To reiterate a statement I made at the beginning of the semester: This class [ World History I ]will not make you an expert. <\/b>However, I hope that in the last six weeks your intellectual curiosity and your personal perspectives have broadened to view the world with a little more interest. In spite of the fast pace of the course and the brevity of our time together, you were exposed to concepts of which most people in the U.S. and the world are ignorant. Thus you now stand among the less than 0.0001% (one percent of one percent) <\/b>of the world\u2019s population to know some of the information discussed in this course. The following is a list of most of the topics we covered in this class and the information you were exposed to:<\/p>\n

1. The development of human civilizations from hunter\/gatherers.
2. Development of authority and labor specialization.
3. mt-DNA and Human migrations.
4. Mesopotamia, its empires, and its legacy in the modern world
5. Sargon\u2019s influence in spreading the Sumerian writing system
6. The Phoenician connection with writing
7. You read the full text of Hammurabi\u2019s Code of Law
8. Ancient Egypt and the Nile River
9. Nubian Civilization and its connection to Egyptian Civilization
10. Harrappan Civilization and the Indus Valley
11. Rise of Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism
12. Yellow River Civilization
13. The Rise of the Persian Empire
14. You read excerpts of the evidence of the Persian Empire
15. Proto-Greek Civilization of the Mycenaeans
16. Greco-Persian Wars
17. You read a chapter from the first history book ever written, Histories by Herodotus (Xerxes invasion)
18. Classical Greek Civilization
19. The Peloponnesian War
20. The Macedonian Invasion
21. Alexander the Great and the extent of the Hellenic Empire
22. The Greek and Roman Filter in history.
23. Early Rome to the Republic to the Empire
24. The Punic Wars
25. Roman Civilization and family life and politics
26. Discussed the interconnection among the Abrahamic Religions
27. The formation of Judaism
28. The emergence of Christianity
29. The rise of Islam
30. Unification of China (film \u2018Hero\u2019)
31. Amerindian Civilizations
32. You read the first 8 chapters of the Popol Vuh.
33. The deciphering of Mayan Writing (film \u2018Cracking the Maya Code\u2019)
34. The diversity of Amerindian civilizations
35. The impact of the Islamic Empires and the silk road
36. The rise of Spain
37. The voyages of Christopher Columbus
38. Historical Concepts: Sins of Omission and Sins of Commission
39. Historical Concepts: Historiography
40. Historical Concepts: Using Chicago Style
41. Historical Concepts: Research using J-STOR
42. Historical Concepts: Syncretism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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