Project Proposal:
Please submit a 250 word proposal of your research project that includes:
1) A descriptive title that relates to your project,
Select a focused ‘episode' and investigate its role in World Civilization from 1000 to 1700
For example:
"Burial Practices in Cahokia: Evidence of their Meso-American Origins, 1100-1200"
2) Your Name, Course Number
3) A paragraph with a preliminary description of your project as you plan now. Include some details about the aspects you might cover including:
- Certain individuals
- Specific cultural developments (arts, food, clothes etc)
- politics
- Science, technology, medicine
- OTHER
Remember that I am looking for a question or set of questions you how to address in your project. For example, on based on our recent class discussion might be: "Why did the Inuit survive when the Norse did not? or How did trade in iron drive the Inuit to migrate to Greenland? etc.
4) Explain as clear as possible at this stage how your topic relates to the course. Which of the course themes does it relate to?
-Isolationism
-Frontiers in Motion
-Empire Building
-Ecological Revolution
-Imperial Arenas
5) A bibliography with:
a) at least ONE Primary Source--a document or object produced by the people/during the time you are investigating. ***You need to explain why this is a primary source and how you are going to use it.
b) TWO secondary sources that are scholarly historical articles or books about the topic. ***Briefly discuss how these sources will help you to place the primary source in its historical context.
c) Provide citations for these (not URLS) in this:
Author, Title (publisher), date, page numbers (for articles). Here is a brief and useful website: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html