This course is set to make students get familiar with the history of the United States and the world from prehistory to about 1500 CE. Through this course, students will better understand the origin of the modern world. The following topics will be mainly discussed in the course: Stone Age Societies and the Earliest Civilizations of the Near East, Early Chinese Civilization, Early Indian Civilizations, Greece, Roman Civilization, The Eastern Mediterranean World, The Islamic World, African Beginnings, The Formation of Christian Europe,Culture, Power, and Trade in the Era of Asian Hegemony, The Americas to 1500, The Great Dynastic Empires of Eurasia, East Asian Cultural and Political Systems, European Cultural and Religious Transformations,State Development in Europe. In this course, students will not only be provided with the information about the history but be asked to think about the relationship between the present and the past.

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