HIST 118

Students consider the development of the first urban cultures and early empires from the Indus and the Nile Valleys to the Straits of Gibraltar. By exploring the daily lives, cultural institutions, social mores, and politics of these early civilizations, students can start thinking about such concepts as state and society in non-Western terms. -- Prerequisite -- None -- Corequisite -- None -- Pre or Corequisite -- None