History 2A: World History Winter Quarter 2016 MWF 9:00-9:50, Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall Sections as assigned. http://gauchospace.ucsb.edu Instructor: Anthony Barbieri-Low HSSB 4225 barbieri-low@history.ucsb.edu Office Hours: Mon. 12:00-2:00 Teaching Assistants and Sections: Name Sections Office and hours Caitlin Koford M 1:00-1:50 HSSB 4080 M 6:00-6:50 HSSB 4041 M 7:00-7:50 HSSB 4041 Ben Ma R 10:00-10:50 HSSB 2252 R 3:00-3:50 HSSB 3041 R 4:00-4:50 HSSB 4020 Brian Griffith T 10:00-10:50 HSSB 3041 T 12:00-12:50 HSSB 2252 W 4:00-4:50 HSSB 4080 Ibrahim Mansour F 12:00-12:50 HSSB 4202 F 10:00-10:50 HSSB 3001E F 11:00-11:50 HSSB 4020 James White F 12:00-12:50 HSSB 4020 F 1:00-1:50 HSSB 4020 F 2:00-2:50 HSSB 3001E Kevin Wilson M 3:00-3:50 HSSB 3041 M 4:00-4:50 HSSB 4020 M 5:00-5:50 HSSB 4020 ckoford@umail.ucsb.edu tsangwingma@umail.ucsb.edu brianjgriffith@umail.ucsb.edu ibrahim@umail.ucsb.edu jameswhite@umail.ucsb.edu kmwilson7@gmail.com Course Description: This course surveys 11,000 years of human prehistory and history, from the development of plant and animal domestication around 10,000 BCE until around the year 1000 CE. Much of the course focuses on origins, from the origins of the social and political forms of the first states, to the origins of writing and cities, to the origins of the first empires and long-distance trading networks, to the origins of the world s major religions. The material is wide-ranging, complex, and challenging, but mastery of this material is really a prerequisite to being an informed citizen of the world. Required Textbooks: (available at UCSB bookstore only, and on reserve at library) Valerie Hansen and Kenneth R. Curtis. Voyages in World History. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2014. (Custom 2 nd edition with added content: not the same as commercially available version). (abbreviated Voyages below) Readings with the label will be available on the course website. Sign in at http://gauchospace.ucsb.edu Come to section prepared to discuss the readings in the textbook, the primary sources from the website, as well as the lectures or movies of the preceding week. Attendance in section is mandatory and a major portion of your section grade.
Course Requirements: Midterm (20%) Term Paper (25%) Sectional grade (attendance/participation & other requirements determined by TA) 25% In-class final exam (30%) Note: You must earn a passing grade in section to pass the course. In other words, if you do not have a passing grade in section, you cannot pass the course, regardless of your grades on the final exam or the essays. Unexcused absence in more than three sections will lead to an automatic failure in section. This is a WRT course for the general education requirements, meaning you must write 1800 words for the term paper (approx 6-8 pages). If you fail the term paper, you also cannot pass the course. Lectures and Readings: Recorded Podcasts of related lectures, (from a previous time this course was taught) may be available about one week after the lecture. Follow the link (http://gauchospace.ucsb.edu). W Date Topic Lecture Readings k. 1 Monday 1/4/16 Course Introduction The History of History None. 1/6/16 2 1/8/16 1/11/16 1/13/16 The Origins of Agriculture and Early Village Life Theories for the Rise of State-Level Society Plant and Animal Domestication in the Old and New Worlds Early Village Societies in the Near East Early Village Societies in East Asia 19 th Century Evolutionary Theories, Marxism, the and Irrigationbased Theories Diamond, Jared. The Accidental Conqueror. Voyages, 19-24. Voyages, 88-92. Morgan, Lewis Henry. Ethnical Periods. Wittfogel, Karl. The Hydraulic Civilizations. 1/15/16 Warfare Theory, Systems Theory, Peer Polity Interaction, Game Theory Carneiro, Robert. A Theory of the Origin of the State. Trigger, Bruce. Generalized Coercion and Inequality 3 1/18/16 HOLIDAY The Earliest Archaic or Riverine States Mesopotamian VIEW ONLINE Take Quiz before Wednesday. Voyages, 28-37. Excerpts from The Law Code of Hammurabi
