Roman and Persian Empire
40026 HIS 117 Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubric
Body and Conclusion
Overview: In this course, you will complete two milestone assignments that will help you craft a polished, thesis-driven final paper. For your second milestone,
you will create a rough draft of the body paragraphs and conclusion of your final essay.
Prompt: For this milestone, you should prepare the body of the essay (the Research and Analysis section) and the conclusion. In addition, you will support your research with at least at least six sources (two primary and four secondary) within your body and conclusion. These resources need to be presented in a bibliography using Turabian format.
Your rough draft should include the following critical elements:
II. Research and Analysis
In this section, you will use both primary and secondary sources to research and analyze the reasons humans created societies, states, and empires and how they did so from the late Neolithic period to 1500 CE. You should use the three societies, states, and empires you have chosen as examples to illustrate your points. This is the body of your essay, and it should be made up of sections that analyze each of the forces listed below. Each section should relate directly back to your thesis statement.
A. The Structure of Complex Societies
i. Explain the ways that environment drove humans to organize themselves into complex societies.
ii. What structures did humans create to facilitate this organization into societies?
iii. What benefits did the societies derive from this organization and these structures?
iv. Incorporate evidence from both primary and secondary sources to support your claims about the ways that the structure of human
organization contributed to the rise of societies, states, and empires.
B. Class and Gender Structures
i. Explain how the states or empires developed and organized class and gender structures.
ii. What effect did these class and gender structures have on the states or empires during the period 500 BCE–1500 CE?
iii. Analyze how class and gender affected a person’s ability to participate in his or her state or empire.
iv. Incorporate evidence from both primary and secondary sources to support your claims about the ways that class and gender structures
contributed to the rise of states and empires.
C. Intellectual and Religious Structures
i. Explain what forces spurred the development of intellectual and religious structures in these states or empires.
ii. What factors caused these intellectual and religious structures to differ across states and empires? What commonalities and differences did intellectual and religious structures share across states and empires?
iii. Explain what tools and machines developed in these different societies, states, and empires. How were these different according to the needs of the given society, state, or empire?
iv. Incorporate evidence from both primary and secondary sources to support your claims about the ways that intellectual and religious structures contributed to the rise of societies, states, and empires.
D. Economic and Political Structures
i. Explain how the economies of the emerging states or empires interacted with their neighbors and the broader world.
ii. Analyze at least three political events or trends in neighboring areas or other world regions that may have affected the development of these interactions.
iii. How might the development of these interactions in turn have affected both neighboring and distant societies?
iv. Incorporate evidence from both primary and secondary sources to support your claims about the ways that economic and political
structures contributed to the rise of societies, states, and empires.
E. Historical Perspective
i. Summarize the role played by increasing global networks in the development of states and empires between 3000 BCE and 1500 CE.
ii. Briefly outline (in 1 to 2 paragraphs) some of the ways that the development of states and empires set the stage for the development of nation-states in the West and the lack of that development in the East. You might consider discussing the expansion of world religions, world trade, and intellectual development.
III. Conclusion
In this section, you will restate your thesis statement and reference the broader significance of your topic.
A. Provide a conclusion for your essay in which you restate your thesis statement and summarize the overall historical significance of the rise of states and empires as a global form of individual and group identity during the period from the late Neolithic Era to 1500 CE.
IV. Bibliography
Your bibliography for Milestone Two must contain at least three additional scholarly sources that expand the bibliography that you started in Milestone One. You should include at least two primary resources and one secondary resource, formatted correctly using Turabian style. For information on Turabian style, review the following resources: Shapiro Library and OWL.
Guidelines for Submission: The rough draft of your historical analysis essay must be 6 to 8 pages in length (plus a cover page and references) and must be written in Chicago/Turabian format. Use double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Include at least six references (two primary and four secondary) presented in a bibliography using Turabian format.
Rubric
Critical Elements
Proficient (100%)
Needs Improvement (70%)
Not Evident (0%)
Value
The Structure of Complex Societies: Environment
Explains the ways that environment drove humans to organize themselves into complex societies
Explains the ways that environment drove humans to organize themselves into complex societies but explanation is illogical or contains inaccuracies
Does not explain the ways that environment drove humans to organize themselves into complex societies
4
The Structure of Complex Societies: Structures
Determines what structures humans created to facilitate the organization into societies
Determines what structures humans created to facilitate the organization into societies but determination contains inaccuracies
Does not determine what structures humans created to facilitate the organization into societies
4
The Structure of Complex Societies: Benefits
Analyzes what benefits the societies derived from this organization and these structures
Analyzes what benefits the societies derived from this organization and these structures but analysis is cursory or contains inaccuracies
Does not analyze what benefits the societies derived from this organization and these structures
3.5
The Structure of Complex Societies: Support Claims
Incorporates logical and relevant evidence from both primary and secondary sources to support claims about the ways that the structure of human organization contributed to the rise of societies, states, and empires
Incorporates evidence from both primary and secondary sources to support claims about the ways that the structure of human organization contributed to the rise of societies, states, and empires but evidence used is not all logical or relevant
Does not incorporate evidence from primary and secondary sources to support claims about the ways in which the structure of human organization contributed to the rise of societies, states, and empires
6
Class and Gender Structures: Class and Gender Structures
Explains how the states or empires developed and organized class and gender structures
Explains how the states or empires developed and organized class and gender structures but explanation is illogical or contains inaccuracies
Does not explain how the states or empires developed and organized class and gender structures
4
Class and Gender Structures: Effect
Determines what effect these class and gender structures had on the states or empires
Determines what effect these class and gender structures had on the states or empires but determination contains inaccuracies
Does not determine what effect these class and gender structures had on the states or empires
4
Class and Gender Structures: Ability to Participate
