HIST 440 - The Silk Roads

(3 units)

Prerequisite: HIST 111 or HIST 131 or consent of undergraduate/graduate advisor.
Examines the Silk Roads from the first century BCE to the end of the fifteenth century CE from a world historical perspective. Emphasis is on economic integration, cultural diffusion, exchange and syncretism, and comparative demographic and political development.

Both grading options. Double Numbered with: HIST 540