4 5 1/20/16 1/22/16 1/25/16 1/27/16 1/29/16 2/1/16 2/3/16 2/5/16 Key Components of Early States Egyptian Voyages, 38-50, 56-57. Report of Wenamen Indus Voyages, 60-70. Motel of the Mysteries Ancient Writing I Ancient Writing II Chinese VIEW PODCAST ONLINE AND TAKE QUIZ BEFORE SATURDAY NIGHT Early States in the New World Urbanism and Trade Art, Ritual and Religion Schmandt-Besserat, Denise. An Ancient Token System: The Precursor to Numerals and Writing. Davies, W.V. Decipherment. Voyages, 92-95. Oracle Bone Inscriptions Voyages, 118-120, 132-35. Childe, V. Gordon. The Urban Revolution. Roy A. Rappaport. The Sacred in Human Evolution. 6 7 2/8/16 2/10/16 2/12/16 2/15/16 MIDTERM EXAM Empires in Eurasia HOLIDAY The Assyrian and Persian Empires Warring States China Work on your term paper! Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus. Why Our Ancestors Had Religion and the Arts. Voyages, 54-55, 146-55, 156-57. Assyrian Inscription of Tiglath- Pileser I (c. 1100 BCE) Voyages,95-97. Letters Home from Heifu and Jing (textbook) Parables from of Mencius, Han Feizi, and Zhuangzi Confucian Teachings, Daoist Teachings, Legalist Teacings 2/17/16 Worlds Turned Inside Out Archaic and Classical Greece Voyages,155-66, 158-66. Selection from Herodotus The Histories. 8 2/19/16 2/22/16 Shrinking the World Han Dynasty and Imperial Rome Alexander the Great & Hellenistic Civ. Qin and Han Dynasty China Voyages,166-70. Arrian. The Indica. Voyages,97-112. Mountain Inscriptions of the First Emperor of Qin
2/24/16 2/26/16 9 2/29/16 3/2/16 3/4/16 10 3/7/16 3/9/16 3/11/16 Han Dynasty and Imperial Rome The Rise of Universal Religions TERM PAPER DUE New Empires and Common Cultures New Empires and Common Cultures Course Summary The Roman Republic and Empire Buddhism in India, Central Asia, China, and Japan Christianity in the West and East Teotihuacan and Maya in Mesoamerica The Cosmopolitan Tang Empire Byzantium and Christian West -1000 CE The Rise of Islam and early Arab Empire Movie: Islam: Empire of Faith (on GauchoSpace + quiz) Major Themes of the Course in Review" The Travels of Zhang Qian (textbook) Voyages,178-194. The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea Voyages, 70-85, 212-26. Excerpt from The Lotus Sutra Voyages, 52-54, 192-207. Parables from the New Testament Voyages, 122-31. Excerpt from A Forest of Kings Voyages 226-39. Excerpt from Xuanzang Xiyou ji Voyages,274-87. Voyages, 244-63. Excerpt from Sulayman al-tajir. Akhbar Al-Sin Wa'l Hind. None. Final Exam: WEDNESDAY MARCH 16, 8-11 AM. (Teaching Assistants will proctor exam) in the lecture hall. The final will be mixed -format exam. Term Paper: The term paper is 25% of your final grade, and is due in lecture on February 29, 2016. Early in the course (wk 2), the TA s will hand out approved topics for the paper in section, and a sheet of guidelines for the paper. You will work with your TA to develop a thesis, construct an outline, draft the paper, and polish the final product. The paper will draw on the readings for the course, and additional outside readings (books, articles, documents, artifacts) that you uncover. All sources will be cited using footnotes (Chicago or MLA style). A maximum of one online source is allowed. Class Policies: Late papers will be deducted one letter grade for each calendar day they are handed in late (and must be handed in by the final day of class). There is no alternate or late final exam possible. All work will be graded by your TA. You may appeal your grade to the instructor (within one week of the grade), by presenting an appeal to him in writing, but only after discussing the issue in person with your TA. On appeal, your grade may go up or down. Again, you must have a passing section grade to pass the course. If you arrive up to TEN MINUTES late to lecture, you are only allowed to sit in the back two rows. Do not disturb the class by sitting further to the front of the hall. If you
arrive later than that, you will not be allowed in the door. Turn off your cell phones before you enter the lecture hall. If the sound off, they will be confiscated. The instructor promises to abide by the university s guidelines on academic integrity for instructor conduct and student evaluation. Students are expected to maintain the same standards of integrity and honesty. Violations of university policy will be handled according to the regulations concerning academic integrity, including failure of the class and possible expulsion. Please refer to the university s guidelines for more information: http://judicialaffairs.sa.ucsb.edu/academicintegrity.aspx If you have a disability for which you are or may be requesting an accommodation, you are encouraged to contact both your instructor and the DSP (Disabled Students Program) as early as possible in the term. http://dsp.sa.ucsb.edu/