Responses

Post your weekly responses here.

Response Schedule

Posts are due no later than the Sunday following the class meeting. This semester, the weekly responses are posted in the discussion forums on Brightspace.

Meetings and Due Dates

Week/Meeting Post by
Week 1 Tue, Jan 27: Introduction and Themes
Thu, Jan 29: The Origins of Civilization
Sun, Feb 1
Week 2 Tue, Feb 3: Mesopotamia
Thu, Feb 5: Sumer
Sun, Feb 8
Week 3 Tue, Feb 10: Semitic Mesopotamia Sun, Feb 15
Week 4 Thu, Feb 19: God-Kings of Egypt Sun, Feb 22
Week 5 Thu, Feb 26: Egyptian Empires Sun, Mar 1
Week 6 Tue, Mar 3: The Bronze Age Aegean
Thu, Mar 5: Dawn of the Iron Age
Sun, Mar 8
Week 7 Tue, Mar 10: How Not to Run an Empire: The Assyrians
Thu, Mar 12: The Success of the Persian Empire
Sun, Mar 15
No responses in Week 8 (Mar 17, Mar 19).
Week 9 Tue, Mar 24: The Greek Dark Age
Thu, Mar 26: Archaic Hellas
Sun, Mar 29
Week 10 Tue, Mar 31: Sparta and Athens Sun, Apr 5
Week 11 Tue, Apr 14: The Persian Menace
Thu, Apr 16: Wars Between the Greeks
Sun, Apr 19
Week 12 Tue, Apr 21: The Rise of Macedon
Thu, Apr 23: The Legacy of Alexander
Sun, Apr 26
Week 13 Tue, Apr 28: Early Rome
Thu, Apr 30: The Roman Republic
Sun, May 3
Week 14 Tue, May 5: The Acquisition of Empire
Thu, May 7: The Republican Crisis
Sun, May 10
Week 15 Tue, May 12: Collapse of the Republic
Thu, May 14: Crossing the Rubicon
Sun, May 17

Later posts can be submitted for partial credit.