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.