Historians pose questions and then attempt to answer the queries with evidence that the peoples who have come before have left behind (primary documentation). Please follow the directions below using your textbook and the primary sources. Failure to use primary evidence WILL RESULT IN A LOWER GRADE.
The Assignment:
Use the lectures (PPTs), the textbook, the primary sources, and secondary sources (“Historians’ Voices”). You must use at least 4 different primary sources.
What can we learn about how humans react to natural disasters from studying the Black Death? What similarities and differences can you identify in how people experienced, understood, and reacted to the plague, both between and within particular societies? Use chapter eleven.
The Details:
This paper should be typed and double-spaced, composed of twelve-point font and of a reasonable font type, e.g. Times New Roman, and should have one-inch margins.
The total length of this paper should be no more and no less than 2 pages.
This paper needs to be in the proper essay format: Introduction with thesis, body paragraphs, and conclusion.
You must cite the sources properly:
When you use something directly from the Strayer book, you cite as follows:
Strayer argues “…” (Strayer, 17).
If you use something from a document, cite as follows:
Writing about the Persians, Herodotus states that they [the Persians] love wine and drink large amounts of it” (Herodotus, The Histories, 131).
Use only class materials. Before handing your paper in, be sure to proofread for grammatical and other mistakes. Failure to proofread will result in a lower grade.
*Your paper will be graded according to the common writing assignment rubric (based on the AACU’s Value Rubrics) in your syllabus. Please familiarize yourself with the rubric before handing in your paper.
What can we learn about how humans react to natural disasters from studying the Black Death?
What similarities and differences can you identify in how people experienced, understood, and reacted to the plague, both between and within particular societies?
Use Chapter Eleven
Again, there are two parts: What can we learn about how humans react to natural disasters? What similarities and differences exist for those groups that experienced natural disasters?
There is a copy of the Thinking through the Sources chapter under content for week fourteen!
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/06/30/1106858954/scientists-say-theyve-solved-a-700-year-old-mystery-where-and-when-black-death-b
