Today's Frame - Early Medieval Europe

How did Medieval Europe blend together ingredients from German barbarian culture, the Roman Empire, and The Roman Catholic Church? (Cultural diffusion)?

Today's Frame - Dar al-Islam

How did Dar al-Islam reflect a diverse, yet relatively unified Islamic civilization during the Middle Ages?  How did it find its parallel in Europe's Christendom?

Today's Frame - Spread of Islam

How and why did Islam spread so rapidly following the death of The Prophet Muhammad, creating Islamic empires known as caliphates? 

Today's Frame - Islam

How did Islam emerge as the fastest-growing faith and the latest version of monotheism?

Today's Frame - The Byzantines

Why did the Byzantine Empire outlast the Western (Latin) Roman Empire by approximately 1,000 years? How were the Byzantines, with their capital in Constantinople, different politically, culturally, and socially from Rome?

The Project, Unit 4, & Activity Points

As you know, I pushed back the deadline for the project by a few days, providing one last weekend (new due date is Monday, 11/20 at 8 AM). Activity Points for the 2nd Quarter have been posted. And finally, today we will start looking at outlines, subtopics, and get our first intro to Animoto and our new GoogleCommunity.

Today's Frame - The Emergence of Christianity

How did Christianity emerge from a persecuted religion to official state religion of the Roman Empire?