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Question Graded Assignment and submit this assignment by the due date to… Graded Assignment and submit this assignment by the due date to receive full credit. Total score: ____ of 10 points Introduction What is a historical theme? Historians use themes to identify patterns in history. Many possible themes can apply to historical events. To prove a theme exists historians will look for multiple examples of a similar thing happening over decades or centuries. Project Guidelines 1. research project as a PowerPoint presentation on one of the themes listed. You will need to identify, summarize and explain three different events between 1700 and 2000 that happened in three different countries. Your goal is to prove that your theme is a pattern by using your three events as proof. 2. Use online and offline sources to help you in your research. Answer 1. project theme from the list below. This will be the focus of your research project for 6.08 Graded Assignment. What theme did you choose to focus on? Why did you select this theme? Why it is important to the world today? Answer: . Project Themes (choose only one) Spend time reading and thinking about the following themes in the context of world history between 1700 and 2000. While you read, consider the availability of primary and secondary sources. Your sources should offer a perspective on the theme over time and should highlight events from different centuries between 1700 and 2000. You may choose from one of the following or select your own theme. 1. Human-environment interaction: The relationship between geography and human history, including the possibilities or limitations determined by resources, climate, and location; and the impact of human actions on the environment Possible examples: • Much of Russia’s foreign policy in the past centuries has been shaped by the need for warm-water ports. • Agricultural or Industrial Revolution in England • Effects of the use of nuclear energy 2. The significance of individual character for good or ill: Individuals and their influence at critical points in world history, whether hero or villain; political, military, artistic, religious, or civic leader or innovator Possible examples: • Innovators o Sir Francis Bacon o Galileo o Einstein • Dictators or absolute monarchs o Possible examples: ▪ Louis XIV ▪ Napoleon, Bismark ▪ Stalin, Hitler or other dictators of the 20th century • Independence movement leaders o Possible examples: ▪ American independence figures ▪ Toussant-Louverture, Bolivar the Liberator or Francisco de Miranda ▪ Gandhi or Nelson Mandela ▪ Independence movement leaders in Africa 3. Economics as a driving force in history: The drive to meet human needs and wants, and that drive’s influence on human action in history; the consequences of trade; and the desire for fertile land and resources • Imperialism as a search for natural resources o Possible examples: ▪ Spain or Portugal taking over Latin American nations ▪ European countries taking over Africa ▪ Japan taking over China in the 1900’s • Industrialization in the 1800s in specific countries 4. Innovation and invention in history: The development of human skills and the ability to control nature and people Possible examples: • Inventions like the water wheel, spinning jenny, etc. • The invention of strong and affordable steel made possible the building of skyscrapers and vast bridges, and ushered in the era of the modern city. • New communication devices, such as the radio or telephone • New wartime inventions such as the tank, poison gas, atomic bombs 5. The changing role of women: The emergence and development of specific roles for women in society around the world, and the breakdown of those roles in the modern era; the restrictions women have experienced over time and their battle to remove those restrictions; the consequences of women’s changing roles Possible examples: • Enlightenment figures like Mary Wollstonecraft • Women’s role in WWI or WWII • The woman suffrage movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in most western democracies and the consequences of that movement 6. Migration in world history: The movement of large groups of people across the earth over time, the reasons for movement from one place to another, and the results of that movement Possible examples: • Migration from Europe to the Americas • Mass movement of the Irish during the Irish potato famine • Migration of Jews to Israel during and after WWII 7. The challenges of urbanization: The ongoing move from countryside to city around the world; its influence on both rural areas and on the cities to which people move; the changes that result from the rapid growth of cities on individuals, families, and the community Possible examples: • The Industrial Revolution • The cities of Latin America in post-WWII era • Pollution and overpopulation in London during the First Industrial Revolution 8. Turning points in history: Moments or movements in history that signal a move in a new direction; the reasons for those changes, and the consequences of those changes Possible examples: • The French Revolution or the American Revolution • The Bolshevik Revolution • Pearl Harbor attack • The fall of the Berlin Wall History World History HST 103 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)


