HIS 111 Unit 2

HIS 111
Unit 2: Pre-History

Stonehenge; photo courtesy Bryan Grasser. See some additional photos. Blue Separator Bar

What you must do in this unit

Read chapter 1 in the textbook.
Read my Pre-History Notes.
Study the Questions to Consider and the Key Terms for the unit.
Post (or respond) your thoughts/ideas about this unit's reading and assignment in the Blackboard online discussion forum. Do not post your assignment there.
Submit the Required Pre-History paragraph.

What you can do in this unit

Read Professor Campbell's notes on The Origins of Religion.
Read Mark Kane's information about prehistoric Stone Circles.
Listen to some further information for this unit as a mp3 file. You can also read the information as a txt file.

Some videos that you can watch for this unit

See the videos dealing with Pre-History in the HIS 101 course.
It's not really a video, but Civilisations is a kind of interactive timeline of world empires.
For extra credit please suggest to your instructor a relevant video for this unit of the course. Send the title of the video, the url and a brief explanation of why you find the video interesting and applicable to the material that is being studied in this unit.

Extra Credit Options

Take the short 5-point quiz for chapter 1. Log into Blackboard and look under "Chapter Quizzes." You have five minutes to complete each quiz (multiple-choice questions).
For 50 points maximum extra credit, write a one-page paper, How did the work of Mary Leakey contribute to our knowledge of early hominids and an understanding of human evolution?
For extra credit, please suggest a relevant website for this unit of the course. Send the title of the site, the url and a brief explanation why you find the information interesting and applicable to the material being studied this unit.