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Unit: Era 3 - Cities, Societies, and Empires (6,000 BCE to 700 CE)

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3.0: Era 3 Overview

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3.1: Village Networks

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3.2: Long Distance Trade

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3.3: Comparing Early Agrarian Societies

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3.4 What is a State

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3.5: Development of Portable Belief Systems

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3.6: The Growth of Empires

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3.7: Comparing the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty

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Like farming, the idea of a “city” is another one that’s been around so long, we forget something caused the first cities to appear. The consequences? Class differences, portable belief systems, and shopping, to name a few.