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Essay Instructions: What led different non-Greeks in the Hellenistic era to incorporate or to reject Greek culture and political domination in the empires of the period? Discuss political, social, and cultural reasons.

Essay Instructions: Answer the question below using only the following sources:
-"The Greeks Overseas" by J.Boardman, 1999
(pg.160-198 and 210-216)

-"Early Greece" by O.Murray, 1980 (pg.100-119)

-"Greece in the Making, 1200-479 B.C." by R. Osborne, 1996
(pg.8-17 and 104-128)

Question:
"What factors can be advanced to explain the explosion in Greek colonization overseas from the 8th century B.C. onwards?"
If paraphrasing or quoting please cite.

Essay Instructions: I need a 4 page paper that discusses the evolution of historiography in the Greek civilization and the contributions to early historical scholarship.

Instructor notes:

Drawn from Chapters 1 through 6 of Breisach’s "Historiography: Ancient, Medieval and Modern" – and primarily supplemented by scholarly materials available through other academic and governmental databases – write your own interpretative account of the evolution of historiography in the Greek civilization. In your summary, indicate the contributions of the Greeks to early historical scholarship.

Essays will be a minimum of 1000 and a maximum of 1500 words, and should begin with a clear and easily identifiable thesis statement and include a minimum of five reference citations – taken from five different source documents – and a list of works cited. The reference citations and list of works cited are not to be included in the word count. The essays shall be typed, double-spaced, and in a 12-point Arial or Times New Roman font.
It is highly recommended that reference citations and the list of works cited conform to the Parenthetical Reference form of academic citation as detailed in Turabian’s Manual for Writers of Term Papers.

Although reference citations from primary or secondary sources other than the required course readings are permitted and encouraged, they too must be correctly formatted. NOTE: In general, all-purpose internet sources cannot be used for citation purposes. Exceptions are the scholarly websites and documents available through other academic and governmental databases. For our purposes here, Wikipedia is not considered a valid academic source.

Essay Instructions: What technological improvements did the Romans make to Greek architecture? How did their buildings differ form Greeks?