Week 1: Technology and Its Impact on Civilization

Week 2: Geography and the Ways of the World

Week 3: Building and Maintaining an Empire

Week 4: The Civilized Behavior of Warfare

Week 5: Who is in Charge?: Forms of Authority in the Ancient World

Week 6: Social Structures and their Consequences: Women in the Ancient World

Week 7: The Uses of the Gods I: Ancient Myths and Cosmologies

Week 8: Crossroads of Culture: Trade in the Ancient Middle East

Week 9: The Uses of the Gods?: Ancient Philosophies

Week 10: Crossroads of Culture: Impact of the Mongols

Week 11: How Do You Know?: Sources of Knowledge in the Pre-Modern Thought

Week 12: Nature and Knowledge: The Science of the Pre-Modern World