All readings will be available as electronic documents on the Boğaziçi Library web site (go to Catalogue Search; Search Course Reserves).
Stearns, Adas, Schwartz, and Gilbert, 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.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
HIST 105
FALL 2007
Boğaziçi University Department of History
COORDINATOR: Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu
e-mail: kafescio@boun.edu.tr
office hours: Wednesday 10:30-11:45, TB 410A
Teaching Assistants: Rezzan Karaman (Head T.A.), Ayşe Tek Başaran, Zeynep Cebeci, Feray Coşkun, Abdullah Ahmet Saçmalı
Lectures: MWF 4, GKM
Discussion sessions: Fridays, KPark, hours TBA
Web: hist.boun.edu.tr
HIST 105: THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD, 1
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 economical patterns through a global perspective. Beginning with the first permanent settlements and urban centers of the ancient Near East, the course turns to the Ancient Greek, Roman, Indian 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. Lectures of each week will be followed by one-hour discussion sessions led by the teaching assistants on Fridays.
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, 2007)], 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, Adas, Schwartz, and Gilbert, 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:
Mid-term exam: 40%
Final exam: 50%
Attendance and participation in discussion sessions: 10%
HIST 105 THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD FALL 2007
WEEK I:
24 September M Introduction Kafescioğlu
PART 1: FROM PREHISTORY TO HISTORY
26 September W Agricultural Transformation and The First Permanent Settlements (Özyar)
28 September F The Rise of Civilization: Early Urban Centers of the Ancient Near East (Özyar)
Reading, week 1 (26, 28 Sept.): P.N. Stearns, M. Adas, S.B. Schwartz, M.H. Gilbert, World
Civilizations: The Global Experience (New York, 2007), pp. 2-25
WEEK II:
1 October M From Accounting to Writing: Early Scripts and Ancient Languages (Özyar)
3 October W Social Stratification and Historical Records: Anatolia in the Bronze Age (Özyar)
5 October F Cultural Continuity and Political Fragmentation: Anatolia in the Iron Age (Özyar)
Readings and sources, week 2 (1-5 Oct.): Stearns et. al., pp. 25-35
from the “Edict of Telipinu”
from the “Epic of Gılgamesh”
PART 2: THE ANCIENT WORLD
WEEK III:
8 October M Egypt: The Pharaonic Kingdom and the Nile (Özyar)
10 October W Monotheism and the Judaic Tradition in the Ancient Near East (Kechriotis)
12 October F No class
Readings, week 3 (8-12 Oct.): Stearns et. al., pp. 35-45
WEEK IV:
15 October M The Greek City and Democracy (Kechriotis)
17 October W Economy and Material Culture in the Greek City (Kechriotis)
19 October F The Hellenic World: From City State to Empire (Kechriotis)
Readings and sources, week 4 (15-19 Oct.): Stearns et. al., chapter 5, pp. 94-115
from Homer, The Odyssey, ‘King Nestor Remembers’
from Aristotle, ‘Virtues and vices’
from Thucidydes, The Peloponnesian War, Book II, Chapter VI, Funeral oration of Pericles
WEEK V:
22 October M Ancient South Asia: the Indus Valley and Harappan Civilizations (Toksöz)
24 October W Rice Agriculture, Communal Life, and the Confucian State in China (Esenbel)
