1. Intro to Historiography The Beginnings of Historical Consciousness

2. Where are the Origins? Origins of Western Consciousness Jews and Early Christians Sense of Meaning on Past Greeks Critical Eye Earliest Humans

3. Earliest Humans No Awareness Barriers to Memory? Cyclical Organize the Unfamiliar or Scary Myths, Legends & Fables

4. Moses

5. Ancient Peoples Most Ancient Group left no records Many did Hittites Sumerians Egyptians Assyrians These Records Are Not Histories

6. Jews of Ancient Israel Importance of History Confirmed Relationship w/ God Grand Drama Commemoration of Specific Events Old Testament Clouded by Conviction of Faith

7. Greeks History- Implication of Truth? Historia Major Contributors of Historical Thought Two Major Historians Herodotus Thucydides Homer

9. Early Christianity Historical Consciousness Developed With Church St. Paul St. Peter Constantine Council of Nicaea

10. Early Medieval Period

12. Rome Justification of Empire Livy Polybus Julius Cesar Tacitus Germania Power and corruption

14. Modern Age Teleology The word "teleological" is derived from the Greek word telos, meaning "end" or "purpose". Teleology is the supposition that there is purpose or directive principle in the works and processes of nature. Purpose of History Throughout Middle Ages

15. Bringing Man Back into the Story Nicolo Machiavelli The Prince Francesco Guiccardini History of Italy

16. Machiavelli

17. Humanism Petrarch Martin Luther Sola Vida Age of Discovery

18. Columbus

19. 17th 18th Centuries Humanist tendencies Continue Exceptions-William Branford’s Of Plymouth Landing Voltaire Enlightenment History Should Serve a Practical Purpose Reason and Credibility Could Show Truth

20. Edward Gibbon Still amature Learned Languages Systematic Decline and Fall of Roman Empire Prose