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ANTH 32000 - Ancient States And Empires

Credit Hours: 3.00.  Why did some small-scale societies develop into complex chiefdoms, states, and empires while others did not? How did ancient societies adapt in the face of social conflict and environmental challenges? What lessons can we learn from resilience or collapse of states in the ancient past? This course compares the political, social, ecological, contexts of the rise and fall of early complex societies, from densely populated hunter-gatherers in North America to the world’s major ancient civilizations in Mesoamerica, the Andes, Nile Valley, Mesopotamia, Indus Valley, and China. We will also explore how societies responded to ‘grand challenges’ in antiquity such as climate variability, food insecurity, global-intercultural interaction, and what modern lessons we might derive from their successes and failures. Typically offered Fall Spring.


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