TTC Video – Origin of Civilization

TTC Video – Origin of Civilization

Every single day of your life is spent within a civilization—an elaborate system composed of governing bodies, detailed laws, dense urban centers, elaborate trade networks, visual and written cultures, class structures, militaries, and more.

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48 lectures
|  Average 30 minutes each

1
Ancient States and Civilizations
2
The History of Archaeological Research
3
Studying the Origins of States
4
Archaeological Interpretation—Çatalhöyük
5
Stepping Stones to Civilization
6
Trajectories of Cultural Development
7
When Is a State a State?
8
A Complex Neolithic—Halafian and Samarran
9
Hierarchy and Urbanism—’Ubaid Mesopotamia
10
The Uruk World System
11
Sumer and Afterward
12
Civilization and Pastoralism in Mesopotamia
13
The Development of Writing in Mesopotamia
14
The Gift of the Nile
15
The Egyptian Predynastic Period
16
The Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt
Unpack the mysteries of the so-called Palette of Narmer, a carved stone tablet that has provided archaeologists with insight into the unification of the upper and lower kingdoms of ancient Egypt. This momentous event, which occurred around 3100 B.C., resulted in the creation of an Egyptian territorial state.
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Divinity and Display in Dynastic Egypt
18
Why So Different? Mesopotamia and the Nile
19
Borders and Territories of Ancient States
20
The Levantine Copper and Early Bronze Ages
21
Hierarchy and Society in the Aegean
22
Early Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations
23
Palace and Countryside on Crete
24
How Things Fall Apart—The Greek Dark Ages

25
First Farmers in the Indus Valley
26
Cities along the Indus
27
Seeing What We Expect—Power and Display
28
Sedentism and Agriculture in Early China
29
State Formation in Ancient China
30
Origins of the Chinese Writing System
31
From Human Sacrifice to the Tao of Politics
32
Spread of States in Mainland Southeast Asia
33
Axumite Civilization in Ethiopia
34
Inland Niger Delta—Hierarchy and Heterarchy
35
Lake Chad Basin—Settlement and Complexity
36
Great Zimbabwe and Its Successors
37
Sedentism and Agriculture in Mesoamerica
38
The Olmec of Lowland Mexico
39
Teotihuacán—The First American City
40
Beginnings of States in Lowland Mesoamerica
41
The Great Maya City-States
42
Epigraphy—Changing Views of the Maya
43
Was There a Maya Collapse?
44
Adaptations in Pacific South America
45
Pyramids and Precocity in Coastal Peru
46
Andean Civilization—Chav’n to Chimú
47
The Florescence of the Inka Empire
48
Ancient States—Unity and Diversity?

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