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CIVILIZATION
HISTORY 106 – A COMPARATIVE
INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF
HUMAN SOCIAL ORGANIZATION FROM THE
EARLIEST TIMES UNTIL THE 17TH CENTURY
Universals?
Necessities: (reproduction based): food, water, shelter,
reproduction/ child raising?, waste, reflection, creativity, spiritual
expression.
Social Theo-philosophic
Political
Economic Ideological
Technologic
Technologic
> war/ invasion
Economic
History: History is the interpretation of the
incomplete written record or oral tradition of the
experiences of humans through the contexts of time.
While history demands many types of critique – such as
political, economic, technological, or social critique –
all are dependant on documents and their
interpretation. History, like language, is very plastic.
Society: A society is an artificial construction of a collection
of linked formal and informal institutions that govern group
behavior.
Is there progress?
Thesis A ntithesis
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Synthesis
In addition there are some concepts that are useful in the discussion of
world civilization.
12,000 YEARS BP
AFRICA AMERICAS ASIA EUROPE OCEANA
SAN hunter-gathers Tehuacanos Jarmo ----------- Mammoth cave
Qadan horticulture (Mexico) Natufian Jericho Knossos
(Egypt) (olives)
Saharan cattle herders Karanovo
(Tassili)
7000 BP (5000BC)
AFRICA AMERICAS ASIA EUROPE OCEANA
Badarian agriculture Cochise (SWNA) Yangshao Danubian Kuk
(wheat/barley) (maize) (rice) (wheat) (yams/taro)
Hacilar
Catal Huyuk
6000 BP (4000BC)
Pre-unification Egypt Archaic period Ubaid Minoan Melanesian
Unified archaic Egypt Harrapan Varna expansion
Narmer/Menes Non Nok Tha
Loang Spean
5000 BP (3000BC)
AFRICA AMERICAS ASIA EUROPE OCEANA
Old Kingdom Egypt Preclassic Indus (Kurgan) Battle Axe Lapita
Pyramids Ban Chieng Beaker Folk
Lungshan Troy
Sumer
Sargon of Akkad
4000 BP (2000BC)
Old Kingdom Egypt Early Olmecs Shang China Myceneans
Intermediate Period Hitittes Thera
Middle Kingdom (Iron)
Babylonians
Aryan Invasions Barbarian Invasions
3000 BP (1000BC)
AFRICA AMERICAS ASIA EUROPE OCEANA
Middle Kingdom Olmecs Assyrians Hellenic Greece
New Kingdom Adena Phoenicians (Pericles through Alexander)
Late Period Hopewell Canaanites Carthage
Bantu Kingdoms Anasazi Gupta India Etruscans/Rome
Han China La Tene/Hallstatt
Celts & Germania
2000 BP (1 AD)
Ghana Maya China Rome Polynesians
WORLD
CIVILIZATION
THEMES IN WORLD
HISTORY
Who was the First?
The case for Asia - MESOPOTAMIA
(Sumer)
Early China
American
Civilization
North and South America
European
Civilization
Minoan & Mycenean