26 October F The Persian Empire and the Alexandrian Legacy in Asia (Esenbel)
Readings and sources, week 5 (22-26 Oct.): Stearns et. al., pp. 46-93 (chapters 3 and 4)
from Lao Tzu, The Classic of the Way and of Virtue
from Confucius, K’ung fu-tzu, (469-399 B. C. ) Analects
from Arrian, Life of Alexander
WEEK VI:
29 October M No class
31 October W Rome: the Republic (Necipoğlu)
2 November F Rome: the Empire (Kechriotis)
Readings and sources, week 6 (29, 31 Oct., 2 Nov.): Stearns, pp. 140-157, pp. 218-222
from Seneca, The Apocolocynthosis, ‘The Apocolocythonsis of the Divine Claudius’
from Plutarch, Moralia,‘The education of Children’
from Plotinus, The Enneads, ‘Happiness’
WEEK VII:
5 November M The Fall of Rome and the Roman Legacy (Kechriotis)
7 November W Religion in the Mediterranean World and the Rise of Christianity (Kechriotis)
PART 3: THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
9 November F The Byzantine Empire: from Constantine the Great to the Age of Justinian (Necipoğlu)
Readings and sources, week 7 (5-9 Nov.): Stearns et. al., pp. 222-227
from Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History
from Eusebius of Caesarea, Life of Constantine
Constantine's Coins, Statues and the Arch of Constantine in Rome
WEEK VIII:
12 November M Byzantine Society from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Necipoğlu)
14 November W From the Iconoclastic Controversy to the Great Schism: Christianity Divides (Necipoğlu)
16 November F Byzantium from the age of the Crusades to the Ottoman Conquest (Necipoğlu)
Readings and sources, week 8 (12-16 Nov.): Stearns et. al., pp. 304-319 (chapter 14)
from Anna Comnena, Alexiad
from Manuel Palaiologos, Letters
WEEK IX:
19 November M Medieval Europe: Rural Society and Feudalism (Deringil)
21 November W Medieval European Politics: Kings and Vassals (Deringil)
23 November F Medieval European Politics: Popes and Bishops (Deringil)
Reading, week 9 (19-23 Nov): Stearns et. al., pp. 320-343 (chapter 15)
WEEK X:
26 November Monday, 17:00 Midterm
28 November W Medieval Europe: Towns and Urban Institutions (Deringil)
30 November F Religion in the Irano-Mediterranean World and the Rise of Islam (Terzioğlu)
Readings and sources, weeks 9, 10 (19-28 Nov.):
Letter of Fulbert of Chartres on the Obligation of Vassals
The Constitution of Emperor Conrad II Concerning the Fiefs of Italy
The Dictatus Papae, [On Papal Power]
WEEK XI:
3 November M The Caliphate: From Medina to Damascus and Baghdad (Terzioğlu)
5 December W Religious and Political Fragmentation in the Islamic World (Terzioğlu)
7 December F Medieval Near Eastern Societies (Terzioğlu)
Readings and sources, week 11 (30, 3 Nov, 5, 7 Dec): Stearns et. al., pp. 236-270
from Mawardi, The Ordinances of Government (a Juridical Theory on the Caliphate)
from Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddima: An Introduction to History
examples of Umayyad and Abbasid Coinage
WEEK XII:
10 December M The Greco-Roman Legacy in the Medieval World (Ersoy)
12 December W Medieval Encounters: Conflict and Coexistence (Ersoy)
14 December F Medieval Encounters: Trade and Material Culture (Ersoy)
Readings and sources, week 12 (10-14 Dec): Stearns et. al., pp. 230-235
