History
Video Lectures - Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations
Publisher: Teaching Company, 2005, 36pp, 1st ed.
Where do we come from? How did our ancestors settle this planet? How did the great historic civilizations of the world develop? How does a past so shadowy that it has to be painstakingly reconstructed from fragmentary, largely unwritten records nonetheless make us who and what we are?
This course brings you the answers that the latest scientific and archaeological research and theorizing suggest about human origins, how populations developed, and the ways in which civilizations spread throughout the globe.
Lectures
| 1. | Introducing Human Prehistory |
| 2. | In the Beginning |
| 3. | Our Earliest Ancestors |
| 4. | The First Human Diaspora |
| 5. | The First Europeans |
| 6. | The Neanderthals |
| 7. | The Origins of Homo sapiens sapiens |
| 8. | The Great Diaspora |
| 9. | The World of the Cro-Magnons |
| 10. | Artists and Mammoth Hunters |
| 11. | The First Americans |
| 12. | The Paleo-Indians and Afterward |
| 13. | After the Ice Age |
| 14. | The First Farmers |
| 15. | Why Farming? |
| 16. | The First European Farmers |
| 17. | Farming in Asia and Settling the Pacific |
| 18. | The Story of Maize |
| 19. | The Origins of States and Civilization |
| 20. | Sumerian Civilization |
| 21. | Ancient Egyptian Civilization to the Old Kingdom |
| 22. | Ancient Egypt—Middle and New Kingdoms |
| 23. | The Minoan Civilization of Crete |
| 24. | The Eastern Mediterranean World |
| 25. | The Harappan Civilization of South Asia |
| 26. | South and Southeast Asia |
| 27. | Africa—A World of Interconnectedness |
| 28. | The Origins of Chinese Civilization |
| 29. | China—Zhou to the Han |
| 30. | Southeast Asian Civilizations |
| 31. | Pueblos and Moundbuilders in North America |
| 32. | Ancient Maya Civilization |
| 33. | Highland Mesoamerican Civilization |
| 34. | The Origins of Andean Civilization |
| 35. | The Inka and Their Predecessors |
| 36. | Epilogue |