history final Academic Help

I’m studying and need help with a History question to help me learn.

Part 1.

You will be given 2 short passages taken from the primary sources we have read together and discussed in lecture.（But I don’t know which two sentences will be given in the exam，just find the key topic） You will be asked to identify 1 of the passages and comment on how it illustrates a key topic discussed in class. Your answers should be 7-8 sentences long or more.

Your answer will be evaluated on three criteria:

1. Correctly identifying the text (worth 10 points)
   1. The author’s name (if known)
   2. The title of the work
   3. The period of the source (e.g. Persian Empire, Zhou dynasty, Roman Empire,etc.)
2. Correctly defining the key topic (worth 10 points)
3. Successfully using specific passages of the text as evidence (worth 10 points)

The primary sources we read together in class are posted on eee along with the PowerPoints from lecture. They include:

• Columella, On Agriculture
• Mou Tzu, Disposition of Error
• Quran, Sura 87, “The Most High”
• Machiavelli, Letter to Vettori
• Marco Polo, Travels of Marco Polo
• Boturini Codex
• European sources on the Black Death

Part 2

This part will be exactly the same as Part 1, but here I will give you two passages from the sources you read on your own for discussion in section. These sources include:

1. I will give you two passages from the sources you read on your own for discussion in section. These sources include:
   • Seneca, “Individual Gladiators Resist Their Fate”
   • Plutarch, “The Spartacus Slave War”
   • The Martyrdom of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas
   • Ch’eng Tuan-li, “A schedule for learning”
   • Boccaccio, Decameron