Popular Questions - History – Ancient history

Topic 1: Based on the texts by Kafka and Eliot, (writing on one or the other or both), discuss how the writers seem critical of modern culture, as they portray modern man as a self-conscious...

Watch the video clips ofthe Opera Turandot. Also read about the Turandot. Let’s talk about various aspects of it in relation to a European understanding of Asian traditions and customs....

Trace the “scarlet thread of redemption” through the books of the Old Testament, touching on specific biblical passages. You may also use secondary resources, documenting them, using...

What shaped Western culture in the period 1300–1550 more: the Black Death’s emphasis on the afterlife (the hereafter) or the Renaissance’s emphasis on human achievement (the here and now)? Start...

* Detail the Missouri  compromise of 1820. Discuss the various obstacles that needed  to be solved  Im order to  complete  the deal. (one page)  *Discuss Andrew Jacksons most important...

Choose two major myths or episodes in Greek mythology (i.e. a major Homeric hymn or set of hymns, a substantial account or summary such as Hesiod or Apollodorus, or major episodes in one of the...