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Reliable internet access and a Zoom-capable device are required.

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All students are expected to attend class virtually on the days and times listed on your schedule.

Consult your specific degree or transfer pathway and chose based on the topic that most interests you.

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The civilization centered around the Yangtze River, and is likely to have existed before the 1700-1046BC Shang dynasty.

As interesting it is to document the artefacts and lifestyles of these societies, each layer spurts out interesting facts about the times the ancient people lived in.

Heres taking a look at some of the oldest civilizations that flourished thousands of years ago.

The name Mesopotamia is an ancient Greek term which means a land somewhere between the rivers, referring to the valley between the Tigris and Euphrates.

Mesopotamia is largely considered as the place where civilized society first began to take better shape.

Artwork began to be produced, and the Mesopotamians structured and enhanced a society to forge a great civilization.

It flourished around the Indus and Ghaggar River in western India and Pakistan.

Its also known as Harappan civilization, courtesy the ancient city of Harappa.

The ethnic roots of the Hindus and the Indian people can be traced back to this early civilization.

Aryans, the nomadic cattle herders, moved into the region from Central Asia around 1500BC.

Agriculture, pottery, and hunting were their main activities.

The Egyptian civilization lasted from its union in 3100BC until its takeover by Alexander in 332BC.

Artifacts and items, inscribed with hieroglyphs and recovered from archaeological sites not too long ago, have proved how culturally rich the Egyptians were.

Right from the pyramids to the statues and tombs, the Egyptian civilization thrived along the Nile.

Centuries later, much of ancient Egypts life and culture still remains to be discovered.

It began in the Yucatn region in 2600BC and earned prestige around 250AD in present-day Guatemala, western Honduras, northern Belize, and southern Mexico.

They dug canals and built hydroponic gardens in the Yucatn Peninsula.

They were equally qualified farmers, clearing out large tracts of jungle for cultivation where groundwater was limited.

It was one of the most technologically advanced ancient civilizations in its time.

Nothing much is known of this civilization, only that they may have built the first earthquake-resistant megalithic buildings in the world.

Historians assume that the hordes that reduced Atlantis to a rubble, drenched the Mediterranean basin, thereby demolishing the finest cities of the Osirian civilization.

Besides the Egyptians, the Minoan and Mycenean cultures are considered as leftovers of this civilization.

There was much similarity between the Mayans and Chinese, though the two were separated by thousands of miles.

One of the major ancient civilizations, the Chinese was the originator of paper currency, earthquake detectors, rocket technology and several other scientific applications.

World Civilization Class