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A History of the Modern World
A History of the Modern World, 9/e
R R Palmer, Yale University
Joel Colton, Duke University
Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
The Rise of Europe

Internet Exercises

The Greeks and their world

Compare a modern map of ancient Greece with the way Greeks saw their world.



Link 1
(http://www.princeton.edu/~markwoon/Myth/myth-maps.html)

Images and myth

How did the images of the Trojan War help Greeks understand their "ancient" history?



Link 1
(http://www.temple.edu/classics/troyimages.html)

Olympics

How were the Olympics related to Greek culture and civilization?



Link 1
(http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/)

Roman slave revolts

Compare primary and secondary sources on Roman slave revolts.



Link 1
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/3slaverevolttexts.htm)

Link 2
(http://www.ucd.ie/~classics/96/Madden96.html)

Jesus as history

Use primary sources to evaluate a recently-created web site on Jesus of Nazareth. Based on the sources, does the web site have any biases?



Link 1
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook11.html)

Link 2
(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/)

Ancient ambiguity

The Roman historian Tacitus created a speech of a barbarian leader to criticize Roman imperialism. What was that criticism? Sidonius Apollinaris compared a civilized barbarian with a barbarous Roman. How do the two come off?



Link 1
(http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/virtual/reading/core4-01r06.htm)

Link 2
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/sidonius2.html)

Student development

Imagine yourself a student at the medieval at University of Paris. Use some of these sources to describe what you studied and your life in and out of the classroom.



Link 1
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/uparis-theol.html)

Link 2
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/courcon1.html)

Link 3
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/vitry1.html)

Link 4
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/UParis-stats1231.html)

Link 5
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/uparis-cond1241.html)

Link 6
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/medievalstudentsongs.html)

Link 7
(http://www.ukans.edu/kansas/medieval/108/lectures/universities.html)

Link 8
(http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11495a.htm)

Link 9
(http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/mediaeval_paris_1912.jpg)

Link 10
(http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255/bohem/sorbonne.jpg)

Link 11
(http://www.philippe-auguste.com/uk/quotidien/enseignement.html)

Link 12
(http://rugmd0.chem.rug.nl/~tieleman/buridan.html)

Monks and monasteries

What were medieval monasteries like? How did monks live?



Link 1
(http://www.officine.it/montecassino/storia_e/benedett.htm)

Link 2
(http://www.benedictine.edu/abbey/site2/rule.html)

Link 3
(http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/%7Edvess/ids/fa2/foun1.shtml)

Link 4
(http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/%7Edvess/ids/medieval/rie/rievaulx.shtml)

Link 5
(http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/%7Edvess/ids/medieval/lindis/lindisfarne.shtml)

Link 6
(http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/%7Edvess/ids/medieval/iona/iona.shtml)

Link 7
(http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/%7Edvess/ids/medieval/hastings/hastings.shtml)

Living in the medieval city

Take a virtual tour of medieval York.



Link 1
(http://www.york.gov.uk/walls/index.html)

Medieval minority

Use these primary sources on medieval Jewish life to understand what it was like to be a minority person in the Middle Ages.



Link 1
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1t.html)









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