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Overview
In this course, you will complete two milestone assignments that will help you craft a polished, thesis-driven final paper. For your second milestone, you will create a rough draft of the body paragraphs and conclusion of your final essay.
Prompt
For this milestone, you should prepare the body of the essay (the Research and Analysis section) and the conclusion. In addition, you will support your research with at least at least six sources (two primary and four secondary) within your body and conclusion. These resources need to be presented in a bibliography using Turabian format.
Your rough draft should include the following critical elements:
II.
Research and Analysis
In this section, you will use both primary and secondary sources to research and analyze the reasons humans created societies, states, and empires and how they did so from the late Neolithic period to 1500 CE. You should use the three societies, states, and empires you have chosen as examples to illustrate your points. This is the body of your essay, and it should be made up of sections that analyze each of the forces listed below. Each section should relate directly back to your thesis statement.
A.
The Structure of Complex Societies
i. Explain the ways that
environment drove humans to organize themselves into complex societies.
ii. What
structures did humans create to facilitate this organization into societies?
iii. What
benefits did the societies derive from this organization and these structures?
iv. Incorporate evidence from both primary and secondary sources to
support your
claims about the ways that the structure of human organization contributed to the rise of societies, states, and empires.
B.
Class and Gender Structures
i. Explain how the states or empires developed and organized
class and gender structures.
ii. What
effect did these class and gender structures have on the states or empires during the period 500 BCE–1500 CE?
iii. Analyze how class and gender affected a person’s
ability to participate in his or her state or empire.
iv. Incorporate evidence from both primary and secondary sources to
support your
claims about the ways that class and gender structures contributed to the rise of states and empires.
C.
Intellectual and Religious Structures
i. Explain what forces spurred the development of
intellectual and religious structures in these states or empires.
ii. What factors caused these intellectual and religious structures to differ across states and empires? What
commonalities and differences did intellectual and religious structures share across states and empires?
iii. Explain what
tools and machines developed in these different societies, states, and empires. How were these different according to the needs of the given society, state, or empire?
iv. Incorporate evidence from both primary and secondary sources to
support your
claims about the ways that intellectual and religious structures contributed to the rise of societies, states, and empires.
D.
Economic and Political Structures
i. Explain how the
economies of the emerging states or empires interacted with their neighbors and the broader world.
ii. Analyze at least three
political events or trends in neighboring areas or other world regions that may have affected the development of these interactions.
iii. How might the
development of these interactions in turn have affected both neighboring and distant societies?
iv. Incorporate evidence from both primary and secondary sources to
support your
claims about the ways that economic and political structures contributed to the rise of societies, states, and empires.
E.
Historical Perspective
i. Summarize the role played by
increasing global networks in the development of states and empires between 3000 BCE and 1500 CE.
III.
Conclusion
In this section, you will restate your thesis statement and reference the broader significance of your topic.
A. Provide a conclusion for your essay in which you restate your thesis statement and summarize the overall historical significance of the rise of states and empires as a global form of individual and group identity during the period from the late Neolithic Era to 1500 CE.
IV.
Bibliography
Your bibliography for Milestone Two must contain at least three additional scholarly sources that expand the bibliography that
you started in Milestone One. You should include at least two primary resources and one secondary resource, formatted
correctly using Turabian style. For information on Turabian style, review the following resources:
Shapiro Library and
OWL.
What to Submit
The rough draft of your historical analysis essay must be 6 to 8 pages in length (plus a cover page and references) and must be written in Chicago/Turabian format. Use double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Include at least six references (two primary and four secondary) presented in a bibliography using Turabian format.
