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
