Course aims:

Establishing historical facts based on information from sources outside sources about the ancient history of Romania.
Framing ancient history of Romania in the broader context of the history of Central and South-Eastern Europe.
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Course Entry Requirements:

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Course contents:

Object of study, sources and periodization of the Ancient History of Romanians. Paleolithic and Mezolithic Age. Neolithic Age. Eneolithic Age. Bronze Age. Early Iron Age (I). Early Iron Age (II). Dacian Culture and Civilization (I). General characteristics; Geto-Dacian in ancient written sources; Early Period (sec. IV-III BC). Dacian Culture and Civilization (II). Material and spiritual culture; art; religion; the Geto-Dacian Kingdom during Burebista; Internal and foreign policy of the Geto-Dacian Kingdom during Decebal. Military confrontation with the Roman Empire. Roman Province of Dacia (I). Territory and the administrative organization of Roman Dacia; Dacian Roman army (exercitus Daciae). Roman Province of Dacia (II). Dacia province's population: settlers and indigenous; Roman Dacian urbanism; the economic life of Roman Dacia. Roman Province of Dacia (III). Political history; religions, material and spiritual culture; provincial art. Romane Provine of Dacia (IV). Loss and left Dacia; Dacia south of the Danube; Early Christianity in the territories north of the Danube.

Teaching methods:

Lectures, conversation, exemplification, presentation of papers, discussions.

Learning outcomes:

retrieval of written sources on the historical past; establishing historical facts on the basis of historical sources and outside of these; oral and written presentation in English of the specific discipline knowledge; the concrete production of new historical knowledge on the basis of deeper insights within the study of an epoch and/or of a medium complexity historical subject.

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Participation, oral examination.

Recommended reading:

Ellis, L., “Terra Deserta': Population, Politics, and the [de]Colonization of Dacia”, in World Archaeology, 30 (1998), 2. Population and Demography, pp. 220-237.
Glamble, Clive, Origins of Revolution. Human Identity in Earliest Prehistory, 2007.
Glodariu, Ioan, Dacian trade with the Hellenistic and Roman world, BAR supplementary series, 8, 1976.
Grumeza, Ion, Dacia: Land of Transylvania, Cornerstone of Ancient Eastern Europe, Hamilton Books, 2009.
Hanson, W. S., I. P. Haynes, Roman Dacian. The Making of a Provincial Society, Portsmouth, 2004.