Still Not Ancient Aliens: Economic and Cultural Exchange in the Ancient World 220-1300CE

Three credits · Undergraduate

Scholars now know that the premodern world was more profoundly interconnected by trade, cultural exchange and migration than we had ever realized. Still Not Ancient Aliens examines some of these interconnections, from the roads of the ancient Wari of Peru to the cultural and trade connections of the Polynesian Islanders, to the premodern trade networks operating in the far North and the cultural mosaic of Islamic Spain. Credit will be granted for only one of HIST 104, HIST 116 or ART 144. Cross-listed as ART 144. Three credits. Offered 2026-2027.