Kocaeli University / European Credit Transfer System (ECTS)

Name of Lecturer(s)

Lecturer(31.c) Rasih Haldun AYDINGÜN
Prof. Dr. Şengül AYDINGÜN

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1) What is trade and what type of human activities can be examined under the heading of trade
2) Earliest items which are traded between human groups; obsidian, flint stones, spondylus and trade routes involved.
3) First commercial records starting from 8th millennium BC in Mesopotamia
4) Tin, Lapis Lazuli and Carneol brought to Near east from central Asia

Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

		Program Competencies
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Learning Outcomes
	1	No relation	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High
	2	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	Middle	Middle
	3	High	High	High	Middle	High	High	Middle	High	High
	4	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

In this course, after the basic concepts of trade were given, starting from 10. BC, its development in Neolithics, Bronze Age, Iron Age and up untill the Middle Ages will be evaluated

Weekly Schedule

1) What is trade? Is money necessary for commerce to exist? Which actions fall within the definition of trade and which do not?
2) The oldest traded commodities; obsidian and flint stones.
3) Spondylus gaederopus, the first internationally traded luxury item and Central European trade routes following river systems.
4) The first commercial recording systems used in Mesopotamia starting from the 8th millennium B.C. and the writing that developed accordingly.
5) Starting from 6th millennium BC, Ubaid seramics sold to distant places on the western coast of Persian Gulf, opening of the sea routes for trade.
6) Transport of Precious Stones from Central Asia to the Near East
7) Exam
8) Trade of Tin
9) Assyrian Trade colonies in Anatolia
10) Tarding of amber and copper with southern Scandinavia
11) Uluburun shipwreck and the trade goods she was carrying
12) The maritime trade system that the Phoenicians established in the Mediterranean and outside
13) Colonies of Athens in the Mediterranean and Black Seas and its grain trade.
14) Commercial relations of the Roman Empire with Arabia, India and China.
15) x
16) x

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Discussion
4) Problem Solving

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Midterm Examination to Course Grade	30%
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade	70%
Total	100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required

Course Unit Title	Course Unit Code	Type of Course Unit	Level of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	ECTS Credits
Trade History of Asia Minor	ARK330	Elective	Bachelor's degree	3	Spring	4