Topics

1. What is History?
2. Greece
• The Thinkers
• Socrates
• Aristotle
• Plato
• The Poets/Authors
• Homer
• Herodotus
• Aesop
• Sophocles
• The Warriors
• Troy
• Greco-Persian Wars
• Alexander
3. Rome
• Paterfamilias
• Gravitas
• Dignitas
• Pietas
• The Republic
• Carthage
• The Empire
• Julius Casear
• Bread and Circuses
• Constantine
4. The Medieval World
• Contraction and the Flowering of Knowledge
  
• Monasticism
• Charlemagne
• Holy Roman Empire
• Babylonian Captivity
• Expansion of Cities
• Growth of Trade
• Rise of Universities
• The Expansion of Islam/The Crusades
  
• Agricultural Expansion
• Military Advancement
• Richard the Lion Heart
5. Renaissance
• Rebirth of the Classical world
  
• Machiavelli
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Michelangelo
• The Printing Press
6. Reformation
• Back to God
  
• Desiderus Erasmus
• Martin Luther
• Diet of Worms
• John Calvin
• The Anabaptist
• Conrad Grebel
• Menno SImons
• Baptist
7. Revolutions
• 1648 - The Treaty of Westphalia
• Enlightenment
• Science
• Copernicus
  
• Galileo
  
• Newton
  
• America
• George Washington
  
• France
• Voltaire
• Rousseau
• Louis XVI
• Reign of Terror
• Robespierre
• Napoleon
  
• Industrial
• Factory system
• Spinning jenny
  
• Enclosure movement
• Steam
  
8. The Death of God
• Romantic Age
• Nationalism
• Union of Italy, Germany, etc
  
• Darwin
• Marx
  
• Neitzche
• World War I
  
9. Modernism and Post Modernism
• Communism
• Freud
  
• Sexual Freedom - "Love wins"