End of Rome & Birth of Europe

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This course will introduce students to basic and advanced statistical methods for analyzing linguistic data using R, an open-Stochastic processes describe the dynamics of systems which evolve in time according to probabilistic laws, rather than deterministic laws. We particularly study Markov processes which have the property that the future only depends on the present, not on thThis course will look at the archaeology and history of Italy and Western Europe from the Reign of Constantine through the Reign of Charlemagne.  It will use archaeological and documentary evidence to explore such topics as the Christianity of the Roman Empire, the Barbarian Invasions, changes and continuity of the cities and countryside of Europe and the rise of the new order in Merovingian and Carolingian Europe.  Emphasis will be on the way that new discoveries, especially in archaeology have changed how we look at this period. (Dyson) This course is dual-listed with CL 408.