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HISTORY OF CIVILISATIONS COURSE IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Code Name of the Course Unit Semester In-Class Hours (T+P) Credit ECTS Credit
POL111 HISTORY OF CIVILISATIONS 1 3 3 6

WEEKLY COURSE CONTENTS AND STUDY MATERIALS FOR PRELIMINARY & FURTHER STUDY

Week Preparatory Topics(Subjects) Method
1 - Introduction: Studying civilizations Lecturing & Discussion
2 Readings: Lerner, Meacham and Burns, chp 1 Human beings’ history: Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Archaic homo sapiens, Neanderthall man, Homo Sapiens, Prehistorical and Historical ages, Milestones of human history. Lecture & Question and Answer
3 Readings: Lerner at all, chp 1 Transition from foreaging to agriculture and impacts of it on human societies Lecture & Question and Answer & Discussion
4 Readings: Lerner at all, chp 1 Evolution towards civilisations: emergence of villages, trade and warfare and birth of civilisations in Western Asia Lecture & Question and Answer & Discussion
5 Readings: Lerner at all, chp 2 Mesopotamian civilisations: Sumerian Era, First cities in Ancient Sumer, Sumerian inventions, Sumerian religion Lecture & Question and Answer & Discussion
6 Readings: Lerner at all, chp 2 Mesopotamian civilisations: Akkadians, Old Babylonians/Amorites: Code of Hammurabi, Epic of Gılgamesh, Kassites and Hittites, Assyrians. Lecture & Question and Answer & Discussion
7 Readings: Lerner at all, chp 2 and chp 3 Mesopotamian Civilisation: Assyrians, New Babylonians, Egyptian Civilisation: The Archaic Period, The Old Kingdom, The Middle Kingdom , The New Kingdom Lecture & Question and Answer & Discussion
8 - MID-TERM EXAM -
9 Readings: Lerner at all, chp 3 Egyptian Civilisation: Egyptian religion, religion of Aton, Pyramids, Social and Economic life Lecture & Question and Answer & Discussion
10 Readings: Lerner at all, chp 4 Hebrew Civilisation: Period of United Kingdom, Divided Kingdom Lecture & Question and Answer & Discussion
11 Readings: Lerner at all, chp 4 Minoan and Mycenaean Civilisations: Art, Politic and Economic structure, Social Life, religion Lecture & Question and Answer & Discussion
12 Readings: Lerner at all, chp 5 Greek Civilisation: The Dark Ages, Greek religion, emergence of city state, trade and Greek Colonisation, Spartans. Lecture & Question and Answer & Group Work
13 Readings: Lerner at all, chp 5 Greek Civilisation: Greek democracy, Persian Wars, Peleponnesian Wars, Dailly life and womens condition. Lecture & Question and Answer
14 Readings: Lerner at all, chp 5 and course notes Greek Civilisation: Presocratics, Sophists, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle Lecture & Question and Answer
15 Readings: Lerner at all, chp 6 Hellenistic Civilisation: Philip of Macedon and Alexander the Great Lecture & Question and Answer
16 - FINAL EXAM -
17 - FINAL EXAM -