文明交往视角下的楔形文字文明——兼谈高校世界古代史课程中古代西亚部分的教学框架

The Cuneiform Civilization from the Perspective of Dialogue between Civilizations

高校世界古代史课程教学中,古代西亚常被视为人类文明史的开端,但课堂讲授中以专题板块为主的教学体例让学生们在主观上对古代西亚的历史产生了割裂感。因此,文明交往的视角应该被引入古代西亚史的教学理念中。基于文明交往理论,楔形文字文明作为一个整体,有着自己的文明发展轨迹和特点,其内部诸文明也相互交往。这种区域整体性视角有助于教师和学生在世界古代史教学过程中更好地把握古代西亚的历史脉络。

During the teaching process of Ancient World-History course, ancient western Asia is usually regarded as the beginning of human civilization. However, the history of ancient western Asia has been separated as several subjects in the class-teaching of universities and colleges, which makes the students confused. Therefore, the theory “Dialogue between Civilizations” should be introduced into the teaching concept for the history of ancient western Asia. Based on this theory, the cuneiform civilization should be considered as one unity with its own developing route and characters;meanwhile the sub-civilizations exchange and communicate with each other in the circle of cuneiform civilization. This perspective of regional integrity will be useful both for the teachers and the students to understand the historical skeleton of ancient western Asia in the ancient world-history course.