from Ibn Battuta, Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354
Letters from the documents of the Cairo Geniza
WEEK XIII:
17 December M Medieval South Asia: Sufis, Sultans, Rajas (Toksöz)
19 December W Medieval Chinese Society and Culture (Esenbel)
21 December F No class
Readings, week 13 (17-21 Dec): Stearns et. al., pp. 270-282; 366-387
WEEK XIV:
24 December M The Genghisid World-Empire (Toksöz)
26 December W Feudalism in Japan: the Samurai and the Peasant (Esenbel)
28 December F Conclusion and overview (Kafescioğlu)
Readings and sources, week 14 (24, 26 Dec.): Stearns et. al., pp. 388-400, pp. 412-433 (ch. 19); pp. 450-451
from The Samurai Code
from The Travels of Marco Polo
| Friday 1 (09:00) K. Park 2 | Friday 2 (10:00) K. Park 2 | Friday 2 (10:00) Kuzey Park 3 |
| Aslı Avşar | Abdullah Arı | Hatice Akın |
| Ayçe Feride Yılmaz | Ahmet Yıldırım | I. Sabahat Sun |
| Ayşem Yorulmaz | Aylin Çakı | İdil Beyza Gögüsten |
| Beyza Bilal | Ayşe Yağlı | İlayda Gümüş |
| Cihan İçlek | Bahar Özdemir | İsmail Duman |
| Damla Gürkan | Behire Öztürk | Kemal Hasan |
| Deniz İlhanlı | Bilal Baysoy | Koray Can Canot |
| Deniz Keskin | Canan Odaman | Kübra Özkan |
| Dzavit Oranoski | Cem Önder | Meryem Sağıroğlu |
| Elif Kurtulus | Ceren Tosun | Michel Blardi |
| Fatma Çağlar | Cihad Acar | Name Kaşmer |
| Gökçe Ertem | Dicle Gencer | Nazife Ece |
| Güzin Sarmaşık | Ece Mendi | Nazime Güneş |
| Hilal Gumussoy | Eda Doğançay | Nisan İlçiz |
| Işıl Becef | Elif Gültekin | Nursel Akhan |
| Karen Deleon | Elif Kırlangıç | Oğuz Karadağ |
| Kerem Dülger | Emin Yücel | Okcan Yıldırımtürk |
| Koray Ağdemir | Enes Öztürk | Orgil Batjargal |
| Kübra Yılmaz | Eray Özcan | Özlem Salehi |
| M. Ebru Dikmen | Ersin Mahmatlı | Rümeysa Şişman |
| M.Ezgi Memiş | Esin Gültekin | Rüya Yüksel |
| Maks Bayramov | Esra Üstündağ | Sedat Altun |
| Melek Yeşilyurt | Fatih Üstün | Selen Küçükarslan |
| Mert Kutlar | Feyza Ergin | Sinem Karacaoğlan |
| Merve Aydın | Fulya Kural | Sümeyra Serttürk |
| Mustafa Umut Kafadar | Funda Genç | Şennur Kılıç |
| Nimet Aysal | Gül Ertuğrul | Şeyda Özsoy |
| Oktay Ertürk | Gülay Sultan Özdamar | Şeyma Şahin |
| Selen Oğuz | Hakan Tekeli | Şule Üzümcü |
| Sibel Çalışkan | Zeynep Yaşar | Zeynep Alpay |
| Sinem Doğaner | Hasan Nurhan Çelik | Tuğba Karasu |
| Şule Selçuk | Mehmet Denizperçin | Tuğçe Naz Tuğtekin |
| Yaprak Aydın | Meryem Demirhan | Yasemin Tahtalı |
| Zeynep Özdoğan | Suraya Shirinova | Yusuf Akbulut |
| Friday 3 (11:00) K.Park 2 | Friday 3 (11:00) K.Park 3 | Friday 3 (11:00) YD 104 |
| Abdullah Karaaslan | Dileknur Ceylan | Deniz Karaman |
| Abdüssamed Bozkurt | Emir Neftçi | Neşe Cambaz |
| Ali Aba | Emirhan Eringen | Nihan Toprakkıran |
| Alican Kahya | Enes Gündoğdu | Nihan Ulaş |
| Armağan Güner | Ersin Maden | Nuray Uğur |
| Aslı Ebru Şanlıtürk | Erşan Hasanov | Onur Yardımcı |
| Avni Berk Nalçacıoğlu | Esra Kurmuş | Orçun Can Okan |
| Aycan Katıtaş | Esra Özdil | Ömer Çetin |
| Ayça Bayrak | Ferhan Kardaş | Özge Sekmen |
| Ayla Bulut | Görkem Gömeç | Pelin Avcu |
| Ayla Günerhan | Güliz Yılmaz | Pelin Dikmen |
| Ayşe Deniz Kavur | Günseli Durmaz | Pelin Gönül Şahin |
| Ayşegül Pomakoğlu | Hasan İlhan Anbar | Pınar Özmen |
| Bahar Altıntaş | Hilal Döner | Renin Canbolat |
