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Saturday Lecture Series: The Roman Empire Rome’s civil engineering contributed as much to the empire as did its weapons.

by coldwarrior ( 27 Comments › )
Filed under History, Open thread, saturday lecture series at May 15th, 2010 - 9:00 am

Good Morning, all!  Today we are going to finish with Prof Weber for a while, today he explains‘The Roman Empire
Rome’s civil engineering contributed as much to the empire as did its weapons.’

So relax and let Prof Weber do the heavy lifting this morning…a good cinnamon roll sounds great with that coffee…

Saturday Morning Lecture Series: The Rise of Rome.

by coldwarrior ( 26 Comments › )
Filed under History, Open thread, saturday lecture series at May 8th, 2010 - 9:00 am

Good morning all, Today we will continue with Prof Weber as he explores ‘The Rise of Rome’
Through its army, Rome built an empire that shaped the West.

So get you coffee and grab a seat and listen to Prof Weber…i usually make breakfast while listening to the lectures.

Next week we will finish with Prof Weber for a while and move into some other topics.

Saturday Morning Lecture: The Hellenistic Age

by coldwarrior ( 24 Comments › )
Filed under History, Open thread, saturday lecture series at May 1st, 2010 - 10:30 am

Today we will continue with Prof Weber and further explore the history of the Ancient Greeks. So, get your coffee, sit back and relax, and watch Prof Weber tell us about the Hellenists.

Follow this link to the: The Hellenistic Age Hellenistic kingdoms extended Greek culture throughout the Mediterranean.

We will be posting Prof Weber for the next two weeks to end the classical period before the rise of Christianity.

Saturday Morning Lecture Series: Greek Thought “Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle laid the foundation of Western intellectual thought.”

by coldwarrior ( 32 Comments › )
Filed under History, Open thread, saturday lecture series at April 24th, 2010 - 10:00 am

Good morning, all.

Today on the Saturday Morning Lecture Series, we will continue with Prof Eugen Weber’s “The Western Tradition”. Our topic,  Greek Thought “Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle laid the foundation of Western intellectual thought.”

Follow this link to #6 Greek Thought

So grab you coffee, and ease into the weekend!

( i am continuing with Weber instead of original writing on Zimbabwe so that we can at least keept the classical period as one set of lectures tight in a row, i like continuity)