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| TRH6020 | Civilizations of the Near East | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | Third Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of HISTORY | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Müslüme Melis SAVAŞ | | Co-Lecturer | Asistant Prof. Mustafa ALTUNBAY | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | To teach the students the helps of the ancient Near Eastern, Hellenistic, Iranian, Indian and Roman civilizations, and also role of the Christianity.
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| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | They can summarize appearance of the Near East civilizations in the Antiquity and their development areas | 1 | 1, | | PO - 2 : | They can describe the Near East civilizations in the Antiquity relations between each other | 2 | 3, | | PO - 3 : | They can use their knowledge in their research about the topic | 2 | 1, | | PO - 4 : | They can present before an audience the results and outcome of this lesson | 7 | 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), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| From the beginning the Near Eastern cultures and their written sources, first civilizations and their spread, Hellenism, Iranian, Indian and Roman civilizations
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Conceptions of "Vorder Asien", "Near East" and "Iran" (Persia) and their geographies that comprise | | | Week 2 | Opinions about Spreading of Civilization in the Near East and the First Civilization Circles | | | Week 3 | Iranian Civilization Circle and its Geography | | | Week 4 | States in Iran before the Achaemenids and their civilizations | | | Week 5 | Achaemenid Empire, its organization and civilization | | | Week 6 | Influences of Achaemenidian Civlization in the East and West | | | Week 7 | Mithraism and Mazdaism, their characteristics and roles in spreading of the Iranian culture | | | Week 8 | Arameans and spreading of the aramean culture | | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 10 | Hellenism and the spreading of the hellenistic civilization in the Near East | | | Week 11 | Indian Civilization; Brahmanism, Buddhism and their roles in spreading of Indian Civilization | | | Week 12 | Roman Empire, "Pax Romana" and the components of Roman Civilization | | | Week 13 | Spreading to the East of Roman Civilization | | | Week 14 | Christianity and its spreading in the Near East, its role in emergence of the Near Eastern Civilizations | | | Week 15 | The Kushans and their Civilization | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | HERODOTUS 2002; HERODOT TARİHİ, Çevirmen: Müntekim Ökmen, İş Bankası. | | | |
| 1 | Kuhrt, A. 2009; Eski Çağ'da Yakındoğu (M.Ö. 3000-330), Cilt I-II, Çeviren: D. Şendil, Türkiye İş Bankası, Kültür Yayınları, İstanbul.. | | | 2 | Mieroop, M.V.De, 2006; Antik Yakındoğu'nun Tarihi İ.Ö.3000-323, Dost Kitabevi, Ankara | | | 3 | Tarn, W. W. 1951; The Greeks in Bactria and India, Cambridge University Press. | | | 4 | Erzen, A. 1992; Doğu Anadolu ve Urartular. Eastern Anatolia and Urartians, TTK, Ankara. | | | 5 | Howgego, C. 1998; Sikkelerin Işığında Eskiçağ Tarihi, Çeviren: O. Tekin, homer kitabevi, İstanbul. | | | 6 | Wiesehöfer, J. 2003; Antik Pers Tarihi, Çeviren: M. Ali İnci, telos yayıncılık, İstanbul. | | | 7 | Frye, R. N. 1984; History of Ancient Iran, C. H. Beck'sche Verlag, Wiesbaden. | | | 8 | İplikçioğlu, B. 1997; Eski Batı Tarihi 1: Giriş, Kaynaklar, Bibliyografya, Türk Tarih Kurumu, Ankara. | | | 9 | Rostovtzeff, M. 1941; The Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World, I-III, Oxford. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 22/11/2021 | 0,8 | 30 | | Homework/Assignment/Term-paper | 15 | 04/01/2022 | 1 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 11/01/2022 | 1 | 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 | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 8 | 14 | 112 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 20 | 1 | 20 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Ödev | 10 | 2 | 20 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 16 | 1 | 16 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Diğer 1 | 11 | 1 | 11 | | Total work load | | | 225 |
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