Elixir: Water & Humans History

A Faculty Project Course - Best Professors Teaching the World

Water. It caresses and comforts us, provides sustenance and refreshment, is something that humanity has cherished since the beginning of history, and means something different to everyone else. Yet the historical facts and information about water remains little known.

Water tells the story of changing human relationships with water over the past 10,000 years and tries to answer some basic questions:

- How have human attitudes to water changed since people first began to manage their water supplies?

- What major events in the past have defined our present relationship to water, not as something revered, but treated as an anonymous commodity?

- Why are we now facing a global water crisis and what are prospects for the future?

This is the story of gravity and human ingenuity, of irrigation and aqueducts, of humble farming villages, ancient cities, and the rise and fall of civilizations. We draw on archaeology and hydrology, on anthropology and ancient oral traditions, on classical literature and Islamic agriculture—on a broad array of scientific inquiries in many languages and in all parts of the world.

Taking this course will make you look at water in an entirely new way.

*WHAT YOU WILL LEARN*

✔ The Elixir of Life

✔ The irrigators - Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt

✔ Reservoirs, Rice, and Rivers - Asia

✔ The Water Maestros - Greece, Rome, Islam, and the Inca

✔ The Industrial Revolution and Beyond

*FEATURES*

✔ Lifetime access to 16 lectures

✔ 4+ hours of high quality content

✔ A community of 3000+ people trying to learn the same thing!

✔ Watch courses on the go: video lectures, audio lectures, presentations, articles and anything inside your course.

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* WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS COURSE ON UDEMY *

"Great course for looking at our historical relationship with water."

-(Michael D. Woods) ★★★★★

"Thanks a lot Professor Fagan for a very interesting Journey true the history of water. I will highly recomend this course lectures to my Norwegian co students! Best regards"

-(Espen Frankmoen) ★★★★★

"We think we're so smart in modern times...may we progress on the shoulders of our ancestors! Buy this book and be bountiful!"

-(Keli Rae) ★★★★★

"This course shared much information about water history and it's relationship with humankind. The couse has a format of narrative style."

-(Konstantinos Karentzos) ★★★★★

Instructed By : Brian Fagan | Retired Professor of Anthropology

Brian is a Retired Professor of Anthropology. He has written, or co-authored, eight textbooks of different types, all of which are still in print. The writing and especially revision, of these books consumes a great deal of his time.

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