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Slides for Meeting 1:
Introduction and Themes
Slides for Meeting 2:
The Origins of Civilization
Slides for Meeting 3:
Mesopotamia
Slides for Meeting 4:
Sumer
Slides for Meeting 5:
Semitic Mesopotamia
Slides for Meeting 6:
God-Kings of Egypt
Slides for Meeting 7:
Egyptian Empires
Slides for Meeting 8:
The Bronze Age Aegean
Slides for Meeting 9:
Dawn of the Iron Age
Slides for Meeting 10:
How Not to Run an Empire: The Assyrians
Slides for Meeting 11:
The Success of the Persian Empire
Slides for Meeting 12:
Ancient Asia: China, India, and the Steppes
Slides for Meeting 14:
The Greek Dark Age
Slides for Meeting 15:
Archaic Hellas
Slides for Meeting 16:
Sparta and Athens
Slides for Meeting 17:
The Persian Menace
Slides for Meeting 18:
Wars Between the Greeks
Slides for Meeting 19:
The Rise of Macedon
Slides for Meeting 20:
The Legacy of Alexander
Slides for Meeting 21:
Early Rome
Slides for Meeting 22:
The Roman Republic
Slides for Meeting 23:
The Acquisition of Empire
Slides for Meeting 24:
The Republican Crisis
Slides for Meeting 25:
Collapse of the Republic
Slides for Meeting 26:
Crossing the Rubicon
Slides for Meeting 27:
Augustus, Princeps, Imperator
Slides for Meeting 28:
The Roman Principate