HIST1108 - 01 - Eras: World Tour Antiquity to 1500

(HI) Historical Inquiry (H) Historical Consciousness (DM) Diversity & Multiculturalism

World History is an effort to view the past with a "wide angle lens." This involves looking at history not on a local or national scale, nor even exploring a specific part of the world, but looking at history on a truly global scale. World History to 1500 examines processes of change that affected very large numbers of people over very long periods of time: the emergence of complex societies (civilizations), the rise of religions that have endured for thousands of years, the development and transfer of technologies that affected everyday life, and the development of systems of government. This course crisscrosses the globe to give students an idea of the similarities and differences and, above all, the perhaps unexpected interconnectedness that mark the early and pre- modern years of human experience.