History

History
Paper instructions:
Instructions
In this assignment you will write an essay that includes analysis of a primary source or sources. Primary sources are documents or other artifacts that provide first-hand accounts of the time period that you are studying. Primary sources are created by participants in or witnesses to events at the time or close to the time that they occurred. Primary sources include laws, treaties, speeches, diaries, memoirs, letters, reports, government or other records, creative works, and for later periods, photographs, films etc.

Select ONE of the assignments below and write an essay answering the posted questions. Integrate what you have learned about the era from your text with your analysis of the primary source reading. Although you will be presented with several questions, integrate your responses into a unified whole.
An excellent primary source essay will do the following:
• Explore relevant sections of the primary source(s) assigned.
• Use and incorporate ideas, issues, or explanations from the primary source(s) assigned.
• Specifically answer the question or questions asked. Do what the question requires (compare, evaluate etc.).
• Briefly identify people, events, or terms mentioned.
• Demonstrate a good knowledge of the historical context of the primary source(s).
• Support all general statements with specific evidence (examples, events, quotations).
• Organize ideas into a logical sequence.
• Use correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
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Assignment (Choose ONE part only)
Part A.

Read the Res Gestae Divi Augusti at:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/14resgestae.html

Also Read The Life of Augustus by Suetonius at:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/suetonius-augustus.html

Scroll through and read Sections 2, 28-36, 67-79 and 101.

Using these sources plus Spielvogel’s assessment of Augustus in the text (ISBN 1-111-34212-1), write an essay of 600 to 800 words exploring the following questions:
• Compare and contrast Spielvogel’s assessment of Augustus’ accomplishments with the one in Res Gestae Divi Augusti.
• What do you think the historian Suetonius (69 CE -122 CE) thought of Augustus as a leader and as a man?
• According to Suetonius was there a difference between the public Augustus and the private Augustus? How do you reconcile any disparity?
• Evaluate Augustus as a Roman leader using specific factual information.

 

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Part B.

Read The Correspondence of Pliny and the Emperor Trajan at:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/pliny-trajan1.html

Using this source and the text (ISBN 1-111-34212-1) , write an essay of 600-800 words exploring the following questions.
• What were the chief features of the Roman Empire at its height during the second century CE?
• How did early Christian communities fit into the Roman Empire? How did Christianity contrast with other Roman religious beliefs?
• What kinds of political and administrative problems were suggested by the letters of Trajan and Pliny? What views do they have of Christians?
• What characteristics of Christianity made it attractive to Romans?

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