Academy: Essential Features of Civilizations and Empires: Civilizations and Empires
Explores historical and anthropological approaches to the study of civilizations and empires.
The Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Imperial Ottoman Textile (detail)
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Early Civilizations & Ancient Greek City States
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Defining Civilization
From a slide presentation (Archaeology 1630, Brown University)
Sumer/Mesopotamia
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Near East: Early CivilizationsHorrible interface but good, concise overview of the region & key Mesopotamian city-states (Anthro 335: Old World Prehistory, Western Kentucky University)
Ancient Greece
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Ancient Greece: Introduction (from Very Short Introductions)
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Ancient Greece: Introduction (PDF for GBN Students)
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The Polis in Decline
"The Polis in Decline." World Eras, edited by John T. Kirby, vol. 6: Classical Greek Civilization, 800-323 B.C.E, Gale, 2001, pp. 187-190. Gale eBooks, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3035100109/GVRL?u=gotitans&sid=bookmark-GVRL&xid=69553a03.
Empires
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Who's an imperialist? (From Empires: A Very Short Introduction)
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Who's An Imperialist? (PDF for GBN students)
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Conrad Demarest Model of Empires (from the Origins Project at Ohio State)
Handout summarizing the model.
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Understanding empire
Brief overview of approaches to understanding empires from an Open University course
Roman Empire
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Roman Empire: Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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Roman Empire: Introduction (PDF for GBN Students)
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The Fall of Rome: Facts and Fictions
Horrible interface but excellent overview of different explanations.
Byzantine Empire
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Strategies for survival (from Byzantium: A Very Short History)
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Strategies for survival (PDF for GBN Students)
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Russia
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The Formation of the Muscovite State (PDF for GBN Students)
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Ottoman Empire
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The Rise of the Turks and the Ottoman Empire
Terrible interface but excellent overview (Excerpt from Turkey: A Country Study, 1987.)
British Empire
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British Empire
"British Empire." Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction, edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter, vol. 1, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006, pp. 440-445. Gale eBooks, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3447000158/GVRL?u=gotitans&sid=bookmark-GVRL&xid=83ea9c85.
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