Big History. : the big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity Part 3
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Lectures 25-36 of 48.
Lecture 25. The origins of agriculture -- lecture 26. The first agrarian societies -- lecture 27. Power and its origins -- lecture 28. Early power structures -- lecture 29. From villages to cities -- lecture 30. Sumer, the first agrarian civilization -- lecture 31. Agrarian civilizations in other regions -- lecture 32. The world that agrarian civilizations made -- lecture 33. Long trends, expansion and state power -- lecture. 34. Long trends, rates of innovation -- lecture 35. Long trends, disease and Malthusian cycles -- lecture 36. Comparing the world zones.
Lecturer: David Christian, San Diego State University.
Dr. David Christian, Professor of History at San Diego State University surveys the past at all possible scales, from conventional history, to the much larger scales of biology and geology, to the universal scales of cosmology.
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PUBLISHED
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: 6 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (ii, 68 p. ; 22 cm.)
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
159803409X
9781598034097
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SUBJECTS
Civilization -- Philosophy.
Human evolution.
World history.