Calendar

This page will be updated before every class. Check here often. The readings and assignments posted here represent the final version, and supersede anything else.

Introduction

• T 7 Feb - Intro - World History to 1450

Ottomans and Europeans

• Th 9 Feb - Fall of Constantinople, 1453
  • Reading: Sources on 1453. (Handouts)
  • Assignment: D-1
• T 14 Feb - The Ottoman Empire
  • Reading:
    • Hess - "Evolution of the Ottoman Seabourne Empire" (handout)
    • Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, "The Turkish Letters" (handout)
    • The Janissaries (handout)
  • Assignment: D- 2
• Th 16 Feb - No class!
• T 21 Feb - Ottomans and Portuguese in the East
  • Reading
    • Read all, prepare one: (assigned in class) Assignment: D-3
      • 1. Russell, "Prince Henry the Navigator" (packet)
      • 2. Unger, "Portuguese Shipbuilding" (packet)
      • 3. Beckingham, "Quest for Prester John" (packet)
      • 4. Chaundhuri, "Containment of Islam" (packet)
    • AND
      • Sidi Ali Reis, "The Mirror of Countries" (packet) with Assignment: D-4
• Th 23 Feb - 1492
  • Reading: Columbus, Expulsion of the Jews, Conquest of Granada (course packet)
  • Assignment: D-5
  • Studyguide - Test #1

Meanwhile, in China

• T 28 Feb - Zheng He and Ming Expansion
  • Reading: Kuei-Sheng Chang, "Ming Maritime Enterprise" (packet)
  • Assignment: Online Zheng He Exercise

• Th 2 Mar - Test #1

Concepts

• T 7 Mar - Village and State
  • Reading: Wiesner, 1-33
  • Assignment: D-6
• Th 9 Mar - Gender Differences
  • Reading: Wiesner, 62-91
  • Assignment: D-7
• T 14 Mar - Confucian Family
  • Reading: Wiesner, 125-157
  • Assignment: D-8
• Th 16 Mar - Case study
  • The Death of Woman Wang: Preface, Chapters I, IV, V and Epilogue. Skim chapter 3 so you know who is who. (But your lives will be enriched if you just read the whole thing!)
  • Guest Professor - Bob Entenmann

European Context - the 16th-17th centuries

• T 21 Mar - Renaissance
  • Readings: "A Global Renaissance" - Brotton (packet)
  • Assignment: D-9
• Th 23 Mar - Reformation and the Wars of Religion
  • Reading: Luther's Theses
  • Paper due: Paper on the Death of Woman Wang

SPRING BREAK

Spanish Expansion

• T 4 Apr - Consequences of Columbus
  • Reading: Schwartz, 1-74 (second half will be divided up to some extent)
  • Assignment: D-10
• Th 6 Apr - NO CLASS. Field trip scheduled to James Ford Bell Library (5/13)
• T 11 Apr - In Cortes' words
  • Reading: Letters from Mexico, Letter 2, 48-159
  • Assignment: D-11
  • Guest Professor - J. Delaney
• Th 13 Apr - Other perspectives
  • Reading: Schwartz: 123-155, 156-181, 182-213 (divided into three groups)
  • Assignment: D-12
• T 18 Apr - Aftermath
  • Reading: Schwartz, 214-244
  • Assignment: D-13
• Th 20 Apr - Stereotypes
  • Reading: Wiesner, 34-61
  • Assignment: Casta paintings

• T 25 Apr - Test #2

Trade: Dutch and English

• Th 27 Apr - Sugar
  • Reading: Wiesner, 92-124.
  Assignment: D-14
• T 2 May - Dutch and English Merchants
  • Reading:
    • Das Gupta, "Maritime Trade of Indonesia" (packet)
    • Beckles, "White proto-slavery," (packet)
  • Assignment: D-15

Slavery and the Path to European Hegemony

• Th 4 May - No class
• T 9 May - The Atlantic Slave Trade
  • Reading: Morgan - Atlantic Slavery (handout). Also Alexander, Islam, Archaeology and Slavery in Africa (jstor, download and print)
  • Assignment: D-16 (on Alexander)
• Th 11 May - Final class. Tea and Opium
  • Reading: Print all of these out.
    • Opium
    • Tea
    • Capitalism
    • Adam Smith (excerpt)
  • Assignment: D-17
• Field Trip to James Ford Bell Library
  • Meet in front of Buntrock (the traffic circle) at 9:45

Final Exam - Saturday, May 20, 9:00-11:00 a.m. - Rolvaag 577