| Birgül Ünal | İlyas Sodanbekov | Ruşen Yaşar |
| Burcu Alsan | İrem Bilgin | Saner Güzeliş |
| Can Ertan | İrem Tabak | Sarp Geçen |
| Can Sarp Kaya | İsmail Semih Güratan | Selin Songur |
| Cansu Atlay | K. Buyantogtokh | Sena Yazıcı |
| Cansu Etli | Kemal Işık | Sibel Sever |
| Cemrenur Topuz | Kerem Uşaklı | Talin Demirci |
| Ceren Gündoğdu | Kübra Avcı | Tuba Ayalp |
| Ceyda Devrim | Kübra Oğuz | Tuğçe Varnacı |
| Çağrı Sert | Lisya Fins | Tuna Zergeçit |
| Damla Doğan | M. Burak Sezgin | Vildan Özgen |
| Deniz Keser | M. İdil Özkan | Yağmur Baran |
| Deniz Konuk | Mehmet Akdağ | Yakup Öztürk |
| Derya Kondumer | Merve Ateş | Yasemin Kamburoğlu |
| Dilara Öztan | Merve Doğan | Yasemin Kandemiroğlu |
| Duygu Cankılıç | Metin Kocatürk | Yeliz Çelebiç |
| Eda Çetinel | Murat Dikmen | Yeşim Ölçer |
| Ege Türkeri | Mustafa Kaya | Zarifa Alikperova |
| Ezgi Işınay | Mürüvvet Esra Yıldırım | Zerrin Cengiz |
| Gülipek Usluer | Nazlı Gürdamar | Zeynel Can Gündoğdu |
| Zeynep Seda Yüzer | Sevgi Gizem Şenyurt | Dilara Sarı |
| Sümeyra Kalaman | ||
| Zeynep Yavuz | ||
| Damla Özakay |
| Friday 5 (13:00) K. Park 2 | Friday 5 (13:00) K.Park 3 | Friday 5 (13:00) K. Park 5 |
| Alev Koza | Hande Soğancılar | Ayşe Deniz Kavur |
| Aysu Nizamoğlu | İdil Ayata | Begum Pekmezcı |
| Bahar Güneş | idil Kavukçu | Cüneyt Mercimek |
| Başak Beyazıt | İrem Sezer | Dilara Tajik |
| Başak Kocadost | İrem Temel | Durmuş Ali Battal |
| Batuhan Barlas | İsmail Kayapınar | Erhan Ersöz |
| Berk Tatlıpınar | Kıvanç Kayadeniz | Gülşah Güdek |
| Büşra Yurgun | Kutlu Kaan Haliloğlu | Güneş Aydın |
| Ceren Ülkü | Kübra Çobanoğlu | Günseli Yarkın |
| Çağla demirciglu | Kürşat Ceylan | Hamide Eravcı |
| Çiler Demiralp | Mehmet Özkan | Hande Güzel |
| Deniz Bayram | Mehnaz Seltun | Hatice Özen |
| Deniz Karapınar | Melisa Özçakır | Hilal Çıkılı |
| Deniz Yıldız | Necdet Yıldız | Hülya Yavuz |
| Dila Keleş | Neslihan İzmirli | Nağme Tabak |
| Dulgun Baatarsukh | Nihan Akgün | Onur Pusat |
| E.Serkan Solmazoğlu | Osman Özarslan | Pelin Ntogantzalı |
| Elif Erburuk | Rümeysa Gündüz | Simge Süllü |
| Elif Yurtoğlu | Saffet Bereket | Sinan Şanlıer |
| Endam Çakan | Selen Tutuncu | Uğurcan Aksoy |
| Ezgi Bozkurt | Serap Çevikel | Ümmü Bucaköz |
| Farah Sagan | Sevinç Özçelik | Vuslat Büyük |
| Farhad Safarov | Sezin Matkap | Yağmur Yavuz |
| Fercan Kasapoğlu | Sümeyye Sena ıbıl | Yaprak Bahar |
| Gizem Çağlar | Şenol Aslantas | Yaprak Ersin |
| Gizem Özer | Ufuk Kızılgedik | Yasin Nasirov |
| Gökhan Göktaş | Zekiye Gedik | |
| Görkem Aypar | Zeynep Demiragli | |
| Güliz Atsız | ||
| Karel Bensusan | ||
| Merve Yılmaz | ||
| Friday 6 (14:00) K.Park 2 |
| Bediz Düzel |
| Begüm Topaloğlu |
| Berfin Ayaydın |
| Duygu Sarıdal |
| Ege Esen |
| Efe Soyman |
| Emre Ekin |
| Emre Uzun |
| Erdi Karaçay |
| Ersan Avcı |
| Esen Özsarfati |
| Esin Gündüz |
| Farah Sagin |
| Gözde Tekay |
| Hande Kandemir |
| Hasan Atalık |
| Irmak Eyiceğlu |
| İnci Öykü Yener |
| İpek Burcu Şaşmaz |
| Koray Erçin |
| Mehmet Kurtoğlu |
| Mustafa Batman |
| Naz Türe |
| Naziye Güneş |
| Nihan Sönmez |
| Nurcan Koç |
| Orhan Ersöz |
| Seval Sönmez |
| Taha Şirin |
| Utku Akcan Enver Vuap Jean Bradley Hayrunnisa Merve Yiğit |
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