Great ancient civilizations of Asia Minor

lecture 1. Introduction to Anatolia

lecture 2. First civilizations in Anatolia

lecture 3. The Hittite empire

lecture 4. Hattusas and imperial Hittiti culture

lecture 5. Origins of Greek civilization

lecture 6. The legend of Troy

lecture 7. Iron age kingdoms of Asia Minor

lecture 8. Emergence of the Polis

lecture 9. Ionia and ealy Greek civilization

lecture 10. The Persian conquest

lecture 11. Athenian empire and Spartan hegemony

lecture 12. Alexander the Great and the Diadochoi

lecture 13. The Hellenization of Asia Minor

lecture 14. Rome versus the kings of the east

lecture 15. Prosperity and Roman patronage

lecture 16. Gods and sanctuaries of Roman Asia Minor

lecture 17. Jews and early Christians

lecture 18. From Rome to Byzantium

lecture 19. Constantinople, Queen of cities

lecture 20. The Byzantine dark age

lecture 21. Byzantine cultural revival

lecture 22. Crusaders and Seljuk Turks

lecture 23. Muslim transformation

lecture 24. The Ottoman empire.