History

Pick 2 of these 3 to answer. 500 words each, 1000 words totalQUESTION: Describe the expansion of Spartan power in the Peloponnese and Greece during the Archaic Period (750-500 BC). What were some of the key events, methods, and policies that drove or limited it?QUESTION: Discuss the nature and goals of the Lycurgan reforms as described in Plutarch’s Lycurgus and Xenophon’s Spartan Society. Include in your discussion at least three different aspects of the reforms (for example, constitutional, educational, ethical, land and labor, gender roles). Cite or quote from Plutarch or Xenophon as needed.QUESTION: The movie 300 brings the Spartan legend to life for 21st century audiences. In what important ways are Spartan men, women and/or society accurately portrayed? In what important ways are they misrepresented? Cite or quote from ancient sources as needed.

How did the competition between European powers for the control of colonial empires shape the development of military organization in the English colonies of North America?

Explain why world war 1 is called the war of attrition

For this assignment, please write a paper analyzing one of Mohandas K. Gandhi’s famed techniques of non-cooperation and political action.  Specific techniques you may choose from include: satyagraha (truth force campaigns); hartal (strikes/shut downs); ahimsa (non-violence); fasting; and swadeshi (supporting homegrown/local products).  Your job for this paper is to sift through the Gandhi and Brown readings, and, using supporting materials from Said and Ludden, explore the nature and efficacy and your chosen Gandhian strategy.  What did Gandhi have in mind when he advocated or used the technique in question?  How did various (groups of) people understand, respond to, or reinterpret the technique?  How did it play out in particular instances?  Was it effective or not in achieving its stated goals (were there any stated goals)? Your paper should have a clear thesis that should be well supported by specific examples from the reading.  But please note that this is a lot to tackle in a short paper, so please be especially selective in the details and examples you choose to emphasize.  The paper should have clear citations, and should use the Chicago Manual of Style as guidance for references

Must explain contributions to the castle, how it changed the future of Europe and the lives, who lived in the area it was built, background of the castle , why was the castle built and how things changed because of castle

ARE THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PAPER:Primary Source Assignment: Historical Newspaper AnalysisSnelect a story from a historical newspaper and answer the guiding questions. You need not answer every questions. You should write one page single spaced or two pages double spaced, roughly 600 words.Guiding QuestionsOBSERVE: Identify and note details •Who published the article and who was the audience for this newspaper?•What type of article is this (eye-witness account, straight news article, feature article, editorial, column,reader contribution)?•On what page and section does the article appear? What are the topics of other articles found on the samepage or section?•Is place relevant to this article? How?•Are one or more dates listed in the article? Was this article written at or around the same time period thatthe text relates to?•What information is highlighted by the headline and other text callouts, if present?•Are there any photos or illustrations? What additional information or explanation do they provide?•What does the text describe, explain, or provide an opinion on?REFLECT: Generate and test hypotheses •What is the main idea of the article? List several facts or arguments that support the main idea of the article.•Is this article a news story or an opinion piece? Is the article trying to inform or persuade? How do youknow?•Are there details that reference other people or events of t he time period? What was happening during thistime period?•Why do you think this text was made? What might have been the author’s  or publisher’s purpose? Whatevidence supports your theory?•Who do you think was the audience for this article? What evidence supports your conclusion?•If there wasinformation about the author included, does that information suggest certain biases that personmight have had? What do you think those biases were?•Examine the the words and phrases the author uses. Does the author’s language support a particularperspective? Are different viewpoints presented?•Why do you think the author chose to include these specific details of description or explanation? Whatinformation or perspectives might have been left out of the article?•What source or sources does the author quote or refer to in the article? Do you think these sources arereliable? Why or why not? What evidence supports your conclusion?•Does this article show clear bias? If so, towards what or whom? What evidence supports your conclusion?•What do you think the author might have wanted the audience to think or feel? Does the arrangement orpresentation of words, illustrations, or both affect how the audience might think or feel? How?•What do you feel after reading this article?•If someone wrote this text today, what would be different/the same?•What did you learn from examining this article? Does any new information you learned contradict orsupport your prior knowledge about the topic of this article?QUESTION: What didn’t  you learn that you would like to know about? What questions does this article raise? What do you wonder about . . . •Who?•What?•When?•Where?•Why?•How?

Identify and examine key social, political, cultural and economic movements in American history.  To what extent did each of these movements promote reform, rebellion, or both reform and rebellion?  Be clear in the ways you define reform and rebellion, pointing out how your definitions might differ from that of other Americans.

Design a new American History survey course.Write a course description explaining what you hope to cover and what you hope the class will learn from this course.What key people, places and events would you highlight?  Why would you highlight these?  What books and/or other readings would you use when developing lectures and discussions?  What books and/or other sources would you have the class read?  Defend and explain these choices. 

Write an essay on how citizen’s rights were brought awareness of and the different laws and policies that came along with it.

In your essay you will describe the culture, history and people of a Western American Indian tribe in detail. You will discuss prior-European contact lifestyle/history/culture of this tribe and compare it to the post-European influences/contact changes to their lifestyle/history/culture.And in your final paragraph, conclude what presently is the state of this tribe. Do they still exist?  Discuss their assimilation into mainstream America.