Write an essay for each question by starting a Thesis Statement for each question. The pages’ length of each essay is shown on each question below:
1. Explain and critique Ancient Greece’s, political, economic, social and intellectual movements; mention and explain shortly about the main events and wars (such as Persian Wars, Peloponnesian Wars I and Peloponnesian Wars II, Trojan War and Homer, and The Golden Ages of Greece), and mention about Genesis of Greek Civilization, Early Greeks-Minoans, and Early Greeks Mycenaeans, Imperial Expansion and Rise of Sparta and Athens, and also tell about some Fourth Century Crisis and Philip of Macedon. Analyze the impact of Greek civilization on the modern world. (3 pages)
2. Explain and critique Roman history from its beginnings until the Age of Constantine, including the main events and wars, such as Punic Wars and Mediterranean Domination, the political and social developments in the Republic and the early empire, Five Good Empires, and how the Rome collapsed. (3 pages)
3. Examine and appraise great Byzantium leaders, the spread of Christianity throughout the Roman Empire, the recapture of Constantinople from the crusaders, and the impact of Byzantium culture on Western intellect, and the Decline of the Byzantine Empire. (2.5 pages)
4. Explain how the Ancient & Classical period impacted Medieval Europe; how the Medieval Age impacted on modern world; mention about the major events of Medieval Age, including crusaders and others, such as the Age of Charlemagne, The Barbarians, Conflict between Pope and Emperor, and Feudalism, . (3 pages)
5. Explain Historiography by focusing on historical interpretation from the ancient world, such as Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and other ancient scholars, to the present by evaluating the historical interpretations, insights and hypothesis, also explain the various schools and Houses of History and describe what school you have the most affinity and why by mentioning the primary and secondary scholars like Bentley as a secondary sources that you can tell “Bentley thought that……” (2.5 pages)
6. Explain the roots of the Ottoman Empire, how they did rise (1299-1453), what the European powers reacted the rise of the Ottoman Empire, how the success of the Conquest of the Constantinople (1453) empowered the Ottoman Empire, its stagnation and reform period (1566–1827), and how the Ottoman Empire collapsed. (2 pages)