To+Modules


 * WORLD CIVILIZATIONS TO 1648**


 * I'm Dave Lambert**, subbing today and Thursday for Professor Mazza.


 * TUESDAY, 5 DECEMBER**

Christmas songs Prayer Attendance

The URL for this page is as follows: http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/To+Modules

Here is what Professor Mazza asked me to cover with you today:

Mongols (video) (56:00) Storm from the East, part 1 https://youtu.be/P1FAsYspLAU


 * My additions:**

Mongol Empire [Great interactive map on upper right] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_Empire

Rise of Genghis Khan [Read down to Death of Genghis Khan} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_Empire#Rise_of_Genghis_Khan

Death of Genghis Khan and expansion under Ögedei (1227–1241) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_Empire#Death_of_Genghis_Khan_and_expansion_under_%C3%96gedei_(1227%E2%80%931241)

Silk Road https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road Contents 2.8 Mongol Age https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road#Mongol_age

Samarkand (In today's Uzbekistan) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samarkand

Mongolia map []

Lake Baikal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Baikal

Steppes Empty grasslands https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Steppe

Climate Summer good for herds Winter awful for everyone Slabs of ice for drinking water

Nomads Think of tribes in Middle East (Bible times to today) Tents (yurts) Fuel: dried animal dung

Sheep Herdsmen

Horses Hunters

Temugin >>> Genghis Khan (died 1227)

Conquests begin around 1207 Soldiers paid loyalty to him alone Leaders chosen on performance not heredity Archers Heavy cavalry

What they didn't understand, they despised. What they despised, they destroyed.

Bukara Samarkand

Afghanistan Herat

US evicted from air base in Uzbekistan http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/29/AR2005072902038.html

Different video of Mongol hordes http://youtu.be/aZn_DJAzvUY


 * THURSDAY, 7 DECEMBER**

Christmas songs Prayer Attendance

This class session is intended to be a review for your final (which is not cumulative). The topics are 1) Mongols, 2) Reformation, 3) Counter Reformation, 4) Ottoman Turks.

a. Causes of the Reformation {what to offer the class for Counter-Reformation?] http://youtu.be/Z4RNYQscm0w

My addition: impact of the printing press Xerox commercial: Brother Dominic http://youtu.be/faH1FXPqymU

b. Doctrine of purgatory (video) https://youtu.be/5UQTSNL_688

My addition: Doctrine of Purgatory (text) https://www.catholic.com/tract/purgatory

c. Hapsburgs (video) [This was not included in the topics for the final. Where and how does it fit?] Charles V and the Holy Roman Empire https://youtu.be/MRYzW3BSj0I

d. Ottoman Turks (video) https://youtu.be/UN-II_jBzzo