World Civ I – Fall 2025 Schedule
World Civ I – Fall 2025 T/Th Schedule
Sess Date Day Module Topic / Chapter Reading (≈ pp) Sections Covered
1Aug 26, 2025Tue– Convocation Chapel & Syllabus Day–N/A
2Aug 28, 2025Thu1 Early Civilizations & Urban Societies (Ch 3 pt 1)22 pp 3.1 Early Civilizations; 3.2 Ancient Mesopotamia
3Sep 2, 2025Tue1 Early Civilizations & Urban Societies (Ch 3 pt 2)22 pp 3.3 Ancient Egypt; 3.4 The Indus Valley Civilization
4Sep 4, 2025Thu1 The Near East (Ch 4)52 pp 4.1 From Old Babylon to the Medes; 4.2 Egypt’s New Kingdom; 4.3 The Persian Empire; 4.4 The Hebrews
5Sep 9, 2025Tue1 Asia in Ancient Times (Ch 5)52 pp 5.1 Ancient China; 5.2 The Steppes; 5.3 Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia; 5.4 Vedic India to the Fall of the Maurya Empire
6Sep 11, 2025Thu1 Mediterranean Peoples (Ch 6)56 pp 6.1 Early Mediterranean Peoples; 6.2 Ancient Greece; 6.3 The Hellenistic Era; 6.4 The Roman Republic; 6.5 The Age of Augustus
7Sep 16, 2025Tue2 Experiencing the Roman Empire (Ch 7)36 pp 7.1 The Daily Life of a Roman Family; 7.2 Slavery in the Roman Empire; 7.3 The Roman Economy: Trade, Taxes, and Conquest; 7.4 Religion in the Roman Empire; 7.5 The Regions of Rome
8Sep 18, 2025Thu2 The Americas in Ancient Times (Ch 8 pt 1)29 pp 8.1 Populating and Settling the Americas; 8.2 Early Cultures and Civilizations in the Americas
9Sep 23, 2025Tue2 The Americas in Ancient Times (Ch 8 pt 2)29 pp 8.3 The Age of Empires in the Americas
10Sep 25, 2025Thu2 Africa in Ancient Times (Ch 9)44 pp 9.1 Africa’s Geography and Climate; 9.2 The Emergence of Farming and the Bantu Migrations; 9.3 The Kingdom of Kush; 9.4 North Africa’s Mediterranean and Trans-Saharan Connections
11Sep 30, 2025Tue2 Empires of Faith (Ch 10)38 pp 10.1 The Eastward Shift; 10.2 The Byzantine Empire and Persia; 10.3 The Kingdoms of Aksum and Himyar; 10.4 The Margins of Empire
12Oct 2, 2025Thu– Midterm 1 (Vol 1 Ch 3–10)–N/A
13Oct 7, 2025Tue3 The Rise of Islam & the Caliphates (Ch 11)38 pp 11.1 The Rise and Message of Islam; 11.2 The Arab-Islamic Conquests and the First Islamic States; 11.3 Islamization and Religious Rule under Islam
14Oct 9, 2025Thu3 India & the Indian Ocean Basin (Ch 12 pt 1)23 pp 12.1 The Indian Ocean World in the Early Middle Ages; 12.2 East-West Interactions in the Early Middle Ages
15Oct 14, 2025Tue3 India & the Indian Ocean Basin (Ch 12 pt 2)23 pp 12.3 Border States: Sogdiana, Korea, and Japan
16Oct 16, 2025Thu3 The Post-Roman West & Crusading Movement (Ch 13)46 pp 13.1 The Post-Roman West in the Early Middle Ages; 13.2 The Seljuk Migration and the Call from the East; 13.3 Patriarch and Papacy: The Church and the Call to Crusade; 13.4 The Crusading Movement
17Oct 21, 2025Tue3 Pax Mongolica: The Steppe Empire of the Mongols (Ch 14)42 pp 14.1 Song China and the Steppe Peoples; 14.2 Chinggis Khan and the Early Mongol Empire; 14.3 The Mongol Empire Fragments; 14.4 Christianity and Islam outside Central Asia
18Oct 23, 2025Thu4 States & Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa (Ch 15)40 pp 15.1 Culture and Society in Medieval Africa; 15.2 Medieval Sub-Saharan Africa; 15.3 The People of the Sahel
19Oct 28, 2025Tue4 Climate Change & Plague in the Fourteenth Century (Ch 16)36 pp 16.1 Asia, North Africa, and Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century; 16.2 Famine, Climate Change, and Migration; 16.3 The Black Death from East to West; 16.4 The Long-Term Effects of Global Transformation
20Oct 30, 2025Thu4 The Ottomans, the Mamluks & the Ming (Ch 17 pt 1)25 pp 17.1 The Ottomans and the Mongols; 17.2 From the Mamluks to Ming China
21Nov 4, 2025Tue4 The Ottomans, the Mamluks & the Ming (Ch 17 pt 2)25 pp 17.3 Gunpowder and Nomads in a Transitional Age
22Nov 6, 2025Thu– Midterm 2 (Vol 1 Ch 11–17)–N/A
23Nov 11, 2025Tue5 Exchange in East Asia & the Indian Ocean (Ch 2 pt 1)21 pp 2.1 India and International Connections
24Nov 13, 2025Thu5 Exchange in East Asia & the Indian Ocean (Ch 2 pt 2)21 pp 2.2 The Malacca Sultanate; 2.3 Exchange in East Asia
25Nov 18, 2025Tue5 Early Modern Africa & the Wider World (Ch 3)36 pp 3.1 The Roots of African Trade; 3.2 The Songhai Empire; 3.3 The Swahili Coast; 3.4 The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
26Nov 20, 2025Thu5 The Islamic World (Ch 4)44 pp 4.1 A Connected Islamic World; 4.2 The Ottoman Empire; 4.3 The Safavid Empire
27Nov 25, 2025Tue5 Foundations of the Atlantic World (Ch 5 pt 1)25 pp 5.1 The Protestant Reformation; 5.2 Crossing the Atlantic
Thanksgiving Holiday – No Classes (Nov 26–28, 2025)
28Dec 2, 2025Tue5 Foundations of the Atlantic World (Ch 5 pt 2)7 pp 5.3 The Mercantilist Economy
29Dec 4, 2025Thu5 Foundations of the Atlantic World (Ch 5 pt 3)11 pp 5.4 The Atlantic Slave Trade