This is your schedule of AMSCO readings for the semester. All AMSCO readings should be complete by the end of the unit in preparation for the unit exam. If I feel like you, as a class, are not completing the readings I reserve the right to give pop reading quizzes.
Jared Diamond: The Worst Mistake in the History of the World – DAY ONE
Unit 1 (1200 CE – 1450 CE):
- AMSCO: 1.1-2.7
Unit 2 (1450-1750 CE):
- AMSCO: 3.1-4.8
• Ibn Battuta – Long Distance Travel Beyond the Mongol Peace
• Marco Polo – Description of the World
• Zhao Rugua – Description of Barbarous Peoples
• Luther, Martin – Table Talk
• The Gokstad Ship (image)
Unit 3 (1750-1900 CE):
- AMSCO: 5.1-6.8
- Hochschild King Leopold’s Ghost
• Voltaire – A Treatise on Toleration
• Adam Smith – The Wealth of Nations
• Napoleon Crossing the Alps (image)
• Simon Bolivar -The Jamaica Letter
• Summary of a Conversation with Osei Bonso, King of Asante
• Abdullah Wahab -The History and Doctrines of Wahabis
• Envoys from Vassal States and Foreign Countries Presenting Tribute to the emperor, China (image)
• Marx and Engels – The Communist Manifesto
• Charles Darwin – On the Origins of Species and the Descent of Man
Unit 4 (1900-Present Day):
- AMSCO: 7.1-9.9
• Selected Poetry of the War Poets
• 1918 Flu Epidemic Death Rates (Statistics)
• Adolf Hitler -Mein Kampf
• Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities (Statistics)
• Gandhi – Indian Home Rule
• Mikhail Gorbachev – Perestroika
• Muralist Paintings
• Osama Bin Laden -Declaration of Jihad against Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Mosques
