#FIRST CIVILIZATION REGISTRATION#

If you are enrolled on the Certificate of Higher Education you need to indicate this on the enrolment form but there is no additional registration fee.Īssignments are not graded but are marked either pass or fail.Īll students who successfully complete this course, whether registered for credit or not, are eligible for a Certificate of Completion. If you do not register when you enrol, you have up until the course start date to register and pay the £10 fee.Ĭoursework is an integral part of all online courses and everyone enrolled will be expected to do coursework, but only those who have registered for credit will be awarded CATS points for completing work at the required standard. You can do this by ticking the relevant box at the bottom of the enrolment form or when enrolling online. To earn credit (CATS points) for your course you will need to register and pay an additional £10 fee for each course you enrol on. Starting in Mesopotamia, city civilization emerged for the first time on earth, to be followed in Egypt, India, China and the Americas. We strongly recommend that you try to find a little time each week to engage in the online conversations (at times that are convenient to you) as the forums are an integral, and very rewarding, part of the course and the online learning experience. Indus Valley civilisation: Seals and writing.Forms of recording: Tokens, bullae, tags, tablets.Using archaeology and textual sources in translation, this course will build a picture of the Sumerian civilization, one that lies at the root of our own urban, literate, globalised world.įor information on how the courses work, and a link to our course demonstration site, please click here. The Sumerians developed the earliest writing, established richly furnished temples to receive the blessing of their gods, formed armies to battle for control of land and water, thereby establishing some of the earliest empires, and sought exotic materials from distant lands along trade routes stretching from Egypt in the west to Afghanistan in the east. In Sumer, the inhabitants of vast settlements worked the land, built monumental architecture, and created extraordinary art. Using archaeology and textual sources in translation, this course will build a picture of the Sumerian civilization, one that lies at the root of our own urban, literate, globalised world.

Civilization, life in cities, was born over five thousand years ago on the fertile plains of southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq).

First civilization