Ancient Near East: History
Course, Bachelor's level, 5AS105
Spring 2025 Spring 2025, Uppsala, 50%, On-campus, The course will be taught in English, if needed
- Location
- Uppsala
- Pace of study
- 50%
- Teaching form
- On-campus
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 31 March 2025–8 June 2025
- Language of instruction
- The course will be taught in English, if needed
- Entry requirements
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Ancient Near East: Introduction, or the equivalent
- Selection
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Final school grades (60%) - Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test (40%)
- Fees
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If you are not a citizen of a European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA) country, or Switzerland, you are required to pay application and tuition fees.
- First tuition fee instalment: SEK 11,250
- Total tuition fee: SEK 11,250
- Application deadline
- 15 October 2024
- Application code
- UU-06215
Admitted or on the waiting list?
- Registration period
- 17 March 2025–27 March 2025
- Information on registration from the department
About the course
This course builds on the broad knowledge you have already acquired through the course on the Ancient Near East: Introduction. Its starting point is in late prehistory when writing systems were developed in the region.
The structure is mainly chronological. We look at changes in the composition of the population, migration patterns and constant shifts in the balance of power between major state formations in the region. The main features of historical developments over the course of 3000 years covered by the course are documented with the help of clay tablets, and private and official inscriptions with cuneiform from public or private archives and central places. Views to the north, west and east give you a better understanding of some of the changes that take place over time, both in terms of local features and more regionally influenced conditions.
Against this background, you will gain a far better understanding of how the ancient cultures of the Near East were connected through mutual exchange of a peaceful or less peaceful kind, up to the time a few hundred years before the turn of our era, when the region was subjugated to empires from outside.