Analyzes how class and gender affected a person’s ability to participate in his or her state or empire
Analyzes how class and gender affected a person’s ability to participate in his or her state or empire but analysis is cursory or contains inaccuracies
Does not analyze how class and gender affected a person’s ability to participate in his or her state or empire
3.5
Class and Gender Structures: Support Claims
Incorporates logical and relevant evidence from both primary and secondary sources to support claims about the ways that class and gender structures contributed to the rise of states and empires
Incorporates evidence from both primary and secondary sources to support claims about the ways that class and gender structures contributed to the rise of states and empires but evidence used is not all logical or relevant
Does not incorporate e and secondary sources the ways that class an contributed to the rise
vidence from primary to support claims about
gender structures
of states and empires
6
d
Intellectual and Religious Structures: Intellectual and Religious Structures
Explains what forces spurred the development of intellectual and religious structures in these states or empires
Explains what forces spurred the development of intellectual and religious structures in these states or empires but explanation is illogical or contains inaccuracies
Does not explain what forces spurred the development of intellectual and religious structures in these states or empires
4
Intellectual and Religious Structures: Commonalities and Differences
Analyzes the factors that caused intellectual and religious structures to differ across states and empires and the commonalities and differences shared
Analyzes the factors that caused intellectual and religious structures to differ across states and empires and the commonalities and differences shared but analysis is cursory or contains inaccuracies
Does not analyze the factors that caused intellectual and religious structures to differ across states and empires or the commonalities and differences shared
4
Intellectual and Religious Structures: Tools and Machines
Explains what tools and machines developed and how they were different according to the needs of the given society, state, or empire
Explains what tools and machines developed and how they were different according to the needs of the given society, state, or empire, but explanation is illogical or contains inaccuracies
Does not explain what tools and machines developed or how they were different according to the needs of the given society, state, or empire
3.5
Intellectual and Religious Structures: Support Claims
Incorporates logical and relevant evidence from both primary and secondary sources to support claims about the ways that intellectual and religious structures contributed to the rise of societies, states, and empires
Incorporates evidence from both primary and secondary sources to support claims about the ways that intellectual and religious structures contributed to the rise of societies, states, and empires, but evidence used is not all logical or relevant
Does not incorporate evidence from both primary and secondary sources to support claims about the ways that intellectual and religious structures contributed to the rise of societies, states, and empires
6
Economic and Political Structures: Economies
Explains how the economies of the emerging states or empires interacted with their neighbors and the broader world
Explains how the economies of the emerging states or empires interacted with their neighbors and the broader world but explanation is illogical or contains inaccuracies
Does not explain how the economies of the emerging states or empires interacted with their neighbors and the broader world
4
Economic and Political Structures: Political Events or Trends in Neighboring Areas
Analyzes political events or trends in neighboring areas or other world regions that may have affected the development of these interactions
Analyzes political events or trends in neighboring areas or other world regions that may have affected the development of these interactions but analysis is cursory or contains inaccuracies
Does not analyze political events or trends in neighboring areas or other world regions that may have affected the development of these interactions
4
Economic and Political Structures: Development of These Interactions
Analyzes how the development of these interactions might in turn have affected both neighboring and distant societies, states, and empires
Analyzes how the development of these interactions might in turn have affected both neighboring and distant societies, states, and empires, but analysis is cursory or contains inaccuracies
Does not analyze how the development of these interactions might in turn have affected both neighboring and distant societies, states, and empires
3.5
Economic and Political Structures: Support Claims
Incorporates logical and relevant evidence from both primary and secondary sources to support claims about the ways that economic and political structures contributed to the rise of societies, states, and empires
Incorporates evidence from both primary and secondary sources to support claims about the ways that economic and political structures contributed to the rise of societies, states, and empires, but evidence used is not all logical or relevant
Does not incorporate evidence from both primary and secondary sources to support claims about the ways that economic and political structures contributed to the rise of societies, states, and empires
6
Historical Perspective: Increasing Global Networks
Summarizes the role played by increasing global networks in the development of states and empires
Summarizes the role played by increasing global networks in the development of states and empires but summary is unclear, contains inaccuracies, or is missing key elements
Does not summarize the role played by increasing global networks in the development of states and empires
3.5
Historical Perspective: Stage for the Development of Nation- States
Outlines some of the ways that the development of states and empires set the stage for the development of nation- states in the West and the lack of that development in the East
Outlines some of the ways that the development of states and empires set the stage for the development of nation- states in the West and the lack of that development in the East but outline is too wordy or contains inaccuracies
Does not outline some of the ways that the development of states and empires set the stage for the development of nation-states in the West and the lack of that development in the East
3.5
Conclusion
Provides a conclusion that restates the thesis statement and summarizes the overall historical significance of the rise of states and empires as a global form of individual and group identity
Provides a conclusion that restates the thesis statement and summarizes the overall historical significance of the rise of states and empires as a global form of individual and group identity but conclusion is illogical or contains inaccuracies
Does not provide a conclusion that restates the thesis statement or summarizes the overall historical significance of the rise of states and empires as a global form of individual and group identity
3.5
Bibliography
Includes a bibliography page with at least six sources formatted using Turabian format
Includes resources that are not scholarly or there are major errors in the formatting of the bibliography page
Does not include a bibl
iography page
10
Writing Mechanics
Submission has no major errors related to grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization
Submission contains significant errors related to grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that do not impact readability or articulation of ideas
Submission has critical errors related to grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that impact readability or articulation of ideas
9.5
Total
100%
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