Popular Questions - History

Explain the rise of al-Qaida in the 1990s and how it culminated in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. What was their motivation? Who/what did they target? What was the U.S. response to AQ...

Why was civil war so common before the Tokugawa period? How did the Tokugawa system make peace possible?

This week you will interrogate the impact of slavery on the lives of enslaved Africans and their descendants. Please answer the following questions: 1. Reading the life stories of Frederick Douglass...

Prompt (Choose One): 1. How did the new national government, created in the 1780s, reflect the political concerns of the political crisis of the 1760 and 1770s? 2. What issues underlay the emerging...

Read Livy’s Rape of Lucretia and Caesar’s Gallic Wars   What reason did Lucretia give for killing herself? What other motive may have driven her?  How did the men in Lucretia’s...

The following question will give you a chance to self-evaluate, to think about what youve been learning in this course, and to draw your own conclusions about how you can apply the skills of problem...