1.  Students will gain knowledge of key sites and historical 
developments in ancient Anatolia between the Bronze Age and 
Byzantium

2. Students will learn to recognize the products and features of 
successive historical cultures in Anatolia

3. Students will study the major excavations conducted in 
Anatolia since the 1700s

4. Students will understand the diverse geography of Anatolia 
and consider how these geographies have been unified at 
different times by various historical state formations 

5. Students will understand the Bronze and Iron Age background 
of Hellenistic and Roman urbanization in Anatolia

6. Students will understand the nature and components of 
Hellenistic and Roman provincial administration and urbanism in 
Anatolia

7. Students will understand the progressive, developmental 
nature of urban form in Anatolian cities with millennia-long 
histories
 
8. Students will learn to navigate a wide array of scholarly 
resources: Traveler’s accounts, inscriptions, gazetteers, 
excavation reports, scientific studies

9. Students will learn how historians and archaeologists answer 
questions about the past through evidence-based research

10. Students will produce writing and research appropriate to 
the subject matter of the course and to the disciplines of 
classics and archaeology

I.  The Late Bronze Age Collapse and the Trojan War

II. The Iron Age Kingdoms in Anatolia: Neo-Hittites, Phrygians, Lydians, Urartu

III. Greek Colonization in Western Anatolia

IV. The Persians in Anatolia 

V. Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Kingdoms in Anatolia 

VI. Roman Anatolia

VII. Early Byzantine Anatolia

VIII. Medieval

IX. Ottoman Empire

X. Modern Turkey

XI. Issues of Classical Heritage