Information Package / Course Catalogue
Colonization and East-West Relations
Course Code: ARKE534
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Second Cycle (Master's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: -
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 5
Objectives of the Course

The aim of this course, examination of the cultures from port settlements from east of Mediterranean, Eastern Anatolia, Southeastern Anatolia, Syria, Iraq and relations with their contemporaries in Greece and Western Anatolia in the Iron Age.

Course Content

The written documents, especially with the help of other archaeological findings, examination of settlements from east of Mediterranean (Levant Geography), cultures of Eastern Anatolia, Southeastern Anatolia, Syria, Iraq and relations with cultures of Mainland Greece and Western Anatolia in the Iron Age.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Prof. Emre ERDAN
Learning Outcomes
1.1. To understand how the geographic regions which are subject of the course
2.2. The obtaining of information about the chronology related the course
3.3. To understand of the sea and overland routes between the regions with related course in the Iron Age
4.4. The examination of the political and cultural relations between geographies and cultures and the results of these relations which are the subject of the course.
5.The examination of the political and cultural relations between geographies and cultures and the results of these relations which are the subject of the course.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.1. Bartl, K. 2001, “Eastern Anatolia in the Early Iron Age”, Migration und Kulturtransfer. Der Wandel vorder- und zentralasiatischer Kulturen im Umbruch vom 2. zum 1. vorchristlichen Jahrtausend. Akten des Internationalen Kolloquiums Berlin, 23. bis 26. November 1999. (ed. R. Eichmann – H. Parzinger), Bonn: 383-410.
2.2.Birmingham,J.M. The Overland route Across Anatolia in the Eighth and Seventh Centuries BC, Anatolian Studies XI, 185-195.
3.3. Boardman, J., The Greek Overseas, Londra, 1980.
4.4.Boardman, J., “Aspects of Colonization”, BASOR 322 (2001), 33-42.
5.5.Boardman, J., “Al Mina: The Study of A Site”, Ancient West&East I (2002), 315-331.
6.6.Burney, C. – D. M. Lang, The Peoples of the Hills. Ancient Ararat and Caucasus. Londra, 1971.
7.7.Coldstream, J.N., “Exchanges between Phonekians and Early Greeks”, National Museum News II (2000), 15-32.
8.8.Cook, J.M., “Greek settlement in the eastern Aegean and Asia Minor”, CAH Volume II, chapter XXXVII, Cambridge, 1964.
9.9.Cook, J. M., The Greeks in Ionia and the East, New York, 1963.
10.10.Desborough, V., Protogeometric Pottery, Oxford, 1952.
11.11.Haspels, C.H.E., The Highlands of Phrygia: Sites and Monuments I-II, Princeton, 1971.
12.12. Harden, D., The Phoenicians, New York, 1962.
13.13. Işık, F., “Zur Entstehung phrygischer Felsdenkmaeler”, Anatolian Studies 37 (1987), 163-176.
14.14. Işık, F., “Batı Uygarlığının Kökeni, Erken Demirçağ Doğu- Batı Kültür ve Sanat İlişkilerinde Anadolu”, Türk Arkeoloji Dergisi XXVIII (1989), 1-39.
15.15. Muscarella, O.W., The Archaeological Evidence for Relations Between Greece and Iran in the First Millennium B.C., in: The Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society of Columbia University 9, 1977, 31-57.
16.16. Smith, W. S., Interconnections in the Ancient Near East, Londra, 1965.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
The aim of the course, giving information about the method. Providing references.
Week 2 - Theoretical
Geographically, examination of the land within the scope of the course
Week 3 - Theoretical
Doğu Akdeniz Limanları hakkında bilgi verilmesi.
Week 4 - Theoretical
Giving information about ports of the eastern Mediterranean
Week 5 - Theoretical
Giving information about Urartian civilization
Week 6 - Theoretical
Giving information about northern Syria
Week 7 - Theoretical
Giving information about Phrygian civilization
Week 8 - Intermediate Exam
Midterm Exam
Week 9 - Theoretical
Giving information about Ionian civilization
Week 10 - Theoretical
Giving information about Aiolian civilization
Week 11 - Theoretical
Giving information about Carian civilization
Week 12 - Theoretical
Giving information about Carian civilization
Week 13 - Theoretical
Phoenician civilization and it’s relation with the west
Week 14 - Theoretical
The evaluation of the cultural relations between the east and west in the 1th Millenium BC.
Week 15 - Theoretical
The evaluation of the political relations between the east and west in the 1th Millenium BC.
Week 16 - Final Exam
Final examination.
Week 17 - Final Exam
Final examination.
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory140342
Assignment90327
Seminar82124
Individual Work50315
Midterm Examination1718
Final Examination1819
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)125
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
PÇ-1
PÇ-2
PÇ-3
PÇ-4
PÇ-5
PÇ-6
PÇ-7
PÇ-8
PÇ-9
PÇ-10
OÇ-1
4
4
4
4
OÇ-2
5
4
3
4
OÇ-3
4
4
4
4
OÇ-4
4
3
4
3
OÇ-5
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