Week 2: January 18-20 . Rum, Ottoman Birth
Week 3: January 25-27 . Ottoman Conquest of the Balkans
Week 4: February 1-3 . Conquest of Constantinople, Mehmet II
Week 5: February 8-10 . Creation of the Ottoman State System
Week 6: February 15-17 . Suleyman the Magnificent
Week 7: February 22-24 . Iranian Safavids and Beignnings of Ottoman "decline" .
Week 8: March 1-3 . Role of Women in the Ottoman State System. Exam #1 [over weeks 1-7]. A take-home exam, due in class, March 1.
Spring Break March 7-11.
Week 9: March 15-17 . Jews and Christians in the Ottoman State
Week 10: March 22-24 . "Ottoman Decline" and the Seventeenth Century
Week 11: March 29-31 . The Beginnings of Secularism in the Middle East
Week 12: April 5-7 . Reforms of Ottoman Society and State.
Week 13: April 12-14 . Middle East at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Week 14: April 19-21 . Young Turks, Arab Nationalism, Zionism.
Week 15: April 26-28. World War I: the "Watershed".