The Clash of Civilizations
Having read The Clash of Civilizations article, what you will need to do in this essay is to summarize the article. First you will need to locate and describe Huntington’s main thesis clearly. You then then need to locate and describe all of Huntington’s sub-arguments which are used to support his main argument. Now, in […]
Primary Sources Essay (Part II: Classical Civilizations in Global
Primary sources are the basic way that historians understand and interpret what happened long ago, because these sources belong to their own time in ways that secondary sources do not. Secondary sources are usually accounts by historians later on, who try to make sense of the past using primary sources. Attached is primary sources […]
River Valley Civilizations
In a well-organized, five paragraph essay, compare and contrast the development of various River Valley civilizations – Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Indus River Valley, and Early Chinese societies, for example. How did the geography of these regions influence their development? In what ways did they develop similarly or differently? Why are these areas home to some of […]
Civilizations and Religions
Choose two civilizations and their religions to compare. The two civilizations should not be from the same geographic region. Locate one primary source from each of your chosen civilizations; you may use the resources and references at the end of the textbook chapters to find primary sources. (Note: a “primary source” is a document/artifact that […]