WORLD HISTORY READINGS AND ART

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        FIRST SEMESTER READINGS/ART                                                        SECOND SEMESTER READINGS/ART

                    Middle Ages                                                                                        Age of Revolution
       
Conversion of Clovis - Gregory of Tours                                                Locke/Jefferson comparison

        Speech at Clermont, 1095 - Pope Urban II                                             Levée en Masse - Committee of Public Safety

                    Renaissance and Reformation                                                Industrial Manchester - Frederick Engels

        The Prince (excerpts) - Niccolo Machiavelli                                                            Rise of Nations

        Letter to the Archbishop of Mainz - Martin Luther                                Concert at Vienna - Klemens von Metternich

        PAINTING School of Athens - Raphael Sansio                                                       Africa and Islamic World

              Link that explains the characters in School of Athens                       Life of Gustavus Vassa - Gustavus Vassa

        PAINTING Mona Lisa - Leonardo di ser Piero (da Vinci)                                     The Americas and Australis

        SCULPTURE David - Michelangelo Buonarrati                                          Manifest Destiny - John L. O'Sullivan

        PAINGINT Sistine Chapel - Michelangelo Buonarrati                                 The Coffee Fazendas of Brazil - Pierre Denis

                    Africa and the Americas (Independent Study)                                         Modern East Asia

        African Bushmen Creation Myth                                                          When We Landed in Japan - Commodore Perry

        Aztec Religious Festival                                                                      The Schools of Japan - Francis Adams      

                                                                                                                                Age of Imperialism

                    Age of Exploration                                                                 On French Colonialism - Jules Ferry

        Second Letter to Charles - Hernan Cortés                                              Against the British - The People of Canton

        The Legend of Prester John                                                                               Second Thirty Years War

        Against the Spanish Armada - Queen Elizabeth I                                 Air Warfare - The Red Baron

                    East Asia (Independent Study)                                             Blood, Toil, Sweat and Tears - Winston Churchill

        My Coming to Japan - Will Adams                                                   Account of Holocaust Mass Shooting - Herr Graebe

        The Chinese Education System - Père du Halde

                    Age of Reason

        Utopia - Plato

        The Social Contract - Jean Jacque Rousseau

        The Leviathan (Excerpt) - Thomas Hobbes

                India and Islam (Independent Study)

       An Account of India and the Great Moghul - François Bernier

        Dining with the Sultana - Lady Montagu

        On the Tatars - Ibn al-Athir

       

 

 

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