Ancient Times
What You Should Know
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. However I don't give exams (some have claimed my classes
are nothing but one long exam!). I feel it's 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.
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 here.
Used another way, if you find at the end of the section that there are one or more points
that don't ring a bell, then you ought to go back and review the sources, because we really
did touch on each of them.