Overview: Throughout Theme: Approaches to History, you have been guided through beginning your Project 1: Writing Plan assignment, which you will continue to work on in Theme 2 and formally submit for completion at the end of Week 4 of the course. This progress check assignment provides you with an important opportunity to get valuable instructor feedback on the progress you are making and to ensure you are on the right track for your later submission. Prompt: The second half of Theme: Approaches to History has explored how historians select search terms to locate secondary sources that help them find answers to their research question. Return to your submission for Progress Check 1 and expand upon your event’s historical significance, describe two secondary sources you could use to research your event (along with search terms you used to locate those sources), and support your research question with secondary and primary sources. Specifically, in this assignment, you will submit the following elements of your Project 1: Writing Plan for review by your instructor: In Theme: Approaches to History, learning block 2-3 (page 3), you completed the following element: I. Describe the historical event that you selected. Why is this event significant? In Theme: Approaches to History, learning block 2-3 (page 3), you worked toward the following element: II. Describe at least two secondary sources that you could use to research your historical event. Your sources must be relevant to your event and must be of an appropriate academic nature. In your description, consider questions such as: What are the similarities and differences in the content of your sources? What makes them appropriate and relevant for investigating your event? What was your thought process when you were searching for sources? How did you make choices? In Theme: Approaches to History, learning block 2-3 (page 3), you completed the following element: IV. Based on your review of primary and secondary sources, develop a research question related to the historical event you selected. In other words, what would you like to know more about? Please note that the numbering included above directly aligns with the numbering of these elements as they are presented in the Project 1 Guidelines and Rubric. You will ultimately also need to describe primary sources that you could use to research your event as well as the audience and message for your historical analysis essay, but you do not need to do so in this submission

Identify the passages below. Identify the author, title of the piece, and context/what is going on in the passage/analysis. Title and author will be worth a total of 1 point; the context/analysis will be worth 3 points. The context/analysis should be answered in at most 3 sentences (going over will entail a -1/3 penalty per answer).  Part I will be worth 12 points.

1. “All the senators acceded to his opinion one after the other, until it came to Caius Caesar, who afterwards became dictator. At this time, however, he was a young man still and at the very beginning of his rise to power, but in his public policy and his hopes he had already entered upon that road by which he changed the Roman state into a monarchy. His designs were still unnoticed by the rest, but to Cicero he had given many grounds for suspicion…”

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2. “As master of the college I celebrated the secular games for the college of the Fifteen, with my colleague Marcus Agrippa, when Gaius Furnius and Gaius Silanus were consuls (17 B.C.E.). Consul for the thirteenth time (2 B.C.E.), I celebrated the first games of Mas, which after that time thereafter in following years, by a senate decree and a law, the consuls were to celebrate. Twenty-six times, under my name or that of my sons and grandsons, I gave the people hunts of African beasts in the circus…”

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3. “When, dearest, I say or do something which pleases you, play with your ring and keep turning it with your fingers. When you are praying some great disaster befall your husband (he deserves it), touch the table with your hand. Don’t let your husband lean against you. And don’t rest your pretty head on his ugly chest…”

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Part 2:

Instructions: Pick 3 of the essays below. For each essay topic, write an essay that does not exceed the word limit. In the end, you should have 3 essays at 250 words each. Each essay is worth 4 points, for a total of 12 points.

1.What was the Bona Dea incident? How did Cicero play a part in this affair and how did Julius Caesar feel about it? What was the long term outcome considering Clodius’s career and its impacts on Cicero? Answer in at most 250 words. Going over the word limit ensures a -1/3 penalty.

2.What are some traits and events associated with Livia? Discuss specific examples from your documentary and lecture. Answer in at most 250 words. Going over the word limit ensures a -1/3 penalty.

3.How did Augustus maintain a façade of power? Give specific examples from lecture and the documentaries we watched. Answer in at most 250 words. Going over the word limit ensures a -1/3 penalty.

4.Discuss Ovid’s Ars Amatoria. What language does he employ to describe men and women? How or why is this language problematic? What are the gender dynamics Ovid represents? In particular, from our modern perspective, how does he problematically represent women? Give specific examples from Ars Amatoria in your answer. Answer in at most 250 words. Going over the word limit ensures a -1/3 penalty.

What were the political, social and economic problems that beset Rome in the third and fourth centuries C.E.?

How did Diocletian and Constantine deal with them?

Were they effective in stemming the tide of decline and disintegration in the Roman Empire?

What problems were they unable to solve?