Assignment:
Deep Dive Conversation: New Empires and Common Cultures 500 WORDS
Hello! Remember, conversations are meant to help us think about, digest, discuss, and question the issues we are confronting and the materials we are engaging. Pick something from the Deep Dive options that looks interesting, read (or watch or listen to) it, and then tell us about it. Some tips: Need Assignment Help?
- Go beyond simple summaries of the item you selected
- Share what you found interesting, surprising, or significant about what you read (or viewed, or heard)
- Connect the item back to what we read and/or viewed for this module.
Let's be sure that our conversations are informal, open, and engaging dialogues (and keep in mind you are more than welcome to use the video function to record yourself-note that it may take a few minutes to save). You can review the tips for conversations here-remember to check back through the module.
Deep Dive options (remember, select one of these nine items to read, watch, or listen to):
Reading:
- Yale Department of History, "The Vikings: Yale historian looks at the myths vs. the history."
- Kent Chitwood, "What is the Shia-Sunni divide?" The Conversation
Listening:
- Wonders Podcast, "The Mezquita of Córdoba Spain."
- Podcast on Medieval Gift Elephants from Footnoting History
- Wonders Podcast, "Aachen Cathedral."
Viewing:
- Crash Course History of Science, "Medieval China."
- Crash Course History of Science, "The Medieval IslamicateWorld."
- Crash Course History of Science, "Ancient and Medieval Medicine."
- Crash Course Mythology, "The Holy Grail."