Abstract

God centered outlook on human of Medieval Age in Europe has given way to human centered humanistic view since the XIV th century along with Renaissance. Developments in scientific understanding began to emerge by this outlook. History is the scientific field which was affected by these developments. These developments aroused interest and admiration to Ancient Greek and Roman Civilizations and expedited the studies on history. When the studies focused on this direction, the concept of Ancient History emerged as a result of departmentalization of History science in the XIX th century and this concept was identified with history of Greece and Rome. By this sense, Greece and Rome were acknowledged and admired more. But archaeological excavations conducted in Middle East since the XVIII th century revealed Ancient East concept at the beginning of XX th century. Are these concepts sufficient to comprehend Ancient World? Or, should new concepts comprising other regions of the World be formed?

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