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assignment 3
Read the following pages in The Human Record: pp. 74-82, 101-116, 143-149 (7th edition); or 75-83, 101-118, 139-146 (8th edition).
Answer one of these questions in a two-page, double-spaced, essay. Use 12-point type and 1 inch margins (Attention! this is not the default for MS Word). Be sure to quote evidence from the textbook, indicating the edition number and page number–e.g. (7: p. 15)–in parentheses after the part of the source that you quote. Include your last name and the unit number in your filename, e.g. Brockey – Assignment 3.
The readings from Unit 3 should be used primarily, but readings from previous units may be used to supply some (but not all) of the three cases needed for comparison here.
1. Many of the early societies that we have considered were forged by warriors, men who displayed martial valor and who used violence to achieve their ends. Our ancient texts describe many instances in which war was pursued for different reasons, but the documents are not neutral about the cost of this recourse to violence. Write an essay in which you contrast three different reflections on violence and war from our sources. These could be descriptions of warriors as heroes, or religious reflections on the need to lessen the recourse to violence.
2. The sources that we have read have offered many descriptions of kingship or other forms of political rule. Frequently, ancient rulers left accounts of their deeds and contemporary (or later) historians wrote descriptions of their policies and actions. What themes seem to be common to our ancient forms of rulership? Write an essay in which you compare three different ancient rulers based on the sources that we have. What are the main similarities between them and what are the main differences?
assignment 5
Read the following pages in The Human Record: pp. 179-221 (7th edition); or pp. 175-216 (8th edition).
Answer one of these questions in a two-page, double-spaced, essay. Use 12-point type and 1 inch margins (Attention! this is not the default for MS Word). Be sure to quote evidence from the textbook, indicating the edition number and page number–e.g. (7: p. 15)–in parentheses after the part of the source that you quote. Include your last name and the unit number in your filename, e.g. Brockey – Assignment 5.
The readings from Unit 5 should be used primarily, but readings from previous units may be used to supply some (but not all) of the three cases needed for comparison here.
1. One of the major shifts between the religious traditions examined in this course is towards notions of personal salvation. Unlike earlier traditions that prescribed religious behaviors in order to appease supernatural forces or to maintain cosmic equilibrium, these newer cults promised celestial intervention and succor for devotees. Indentify at least three different traditions that promised salvation, in whatever form, for their followers. Give specific information about how the “mechanism” of salvation functioned in each.
2. Since the beginning of our course, we have considered texts that spoke of the close relationships between rulers and religion. In your paper, focus your analysis on the forms of political religion that have appeared in our sources. Identify how cultures in three different regions dealt with the seemingly irresistible urge to link political power to religious authority. A major theme here will perhaps be the quest for orthodoxy. But was political power always joined to religious authority? Be sure to include at least one instance of a polity in which the two were not conjoined.
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