The Origin of Civilization. Part 2

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Compact discs.
Course No. 3130.
12 lectures (30 min. each).
Pt. 2, Lecture 13: The development of writing in Mesopotamia -- Lecture 14: The gift of the Nile -- Lecture 15: The Egyptian predynastic period -- Lecture 16: The unification of upper and lower Egypt -- Lecture 17: Divinity and display in dynastic Egypt -- Lecture 18: Why so different? Mesopotamia and the Nile -- Lecture 19: Borders and territories of ancient states -- Lecture 20: The Levantine Copper and Early Bronze Ages -- Lecture 21: Hierarchy and society in the Aegean -- Lecture 22: Early Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations -- Lecture 23: Palace and countryside on Crete -- Lecture 24: How things fall apart: the Greek dark ages.
Taught by professor Scott MacEachern, Bowdoin College.
"Around 10,000 years ago, the small group of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers that had walked the earth for millennia gave way to increasingly complex Neolithic villages of agricultural producers. Around 4,000 - 5,000 years later, people had gathered in urban settings, established laws, and developed culture and political systems. This remarkable change took place in Mesopotamia, on the North China plain, in the Indus Valley, in the Nile Valley, on Aegean islands, in Africa, and in America. What motivated these new forms of culture and social and political complexity? Why did they appear where they did? This course brings together findings from both archaeological and anthropological scholarship to answer these questions and to deepen our understanding of the first human states and civilizations"--P. [4] of guidebook cover.

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