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| | Proposed Curriculum 2005-2006 |
 | | A review of the earliest emergence of state-stratified societies in the Old World (Pharaonic Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and Shang China) and their integration through trade, conflict, migrations, and diffusions of technologies, particularly metalworking, with neighboring illiterate societies on their peripheries. |
 | | A survey of visual culture in Mexico from the Spanish conquest in the 1520s to current developments in contemporary art. |
 | | Examination of art and architecture from their first and still mysterious beginnings in the Indus Valley, through the great masterpieces of Buddhist and Hindu art to the coming of Islam, including the eclectic culture of the Mughal courts and the golden age of miniature paintings. |
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