DIRECTIONS-Please CHOOSE and DISCUSS ONE of the following question. Try and keep your original response essay to the question to between 250 and 300 words. Please use historical examples!!! Include Wo

DIRECTIONS-Please CHOOSE and DISCUSS ONE of the following question. Try and keep your original response essay to the question to between 250 and 300 words. Please use historical examples!!! Include Works Cited!!! Use parenthetical citation (author, page number) or using Turabian style footnotes. Please put your source(s) at the end of your essay (if using footnotes) and always include a bibliography. MLA FORMAT!!! 

NO PLAGIARISM ALLOWED!!!

1.) Why did Pericles promote Athens as the ideal Classical polis and encourage the innovations of philosophers, architects, and artists? How did the Classical ideals of humanism, realism, and idealism influence Athenian society? Why do you think that these ideals were not accepted as readily in places such as Sparta? 

2) Discuss the political systems of Athens and Sparta. Why was there such a wide difference between the two city-states? How did the treatment of women differ between Athens and Sparta? Which do you believe gave their citizens more freedom and participation in government? 

3) Discuss the conquests of Alexander the Great.  Why is Alexander often lauded as being a great military commander? Do you believe he was more lucky than skilled in his victories against the Persians?

4) Study the Hellenistic kingdoms that came after the death of Alexander. How did the way Greeks were ruled change from the earlier Hellenic period? What role did these Hellenistic kingdoms play in linking Eastern and Western Asia by way of the silk roads?

5) Examine slavery in the Greek and Roman worlds. What role did slaves play in the everyday life of Greeks and Romans? Was slavery in the Mediterranean world, similar or different than slavery and other civilizations studied in this class? 

6) What was the reasoning behind the Punic Wars? How did these wars change Roman society and colonization? Why are these wars seen as a pivotal turning point in Roman development?

7) What events influenced the change from the Late Republic Period to the beginning of the Imperial Period? Why do you think Romans were so willing to accept the drastic change from the traditional republic to a principate under Augustus? 8) What events led to the weakening of the Roman state? How did Diocletian and Constantine try to address the problems that threatened to destabilize Rome? Why do you think the reforms were not able to prevent the eventual downfall of Rome?

9) How did Christianity spread out of the province of Judea? Why was this religion able to gain increased footing in Rome's citizenry? How did Rome change with the acceptance of Christianity as a religion in Rome?