Women’s Life and Roles

As the capstone of your work in the course, you are asked to complete a final paper, which is at least 5 double-spaced pages long, and which draws together all of the skills you have acquired over the course of the semester. These five pages do NOT include your title page or your works cited page. Make sure that you number your pages on the bottom center; that you use Times New Roman font (11 or 12 point) with one inch margins; that you cite your sources both in text, and in a formal Works Cited page in MLA format; and that you PROOFREAD. Your paper should deal with one or more of the themes of the course (religion, government, gender, and social class) and discuss how it/they have changed over the course of the history of Western Civilization before 1600.
Additionally, your paper should also deal with AT LEAST TWO (2) of the following ancient or medieval societies:
Ancient Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
The Persian Empire
Classical Greece, or one of its states (ie, Athens, Sparta, Macedon, etc.)
The Roman Republic and/or Empire
The Byzantine Empire
The Islamic Empire
Medieval Europe, or one of its states (ie, France, England, the Holy Roman Empire, etc.)
As with all of your written work in this course, your paper should paper should present a coherent argument or thesis, and then support that position with as much evidence as possible, especially primary source evidence. In terms if evidence, you should feel free to draw from sources you have already considered for your other course work. At a minimum, however, your paper must refer to and correctly cite:
At least 5 Primary Sources (either online or in print)
At least 1 Scholarly Journal Article (An example of this can be found here: https://academic.oup.com/jah ).
At least 1 Scholarly Monograph (More information about this can be found here: https://history.wsu.edu/rci/writing-and-citation-guides/historical-monographs/ )
At least 5 Other Secondary Sources (either online or in print)
Here are some tips for writing a research paper in history: https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/mcas/departments/history/resources/tips-for-writing-papers.html

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