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Pharaoh’s army

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Course ID:	2800-DWFAR-OG
Erasmus code / ISCED:	08.4 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0222) History and archaeology The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Pharaoh’s army
Name in Polish:	Armia faraonów
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Archeology
Course groups:	General university courses General university courses in the humanities
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	2.50 Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	general courses
Prerequisites (description):	Student should have a general orientation in the history of Egypt and New East in the IIIrd and IInd millennia BC, should know the location and borders of the Egyptian state and its neighbours at that time
Mode:	Blended learning
Short description:	Introduction to the history of Egyptian military in the dynastic period, i.e. from the beginning of the Egyptian state (end of IVth millennium BC) till the end of the New Kingdom (11th century BC).
Full description:	Presentation in chronological order of iconographic, archaeological and textual sources, which can be used to reconstruct the development of Egyptian military in the times of pharaohs. Main topics: - weapons; - military architecture; - army organization; - military campaigns; - goals and results of Egyptian wars. Main focus will be on well documented military campaigns carried out by the Egyptian state during the New Kingdom (16-11 cent. BC). These campaigns resulted in creating an Egyptian Empire in Syria-Palestine and Nubia – the empire, which competed with major middle eastern powers of that time: Mittanni and Hittite states.
Bibliography:	J.C. Darnell, C. Manassa, Tutankhamun's Armies: Battle and Conquest During Ancient Egypt's Late Eighteenth Dynasty, Hoboken (NJ) 2007 R. Gundlach, C. Vogel (ed.), Militärgeschichte des pharaonischen Ägypten. Altägypten und seine Nachbarkulturen im Spiegel der aktuellen Forschung, Paderborn 2009 E.F. Morris, The Architecture of Imperialism: Military Bases and the Evolution of Foreign Policy in Egypt’s New Kingdom, Probleme der Ägyptologie, Band 22, Leiden 2005 A.J. Spalinger, War in Ancient Egypt: The New Kingdom, Malden (MA) 2005 C. Vogel, Ägyptische Festungen und Garnisonen bis zum Ende des Mittleren Reiches, HÄB 46, Hildesheim 2004
Learning outcomes:	(in Polish) Wiedza: student zna i rozumie - zna podstawowe pojęcia i terminologię stosowane w archeologii Egiptu (K_W02) - ma szczegółową wiedzę nt. wojskowości Egiptu faraońskiego, obejmującą terminologię, teorie i metodologię z zakresu archeologii Egiptu faraońskiego (K_W05) - ma podstawową wiedzę o głównych kierunkach rozwoju i najważniejszych nowych osiągnięciach w zakresie badań nad wojskowością Egiptu faraońskiego (K_W08) Umiejętności: student potrafi:
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	(in Polish) Wykład kończy się egzaminem, na którym oceniona zostanie znajomość treści przedstawionych na wykładach.

Classes in period "Summer semester 2023/24" (in progress)

Time span:	2024-02-19 - 2024-06-16	Selected timetable range: weekly course term Navigate to timetable MO WYK TU W TH FR
Type of class:	Lecture, 30 hours, 30 places more information
Coordinators:	Sławomir Rzepka
Group instructors:	Sławomir Rzepka
Students list:	(inaccessible to you)
Examination:	Course - Examination Lecture - Examination

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