Write a 1.5-2 page paper comparing the von Sivers description of either the Incas or the Aztecs to the von SIvers description of one of the civilizations we have encountered in earlier weeks. Where are the consistencies in treatment? Where are the treatments different in what they look at? What do you think explains the differences?
Aztecs/Incas links:
M 23-VI Americas, The Maya VON SIVERS, 177-188
Read first 10 printed pages of Popol Vuh, available at
T 24-VI Americas , Inca and Aztecs VON SIVERS 188-193, 496-515
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/aztecs1.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1540cieza.html
W 25-VI Christianization & Byzantium VON SIVERS, 212-218 ,311-314
Justinian http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/procop-anec1.html
Icons: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/johndam-icons.html
R 26-VI Mediaeval Europe VON SIVERS 338-371
Einhard Life of Charlemagne at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/einhard1.html
Pope Gregory VII Dictatus Papae
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/g7-dictpap.html
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Links from earlier weeks:
T 27-V: Paleo/Neolithic: VON SIVERS Skim 4-33; read carefully: 10-13, 21-28, 37-40, 62-64.
visit Lascaux Cave: http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/#/en/00.xml
Read Smithsonian article on Gobekli Tepe
W 28-V: Mesopotamia, VON SIVERS 40-47 plus box on 48-49
Read Epic of Gilgamesh, Prologue + Tablets I – III at
http://www.angelfire.com/tx/gatestobabylon/temple1.html
Read Prologue, Laws 1-50, Epilogue of Code of Hammurabi in “Text” section at
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.asp
R 29-V: Egypt, VON SIVERS, 47-52, 56-57
View & read about Narmer Palette, both reverse and obverse sides at
http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/narmer/index.html
Look at Magical Bricks and Coffin of Meresamun at
Read full article on Tut & DNA at
*** Stick to these links**