Jul
11
Audio problems again…
July 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment
For some reason I can’t get the audio track from today’s lecture to play … so we only have the Powerpoint. I put that file — and the two others– into WebCT, if you’re interested!
Don’t forget tomorrow’s map quiz.
I put Paul Halsall’s primary source webpage into the blogroll — here it is again.
Jul
6
“… everyone in the world is descended from Nefertiti and Confucius …”
July 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment
After class some of you asked me where I got the information that “The mathematical study of genealogy indicates that everyone in the world is descended from Nefertiti and Confucius, and everyone of European ancestry is descended from Muhammad and Charlemagne .”
Here’s the link! It’s a relatively short and well written article by Steve Olson [...]
