HIS 1034 World History I: Before 1500
The course's motto is these words attributed to Churchill: "The farther back you can look, the farther forward you can see". Therefore, it covers the key events of the period including: the emergence, evolution and migrations of early humans from Africa; their settlements and the beginning of civilizations in Mesopotamia and Egypt; the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome and their evolution; the rise of Christianity; the fall of Rome; the rise of Islam; the emergence of the medieval world and the Renaissance age; and finally the beginning of the modern world through new sciences, institutions, economy, geography, and society by around the 1500s.