5th PERIOD

Class info

This course examines the human past from the earliest human migrations through the first global age, roughly 250,000 BCE to 1800 CE. 

Rather than marching through a list of civilizations, the course is organized around the questions historians ask: 

• Whose account of the past are we hearing? 

• What sources survive, and what do they leave out? 

• How do we build an argument from incomplete evidence? 

• How does the past shape the world students live in now?