What You Should Know

I've been advised that "everything" is not the proper answer here. :-)

The What You Should Know page for each study section is not what you should know before the class, but rather what I think you should know once you've finished the class.

As students, we take it for granted that we should know whatever it takes to pass the exam, but  I don't give exams (some have claimed my classes are nothing but one long exam!). It is  important for you as the student to have some sense of what out of the great flood of information you will learn is central or crucial.

In that spirit, I offer for each section a simple page. The idea is that if you have learned what I intend for you to learn, then you should be able to speak or write at least something, at least somewhat coherently, on each of the items there.

Used another way, if you find at the end of the section that there are one or more points that just flat doesn't ring a bell, then you ought to go back and review the sources, because we really did touch on each of them.

Ancient

Middle Ages

Early Modern

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