Database of Civilizations

Project Goals

Learn SQL to create the database

Learn about ancient civilizations 

Learn how to use Tableau to create infographics from the data

Learn about how politics, economics, and culture affect if a civilization is going to thrive or fail

Tools

What I will be using to make the infographic after collecting all the data.

What I will be using to make the database.

Resources

An amazing book detailing how it is not culture, geography, or race that makes failed states but political and economic institutions.

A great book explaining why dictators act the way they do when it makes no sense to us looking from the outside.

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