SCULPTURE
Chac Mool Statue (Mayan/Mexico), 9th Century CE
WRITTEN (PUBLIC)
Code of Hammurabi (Babylon/Iraq), Circa 1750 BCE
WRITTEN (PRIVATE)
Cicero Letter to Brother Quinttus (Rome/Italy)
1st Century BCE
LITERATURE
Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (Greece)
8th Century BCE
SECONDARY SOURCES
Edward Gibbons The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, United Kingdom
1776-1788 CE
ENVIRONMENTAL
Ice Core Samples (Antarctica)
Up to 400,000 BCE
BIOLOGICAL
Natural Mummy of a Caveman (Austria), Circa 3300 BCE
ARCHITECTURE
Church of St. George (Ethiopia), 12th Century CE
MAPS AND CHARTS
Song Dynasty Map (China), 1137 CE
MATERIAL CULTURE
Lydian Coins (Turkey), 7th Century BCE
PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS
Bodhdisattvas (India), Circa 450 CE
Week 1: We Were Not Alone (Africa-Eurasia)
Course Introduction and the Origins of Humanity: 14 Billion -10,000 BP
Week 2: Active Brains and the Easy Life (Global)
The Cognitive Revolution and Foraging Societies:70,000-12,000 BP
Week 3: Sweat of our Brows (Fertile Crescent, Middle East)
The Agricultural Revolution 10,000 BP
Week 4: Imagine This (Mesopotamia and Egypt)
River Valleys and the First States
River Valleys and the First States
Week 6: You Must Remember This (Sumer and Peru)
Origins of Writing
Week 7: Top to Bottom (India and Global)
Rise of Social Hierarchies
Week 8: Empire State Building (Assyria, Persia, Rome, Mexico)
Rise of Empire
Week 9: Money Makes the World Go 'Round (Global)
Money in History
Week 10: Let’s Make a Deal (Africa, Central Asia, and Europe)
Trade in History
Week 11: What Goes Around, Comes Around (South Asia)
Universal Natural Religions of the East
Week 12: In the Beginning… (Middle East)
Universal Theistic Religions of the West
Week 13: “The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living” (Greece)
Western Philosophical Tradition
Eastern Philosophical Tradition
Week 15: Ignorance Is Not Bliss (Europe)
Origins, Meaning and Implications of the Scientific Revolution
HISTORY SOURCES