It is required for all the students to read the primary sources for the discussion sessions which are held on Fridays. To reach the online primary sources, please follow the steps below:
Log on to the Boğaziçi University Library Webpage at http://www.library.boun.edu.tr/,
Then click "Catalog Search,"
Click "Course Code" on the right column,
Type in HIST 105, and you will see all the required sources.
30 Eylül 2010 Perşembe
HIST 105: THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD, I
Coordinator: ELİF ÜNLÜ
e-mail: elif.unlu@boun.edu.tr TB 526
office hours: Wednesdays 13:30-14:30 and by appointment
Teaching Assistants: hist105@boun.edu.tr
Uluğ Kuzuoğlu (head TA), ulugk@hotmail.com
Gizem Tongo, gizemtongo@yahoo.com
Sinem Erdoğan, sinem.erdogan@boun.edu.tr
Ayşe Esra Şirin, ayseesratopaloglu@gmail.com
Kerim Kartal, qerimqartal@yahoo.com
Lectures: MWF 4, GKM
Discussion sessions: Fridays,
Course Description:
The Making of the Modern World (Hist 105; Hist 106) is a two-semester elective course providing a thematic history of the world from ancient to modern times. The course surveys the major patterns and events of human activity from a global perspective within a broad chronological framework, while familiarizing students with interactions, parallellisms, and incongruities in the historical and cultural patterns of diverse societies and civilizations. The course aims to develop an understanding of modes and patterns of historical change, and provides a perspective on the complex ways in which the legacy of the past shapes our present.
The first part of the course (Hist 105) focuses on the ancient and the medieval world, and approaches the formation and transformations of specific social, political, cultural, and economic patterns through a global perspective. Beginning with the first steps of humanity and the first permanent settlements and urban centers of the ancient Near East, the course turns to the Ancient Greek, Roman, and East Asian civilizations. Broad historical transformations of the medieval era in the eastern Mediterranean, Europe, Middle East and Asia constitute the last main focus. For each of these three major periods, the course examines aspects of political, cultural, ideological and institutional structures and transformations, as well as aspects of daily life and material culture. Connections and interactions across spatial and cultural divides remain a focus throughout the survey.
Format:
The course is team-taught by members of the History Department. Each week’s lectures will be followed by one-hour discussion sessions on Fridays led by the teaching assistants.
There are two types of reading for the course. The textbook [P.N. Stearns, M. Adas, S.B. Schwartz, M.H. Gilbert, World Civilizations: The Global Experience (New York, 2008)], provides an introduction and background to the topics to be covered in the lectures. The primary source readings for each week introduce a set of particular issues and themes directly related to the lecture topics. The Friday sections with the teaching assistants will be devoted in part to the in-depth discussion and interpretation of the primary sources, and in part to the discussion of the main themes and issues of the week. Four historical movies or documentaries related to course themes will be screened through the semester.
It is highly important that you participate fully in the course by attending the lectures, doing the readings (preferably before lectures, certainly before the Friday discussion hours), and partaking in the discussions led by the teaching assistants.
All readings will be available as electronic documents on the Boğaziçi Library web site (go to Catalogue Search; Search Course Reserves). Stearns, et al, World Civilizations: The Global Experience is also available in the Boğaziçi University Bookstore. Lecture outlines and course announcements will be posted on the course website.
Requirements and grade distribution:
Mid-term exam: 40%
Final exam: 45%
Attendance and participation in discussion sessions: 15%
SYLLABUS
HIST 105 THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD, I FALL 2010
27 September M Introduction Ünlü
PART 1: FROM PREHISTORY TO HISTORY
29 September W Agricultural Transformation and
the First Permanent Settlements Özyar
1 October F The Rise of Civilization: Early Urban
Centers of the Ancient Near East Özyar
Reading, week 1 (27 Sept.-1 Oct/): P.N. Stearns, M. Adas, S.B. Schwartz, M.H. Gilbert, World Civilizations: The Global Experience (New York, 2007), pp. 2-25.
