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Will identify two historical or modern figures within the humanities around whom you'd like to build your course project. We explored some historical figures during our first week together - musicians, visual artists, actors, writers, architects, thinkers. They have to be 100 years apart.

Devise a one- half page synopsis of the two figures, historical or modern, who will be the focus of your project. The synopsis should also include your motivation for choosing these two and any similarities and/or differences between them.

For example, a songwriter/pianist/singer from today (such as Elton John) could be compared to a composer / pianist like Mozart. Although one did classical music and the other pop music, they were/are both creative musical artists. Don’t use these two.

Like pick 2 writers or 2 poet from chart make sure they are a 100 years a part

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HUMANITIES_TIMELINE_ANNOTATED week 2.doc   Pick two from this chart

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Humanities Time Line The following is a selective listing of some major figures and works of the Humanities (right column) and their relation to important events in History (Center Column) c = approximately First Column: Century Second Column: Events in History Third Column: Humanities Giants Before the Common Era (BCE) = Before Christ (BC) c. BC 15,000 10,000 c. BC 7000 Old Stone Age c. BC 5,000 New Stone Age c. BC 3500 2350 Sumerian Period in Mesopotamia. Reign of Gilgamesh (2700) c. BC 3200 Egyptian civilization established Cave art at Lascaux and Altamira Native Americans may have migrated from northern Asia c. BC 2000 Pottery invented. First large-scale architecture Bronze tools Pictographic writing. Construction of first ziggurats. Cult of Mother Goddess Hieroglyphic writing (BC 3100) Great Sphinx & Gaza Pyramids (2650-2514) Epic of Gilgamesh (earliest version) c. BC 1900-1600 Babylonian period Law Code of Hammurabi ( BC 1792-1750) c. BC 1500 Hinduism develops in India with polytheism The Vedas The Upanishads c. 1400-1300 Egypt Amenhotep IV establishes monotheism Tutankhamen reestablishes polytheism Page 2 First Column: Century Second Column: Events in History Third Column: Humanities Giants c. BC 1300-1200 Moses leads exodus from Egypt BC 1200-100 Judaism develops monotheism in Middle East c. BC 1200 Presumed period of Trojan War c. BC 1027--256 Golden age of Chinese philosophy Lao-tzu, 6th cent. (philosopher) Confucius (557-479) c. BC 900-700 Age of Homer and Greek mythology Large free-standing sculpture evolves (c. 650) The Odyssey The Iliad 600-500 Buddhism in India Siddhartha Gautama (564-483) (religious leader) Festivals of Dionysus in Athens 500-400 Golden Age of Athens Egypt Architecture at Luxur, Karnak, Abu Simbel (1298-1232) Old Testament Sappho (early 6th century) (Poet) Aeschylus (525-456) (Writer) Pythagoras discovers numerical relationships of music (c. 550) Heraclitus teaches theory of "impermanence." Red-figure style of vase painting Sophocles (496-406) (Playwright) Euripides (485-406) (Playwright) Socrates (469-399) (philosopher) Plato (c. 427-347) (Writer) Herodotus (440) History of the Persian Wars (Writer) 400-300 Alexander the Great Aristotle (c. 384-322) (Philosopher) Page 3 First Column: Century Second Column: Events in History Common Era (C.E.) Or Anno Domini* (A.D. ) *Latin for "Year of the Lord" 01-100 AD Jesus Christ. (c. 0-33) Christianity develops in Palestine, expands as far as Rome Third Column: Humanities Giants New Testament c. 400 AD Fall of Rome to the Goths St. Augustine (354-430) (Philosopher) 500-700 AD Mohammed (571-632) Islam develops in Middle East Moors occupy Spain Qur'an 700-800 AD 900-1000 AD The Alhambra Tale of Genji, Japan, earliest known novel Lady Marasaki Shikibu (978-1031) (Writer) 1000-1100 AD Norman conquest of England in 1066 Bayeux Tapestry Al-Ghazzali, Musim (1058-1111) (Philosopher) 1100-1200 AD Japanese feudal period, rise of Samurai Angkor Wat, Cambodia Moses Maimonides (1135-1244) (Philosopher) 1200-1300 AD High Middle Ages in Western Europe Notre Dame Cathedral St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) (Philosopher) Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) (Poet) 1300-1400 AD Renaissance begins to emerge Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) (Poet) Page 4 First Column: Century 1400-1500 AD Second Column: Events in History High Renaissance starts in Italy Third Column: Humanities Giants Leonardo da Vinci (1451-1519) (artist) Michelangelo (1475-1564) (artist) Raphael (1483-1520) (artist) 1492, Columbus 1500-1600 AD 1517, Martin