ARCH 212:Foundations of Old and N ew World Civilizations

The course will guide the student to understand the evolution of human beings, and the spread of early peoples across Africa, Europe, Asia, the Americas and Australia. It will deal with environmental, demographic, technological, economic and other changes by which people turned from foraging to food-production. Factors that led to the development of the world’s earliest  “civilizations” in the Near East, Meso-America, Egypt, the Indus Valley and China will be examined.