Pick a topic please and write this

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Reaction Paper

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Your Paper must be at least 3-5 pages (Not Including Source Page and Cover)

Double Spacing (it’s standard)

You MUST Use a Source Page (Bibliography)

You must cite ALL of your sources within the paper!!!

Use multiple Sources

You CANNOT use the Textbook as a Source

Wikipedia is not an approved Source, but you can use it as a Secondary if needed…but I

would rather you didn’t use it at all

Use your imagination, be creative!!! I reward originality!

You should pick a Topic from the List Below…or better…pick your own

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This is a major element of your Paper…please do this correctly !!!!

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1. Choose any person (or people) that left their mark on Western Civilization

from the Ancient Period (5000 BCE) up to the Scientific Revolution (1700’s)

They can be male or female

They can be from the West, or the East

Political, Religious, Military…from any aspect or region

What is their legacy?

2. Pick any aspect (SPERM) of Egypt, Greece, Rome, Middle Ages, the Renaissance...etc.

(and explain!!!)

3. Why would people change from hunter-gatherers to agrarians?

How did this transition change overall lifestyle?

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4. What major factor or factors carried nomadic peoples to build and develop complex

civilizations? What advantages/disadvantages might it also contain?

Think about Human Nature…adaptation…development…finding an easier way to

survive…and exist…

5. How did the Middle Ages change the “identity” of Western Civilization?

Was it more than just a period in between the Fall of Rome and the next “big thing”?

6. What advantages did/does Science/Technology/Industry have?

What disadvantages might it also contain?

7. Explain the Rise and Fall of Rome (Republic OR Empire…not both…these are busy

periods!!!)

Were both rise and fall inevitable? Could the Fall have been avoided?

8. Explain the role of Religion

You can compare / contrast… or take it from the Western or Eastern Viewpoint

How does Religion affect the West in modern times?

9. How did the West react following the Fall of Rome/ The Renaissance?

new political systems? lifestyle? How did Europe pull themselves out of the “Dark

Ages” ?

10. Democracy and its effects on the West…elaborate