Luther’s reform proposals in Germany Sophonisba Anguisola (c. 15321626) (artist) 1519, conquest of Mexico by Cortes 1533-1603 Cervantes (1547-1616) (Writer) Reign of Elizabeth I, England William Shakespeare (1564-1616) (Playwright & Poet) 1600-1700 AD Blue Mosque, Istanbul Artemisia Gentileschi (1597-1651) (artist) Dutch masters Rembrandt (1606-1669) (artist) 1620, Pilgrim landing in New World 1640, Puritans close London theaters 1643-1715, Reign of Louis XIV, France John Milton (1608-1674) (Poet) Page 5 First Column: Century 1700-1800 AD 1800-1900 AD Second Column: Events in History Third Column: Humanities Giants 1650-1725, Baroque period, Moliere (1622-1673) (Playwright) Taj Mahal, India (1630-1648) Jean Racine (1639-1699) (Playwright) Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) (scientist) J.S. Bach (1685-1750) (composer) Age of scientific enlightenment Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) (Writer) Voltaire (1694-1778) (Writer) 1775, American Revolution 1776, Declaration of Independence 1789, French Revolution Adam Smith (1723-1790) (Philosopher) Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) (Philosopher) 1804, Napoleon crowns himself Emperor 1827, First known photograph taken Guiseppe Verdi (1813-1901) (composer) 1837-1901, Reign of Queen Victoria, England Karl Marx (1818-1883) (Philosopher) 1845, Annexation of Texas from Mexico 1846, Mexican War 1859, Darwin’s Origin of Species 1861-1865, American Civil War 1865, Assassination of Lincoln Henrik Ibsen (1821-1906) (Writer) Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) (Writer) Claude Monet (1840-1926) (artist) Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) (Philosopher) Mary Cassatt (1845-1926) (artist) Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) (artist) Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) (Writer) Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) (Philosopher) Page 6 First Column: Century Second Column: Events in History 1878, Edison invents phonograph Third Column: Humanities Giants Scott Joplin (1868-1917) (composer) 1898, Spanish-American War. Note: Spain renounced all claim to Cuba and ceded Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines to the U.S., marking the U.S.'s emergence as a world power. 1900-2000 AD 1903, First airplane flight by Wright brothers Mahatma Gandhi, India (1869-1948) (Political Leader) 1905,Theory of Relativity Albert Einstein (1879-1955) (scientist) Page 7 First Column: Century Second Column: Events in History 1913, 69th Regiment Armory Show 1913, Rite of Spring opening night riot Third Column: Humanities Giants Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) (Writer) Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) (composer) 1914-1918, World War I Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) (artist) 1917, Russian Revolution 1920, women get the vote in U.S. 1920s, Jazz Age 1921, Harlem Renaissance 1929, Stock Market crash, Great Depression Martha Graham (1894-1991) (dancer & Choreographer) F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) (Writer) George Gershwin (1898-1937) (composer) 1937, Nationalist rebels in Spain call on Nazis to bomb the town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. Paul Robeson (1898-1976) (Singer & Actor) 1941-1945, World War II Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) (Writer) 1942, United Nations formed Duke Ellington (1899-1974) (composer) 1945, USA drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima , Japan John Steinbeck (1902-1968) (Writer) Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957) (actor) Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) (composer) 1948, UN establishes state of Israel Orson Welles (1915-1985) (Film Director) 1948, assassination of Mahatma Gandhi Anne Frank (1929-1945) (Writer) 1968, assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1989, Berlin Wall taken down Martin Luther King, Jr. (19291968) (Political Leader) Page 8 First Column: Century 2001- Second Column: Events in History Third Column: Humanities Giants September 11, 2001, destruction of the World Trade Center Years and Centuries A.D. Note that the date (e.g. 487 A.D.) is always less than the number of the century (The year 487 is in the Fifth Century). This is because the first 100 years of a century starts with year 0, not year 100. Examples: • 01-99 is the First Century and all of the dates are before 100: Year 12, year 67, etc. • 100-200 is the Second Century and the dates are in the 100's: Year 110, Year 188. • 1900-1999 is the Twentieth Century and all of the dates are in the 1900s: 1995, etc.
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