Category: History

Learning Outcomes
The purpose of this assignment is to help you practice the following skills that are essential to your success in this course / in school / in this field / in professional life beyond school:
Write a letter to the editor on a very specific issue pertaining to civic engagement in our contemporary world.
Demonstrate respectful disagreement or persuasion. Assignment Tasks
Imagine you are writing a ‘letter to the editor’ or an editorial on a very specific issue pertaining to civic engagement in our contemporary world.
Write a letter that consists of a minimum of 300 words. Demonstrate in your letter how some incident, writing, or challenge from U.S. History (that we have studied this semester) may provide some guidance in addressing this contemporary issue
Your letter should demonstrate expertise and a high level of research. You may include endnotes and references if you so choose.
Advocate in your editorial a specific course of action that may help to address the challenge you wish to address. The specific course of action you advocate should be informed by the lessons of the past.
Your editorial may certainly engage in critique, but it should model civility, respect for alternative views, and, above all, it should address theory, science, and/or policy, and not engage in ad hominem attack or obloquy.

Hello, I need a 1500 word essay with an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. The subject of the paper revolves around the Pons-Fleischmann cold fusion experiment, Pons and Fleischmann’s percieved success, their eventual failure, and the current rise of nuclear fusion today. The Lawrence Livermore National laboratory has produced at least two net positive energy fusion reactions. They were able to succeed in fusion where Pons and Fleischmann failed. I need you to write in-depth about the story of Pons-Fleishcmann and how they they failed, then I need you to transition to writing about the Lawrence Livermore fusion experimnets, how their scientists are succeeding today, and the potential for self-sustaining energy from fusion’s success. Also, by self-sustaining energy, I mean that a reaction or generator produces enough energy that it can continuously run itself with the energy it produces while still outputting energy elsewhere. I need you to include something about self-sustaining energy being seemingly possible with the Pons-Fleishmann cold fusion, until they failed. I also need you to include the potential for the Lawrence Livermore scientists fusion experiments to become self-sustaining, as each experiment they have run has produced a higher net positive energy output. I need you to use at least 6 sources, use a portion from each source in your writing, and include footnote citations with each source used. I also need you to make a bibliography and differentiate primary sources from secondary sources, but the bibliography should not be considered part of the 1500-word count. 

https://www.britannica.com/place/ancient-Greece
https://www.worldhistory.org/Greek_Government/
https://academic.oup.com/book/8042/chapter-abstract/153430887?redirectedFrom=fulltext
https://www.britannica.com/place/Roman-Empire
https://www.worldhistory.org/Roman_Empire/

