"The following review of the archeological and document evidence indicates that three events occurring in the first half of the first millennium BC trigger the emergence of a specialized and integrated classical economy after 500 BC: (i) growth in demand for silver as a medium of exchange in economies in the Near East; (ii) technical breakthroughs in hull construction and sailing rig in merchant shipping of the late Bronze Age; (iii) perfection of ferrous metallurgy into the European hinterland."
Dr. Stephanie Toliver, Asst. Prof. at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Editor of Black Youth Futures, a new column in English Journal, is seeking essays, poems, stories, and comics for future issues.
The columns for September 2023 and January 2024 are already done, so get your futuristic pieces ready for May 2024 and beyond. More details are in the flyer.