Course Learning Outcomes
- Identify the major prehistoric and Bronze Age civilizations of Africa, the Americas, Egypt, Mesopotamia, China and the Mediterranean world.
- Describe the social and political organization of the Greek polis and the institutions of Republican and Imperial Rome.
- Analyze the factors behind the decline of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Church as an organized religious institution.
- Explain the rise of Islam, the institution of the Caliphate, Shariah law and Sufi culture in Central Islamic lands.
- Compare patterns of state formation and cultural development across ancient and early medieval civilizations beyond India.
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