World History Lecture Improvements

Some items to be sure to include:

• an example or two of Aesop's Fables
• more on the history of democracy
• more discussion of the origin of language
• the history of the English Bible, including discussion of King James I, with reference to Bible sales annually
• more detail about the Spanish Inquisition
• more detail about Galileo
• how virtually Christians agree on the contents of the New Testament, and on the Nicene Creed
• introduction to term list
• incorporate material from Essay:Conservativism, Christianity, and the Making of the Western World, focusing on the development of thought
• include references to history of mathematics and mathematicians [1]
• how different China and India are, but how together they have perhaps 8 times the population of the U.S.
• how the development of China and India's economies supposedly affected the value of commodities like oil.

More Current Events

• economy - outsourcing jobs
• economy - price of oil

More Bible history

• When the books were written (example of Esther)
• Dead Sea Scrolls
• Split of Israel due to its civil war (draw analogy to American Civil War)
• date of translations of Bible

More on Development of Ideas

• paucity of humor in ancient world
• concept of zero, and more mathematical history
• concept of invisible hand, and more economic history
• concept of democracy, and more political history

More on history of language

See http://i-cias.com/e.o/cuneiform.htm .