Name: Period: DUE DATE: PART 3 EXTENDED ESSAY An enduring issue is an issue that exists across time. It is one that many societies have attempted to address with varying degrees of success. In your essay: Identify and define an enduring issue raised by this set of documents. Using your knowledge of Social Studies and evidence from the documents, argue why the issue you selected is significant and how it has endured across time. Be sure to: Identify the issue based on a historically accurate interpretation of three documents. Define the issue using evidence from at least three documents Argue that this is a significant issue that has endured by showing: o How the issue has affected people or been affected by people o How the issue has continued to be an issue or changed over time Include outside information from your knowledge of social studies and evidence from the documents. Document 1
Document 2 While Philip [Alexander s father] went on his expedition against the Byzantines, he left Alexander, then sixteen years old, [in charge] in Macedonia not to sit idle, [he] reduced the rebellious, drove out the barbarous inhabitants, and plant[ed] a colony of several nations, [He] called the place after his own name, Alexandropolis. When he came to Thebes, the city was sacked and razed. Alexander s hope being that so severe an example might terrify the rest b. of Greece into obedience, thirty thousand, were publicly sold for slaves; and it is computed that upwards of six thousand were put to the sword. Alexander, by founding more than seventy cities among the barbarian tribes, suppressed their savage and uncivilized customs Those whom Alexander conquered were more fortunate than those who escaped [He desired to give] all races in the world one rule and one form of government, making all mankind a single people. Source: Plutarch, Historian (Ancient Greece). Excerpt from his writings, 90CE (Translated by John Dryden) Document 3 The decay of Rome has been frequently ascribed (credited) to the translation of the seat of empire; but this history has already shown that the powers of government were divided rather than removed. The throne of Constantinople was erected in the East; while the West was still possessed by a series of emperors who held their residence in Italy and claimed their equal inheritance of the legions and provinces. Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, embitters the factions of a declining monarchy. The hostile favourites of Arcadius (Eastern Roman Emperor) and Honorius (Western Roman Emperor) betrayed the republic to its common enemies; and the Byzantine court beheld with indifference, perhaps with pleasure, the disgrace of Rome, the misfortunes of Italy, and the loss of the West. Under the succeeding reigns, the alliance of the two empires was restored; but the aid of the Oriental (Eastern) Romans was tardy, doubtful, and ineffectual; and the national schism of the Greeks and Latins was enlarged by the perpetual difference of language and manners, of interest, and even of religion. Yet the salutary event approved in some measure the judgment of Constantine. During a long period of decay, his impregnable city repelled the victorious armies of Barbarians, protected the wealth of Asia, and commanded, both in peace and war, the important straits which connect the Euxine and Mediterranean seas. The foundation of Constantinople more essentially contributed to the preservation of the East than to the ruin of the West. Source: Edward Gibbons, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Document 4 The following are excerpts from the Pillars of Ashoka Document 5 Under the Umayyads, the Muslim realm had grown quite prosperous Under the Abbasids, the economy virtually exploded with vigor. And like the Umayyads, the Abbasids were secular rulers who used spies, police power, and professional armies to maintain their grip Yet the Abbasids also maximized everything that was good about Umayyad rule. The Umayyads had presided over a flowering of prosperity, art, thought, culture, and civilization. All this splendor and dynamism accelerated to a crescendo during the Abbasid dynasty, making the first two centuries or so of their rule the one that Western history (and many contemporary Muslims) remember as the Golden Age of Islam Baghdad might well have been the world s busiest city as well as its biggest. Two great rivers opening onto the Indian Ocean gave it tremendous port facilities, plus it was easily accessible to land traffic from every side, so ships and caravans flowed in and out every day, brining goods and traders from every part of the known world China, India, Africa, Spain Source: Ansary, Tamim; Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes, pg. 86-88
Steps for Choosing an Enduring Issue for the Enduring Issues Essay: Step 1. Draw a three column chart either under the document or on the back of it. Label the leftside of chart, MI, for Main Idea, and the center of the chart, E.I, meaning possible enduring issue, and the right-side of the chart, OI for outside information. Step 2. Read and annotate your document. Step 3. Write a 1-2 sentence summary that expresses the MAIN IDEA of the document a on the LEFT HAND SIDE of the T-chart. Step 4. Write POSSIBLE ENDURING ISSUES present in the document in the CENTER of the chart. Write out any PROBLEMS or CHALLENGES faced by the people and societies mentioned in the document. Step 5. Write OUTSIDE INFORMATION about the context or effects of the events/ideas present in the document on the RIGHT HAND SIDE of the chart. Step 6. Repeat Steps 2-5 for each document.
Construct Arguments Construct an Enduring Issues Argument Using the documents and activities above, complete the tasks below to construct an enduring issues argument. Enduring Issues Bank These nine issues commonly come up in Global History, but they are just a starting point. Choose an issue based on the documents presented, not on this list. When identifying an enduring issue be as specific as possible and try to identify causes and/or effects. Conflict Desire for Power Inequity Need for and Impact of Innovation Impact of Interconnectedness Impact of Ideas and Beliefs Environmental Impact Scarcity Population Growth 1. An Issue is a challenge of a problem. Task 1 Identify at least three issues related to the document(s) identified above. You are not limited to the issues in the bank. 2. 3. Task 2 From the list of issues you identified, choose one that is an enduring issue evident in at least three documents. An enduring issue is an issue that exists over time (endures), even in the present has had a significant impact on people or been impacted by people throughout history Task 3 Make a claim that argues why the enduring issue you chose is significant. Examples of claims that argue an enduring issue is significant because... it AFFECTS A LOT OF PEOPLE Conflict is a significant enduring issue because major conflicts like wars affect millions of people. its EFFECTS are LONG LASTING Conflict is a significant enduring issue because its effects are felt generations later. it AFFECTS A LOT OF PEOPLE and its EFFECTS are LONG LASTING Conflict is a significant enduring issue because major conflicts like wars affect the millions of people involved in them and later generations. UNIT 3 Classical Civilizations Enduring Issues Check-in #6
Task 4 To support your claim, Identify at least three examples from your study of Global History and your observations of the world that show the issue you identified in your claim exists over time (endures), even in the present by choosing examples from multiple time periods has had a significant impact on people or been impacted by people throughout history Example Identify the event, what happened, where it happened, when it happened, and who was involved. Time Period (ie- 1492, ancient history, classical era, early modern period, during the Renaissance, after WWII, modern era) Example: In 1947, after the British government gave up their power in India, the land was divided between India and Pakistan, but the separation led to violence. To this day there have been conflicts between the two nations. Modern day, 1947-present 1. 2. 3. UNIT 3 Classical Civilizations Enduring Issues Check-in #6