HIST - 191 World History from Neolithic to 1500

Credits: 3

This course is an introduction to world history from the Neolithic Era to 1500 CE, with a focus on global networks of trade, ideas, culture, society, and conflict. Themes to be covered will include, but are not limited to, the development and collapse of complex societies, agricultural and pre-industrial economic development, urban and social structures, networks and hierarchies, political and religious revolutions, imperialism, war, and migration.