1. Swine flu instructions If you have a fever of 100 degrees or more, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills, fatigue, and maybe vomiting and diarrhea, Then please do not come to lecture. Stay home and read the assigned readings very carefully. Email Professor Carr *before the quiz* to do the quiz via email.

2. Map quiz

3. Writing your paper Choose one of the four themes on your syllabus 1) opportunities for outsiders like ethnic minorities and women 2) separation of church and state 3) the persistence of the idea of Rome 4) the reconfiguration of the Mediterranean into two spheres rather than one, and the reconfiguration of Europe

4. Writing your paper Go over all of the readings for the class and pick out bits that seem relevant to your theme. You may want to write these down on index cards or some other way. Make sure to keep track of where they come from.

5. Writing your paper Based on your reading, create a thesis statement. Good example: “The Christian church used many different strategies to control the government in different areas of Europe.” Bad example: “The Christian church and the government had a lot to do with each other during the Early Medieval period.”

6. Writing your paper Two weeks from today: Hand in your outline and your bibliography

7. Theodelinda (d. 628)

8. Italy under Agilulf (d. 616)

9. Dagobert (d. 639)

10. Heraclius and Martina

11. Khosrau II (d. 628)

13. Ctesiphon - the palace

14. Ctesiphon

15. Puran (629-631 AD)

16. Mohammed rededicating the Ka’aba

17. Battle of Yarmuk (634 AD)

18. Mu’awiyah (661-680)

19. Ibn Zubayr (d. 692)

20. Constans II (d. 668)

21. Constantine IV (d.685) and his son Justinian II (d.711)

22. Bulgur warrior with captive

23. Chindaswinth (d. 653) and Recceswinth (d. 672)

24. Erwig (d. 687)