NEISD - Community Education

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ALIR - Subdue the Earth

Combining Great Courses? lectures with salient research, this class looks at how pre-history civilizations learned to domesticate wild animals and plants, and at the social and cultural consequences of agriculture and animal domestication that continue to this day. then, the class will focus on the early Mediterranean trading civilizations (Sumer, Egypt, Crete, Mycenae and Hittites), to understand how the increasingly complex world grew from a "subdued" planet.