ANTH 242 - ?Civilization? and ?Barbarism? during the Bronze Age,3500-2000 B

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Wellesley College

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C.E. Kohl A review of the earliest emergence of state-stratified societies in the Old World (Pharaonic Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and Shang China) and their integration through trade, conflict, migrations, and diffusions of technologies, particularly metalworking, with neigh-boring illiterate societies on their peripheries. The course concludes with a comparison with core-periphery relations in pre-Columbian Me-soamerica and P eru. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies or Social and Behavioral Analysis Semester: Spring Unit:

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wellesley.edu

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(781) 283-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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