EOMEQ 2 Progress Essay Questions

You should be working through your essays each week as you watch the videos and read the textbook and articles over the topics. Remember to follow the directions <linkedLinks to an external site.. (Discussion post not required yet, this is just to check your weekly essay progress). You will submit these again at the end of the module. This is checking to make sure you are on the right track as you go and to verify that you are working on your essays every week. This is not a discussion forum, this is just for the professor to review your work. Submit your essay answers to the following 12 essay questions. Greeks 1. Greek Women: Compare and Contrast Spartan women and Greek women. How were their roles similar and different from each other? How were the roles and expectations of men and women different from one another? Why do you think the ancient societies we have covered so far this semester, including the Greeks, have different roles and expectations for women than they do for men? Romans 2. Use multiple sources to explain the development of the Republic government structure following the Roman Monarchy. How did this republican style of government transition into an empire? What was the role of Marius, Julius Caesar, and Augustus in the transition from the Republic to the Empire? What was the influence of class struggle (populares and optimates) in the transition from Republic to Empire? 3. Roman Women: From reading, lecture, and primarily from the primary source packet. How are women depicted in Roman writing? What characteristics make a good Roman woman? What do you learn about gender roles? Where do you notice a double standard? What does Juvenal say is the cause of the corruption of women? What do you notice about dress, religion, and romance? Which of these gender stereotypes are still true today? How are the daily lives of Roman women different from the roles women had in various Greek city states? Late Antiquity 4. What is Late Antiquity? Did Rome Fall or did it gradually transition? What were the causes of the decline and transition of the Roman Empire into a the Dark Ages and multiple-kingdom system? How were the East (Byzantine) and Western (European) Roman Empires growing apart and evolving differently? What were their characteristics? What role did the tetrarchy plan in the fracture between these two regions of the Roman empire? Great source for this is the Module overview. 5. From a small, regional, and unorganized sect of Judaism, why and how did Christianity become the dominant and then only religion in the East and Western Roman Empires by the end of the fourth century? What factors brought the growth of the religion? What events led to the institutionalization, organization, and domination of the religion? Islam 6. Who lived in the Arabian Peninsula and what were their cultures like prior to the first Islamic State and spread of Islam? Who was Muhammad, what were some of his actions, and how did he start the Islamic religion? What are the five pillars of Islam? Why did the the Sunni and the Shia sects form and what is the difference between them? Medieval Europe and Renaissance 7. Religion played a central role in Medieval life in both the European-Catholic Western part of what was the Roman Empire and the Eastern part (the Byzantine Empire). Discuss the role of religion and how it played out in significant events. To fully answer this question, you need to define and include the role of religion in feudalism, the Iconoclasm, the Crusades, the Hundred Years War, and the Reconquista. 8. Compare and Contrast the Vikings and the Sea People (from Module 1). In what ways were the similar? In what ways were they different? Consider the reasons they raided, pillaged, and then settled. Consider their significance and the results of their actions in the centuries they were active (such as the Bronze Age Collapse, the institution of feudalism and the creation of the Holy Roman Empire). Consider when their histories were actually written as opposed to simple oral tradition. 9. The Crusades: How many crusades were there (look at the lecture powerpoint, the Crash Course video only covers 4)? What were each of them about? Who was involved? What were some of the interesting or complicated issues in the Crusades? What roles did religion and economy play in the Crusades? What were some of the shocking and disturbing Crusades? 10. Various regions in Europe, Africa, and Western Asia experienced the Middle Ages differently. Describe the differences between the Byzantine Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, African Kingdoms/Empires, and the Islamic Empires (Turk and Egypt). What were the characteristics, concerns, accomplishments, and controversies of each of these regions? How were they similar and different from one another?