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| TRH3044 | History of Ancient Iran | 2+0+0 | ECTS:4 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of HISTORY | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Arş. Gör. Fatih İNAN | | Co-Lecturer | Assistant professor İlhami Tekin CİNEMRE | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The aim of the course is to provide theoretical knowledge of important states, people and events related to the history of Ancient Iran and to gain the ability to analytically evaluate the social, cultural, military and political events of Ancient Iran. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | To be able to understand how Iranian civilisation emerged and what is the importance of Iran for Anatolia, | 3,5,6 | 1, | | LO - 2 : | To be able to comment on the political and cultural situation of ancient Iran, | 1,3,6 | 1, | | LO - 3 : | To be able to analyse how ancient Iran's tax system, military structure, state system, etc, | 1,2,5 | 1, | | LO - 4 : | To be able to evaluate the influence of Iran in the history of "Anatolia", | 1,2,3,5 | 1, | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| In order to understand the Medes, Achaemenids, Parthians and Sassanids, which had an undeniable place in the ancient periods of Anatolian lands, details about the political history of these states will be given. In addition, the religious and cultural history of the ancient Iranian world will be outlined. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Iranian Geography and Sources of Iranian History | | | Week 2 | Iranian world at the beginning of the first millennium BC | | | Week 3 | Achaemenids - from Cyrus to Darius: Birth and rise of the empire | | | Week 4 | Organisation of the Empire and the Persian-Greek Wars | | | Week 5 | Ancient Persian Mythology | | | Week 6 | Hellenistic Period in Iran and Anatolian Kingdoms of Iranian Origin | | | Week 7 | Parthian Dominance | | | Week 8 | Parthian - Roman Relations | | | Week 9 | Midterm Exam | | | Week 10 | Birth and Rise of the Sassanid Dynasty | | | Week 11 | Sassanid-Roman Wars | | | Week 12 | Religious and Cultural Structure of Sassanids | | | Week 13 | Fall of the Sassanids | | | Week 14 | Iranian Civilisation: Tax, Military and Social Structure | | | Week 15 | General Evaluation and Discussions | | | Week 16 | Final Exam | | | |
| 1 | Wiesehöfer, Josef. 2019); Antik Pers Tarihi ? Ön Asya?nın Kadim Krallığı, Çev. Mehmet Ali İnci, Totem Yayınları, İstanbul. | | | 2 | Ball, Warwick. 2015; Tek Dünyaya Doğru Antik İran ve Batı, Çev. Aybars Çağlayan, Ayrıntı Yayınları, İstanbul. | | | 3 | Brosius, Maria. 2006; The Persians, Routledge, London. | | | |
| 1 | Foltz, Richard. 2021; İran Tarihi, Çev. Hüseyin Gökalp, İnkılâp Kitabevi, İstanbul. | | | 2 | Daryaee, Touraj. 2009; Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, Tauris, London. | | | 3 | Dignas, Beate and Winter, Engelbert. 2007; Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity: Neighbours and Rivals, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. | | | 4 | Wiesehöfer, Josef. 2020; Erken Pers - Antik bir Dünya İmparatorluğunun Tarihi, Çev. Nilgün Ersoy, Totem Yayınları, İstanbul. | | | 5 | Garthwaite, Gene R. 2023, İran Tarihi ? Pers İmparatorluğundan Günümüze, Çev. Fethi Aytuna, İnkılâp Kitabevi, İstanbul. | | | 6 | Beyânî, Şirin. 2020; Eşkanilerin (Partların) Düşüşü ve Sasanilerin Yükselişi, Farsçadan Çev. Ali Hüseyin Toğay, Selenge Yayınları, İstanbul. | | | 7 | Yıldırım, Nimet, 2015; İran Mitolojisi, Pinhan Yayıncılık, İstanbul. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9. Hafta | | 50 dk. | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16. Hafta | | 50 dk. | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 5 | 14 | 70 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 2 | 5 | 10 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 2 | 5 | 10 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Total work load | | | 120 |
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