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, Sep 1: Introduction and Themes
Thu, Sep 3: The Origins of Civilization
Sun, Sep 6
Week 2 Tue, Sep 8: Mesopotamia
Thu, Sep 10: Sumer
Sun, Sep 13
Week 3 Tue, Sep 15: Semitic Mesopotamia
Thu, Sep 17: God-Kings of Egypt
Sun, Sep 20
Week 4 Tue, Sep 22: Egyptian Empires
Thu, Sep 24: The Bronze Age Aegean
Sun, Sep 27
Week 5 Tue, Sep 29: Dawn of the Iron Age
Thu, Oct 1: How Not to Run an Empire: The Assyrians
Sun, Oct 4
Week 6 Tue, Oct 6: The Success of the Persian Empire
Thu, Oct 8: Ancient Asia: China, India, and the Steppes
Sun, Oct 11
No responses in Week 7 (Oct 15).
Week 8 Tue, Oct 20: The Greek Dark Age
Thu, Oct 22: Archaic Hellas
Sun, Oct 25
Week 9 Tue, Oct 27: Sparta and Athens
Thu, Oct 29: The Persian Menace
Sun, Nov 1
Week 10 Tue, Nov 3: Wars Between the Greeks
Thu, Nov 5: The Rise of Macedon
Sun, Nov 8
Week 11 Tue, Nov 10: The Legacy of Alexander
Thu, Nov 12: Early Rome
Sun, Nov 15
Week 12 Tue, Nov 17: The Roman Republic
Thu, Nov 19: The Acquisition of Empire
Sun, Nov 22
Week 13 Tue, Nov 24: The Republican Crisis Sun, Nov 29
Week 14 Tue, Dec 1: Collapse of the Republic
Thu, Dec 3: Crossing the Rubicon
Sun, Dec 6
Week 15 Tue, Dec 8: Augustus, Princeps, Imperator
Thu, Dec 10: The Roman Principate
Sun, Dec 13
No responses in Week 16 (Dec 15).

Later posts can be submitted for partial credit.