Week 1: Introduction: Turks in History
Week 2: Anatolia in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Week 3: The Ottoman Beylik and the Age of the Ghazis (1250-1389)
Week 4: Ottoman Institutions and Society in the Fourteenth Century
Week 5: Midterm Exam; Bayezid I (1389-1402) and the Interregnum (1402-1413)
Week 6: Re-establishment of Centralized Rule (1413-1451)
Week 7: The Conquest of Constantinople, The Reign of Mehmed II (1451-1481)
Week 8: The Reign of Bayezid II (1481-1512)
Week 9: Conquests in the East: The Reign of Selim I (1512-1520)
Week 10: The Reign of Suleiman I (1520-1566)
Week 11: Dynamics of Ottoman Society and Administration, The Ruling Class
Week 12: Midterm Exam; Ottoman Institutions and Social Structure in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Week 13: Economic Structure: State Revenues and Expenditures
Week 14: Economic Structure: State, Land, Peasantry, and Trade