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WORLD HISTORY: 7000 BCE-1000 CE HISTORY 2A WINTER 2014

Room and Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:30-4:45 in CHEM 1179 Instructor: Professor John W.I. Lee office hours: Wednesdays 1:15-2:15pm in HSSB 4210 and by appointment email: jwilee@history.ucsb.edu telephone: 805.893.2993 Teaching Assistants: Munther Al-Sabagh Ryan Boghosian Ben Ma Ryan Minor Joshua Rocha James White munther@umail.ucsb.edu rgb01@umail.ucsb.edu tsangwingma@umail.ucsb.edu minor@umail.ucsb.edu joshuarocha@umail.ucsb.edu jameswhite@umail.ucsb.edu

Teaching Assistants will provide you with more information, including their office hours, at your first section meeting. Due to budget cuts we can no longer offer Honors sections. Required Texts Harold Mattingly and J.B. Rives. Tacitus: Agricola and Germania. ISBN 978-0-140-45540-3. William Storey. Writing History: A Guide for Students [fourth edition]. ISBN 978-0-19-533755-6. Valerie Hansen and Kenneth Curtis. Voyages in World History. ISBN 978-1-285-11838-3. Burton Watson. The Analects of Confucius. ISBN 978-0-231-14165-9. There is a required reader for this class. The reader is on sale at IV Bookstore. For questions about the reader, contact ordernow@sbprinter.com. Some texts will be on reserve at Davidson Library. Check the Course Reserves web site for details. Additional documents will be posted on the History 2A Gauchospace page. You must download, print, and read these documents for section. Check the web page regularly for new postings. Recommended Text John Haywood. The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations. ISBN 978-0-141-01448-7. Course Requirements and Grading Attendance and Participation: 20% Discussion section is an essential element of this class. Prepare, attend, and participate. If you miss more than one (1) section during the quarter, you will receive a failing grade (zero points) for section. Your Teaching Assistant will provide more information on his/her section requirements. Activities in lecture (e.g. quizzes) may also count toward your attendance and participation grade. Three short papers: 50% (first paper: 10%; second paper: 15%; third paper: 25%) For these essays you will read and analyze historical evidence. I!ll post the paper prompts on GauchoSpace. You must submit each paper both electronically and in paper form before lecture begins on the day it is due (more details later in the quarter). Papers must use a 12-point font with double spacing. Put your name, your TA!s name, and your section day and time in the upper right corner of the first page. Printed papers must be stapled in the upper lefthand corner. LATE PAPERS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. In accordance with UCSB!s General Education Program requirement, you cannot pass this course without completing these writing assignments. Final Examination: 30% The final exam (Thursday, 20 March from 4:00-7:00pm) will cover material from the entire course. The final will contain short identification questions, long essays, and a map section.

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Academic Integrity Your registration for this course constitutes your explicit agreement to obey the Code of Academic Conduct of the University of California (for a summary of this Code, see the 2013-2014 UCSB General Catalog). You also agree to follow all regulations in this syllabus, to abide by all other University of California regulations, and to conduct yourself ethically and honorably at all times while enrolled in this course. The penalties for cheating, plagiarism, collusion, and other forms of academic dishonesty can include expulsion from the university. We will prosecute cheaters and plagiarizers without mercy, making no allowance whatsoever for first offenses, ignorance of the rules, or other excuses. It is your responsibility to read and understand the regulations governing academic conduct, as summarized here: http://www.sa.ucsb.edu/regulations/student_conduct.aspx. A student guide to academic integrity is also posted on our Gauchospace page. If you have any questions about academic integrity, please ask rather than assuming anything. Classroom and Email Etiquette Be seated and ready for lecture by 3:30pm, and don!t prepare to leave before 5:00pm. If for some unavoidable reason you must arrive late or depart early, please let me know in advance. During class, silence or switch off all cell phones and other devices. Do not text, IM, twitter, etc. Taking notes on a laptop or other device is permitted. Video and/or audio recording of lectures is explicitly prohibited without my prior written permission. Lectures and handouts are copyright 2014 John W.I. Lee. Please do not chat with your neighbors during lecture. If you have a question about the course material, raise your hand, or ask me after class if you prefer. At my sole discretion, you may receive a failing grade for the entire course if you disrupt lecture by talking. Treat every email you send to me or to your TA as a formal business letter. Start with a proper salutation ("Dear Prof. Lee" or "Hi Prof. Lee" is fine) and clearly identify yourself in closing. The TAs and I will delete all email that does not meet this standard. Please promptly acknowledge any email response you receive from me or your TA. If you don!t acknowledge an email response within one week of receiving it, you may receive a 10% penalty on your course grade.

Course Email List The TAs and I will use Gauchospace to send messages to your U-Mail address. Check your U-Mail regularly so you don't miss any of these messages. If you normally use another email account, you must enable email forwarding to that account from your U-Mail address. Automatic Drop Policy If you miss your first class (section) of the quarter you will be dropped automatically from the course. Note that sections will meet during the first week of the quarter. If you show up for your first section but skip the second section you will also be dropped automatically.

Schedule of Lectures and Reading Assignments NOTE: Additional documents will be posted on GauchoSpace. You must download and read these documents, and bring either a printed or electronic copy of each document with you to section. Check GauchoSpace regularly for new postings. Readings will be discussed in section the week they are assigned. This schedule is subject to change at any time. The numbered (#) documents are in the course reader. VWH means the Hansen & Curtis textbook. (G) means a text will be posted on Gauchospace.

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DATE Week I 7 January 9 January Week II 14 January 16 January Week III 21 January 23 January Week IV 28 January 30 January Week V 4 February 6 February Week VI 11 February 13 February Week VII 18 February 20 February Week VIII 25 February 27 February Week IX 4 March 6 March Week X 11 March 13 March

LECTURE

READING

Introduction Pastoralism, Agriculture, and Civilization

docs. #1-3; VWH 2-21 docs. #4-7; VWH 21-46

The First International System Assyria & Achaemenid Persia

docs. #8-10; VWH 45-59 docs. #11-13; VWH 144-157

Greek City-States [PAPER #1 DUE] The Hellenistic World

docs. #14-18; VWH 157-166 doc. #19; VWH 166-170

Early India The Roman Republic

docs. #20-21; Arthashastra (G); VWH 60-87 docs. #24-26; VWH 174-185

Early China TBA

docs. #22-23; Analects of Confucius; VWH 88-99

Qin & Han China [PAPER #2 DUE] The Roman Principate

doc. #30; VWH 100-113 docs. #27-28, 31; VWH 185-198

Nomads and Other Outsiders Late Antiquity and Byzantium

Tacitus, Germania; Sima Qian, Account of the Xiongnu (G) doc. #29, 32; VWH 199-207

Islam & the Caliphates Sui and Tang China

docs. #33-34; VWH 238-260 doc. #35; VWH 222-237

Africa Southeast Asia and Oceania

doc. #36; + TBA VWH 135-143

The Americas [PAPER #3 DUE] Final Thoughts

docs. #37-38; VWH 114-135

FINAL EXAMINATION: Thursday, 20 March from 4:00-7:00pm

Syllabus as of 30.xii.2013