History 2A F2011 syllabus - UCSB Department of History

History 2A: World History
Fall Quarter 2011
MWF 8:00-8:50, IV Theatre I
Sections as assigned.
http://gauchospace.ucsb.edu
Instructor: Anthony Barbieri-Low
HSSB 4225
barbieri-low@history.ucsb.edu
Office Hours: Mon. 12:30-2:30
Teaching Assistants and Sections:
Name Sections Office and hours
Ryan Abrecht M 1:00- 1:50 HSSB 2202
M 3:00- 3:50 HSSB 2202
M 4:00- 4:50 HSSB 2202
Ryan Boghosian T 2:00- 2:50 HSSB 3202
T 3:00- 3:50 GIRV 2135
T 5:00- 5:50 HSSB 2202
James Conrad M 11:00-11:50 HSSB 2202
T 8:00- 8:50 HSSB 2202
W 3:00- 3:50 HSSB 3202
Jessica Elliott M 5:00- 5:50 HSSB 2202
M 6:00- 6:50 HSSB 2202
T 9:00- 9:50 HSSB 2202
Eunah Kim T 10:00-10:50 HSSB 4201
T 12:00-12:50 HSSB 3202
T 4:00- 4:50 GIRV 2135
Jason Linn M 12:00-12:50 HSSB 3202
M 2:00- 2:50 HSSB 2202
M 7:00- 7:50 HSSB 2202
Andrew Magnusson W 1:00- 1:50 HSSB 2202
W 2:00- 2:50 HSSB 4202
W 3:00- 3:50 HSSB 2202
Alison Turtledove T 6:00- 6:50 HSSB 2202
T 7:00- 7:50 HSSB 2202
W 12:00-12:50 HSSB 2202
Peninah Wolpo W 11:00-11:50 GIRV 2110
W 2:00- 2:50 HSSB 1224
W 5:00- 5:50 HSSB 1237
Zamira Yusufjonova T 11:00-11:50 HSSB 2201
T 1:00- 1:50 HSSB 2202
T 10:00-10:50 HSSB 3202
ryanabrecht@umail.ucsb.edu
W 9-11 HSSB 3216
rgb01@umail.ucsb.edu
T 1-2, 4-5 HSSB 3231
djconrad@umail.ucsb.edu
M 9-10, T 9-10 HSSB 3222
jmelliott@umail.ucsb.edu
M 4-4:50, T 10-:10:50 HSSB 3210
eunah@umail.ucsb.edu
T 2-4, HSSB 3225
jasonlinn@umail.ucsb.edu
T 5:00-7:00 HSSB 3222
andrew_magnusson@umail.ucsb.edu
W 9-10 am, TH 2-3 HSSB 3226
aturtledove@umail.ucsb.edu
W 9-11, HSSB 3225
peninah@umail.ucsb.edu
W 10-1, 3-4 HSSB 3231
zamira@umail.ucsb.edu
W 9-11 HSSB 3228
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 or online stores, and on reserve)
Robert Tignor, et al., Worlds Together, Worlds Apart. 3 rd Edition. Volume A.
New York: W.W. Norton, 2011. Abbreviated WTWA.
Readings with the label (PDF) 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 the 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 Friday, Course Introduction “The History of None.
9/23/11
History”
2 Monday,
9/26/11
Wednesday,
9/28/11
Friday,
9/30/11
3 Monday,
10/3/11
Wednesday,
10/5/11
Friday,
10/7/11
The Origins of
Agriculture and
Early Village Life
Theories for the
Rise of State-Level
Society
The Earliest
Archaic or
“Riverine” States
“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”
“Warfare Theory,
Systems Theory, Peer
Polity Interaction,
Game Theory”
“Mesopotamian
Civilization”
WTWA, 24-36.
Diamond, Jared. “The
Accidental Conqueror.”
(PDF)
WTWA, 36-40.
WTWA, 71-75.
Morgan, Lewis Henry.
“Ethnical Periods.” (PDF)
Wittfogel, Karl. “The
Hydraulic Civilizations.”
(PDF)
Carneiro, Robert. “A
Theory of the Origin of the
State.” (PDF)
WTWA, 43-58, 96-101
“ Excerpts from The Law
Code of Hammurabi” (PDF)

4 Monday,
10/10/11
Wednesday,
10/12/11
Friday,
10/14/11
5 Monday,
10/17/11
Wednesday,
10/19/11
Friday,
10/21/11
6 Monday,
10/24/11
Wednesday,
10/26/11
Friday,
10/28/11
7 Monday,
10/31/11
Wednesday,
11/2/11
Friday,
11/4/11
8 Monday,
11/7/11
Wednesday,
11/9/11
Friday,
11/11/11
9 Monday,
11/14/11
Wednesday,
11/16/11
Friday,
11/18/11
Key Components of
Early States
MIDTERM
EXAM
Nomads and
Territorial States
Empires and
Common Cultures
in Afro-Eurasia
Worlds Turned
Inside Out
Shrinking the Afro-
Eurasian World
Han Dynasty and
Imperial Rome
HOLIDAY NO
CLASS
Han Dynasty and
Imperial Rome
The Rise of
Universal Religions
“Egyptian
WTWA, 62-70, 91-95
Civilization”
“Indus Civilization” WTWA, 58-62, 101-6.
“Chinese
Civilization”
Instructor Gone.
View Podcast on
GauchoSpace.
“Early States in the
New World”
“Ancient Writing I”
Ancient Writing II”
“Urbanism and
Trade”
WTWA, 106-110, 152-59.
WTWA,182-87.
Schmandt-Besserat, Denise.
“An Ancient Token System:
The Precursor to Numerals
and Writing.” (PDF)
Davies, W.V.
“Decipherment.” (PDF)
Childe, V. Gordon. “The
Urban Revolution.” (PDF)
WTWA, 48-53 (again).
None.
“Wheeled Vehicles” WTWA, 85-91.
“The Assyrian and
Persian Empires”
“Warring States
China”
“Archaic and
Classical Greece”
“Alexander the Great
& Hellenistic
Civilization”
WTWA, 126-147.
“Assyrian Inscription of Tiglath-
Pileser I (c. 1100 BCE)“ (PDF)
WTWA, 161-173.
WTWA, 190-201.
WTWA, 203-216.
“Han Dynasty China” WTWA, 241-61.
HOLIDAY NO
CLASS
“The Roman
Republic and
Empire”
Buddhism in India,
Central Asia, China,
and Japan
Christianity in the
West and East
WTWA, 261-79.
WTWA ,147-152, 173-182,
216-239, 302-304.
Excerpt from “The Lotus Sutra”
(PDF)
WTWA, 281-296.

10 Monday,
11/21/11
Wednesday,
11/23/11
Friday,
11/25/11
11 Monday,
11/28/11
Wednesday,
11/30/11
Friday,
12/2/11
New Empires and
Common Cultures
TERM PAPER
DUE
THANKSGIVING
BREAK
New Empires and
Common Cultures
Course Summary
“Teotihuacan and
Maya in
Mesoamerica”
“The Cosmopolitan
Tang Empire”
THANKSGIVING
BREAK
“The Christian West:
600-1000”
“The Rise of Islam
and early Arab
Empire”
Movie: Islam:
Empire of Faith
(on GauchoSpace +
quiz)
“Major Themes of
the Course in
Review"
WTWA, 312-319.
Excerpt from “A Forest of Kings”
(PDF)
WTWA, 340-352.
THANKSGIVING BREAK
WTWA, 352-361.
WTWA, 321-339.
None.
Final Exam: Friday, December 9 th .
8:00 am-11:00 am 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
November 23, 2011. 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/