The Making Of Civilizations

This course introduces students to the ancient civilizations of the world and to give them the opportunities to investigate how many societies came about and why did they develop in the regions they did. The course will also enable students to observe the links between present tangible and intangible ideas and objects and that of the past. In some cases, there are tenuous connections, but in most cases, the world we live in today still bear the many vestiges of earlier complex societies and their peoples. Students will learn to formulate research questions about the pre-1500 world, attempt to draw observations about the connections which were made across the globe before modern globalization, and gain an overview about the history of the world, which may prove important to understanding the world as we see it today.