  This lecture concerns the properties of strongly interacting matter (which is
described by Quantum Chromodynamics) at very high energy density. I review the
properties of matter at high temperature, discussing the deconfinement phase
transition . At high baryon density and low temperature, large $N_c$ arguments
are developed which suggest that high baryonic density matter is a third form
of matter, Quarkyonic Matter, that is distinct from confined hadronic matter
and deconfined matter. I finally discuss the Color Glass Condensate which
controls the high energy limit of QCD, and forms the low x part of a hadron
wavefunction. The Glasma is introduced as matter formed by the Color Glass
Condensate which eventually thermalizes into a Quark Gluon Plasma.
