Week
2: The Lessons of Sociobiology
Sociobiology
“K” Species
Altruism
Tool Making
Moralistic
Punishment
Memes
Tribes
Pleistocene
Week 3: The First Great Transformation
Hunter-Gathering
Agriculture
Nomadism
Neolithic
Continuity
Discontinuity
Solar Energy
Holocene
Epidemic Disease
Week 4:
Agriculture and Environmental Change
Swidden Agriculture
Declensionism
Malaria
Erosion
Fertilizer
Silt
Salinization
Climate Change
Solar Forcing
NAO
Week
5: Agriculture
and Civilization
Civilization
Storable
Surplus
Divine
Kingship
Macroparasites
Class
Specialization
Writing
Inequality
Week 6:
Discovery and Divergence
Technology
Secondary
Products Revolution
Milk
Manure
Chariots
Indo-Europeans
Nomadic
Pastoralists
Iron Working
Bantu
Week 7:
Cultural Assimilation and Diffusion
Cultural
diffusion
Cultural
Assimilation
Buddhism
Taoism
Chan Buddhism
Christianity
Christmas
Week 8:
Centralization and Decentralization
Centralization
Hydraulic
States
Decentralization
Bureaucrats
Confucianism
Mandate of
Heaven
Eunuchs
Week 9:
Globalization 1.0
Globalization
Song Dynasty
Islamization
Sugar
Medieval Warm
Period
Moldboard
plow
Crusades
Week 10:
Gunpowder Empires
Gunpowder
Pastoralists
Rifles
Cannons
Gunpowder
Empires
Mughals
Ottomans
Janissaries
Week 11:
Globalization 2.0
Prester John
Spices
Compass
Slave
Amerindians
Mercantilism
Slavery
Atlantic
Economy
Week 12:
The Second Great Transformation
Capitalism
Division of
Labor
Marxism
Fossil Fuels
Tenements
Cholera
The
Anthropocene
Week
13: The Era of European Domination
Rifled
Muskets
The
Maxim Gun
Quinine
Captive
Markets
Imperialism
Monocropping
IMF/World
Bank
Week
14: The Cold War and Globalization 3.0
The World
Wars
Cold War
Nuclear
Weapons
Internet
Outsourcing
Soil Mining
Virtual Water
Haber-Bosch
Process