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 Tue, Feb 24: Egyptian Empires
Thu, Feb 26: The Bronze Age Aegean
Sun, Mar 1
Week 6 Tue, Mar 3: Dawn of the Iron Age
Thu, Mar 5: How Not to Run an Empire: The Assyrians
Sun, Mar 8
Week 7 Tue, Mar 10: The Success of the Persian Empire
Thu, Mar 12: Ancient Asia: China, India, and the Steppes
Sun, Mar 15
No responses in Week 8 (Mar 17, Mar 19).
Week 9 Tue, Mar 24: Archaic Hellas
Thu, Mar 26: Sparta and Athens
Sun, Mar 29
Week 10 Tue, Mar 31: The Persian Menace Sun, Apr 5
Week 11 Tue, Apr 14: Wars Between the Greeks
Thu, Apr 16: The Rise of Macedon
Sun, Apr 19
Week 12 Tue, Apr 21: The Legacy of Alexander
Thu, Apr 23: Early Rome
Sun, Apr 26
Week 13 Tue, Apr 28: The Roman Republic
Thu, Apr 30: The Acquisition of Empire
Sun, May 3
Week 14 Tue, May 5: The Republican Crisis
Thu, May 7: Collapse of the Republic
Sun, May 10
Week 15 Tue, May 12: Crossing the Rubicon
Thu, May 14: Augustus, Princeps, Imperator
Sun, May 17

Later posts can be submitted for partial credit.