Understanding Historical Themes Within a Time Period: The Classical Period
Historians divide history into time periods in order to focus on characteristics that help define a certain era in the historical record.  They further divide time periods into smaller chunks of time to help distinguish subsets of characteristics.  For example, in European history there are three distinct time periods:  Medieval History, Early Modern History and Modern History.  Medieval History encompasses events that occurred between 476 CE and 1500 CE while Early Modern History focuses on occurrences between 1500 CE and 1800 CE and Modern History does the same between 1800 CE and the present.  Each time period has its own set of characteristics and own sets of events that lay the foundation for future events and future time periods.  Medieval History can be divided even further into the Early Middle Ages (476 CE to 1000 CE), the High Middle Ages (1000 CE to 1250 CE) and the Late Middle Ages (1250 CE to 1500 CE).  Again each of these eras of Medieval History have their own unique characteristics but at the same time there are unifying characteristics that can be found throughout the entire time period.  Defining time periods is a whole competency by itself but for this competency it is important to note that time periods help organize events into their proper chronological order.  If you need to you can review the idea of splitting history into time periods from the first chapter of the McLean textbook.
This learning outcomes helps you identify and describe time periods by examining the classical period of World History.  The information below discusses how the classical period is defined in World History.
“The period after the decline of river valley civilizations (about 1000 BCE-600 CE) is often called the classical age. During this era world history was shaped by the rise of several large civilizations that grew from areas where the earlier civilizations thrived. The classical civilizations differ from any previous ones in these ways:
They kept better and more recent records, so historical information about them is much more abundant. We know more about not just their wars and their leaders, but also about how ordinary people lived.
The classical societies provide many direct links to today’s world, so that we may refer to them as root civilizations, or ones that modern societies have grown from.
Classical civilizations were expansionist, deliberately conquering lands around them to create large empires. As a result, they were much larger in land space and population than the river civilizations were.
Three areas where civilizations proved to be very durable were:
Mesopotamia – Two great classical civilizations grew up around this area: Greece and Rome.
China – The classical era began with the Zhou Empire and continued through the Han Dynasty.
India – Although political unity was difficult for India, the Mauryan and Gupta Empires emerged during the classical era.
COMMON FEATURES OF CLASSICAL CIVILIZATIONS
The three areas of classical civilizations developed their own beliefs, lifestyles, political institutions, and social structures. However, there were important similarities among them:
Patriarchal family structures – Like the river valley civilizations that preceded them, the classical civilization valued male authority within families, as well as in most other areas of life.
Agricultural-based economies – Despite more sophisticated and complex job specialization, the most common occupation in all areas was farming.
Complex governments – Because they were so large, these three civilizations had to invent new ways to keep their lands together politically. Their governments were large and complex, although they each had unique ways of governing.
Expanding trade base — Their economic systems were complex. Although they
generally operated independently, trade routes connected them by both land and sea.”
This information is taken from:  
https://rocketss.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/13081786/unit_2_review_packet_mrfarshtey.pdf
Reading Assignments
Be sure to look at the milestone activity to help you know the topics on which to focus.
Be sure to look at the milestone activity to help you know the topics on which to focus.
Click here to go to the textbook:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Cl-j_uZXukqonk6rE5-Mqc8-2G_sLPc9/view?usp=sharing
Chapter 5: Early Chinese Dynasties — read all sections but note that the classical period starts with the Zhou Dynasty
Chapter 6:  Early Civilizations in the Indian Subcontinent — read all sections but note that the classical period starts with the Indo-Aryan Migration
Videos That Reinforce the Reading Assignments
The Pursians and Greeks- https://youtu.be/Q-mkVSasZIM
Buddha and Ashoka-https://youtu.be/8Nn5uqE3C9w
China-https://youtu.be/ylWORyToTo4
The Silk Road-https://youtu.be/vfe-eNq-Qyg
Rome-https://youtu.be/oPf27gAup9U
Christianity-https://youtu.be/TG55ErfdaeY
The Fall of Rome-https://youtu.be/3PszVWZNWVA
Pick one of the following civilizations:  Greece, Rome, India or China.
Create an annotated timeline that explains at least 6 major events, ideas or people that help to define the classical period of that civilization.  
You may not have specific dates for these events but be sure that you put the events, ideas or people in chronological order in your annotated timeline.  For example, if you talk about Alexander the Great, Socrates, Aristotle and Plato be sure that you have them in the order from oldest to youngest in order to show how each scholar impacted the next.
In your annotated timeline explain how these events, ideas or people allow the civilization to reach its pinnacle of power and achieve its greatest accomplishments. In your explanation in the annotated timeline explain what the accomplishments were and why they were so important.  Also explain how one event, person or idea led to the next.  Include transition sentences from one entry to the next.
If you need more information to do your milestone, then use the Early World Civilizations textbook linked here  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Cl-j_uZXukqonk6rE5-Mqc8-2G_sLPc9/view?usp=sharing
Assignment submission should include:
Create 1 annotated timeline that reflects the development of one of the following civilizations: Greece, Rome, India or China  
You must use the sources provided.  Do not use outside sources or ChatGPT or an AI program.
Start the milestone with an introduction about the importance of the classical period for the civilization you choose.
Create an annotated timeline. Be sure each entry in your annotated timeline includes a date/time period, an event and then an explanation of the event.  The explanation should explain the who, what, where, why and how of the event, person or idea.  Why is it important?  
You should end each entry in the annotated timeline with a transition sentence that ties it to the next event and in the beginning of the next event you should have a sentence that continues explaining how the events connect and link to the larger event.  These are called transition sentences.  Click here to learn more about transition sentences.
You will need a conclusion that ties all of the events together and discusses how one event leads to the next.  It should also talk about the legacy of the classical period for the civilization.
You should write in complete sentences and use proper grammar and spelling.
Your annotated timelines together should have at least 400 words.
You need to cite the sources from the learning activities.  Include the page numbers from the textbook or the title of the videos and the time stamp or the title of any other articles used in the competency.  Do not use outside sources.  
Citations should look like Mclean, pg. # and/or video title and timestamp.
DO NOT USE OUTSIDE RESOURCES.
Write everything in your own words.  Do not use quotes as a substitute for your own words.  Be sure to include the source in parentheses at the end of the paragraph.  
How do I want you to do it? 
You need to make an annotated timeline.  You can do it the simple way or the table way.  If you have questions, email your competency facilitator.  Remember the timeline is an annotated one so you need to include an explanation for every date and it’s corresponding event.
Simple Way
Use Microsoft Word or Google Docs and type the following:
Date/Time Period — Event
Explanation of the Event goes under the date/time period and event
Table Way
In Microsoft Word or Google Docs, click the insert tab and put in a table.  You’ll only need two columns:  one for the date and one for the event and explanation.  Click here to learn how to insert a table.  Click here to learn how to add columns and rows to your table.

