Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation

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?

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.