ANCIENT EMPIRES: ORIGINS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATIONS

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Lower-Level

Course explores development of imperial systems from the Bronze Age to Roman Empire with attention to subject peoples' participation in multi-ethnic states. Aspects of art, law, economics, religion, and literature of the Hittites, Assyrians, Hebrews, Persians, Greeks, and Romans examined with consideration given to strengths and weaknesses of contributions to the modern world.