Please avoid using Chat GPT, my professor will run the paper through multiple AI Checker. 
This is the assignment verbatim:
Here are the Basic Requirements 
1    Identify a topic appropriate to our course.
•    Anything we study in Humanities during the time period covered in this course is fair game. (For example, Intro to Humanities courses can do any humanities topic while Greek and Roman course would need to limit themselves to topics from those time periods. (10 points)
•    Cite each source using the MLA style guide. (5 points each)
•    3 book sources 
•    3 articles from a library database
•    Annotate each source: Write a short annotation (6-10 sentences) describing the quality and usefulness of the source. (10 points each) Each annotation should
•    No Primary Sources: This means, for example, that if you choose Shakespeare as a topic you could not include works by Shakespeare. Those are great resources, but for this annotated bibliography I want you to focus on critical, academic resources.
•    Summarize the material in the source (3-5 sentences)
•    Assess the reliability of the source. This may include looking at any discernible bias in the source, the age of the source, the methodology, etc. (2-3 sentences)
•    Describe what this source would be most useful for. (1-2 sentences) 
For further instructions, samples, topics please check out the 2 linked documents. 
Annotated Bibliography Assignment Revised Summer 2018.doc (https://online.valenciacollege.edu/courses/204130/files/51432582/download?verifier=hAVrUImTaZhWOhmFsIPBujC9MWIDp4LRkn4CMCN4&wrap=1)
Annotated Bibliography and Sample Entry Revised 2018.docx (https://online.valenciacollege.edu/courses/204130/files/51432581/download?verifier=0WWSh7sfvd56gEAFrzIJrHnFrR1KeHKjtyXIiJcC&wrap=1)

Hello, I need a 1500 word essay with an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. The subject of the paper revolves around the Pons-Fleischmann cold fusion experiment, Pons and Fleischmann’s percieved success, their eventual failure, and the current rise of nuclear fusion today. The Lawrence Livermore National laboratory has produced at least two net positive energy fusion reactions. They were able to succeed in fusion where Pons and Fleischmann failed. I need you to write in-depth about the story of Pons-Fleishcmann and how they failed, then I need you to transition to writing about the Lawrence Livermore fusion experiments, how their scientists are succeeding today, and the potential for self-sustaining energy from fusion’s success. Also, by self-sustaining energy, I mean that a reaction or generator produces enough energy that it can continuously run itself with the energy it produces while still outputting energy elsewhere. I need you to define self-sustaining energy similarly to the definition I have provided, include it in the paper (possibly the introduction), and include something about self-sustaining energy being seemingly possible with the Pons-Fleishmann cold fusion, until they failed. I also need you to include the potential for the Lawrence Livermore scientists fusion experiments to become self-sustaining, as each experiment they have run has produced a higher net positive energy output. I need you to use at least 6 sources, use a portion from each source in your writing, and include footnote citations with each source used. I also need you to make a bibliography and differentiate primary sources from secondary sources, but the bibliography should not be considered part of the 1500-word count.

Please answer one of the essay questions.  (Atleast 250 words)
1.  What were the various impacts of the Silk Road on the cultures that did business along the Silk Roads?
2. How did the Roman Empire actually fall?
Berger, Eugene, Ph.D., et al. World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500. https://alg.manifoldapp.org/projects/world-history
(Link to book)

Describe the multiple paths and periods of migration of early humans from Africa to Asia,Europe, Australia, and the Americas.
find and use this book
Patterns of World History, Volume One: To 1600, with Sources
ISBN: 9780197517093

The contribution to civilization from both Sumeria and Egypt, which civilization made the most valuable contribution and why

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Using either federalism and/or nationalism, comment on civil rights and liberties in the US. Your answer can focus on specific ones, or rights/liberties more generally. Additionally, knowing that the Constitution was amended several times (three times specifically to include the rights of people to vote), what are some of the consequences of an expanding electorate over time?