HISTORY OF MIDDLE EAST CIVILIZATION II HISTORY 252

History 252 First Page I Syllabus and Study Guides I Requirements Museum Field Trips I Paper I Library Assignment I Resources


First Week January 12, 2011 Wednesday 12:30-03:20 P.M. Room 132, Bisdorf Study Guide 1	General Introduction Outline of Course The Decline and Retreat of the Ottoman Empire The Reforms of Selim III Napoleon Invades Egypt Overthrow of Selim III	What caused the decline of the Ottomans? Ochsenwald and Fisher, Chapters 21-22 Decline of the Ottomans Selim III	Review Course Requirements Complete "Introduction on Blackboard" Complete your Introduction on Blackboard
Second Week January 19, 2011 Study Guide 2	Mahmud II: Nationalism and Reform "The Greek Revolution" "Intervention by Egypt and the Great Powers" Mehmet Ali, Ismail and the Development of Egypt Rise of Mehmet Ali Conquest of Syria	What was the motivation for reform? How effective was the reform? Ochsenwald-Fisher, Chapters 23-24 Mahmud II Mehmet Ali Egypt Mahmud's Reforms	Your library assignment should be used to begin your search for a topic for your research paper or a book for the book review Library Project
Third Week January 26, 2011 Study Guide 3	Ottoman Tanzimat and European Ambitions Abdulhamid and Autocratic Reform	Ochsenwald-Fisher, Chapters 25-26 Tanzimat The Female Quarters	Library Assignment should be copied into Word, completed and sent to me as an attachment by email Friday of the Third Week
Fourth Week February 2, 2011 Study Guide 4 Study Guide 5	The Young Turks and Nationalism British Occupation of Egypt and the Sudan	Ochsenwald-Fisher, Chapters 27-28 Young Turks
Fifth Week February 9, 2011 Study Guide 6 Study Guide 7	Qajar Iran and Reform Iran's Constitutional Revolution	Ochsenwald-Fisher, Chapters 29-30
Sixth Week February 16, 2011 Study Guide 8 Study Guide 9	Impact of World War I on the Middle East The Zionist Movement The Middle East at the Paris Peace Conference	Ochsenwald-Fisher, Chapter 31
Seventh Week February 23, 2011 Study Guide 10 Study Guide 11	The Turkish Republic Under Ataturk Iran Between the Two Wars	Ochsenwald-Fisher Chapters 32-33 Egypt Iran Struggle for the Middle East
Eighth Week March 2, 2011	Egypt, the Sudan and Libya Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq Under the Mandate System	Ochsenwald-Fisher Chapters 34-35	First Examination Chapters 21-31 March 3, 2010
Ninth Week March 16, 2011 Study Guide 12 Study Guide 12 Palestinian-Israeli Conflict	Palestine and Transjordan World War II in the Middle East	Ochsenwald-Fisher Chapters 36-37 Republic of Turkey	First Student Report on a Book or Country's Struggle for Independence
Tenth Week March 23, 2011 Study Guide 13	Turkey Becomes a Democracy	Fisher-Ochsenwald, Chapters 38 Iran Since World War I	Last Day for First Museum Project, March 24, 2010
Eleventh Week March 30, 2011 Study Guide 14	Iran, Oil, Nationalism, and Royal Dictatorship The Islamic Republic of Iran, the Collapse of the Soviet Union and War in Afghanistan	Fisher-Ochsenwald, Chapters 39-40
Twelfth Week April 6, 2011	The Partition of Palestine: Israel and Hashimite Jordan Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinians After 1967	Zionism	Fisher-Ochsenwald, Chapters 41-42
Thirteenth Week April 13, 2011	The Egyptian Republic and Independent Sudan Egypt, Sudan, and Libya after 1970		Last Day for Second Museum Report April 14, 2010 Fisher-Ochsenwald, Chapter 43-44
Fourteenth Week April 20, 2011	Independent Lebanon and Syria Iraq after World War II		Fisher-Ochsenwald, Chapter 45-46
Fifteenth Week April 27, 2011	Smaller Arabian States Yemen Saudi Arabia and Oil Trends After 1945	Egypt Since World War I	Fisher-Ochsenwald, Chapters 47-48-49-50
Sixteenth Week Mary 4, 2011	Final Exam Week	Palestine	Final Activity


History of Middle East Civilization II History 252


Textbooks: William Ochsenwald and Sydney Nettleton Fisher, The Middle East, A History, Volume I, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, Latest edition, paperback Smith, Charles D., Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Third Edition, St. Martin's Press, paperback, ISBN 0-312-09649-6 Spencer, William, Global Studies: Middle East, McGraw Hill, latest edition, ISBN 0-07236588-9