648

 Taj Mahal scene from The Namesake (2006)

week 5. Europe: Renaissance & Reformation

• 23 Sept. Brummett, ch. 14
  • Eurasia Map Review
  • Art in Italy: 13th and 14th Centuries
  • Art of the Italian Renaissance (PowerPoint, recommended)
• 25 Sept. Reilly, doc. 4 (Columbus); Machiavelli (eReserve)
  • Machiavelli's Italy
  • Machiavelli, On Composing the Prince
  • The Prince
    • Chapter VII
    • Chapter XVII
    • Chapter XXI

Lorenzo il Magnifico, 1449-1469-1492

week 6. Europe: New Monarchies

• 30 Sept. Brummett, ch. 15
  • Reformation Map
  • Spain 1490
  • Europe 1555
• 2 Oct. Mid-Term Exam 1
  

Queen Elizabeth, Armada Portrait

week 7. Old World and the New World

• 7 Oct. Brummett, ch. 16 (esp. Iberian sections)
  • Cannibals? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• 9 Oct. ; Reilly, docs. 6-8 (Díaz, The Broken Spears, DeVries) ; Voltaire, Candide, ch. 1
  • Portuguese Explorations
  • Voyages of Exploration
  • Conquistadors

Zheng He's treasure ship, 1420s-1433, compared with Columbus's Santa Maria

From Wars of Religion to Wars of Trade, 1555-1763 (Did early modern wars in Europe make sense? Why did Europe expand?)

week 8. War, Trade, and Empire, part 1

• 14 Oct. Brummett, ch. 17
  • Atlantic slave trade maps
• 16 Oct. Voltaire, Candide, chs. 2-16; Candide pre-assignment due
  • Westphalia
  • South America 1892
  • Barbary States
  • Europe 1740

Earliest European woodcut of the New World

week 9. War, Trade, and Empire, part 2

• 21 Oct. Voltaire, Candide, chs. 17-30
  • Candide's journey
  • Seven Years War
  • triangle trade (Atlantic)
  • John Law's Mississippi Company (France)
  • South Sea Bubble (Britain) 1, 2
• 23 Oct. Voltaire, Candide (letters and reviews, pp. 121-31); Reilly, docs. 22, 24-25 (Le Van Baumer, Montague, de Fontenelle)
  • Scientific Revolution

Benjamin West, The Death of Wolfe, 1770

week 10. Europe (cont'd.) and East Asia

• 28 Oct. Brummet chs. 17 (as above) and 18 (pp. 527-534)
  • Scientific Revolution (crib sheet)
  • Encyclopédie 1, 2, 3
• 30 Oct. Brummett, ch. 13

Candide in Surinam

week 11. Slave Trade and the Atlantic World

• 4 Nov. Brummett, ch. 19 (pp. 562-568); Reilly, docs. 9-10 (Mbemba, Bosman); Candide’s Eighteenth Century paper due (note new due date)
  • 17th-18th century world timeline
  • European and Russian timeline, 1590-1720s
  • slavery chronology
• 6 Nov. Equiano, vol. I
  • The Middle Passage
  • Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African
  • Equiano's Travels
  • Equiano, chapter outline (labor and interactions)
  • Equiano quotes (first chapters)

18th-Century Atlantic World

week 12. Slave Trade, the Enlightenment, and the Moral Imperative

• 11 Nov. Timothy Brook lecture, 19:00 (pm), Tarble Art Center
  • (a useful review of Vermeer's Hat)
• 13 Nov. Equiano, vol. II (esp. final ch. XII); Equiano (selected context, esp. pp. 206-249, 277-287); Brummet ch. 18 (pp. 527-541).
  • Q & A with Equiano's biographer
  • Caribbean Views from Collect Britain
  • Hear the Interesting Narrative
    

Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

Liberty and Terror at the Advent of Modernity, 1763-1799 (What is the relation between revolution and civilization?)

week 13. Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment

• 18 Nov. Mid-Term 2 (note new date)
  • Brummett, chs. 13-19 outline
• 20 Nov. Reilly, docs. 28, 30-31, 37 (Hume, Jefferson, Adams, Smith)
  • European Enlightenment

Cutting the Sugar Cane, from 'Ten Views in the Island of Antigua', 1823

week 14. Age of Revolution: France, Europe, the World

• 2 Dec. Brummett, ch. 18 (pp. 541-552)
  • Equiano’s Worlds paper due (note new due date)
• 4 Dec. Reilly, docs. 32-33 (French Declaration, L’Ouverture); de Gouges, Robespierre (handout); Revolution Debate Preparation

week 15. Birth of the Modern

• 9 Dec. Revolution Debate
  • Jacques-Louis David
• 11 Dec. Conclusion

David, Tennis Court Oath

• Palmira Brummett, et. al., Civilization Past & Present, vol. B, From 500 to 1815, 11th ed. [TRS 13.110]
• Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789), ed. Werner Sollors [14.470]
• Kevin Reilly, ed., Worlds of History: A Comparative Reader, II, Since 1400, 2nd ed. [11.342]
• Voltaire, Candide (1759), ed. and trans. Daniel Gordon [11.245]