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Someone, help me with my history paper.

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Tall_Paul
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So I'm stumped on finding a topic for my term research paper that has to be between 9-10 pages long. The time has to be between 1370 and 1870. Help me out NS
Jan 17 2012 3:56PM
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GORILLA.
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are you for real? you have a several hundred year gap and you cant pick anything?

colonization of north america would be one of the easiest things in the world
Jan 17 2012 4:05PM
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Tall_Paul
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it cant be anything from north america, i forgot to include that,
Jan 17 2012 4:06PM
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.AR6rider.
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Just write a summary of the Matrix and call it a day.
Jan 17 2012 4:06PM
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GORILLA.
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write about how while the rest of the world was developing, africa wasnt.
Jan 17 2012 4:11PM
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Billek
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Industrialization of Europe?  It would be easy if you chose a broad topic like that, but you could narrow it down to anything within the period.  Something I would do would be energy production during that time, or advances in technology, agriculture, or city services/infrastructure.  The list goes on!
Jan 17 2012 4:14PM
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*monsterskier*
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stuff from south american history

mayans? tie in the whole 2012 doomsday thing
Jan 17 2012 4:24PM
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I_Am_Mod
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imho this would be an interesting subject ....
Jan 17 2012 4:28PM
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Billek
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Mayans are included North America, correct me if I'm wrong.
Jan 17 2012 4:30PM
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*monsterskier*
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central america
Jan 17 2012 4:31PM
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*monsterskier*
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but you're right haha
Jan 17 2012 4:32PM
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.Duncan.
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also make sure you find something that you are interested in and that won't make you bored, if you don't like your subject the paper and your time writing it will suck.

Jan 17 2012 4:32PM
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Dr.Rick_Marshall
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15th century Ethiopia would be a very impressive topic. Actually any African history pre colonization would be good. Can you do it on a person? Look up Ibn Battuta one of the most influential Islamic characters of all time.
Some example of college topics I have done,
Veermer's vision of peace in the 17th century dutch.
Alexander Pope's political/satirical career
Rasputin and the Russian Royal Family (if you want to do some weird freaky shit)

if you cant find something to do you are not looking really hard. My advice find narrow topic pretty much all of the topics mentioned are to vague and will cause an overload of information.


Jan 17 2012 4:32PM
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Dr.Rick_Marshall
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Thats a dumb thing to say. Africa (especially northern Africa) developed some very powerful and advanced civilizations (ethiopian, mali, songhay, ghanese, nubia, egyptian, swhaili, etc..) Modern History tends to forget about them to feel better about the invasion and destruction of africa.
Jan 17 2012 4:39PM
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jewFro
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Are you for real? That's 500 years.

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Jan 17 2012 4:41PM
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feihlination
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i am pretty sure that nothing important happened in that span OUTSIDE of north america.

go to wiki and search for those centuries or even randomly try 10 years and there should be SOMETHING.


egocentricism at its best
Jan 17 2012 5:09PM
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mseward
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european monarchs? Im doing one on that right now and its a good topic for sure. Mary Tudor was fucking tapped.
Jan 17 2012 10:26PM
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schism
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the french revolution would be pretty easy and interesting, but everyone does that. Reformation and the great schism is one of personal favourites.
Jan 17 2012 10:35PM
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las.
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Protestant reformation
Printing press (Gutenberg)
The renaissance
When god was born
Jan 17 2012 11:07PM
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Blake.P
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great schism
colonization
imperialism
french revolution
british industrial age
Jan 17 2012 11:11PM
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[evan]
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holy shit this had me on the ground laughing, funnuest thing ive ever read K+
Jan 17 2012 11:13PM
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*DELETED*
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some topics that would be easy to write 10 pages on would probably include:
Pre-Antebellum America (what led up to civil war), enlightenment, renaissance, french revolution, the 2nd enlightenment, the revolutionary war, expansion of the English empire. Personally writing a paper of all the factors leading up to the civil war would be the easiest by far.
Jan 17 2012 11:21PM
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tronned
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1370 is a bit late for the glory viking days but there was still some viking action going on a bit.



Feudal Japan lies directly in your history choices. So many different topics to choose from in old japan. So much war and history in feudal japan.

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Jan 17 2012 11:46PM
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straightlining
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Napoleonic Wars/battle of waterloo or Trafalgar.

There are so many resources on these topics and close to a bajillion documentaries.


Jan 18 2012 1:15AM
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itsgarrett
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This has probably been mentioned a ton but, try the French Revolution, or industrialization of England.
Jan 18 2012 9:49AM
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HolySchimmel
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french revolution
witch hunt in europe
war between france and the rest (napoleon)
industrialisation
russian politics
Englands colonism
plagues in europe

there are so many topics you could write about.... you could just type in some random year inbetween that span of time and I bet you would find a topic thats worth of writing about.
Jan 18 2012 9:54AM
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CluckaChuck
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war of 1812
south/north america explores from europe
Jan 18 2012 10:01AM
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exile_ch
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China everyone?

The rise and fall of one of the greatest dynasties of the Chinese Empire, the Ming.

From the collapse of the Mongols dynasty to the rise of the Qing, the last Chinese dynasty. Right into your time frame.

Look into it, worth the read.

or like someone else said before: feudal Japan was badass.


Jan 18 2012 10:50AM
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juninho
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do history on the old part of bern switzerland built in 1300s i think
Jan 18 2012 10:53AM
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saskskier
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The Reformation (Martin Luther)
The Spanish Inquisition (which hunts, etc)
History of the Czars in Russia (some pretty crazy stuff)

There are so many ideas and topics to pick from. Should be easy!
Jan 18 2012 10:56AM
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