Earn these career-relevant skills in weeks, not years.
- Define civilization and history.
- Trace the development of ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Hebrew, Indus, Vedic Aryan, and Chinese civilizations.
- Identify the intellectual contributions, architecture, artistic forms, religious beliefs, and traditions of ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Hebrew, Indus, Vedic Aryan, and Chinese civilizations.
- Trace the development of Greek, Hellenistic, Persian, Nubian, Ethiopian, Bantu, and steppe peoples’ civilizations.
- Identify the intellectual contributions, architecture, artistic forms, religious beliefs, and traditions of Greek, Hellenistic, Persian, Nubian, Ethiopian, Bantu, and steppe peoples’ civilizations.
- Describe contact and cultural exchange among the Greeks, Persians, Egyptians, Indians, Nubians, and Ethiopians.
- Trace the development of the Punic, Roman, Han, Tang, Song, and Mongol Empires.
- Identify the intellectual contributions, architecture, artistic forms, religious beliefs, and traditions of the Punic, Roman, Han, Tang, Song, and Mongol Empires.
- Compare the cultural, technological, and tactical advances that enabled Roman and Mongol conquests.
- Trace the development of Japanese civilization.
- Identify the intellectual contributions, architecture, artistic forms, religious beliefs, and traditions of Japanese civilization.
- Evaluate the influence of religious traditions and documents on historical political, cultural, and social development in Japan through 1000 CE.
- Trace the development of medieval Islamic and Byzantine civilizations.
- Identify the intellectual contributions, architecture, artistic forms, religious beliefs, and traditions of medieval Islamic and Byzantine civilizations.
- Trace the development of feudalism as a social and economic system in Western Europe.
- Analyze the roles of Islam and Christianity in medieval societies.