TTC Video – Origin of Civilization

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TTC Video – Origin of Civilization

Every single day of your life is spent within a civilization—an elaborate system composed of governing bodies, detailed laws, dense urban centers, elaborate trade networks, visual and written cultures, class structures, militaries, and more.

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48 lectures
|  Average 30 minutes each

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Ancient States and Civilizations
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The History of Archaeological Research
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Studying the Origins of States
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Archaeological Interpretation—Çatalhöyük
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Stepping Stones to Civilization
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Trajectories of Cultural Development
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When Is a State a State?
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A Complex Neolithic—Halafian and Samarran
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Hierarchy and Urbanism—’Ubaid Mesopotamia
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The Uruk World System
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Sumer and Afterward
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Civilization and Pastoralism in Mesopotamia
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The Development of Writing in Mesopotamia
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The Gift of the Nile
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The Egyptian Predynastic Period
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The Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt
Unpack the mysteries of the so-called Palette of Narmer, a carved stone tablet that has provided archaeologists with insight into the unification of the upper and lower kingdoms of ancient Egypt. This momentous event, which occurred around 3100 B.C., resulted in the creation of an Egyptian territorial state.

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Divinity and Display in Dynastic Egypt
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Why So Different? Mesopotamia and the Nile
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Borders and Territories of Ancient States
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The Levantine Copper and Early Bronze Ages
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Hierarchy and Society in the Aegean
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Early Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations
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Palace and Countryside on Crete
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How Things Fall Apart—The Greek Dark Ages

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First Farmers in the Indus Valley
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Cities along the Indus
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Seeing What We Expect—Power and Display
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Sedentism and Agriculture in Early China
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State Formation in Ancient China
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Origins of the Chinese Writing System
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From Human Sacrifice to the Tao of Politics
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Spread of States in Mainland Southeast Asia
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Axumite Civilization in Ethiopia
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Inland Niger Delta—Hierarchy and Heterarchy
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Lake Chad Basin—Settlement and Complexity
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Great Zimbabwe and Its Successors
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Sedentism and Agriculture in Mesoamerica
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The Olmec of Lowland Mexico
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Teotihuacán—The First American City
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Beginnings of States in Lowland Mesoamerica
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The Great Maya City-States
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Epigraphy—Changing Views of the Maya
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Was There a Maya Collapse?
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Adaptations in Pacific South America
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Pyramids and Precocity in Coastal Peru
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Andean Civilization—Chav’n to Chimú
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The Florescence of the Inka Empire
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Ancient States—Unity and Diversity?