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Essay Instructions: Title: A study in conflict: The Persian Wars
Divided into 4 parts, each part 600-700 words.
Part 1: Were the Greeks victorious because they were more motivated than the Persians? Answer should include sub-questions such as " Were there other reasions why the Greeks won? What motivated the Greeks and the Persians? Why were the Greeks and Persians fighting?
Part 2: What role did the Persian desire for expansion have on the outbreak of war with the Greek states? Answer should include sub-questions such as "What are the causes of the Persian War? Why did the war occur in Ionion, Ahtens, Sardis etc."
Part 3: Was the outcome of the Persian wars determined by the indiduals on both sides? Answer should include sub-quesions "Who are they? What role did they play? What were the military logistics? Who won and why? What decisions did they make?
Part 4: Were the consequences of the way of more significance for the Greeks than the Persians? Answer shoud include sub-questions "What happened to the Persians? What happened to the Greeks?

Essay Instructions: The main foreign enemy of the Greeks for several centuries was the Persians. Discuss the origin of that enmity on the part of the Persians and its development through time. Why did the Persians keep fighting the Greeks? How did the method of fighting change over time? Why? And how did this enmity effect Greek history? What might have been different if the Persians had not been the enemy of the Greek city-states?

Use the following as sources: "Wars of the Ancient Greeks" by Victor Hanson; "Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece" by Robert Morkot; and "Ancient Greece: A Political, Social and Cultural History" by Sarah Pomeroy, Stanley Burnstein, Walter Donlan, and Jennifer Roberts.

Essay Instructions: Topic:
Origins, development, & impact of the persian Wars & Peloponnesian War on the Greek World


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The most important: Other materials you use must be cited by author and page and I need a copy from that material (submitted with the paper)

*If you use a direct quotation from an author?s work,
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the quotation is indented and single spaced.

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when an author?s ideas are paraphrased.

*. You are not required to go beyond the information found
in Spielvogel and Sherman. If you consult and use other
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citations from Spielvogel and Sherman you need only
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Essay Instructions: Paper must be properly documented according to the MLA format/style of documentation (parenthetical notes with a works cited page).Works cited must contain a minimum of five different sources, at least two of which should be from a hard copy source such as a book, magazine, or newspaper. DO NOT USE WIKIPEDIA AS A SOURCE. Paper should have one-inch margins (top, bottom, left, and right). be double spaced and use a font that is no more than 12 point. Put a parenthetical notation at the end of each paragraph (at minimum) and at the end of each direct quote to indicate the source. Provide a "works cited" page at the end of the paper listing all sources cited. (The page must be typed according to the MLA format). Each of these references from the works cited list is used at least one time in the body of the paper in a parenthetical notation. Use a MINIMUM of six different sources cited. DO NOT USE WIKIPEDIA AS A SOURCE.

"Persian Gulf War (1990-91)"

Discuss the reasons that America became involved in the Persian Gulf War (1990-91). Discuss the political pressures at that time. Discuss the President who served during the period, and how the armed conflict changed his presidency, for better or worse. Discuss the actual outcome of the Persian Gulf War as well as the outcome which was desired. Do not discuss specific battles. The paper should be entirely focused on the political reality in America during the time of the Persian Gulf War (1990-91), rather than the conflict itself.