Culture and Conflict Assignment
Choose one of the following topics and discuss how cultures caused or resolved their conflicts
Jews vs Babylonians @ 600 – 500 BCE
Egyptians vs Hittites @ 1274 – 1259 BCE
Romans vs Carthaginians @ 264 -146 BCE
Greeks vs Persians – 490 – 442 BCE
Huns vs Romans @ 420-460 CE
Akhenaten vs Egyptian Religious establishment @ 1353 – 1336 BCE)
Roman mos maiorum Panhellenism (ideologies during Roman imperial period) @ 100 BCE – 300 CE
Trojans vs Greeks @ 1260 – 1240 BCE
Achaeans (Mycenaeans) vs Minoans @ 1500-1300 BCE
Athens vs Sparta @ 431 – 404 BCE
Marius vs Sulla (1st Roman Civil War) 88-82 BCE
Any conflict between cultures prior to 500 CE (with teacher approval)
Instructions
Answer the following questions in numerical format (#1-7). 2-3 pages. APA format for citations and bibliography. 12 Font Times New Roman only.
All work must be properly cited and unless otherwise noted; do not include pure opinion.
Outline the basic reason for the conflict.
How do the culture’s values relate to the conflict?
How do the culture’s beliefs relate to values?
How did ways of communication and identity relate to the conflict?
What were the basic causes of the conflict?
Was the conflict resolved, and if so, how? If not, why not?
In what ways, directly or indirectly, did these conflicts influence ideas, values, and beliefs in contemporary America?
