Supplementary Readings and Song Lyrics:

Unit 1 - The Ancient Mediterranean: Pre-History, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Hebrews

     Ankh, ankh, en mitak (Word Document - no translation given)

     Ankh ankh, en mitak (with translation - disabled link for first two weeks)

Unit 2 - Classical Greece and Rome

     Erysichthon (based on Ovid's Metamorphoses)

Unit 3 - Asia to 1644

     Journey to the West (Monkey) - trans. by Anthony Yu 

Unit 4 - Medieval Europe, Renaissance, Reformation, Age of Exploration

  Excerpts from The Koran (as translated into English) 

   Carmina Burana - Medieval Texts set to music by Carl Orff
      Veni, Veni, Venias
      In Trutina
      Tempus Est Iocundum
      Dulcissime
      Blanziflor et Helena
      O Fortuna Imperatix Mundi

   Music of Guillaume de Machaut - Texts
   Je Vivroie Liement
   Biaute Qui Toutes Autres Pere

    The Canticle of the Sun
     Fashions in Italy
    The Peasants' Revolt, May - June 1381

     Andreas Capellanus' Rules of Courtly Love

Unit 5 - The Baroque and the Age of Reason

Unit 6 - The 19th Century: Industrialization and Imperialism

Unit 7 - The World at War

Unit 8 - In the Shadow of the Bomb