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Identify the Legacy: Fairly Short Responses From the list below, select ONLY THREE of the items or events and describe its key historical significance to the era or civilization it is from, and THEN, its legacy to our civilization. Each response should be about a paragraph or so in length, per selection. (100 – 150 words, approximately). 20 marks each (10 Knowledge/Understanding, 5 Thinking/Inquiry, 5 Application) Total possible marks: 60 (in total) Early Irrigation Systems of Mesopotamia The Fall of the Roman Empire in 476 AD The Code of Hammurabi (Ancient Mesopotamia) The Rise of Christianity in Rome The Crusades The Golden age of Islam

Express Your Opinion: An Editorial Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it. George Santayana*, Philosopher & Writer   The sentiment that history repeats is hard to disagree with. For example: Something like ‘war’ that aims to make a dramatic change in government and rule, ‘for the people’, inevitably breed more wars. We have only to look at historical examples of revolutions, like those in France and Russia, that gave an individual absolute power—Napoleon and Stalin, respectively—and how they inevitably end up as failed empires and brutal dictatorships. After repeated 19th century wars between Germany and France, France still demanded that confiscatory terms of surrender be imposed on Germany after the 20th century’s First World War. Then the Second World War happened . In the 21st century, specific events in Syria have proven a repeated lessons about civil wars, like the Vietnam war, that when great powers intervene to fight proxy battles, conflict becomes protracted. Incidentally, when Abraham Lincoln governed during the American Civil War, even he recognized it was essential to keep out foreign powers like Britain and France. And those are only a handful of examples – as students of history, we can see  patterns that repeat, and repeat, and repeat. Indeed, the study of history often demonstrates that the history of humanity is that we are simply given to a certain irrationality which often leads us down paths, some disastrous, again and again and again. So the question that is being proposed to you is one of legacy and lessons from history. If we consider that the legacy that past civilizations leave to us is *their* histories – that we, the descendants – have been granted the opportunity to learn from the past; continue the best of their achievements, and abolish the worst of their crimes. And yet… Why do we seem determined to move not forward, but in concentric circles towards our doom and eventual collapse? Your Task Choose one of the following prompts (or feel free to modify or ‘springboard’) on which to state your opinion in an editorial response of about 400 – 600 words approximately. (4 – 6 paragraphs). Prompt 1 The legacy of human existence is to build on the successes of previous generations, but human are, ‘human’, which comes with a certain level of hubris (arrogance). Just like how the Italian scholar, Petrarch dismissively declared that between the Fall of Roma and the Rise of the Renaissance, there was only a ‘Dark Age’ where nothing of worthiness occurred – each generation ignores the legacy because they have a false sense of superiority. In essence, we ignore the legacies of history because of the egos of ‘important’ people.   Prompt 2 In essence, history teaches us to move forward, recognize our mistakes and learn from them, and ultimately create a better existence for all, but why these lessons fail is that we generally do not recognize that we forget the collective ‘all’. When we only study the history of select civilizations, primarily our own and those who we see as ideologically similar, we miss the collective legacy that we share. Consider that the ‘cradle of civilization’ was Mesopotamia – that the foundation for all subsequent civilizations share this common ascendant. By dividing human history through nationalism, regionalism, ideologies and religion, we as humanity cannot move progressively forward.     Use proper editorial format – So explain and support your position. Feel free to expand your response by using material from historical and present day examples and instances we have studied in, and during this course. (20 K/U, 25 T/I,15 AP) If you need some pointers about writing an editorial – please click here   *(The quote is most likely due to writer and philosopher George Santayana and in its original form it read, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”  Santayana was known for aphorisms, and for being a professor in philosophy at Harvard which he abandoned. Prior to that, Santayana attended Boston Latin School and Harvard College, where he studied under the philosophers William James and Josiah Royce.) As this is a longer document, it is suggested that you complete this question in a word processor (MS Word or Open Office) and save a copy on your computer, and upload the file. To do this, click “Choose File” to locate your file and then click “Upload” to upload your file to the exam.  

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