USU 1320: History and Civilization
©Damen, 2012
A Guide To Writing in History and Classics
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Index of Chapters

Here is a breakdown of the chapters we will cover in USU 1320. Each section is a clickable and links to the chapter cited.

PART 1: Documentary Evidence, or What Has Survived (and What Does It Mean?)
  SECTION 1: History and What-Really-Happened
  SECTION 2: Herodotus and the Persian Wars
  SECTION 3: History and Literature: Ancient Epic, Homer and Vergil

PART 2: Physical Evidence and History
  SECTION 4: Archaeology: Schliemann and Troy
  SECTION 5: Architecture: Culture and Space
  SECTION 6: Man and Disease: The Black Death

PART 3: History and Society
  SECTION 7: The Indo-Europeans and Linguistics
  SECTION 8: The Fall of Rome: Facts and Fictions
  SECTION 9: Women and Historical Biography

PART 4: History and Religion (Before Christ)
  SECTION 10: Akhenaten and Monotheism
  SECTION 11: The Old Testament and Its Authors
  SECTION 12: Roman Cults and Worship

PART 5: History and Religion (After Christ)
  SECTION 13: Early Christianity and History
  SECTION 14: The Nature and Triumph of Islam
  SECTION 15: The Crusades and Medieval Christianity

BONUS CHAPTERS: History and Writing (see Bonus Assessment)
  SECTION 16: Tokens
  SECTION 17: The ABG's of History
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