4 October M Egypt: The Pharaonic Kingdom
and the Nile Özyar
6 October W From Accounting to Writing: Early
Scripts and Ancient Languages Özyar
8 October F Social Stratification and Historical Records:
Anatolia in the Bronze Age Özyar
Readings and sources, week 2 (4-8 Oct.): Stearns et al., pp. 25-45
from The Epic of Gilgamesh
PART 2: THE ANCIENT WORLD
11 October M The Aegean World in Prehistory: The Minoan
and Mycenaean Civilizations Ünlü
13 October W Rise of the Greek Civilization Classical Greek
World and the Polis Durak
Movie showing at 17:00 in Garanti Kültür
300 by Zack Snyder, 2006
15 October F The Hellenic Synthesis Durak
Readings and sources, week 3 (11-15 Oct.): Stearns et al, pp. 94-102
from The Edict of Telipinus
18 October M Ancient Iran: the Achaemenid (Persian) Empire,
the Parthians, and the Sassanian Empire
Ünlü
20 October W Early South Asia: The Land of Brahmins
Toksöz
22 October F Rice Agriculture and Communal Life in China
Esenbel
Readings and sources, week 4 (18-22 Oct.): Stearns et al., pp. 102-115, 116-130
from Thucidydes, The Peloponnesian War, Book II, Chapter VI, Funeral oration of Pericles
Optional reading: from Strabo, Geographica, Book XV, Chapter 3
25 October M The Confucian State in China Esenbel
27 October W Alexandrian Legacy in Asia Esenbel
29 October F No Class-No Discussion Session
1 November M Rome: the Republic Levy
3 November W Rome: the Empire Levy
5 November F The Fall of Rome and the
Roman Legacy Levy
Readings and sources, week 6 (25 Oct-5 Nov.): Stearns et al., pp. pp. 55-93 &, 140-154.
from Lao Tzu, The Classic of the Way and of Virtue
from Confucius, K’ung fu-tzu, (469-399 B. C. ) Analects
8 November M Religion in the Mediterranean World
and the Rise of Christianity Levy
10 November W The Byzantine Empire: from Constantine
the Great to the Age of Justinian Durak
PART 3: THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
12 November F Byzantine Society from Late Antiquity
to the Middle Ages Durak
Readings and sources, week 7 (8-12 Nov.): Stearns et al., pp. 154-157, 218-222, 222-227.
from Augustus, Autobiography, “The Achievements of the Divine”
from the correspondance of Pliny and Trajan
15 November M No Class
17 November W No Class
20 November F No Class-No Discussion Session
22 November M Midterm-No Class
24 November W From the Iconoclastic Controversy
to the Great Schism: Christianity Divides
Durak
Movie showing at 17:00 in Garanti Kültür
The Crusades, Terry Jones, 1995 (BBC Documentary)
26 November F Byzantium from the Age of the
Crusades to the Ottoman Conquest
Durak
Readings and sources, week 8 (15-20 Nov.): Stearns et al., pp. 304-319 (chapter 14)
from Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History
Constantine's Coins, Statues and the Arch of Constantine in Rome
from Anna Comnena, Alexiad
from Manuel Palaiologos, Letters
29 November M Medieval Europe: Rural Society and Feudalism
Deringil
1 December W Medieval European Politics: Kings and Vassals
Deringil
3 December F Medieval European Politics: Popes and Bishops
Deringil
Reading, week 9 (23 Nov-3 Dec): Stearns et al., pp. 320-343 (chapter 15)
Letter of Fulbert of Chartres on the Obligation of Vassals
Abbe Irminon: Polyptyque de Villeneuve-St. Georges
On Papal Elections
6 December M Medieval Europe: Towns and Urban Institutions
Deringil
8 December W Feudalism in Japan Esenbel
10 December F Medieval Chinese Society and Culture
Togan
Readings and sources, week 10 (6-10 Dec.): Stearns et. al. pp. 388-403
The Tale of Heike
13 December M Religion in the Irano-Mediterranean
World and the Rise of Islam Pancaroğlu
15 December W The Caliphate: From Medina
to Damascus and Baghdad Pancaroğlu
17 December F Religious and Political Fragmentation
in the Islamic World Pancaroğlu
Readings and sources, week 11 (13-17 Dec): Stearns et al., pp. 366-387, 236-270
from Ibn Khaldun and al-Hilli concerning the nature of the caliphate/imamate
Examples of early Islamic (Umayyad) coinage
20 December M Medieval Near Eastern Societies Pancaroğlu
22 December W The Genghisid World-Empire Pancaroğlu
24 December F Medieval South Asia Toksöz
Readings and sources, week 12 (20-24 Dec): Stearns et al., pp., 412-433 (chapter 19)
Primary Sources: To be Announced
27 December M Medieval Encounters:
Conflict and Coexistence Ersoy
Movie showing at 17:00 in Garanti Kültür
The Kingdom of Heaven, Ridley Scott, 2005
29 December W The Greco-Roman Legacy
in the Medieval World Ersoy
31 December F Conclusion Ünlü
Discussion Session: Review session for the final exam
Readings and sources, week 13 (27-31 Dec.): Stearns et. al., pp. 230-235, 450-451
Letters from the documents of the Cairo Geniza
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