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Course Details
KTO KARATAY UNIVERSITY
Faculty of Health Sciences
Programme of Midwifery
Course Details
Course Code Course Name Year Period Semester T+A+L Credit ECTS
99901059 Comparative Civilizations and Economic History 1 Autumn 1 2+0+0 3 3
Course Type Elective
Course Cycle Bachelor's (First Cycle) (TQF-HE: Level 6 / QF-EHEA: Level 1 / EQF-LLL: Level 6)
Course Language Turkish
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Mode of Delivery Face to Face
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Course Content
The earliest Anatolian civilizations starting with Göbeklitepe, Ionian (Western Turkey) and ancient Greek civilizations, Roman Empire and its political structure, Byzantium (Christian Roman Empire), The Birth of Islam and its effects on Byzantium, Rome and Constantinople: Origins of Western European Democracy, Secularism in Islam, the evolution of secularism in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, the economic systems applied throughout history in the Islamic world, the Renaissance in Europe, the Reformation and the discovery of the printing press and its results. The effects of Islam on Protestantism, religious conflicts in the West, Western Europe's discovery of the world and its consequences, Western imperialism and colonial empires, the emergence of economic difference between South and North America, the establishment of the USA, the 1st World War, 1917 Revolution in Russia, Turkish War of Independence, World War II, Iron Curtain and cold war in Europe, Chinese civilization and extended family system (lineages), transition to communism in China, Mao and the cultural revolution, transition to capitalism in China and The birth of the mixed system, Stalin's demands on Turkey and our entry into NATO, the end of the Soviet Empire? The establishment of the EU and the abandonment of nationalism?
Objectives of the Course
This course is a general culture course spread over two semesters and aims to make students understand the Islamic world, Western Europe and its South and North American extensions and Chinese civilizations by comparing them. In the course, special emphasis will be given to concepts such as democracy, freedoms, rule of law, secularism and economic development. The most important of these paradigms will be considered individually as much as possible and their evolution in all these civilizations will be examined in a comparative way. While this method provides a better understanding of the evolution of each paradigm, it will be necessary to go back to the beginning when moving from one paradigm to the next. In short, the course will progress continuously from history to the present and from today to history.
Contribution of the Course to Field Teaching
Basic Vocational Courses
Specialization / Field Courses
Support Courses
Transferable Skills Courses
Humanities, Communication and Management Skills Courses
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week Topics
1 Introduction, our country's status as the center of civilizations, the West's admiration for Greek civilization, and being Turkish requires us to have knowledge about all civilizations in our country. Explaining Islam to Westerners and Western civilizations to Muslims gives us an advantage.
2 Ancient ages, Göbeklitepe. Göbeklitepe's subversion of archeology. Karahantepe, Çatalhöyük
3 Hattians, Hittites,
4 Troy, Troy's effects on world cultural history, Ionian and Greek city-states and the first democracies, Anatolia under occupation, Persians, Persian-Greek wars, Alexander and the Hellenistic period. Ekrem Akurgal, Anatolian Civilizations.
5 Religion and economy in ancient Anatolian cultures. Hittite-Assyrian trade and the oldest business partnerships in the world, the origins of Islamic business partnerships.
6 Troy, the effects of Troy on world cultural history, Ionian and Greek city-states and first democracies, Anatolia under occupation, Persians, Persian-Greek wars, Alexander and Hellenistic period.
7 What we need to learn from the last lesson for today. Roman Age. What does it mean for Constantinople (Istanbul) to be the capital of the Roman Empire? Our common Roman past is our most important historical link with Europe
8 The continuation of Roman institutions in the Ottoman Empire.
9 Political structure in Rome and its evolution. The emergence and application of the concept of separation of powers for the first time. Why is the separation of powers important?
10 Continuing the political evolution in the Roman Empire. Transition from republic and democracy to dictatorship. Worship of emperors. The fragility of democracies. The reasons that hold the economy and the empire together in the Roman Empire.
11 Constantine the Great and Christianity. Milan Decree. Arianism, Trinite and the Council of Nicaea. Consubstantionem patram controversy. Trinite's final dominance in Byzantium, Arianism's descent into the underworld but not dying, and coming back much stronger with Islam.
12 From an Islamic point of view, the departure of Christianity from the right path
13 Comparison of Roman and Chinese empires. First fragmentation in Mare nostrum
14 The Völkerwanderung and the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Justinian and the re-establishment of the empire. The birth of Roman Law. The transition of the Roman land system to the Islamic empires and the Ottomans.
Textbook or Material
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ECTS / Working Load Table
Quantity Duration Total Work Load
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Out-of-Class Study Time (Pre-study, Library, Reinforcement) 0 0 0
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Homework 0 0 0
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Final Exam 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total Work Load: 0
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Course ECTS Credits: 0