Choose one topic from the list below and then follow the directions below the list:
1. In the Struggle of the Orders, choose a side and make a speech to the Senate arguing for your position
2. Who was Rome’s greatest Emperor and why? Who was Rome’s worst Emperor and why?
3. Discuss an example of how and why the Roman Empire adopted and adapted something from a foreign culture whom they conquered.
4. Choose an example or a type of architecture from this list and discuss its social role: aqueducts, baths, the Roman Forum, temples, triumphal arches, the Colosseum, the Pantheon, the Ara Pacis, the Circus Maximus, or the Roman Curia
5. How and why did Christianity take hold in the Roman Empire?
6. From the primary sources, discuss the similarities and differences between Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount and the selections from Cicero’s De re publica. How did they represent their time and place, given that both are within 80 years of each other?
Please use a short title for your post that indicates the topic you chose. It is advisable to compose your post in a Word document, then copy and paste it into Moodle . You will have 30 minutes to edit your post, after that, it is permanent. If you wish to add more material, then you will have to respond to your own post.
Make sure that you:
• directly address the topic
• demonstrate a grasp of historical facts and the narrative
• and, most importantly, offer an explanation that answers questions such as: “how?” “why?” “what does it mean?” “why is it important?”
