Research Paper and Roundtables
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An independent research project and 4-8 page essay on a historical topic connected to our final theme of contact. ​
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Deadlines
Full Draft is due May 22
Final Paper May 29
Presentations June 5
Topic Options
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Can I make my own topic? Yes, but here are the requirements:
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It has to be centered on the theme of contact: ideas and/or people that meet and what happens.
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It has to be in the world -- not in the United States
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It has to be historical.
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Project Documents
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Food and the Columbian Exchange
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Transatlantic Slave Trade
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African Diaspora
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Art/Painting in the Americas (influence of indigenous people, Africans, and Europeans together)
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Dance in the Americas (influence of indigenous people, Africans, and Europeans together)
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Music in the Americas (influence of indigenous people, Africans, and Europeans together)
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Scientific Revolution
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New technology of the 1500s-1750
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Warfare in the 1500s-1750
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Zheng He’s exploration (a Chinese explorer who made some of the most important explorations of the time)
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Missionaries in Africa and the Americas
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History of slavery throughout world history.
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Disease in the Americas
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Christopher Columbus + the Tainos