HST100 (HST100)

MODULE 1 THE EARLIEST CIVILIZATIONS NOTES INCLUDE: INFORMATION ON THE 5 C'S OF HISTORIANS, PALEOLITHIC VS. NEOLITHIC, PRIMARY SOURCES, CALENDARS, THE FERTILE CRESCENT, REVOLUTIONS, AND THE SHIFT FROM HUNTER-GATHERER SOCIETIES

MODULE 6 ABBASID CALIPHATE NOTES INCLUDE: THE ORIGINS OF ISLAM, ARABIA BEFORE ISLAM, MUHAMMAD, THE QURAN, THE SPREAD OF ISLAM, WARS. SHIA MUSEUMS, UMAYYAD CALIPHATE, ABBASID REVOLUTION, NEW CITY OF BAGHDAD, THE WAY OF THE SCHOLARS, ULAMA, THE MYSTIC PATH, SUFIS AND WHY THEY MATTER, DATES, FRAGMENTATION OF THE WORLD OF ISLAM, AND THE MIDDLE EAST FORMING

MODULE 2 ANCIENT EGYPT NOTES INCLUDE: THE CREATION OF THE STATES, THE CREATION MYTHS, THE UNIFICATION OF EGYPT, THE RISE OF WRITING, NARMER, THE EGYPTIAN CALENDAR, THE FIRST DYNASTIES, THE BUILDING OF THE PYRAMIDS, THE COLLAPSE OF THE OLD KINGDOM, THE FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS, EMERGENCE OF THE MIDDLE KINGDOM, DATES, KINGSHIP AD DEVOTION, LIFE AND DEATH, MUMMIFICATION, AND THE NEW KINGDOM.

NOTES FOR MEDIEVAL VENICE. INCLUDES: ORIGINS AND RISE OF CHRISTIANITY, CONVERSION OF CONSTANTINE AND THE CONSEQUENCES, CHRISTIANIZATION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, INTRODUCTION TO THE RISE OF THE POPE'S POWER, DIVIDE OF EAST AND WEST CHRISTIANITY AND THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE, RISE OF VENICE AND ITS DOMINANCE, MEDIEVAL PILGRIMAGES AND THW HIGH MIDDLE AGES, THE MONGOL EXPANSION AND VENICE TRADE, AND THE END OF PEACE

MODULE 5 ANCIENT CHINA NOTES INCLUDE: ARCHAEOLOGY, AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION, ZHOU DYNASTY, SHANG DYNASTY, CONFUCIUS AND CONFUCIANISM, ESTABLISHING THE CHINESE EMPIRE, THE FIRST EMPORER, TANG DYNASTY, CHINA'S GOLDEN AGE, LI YUAN, RECONSTRUCTION OF THE CHINESE EMPIRE, REBELLIONS AND BATTLES AGAINST THE TURKS, ESTABLISHING THE ECONOMY, CORRUPTION, TIME OF CHINAS TROUBLES, AN LUSHAN, AND DATES.

MODULE 7 ANCIENT MALI NOTES INCLUDE: THE AFRICAN CULTURAL REVOLUTION, AFRICAN RELIGION, GEOGRAPHY, TRADE NETWORKS AND EXPANSION, IMPACT OF ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY, MANSA MUSA, EMERGENCE OF EMPIRES, EMPIRE OF MALI, DECLINE OF MALI, PATRONAGE, QUEST FOR AFRICAN GOLD, PORTUGAL INFLUENCE, RISE OF RACIALIZED SLAVERY, THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE, GRIOTS STORIES IN WEST AFRICA, AND ORAL TRADITIONS.

NOTES ON TEOTIHUACAN. INCLUDES: RELIGION, ARCHITECTURE, DATES, TRADE NETWORKS, THE CLASSIC PERIOD, URBAN CIVILIZATION, PYRAMIDS, GODS, INFLUENCES, AND THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY.

MODULE 3 VEDIC INDIA NOTES INCLUDE: THE INDUS VALLEY CULTURE, THE VEDAS, MYTHOLOGIES, RELIGION, ECONOMY AND SOCIETAL GROWTH, INDO-EUROPEAN, INDO-IRANIAN, AND INDO-ARYANS. LINGUISTIC APPROACHES, LATER VEDAS, SACRIFICES, ANCESTORS, CALENDRICAL RITES, TRIBES AND ORGANIZATIONS, EPICS, RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN THE LATE VEDIC INDIA, MAURYA EMPIRE, THE BRAHMIN CULTURE, AND DATES.