HISTORY 10 WORLD HISTORY TO 1600AD ( Persian War – Focus on military )

I’m trying to study for my History course and I need some help to understand this question.

World Civilizations,

3500BC-1600AD

TOPIC: Persian war ( focus on military)

It is to be between (a full) 5 and 6 (full) pages (NO MORE & NO LESS). Do not use: large/small fonts, abnormal spacing, massive chapter subdivisions, outlines/numbered sequence points etc.) Do not use extended quotes (meaning more than a few lines). Double spacing, 12 point fonts and 1 inch margins are the maximum.

For the paper you must use 4 sources:

2 secondary sources

( meaning scholarly books written by a university professor. Any book in the campus library will fulfill this requirement. If you find books elsewhere and are unsure, look inside the book since many provide a biography of the author. Also you can check the publisher; if the publisher is a university press it is fine. Ebooks through our library website are acceptable.

Journal articles are also acceptable to fulfill this requirement but only journal articles found online on JSTOR which are at least 20 pages in length. This site is accessible through the campus library website. Remember, these articles must come from scholarly journals such as the Journal of Roman Studies or the Journal of Asian Studies. Articles from magazines such as National Geographic or Newsweek do not count. )

2 primary sources

( written by someone who was roughly contemporaneous with the topic you are describing. You always want to find eyewitness accounts (if they exist) or accounts written by someone who was alive during the period of your topic. If these do not exist, then you want to find sources written by someone who lived shortly after the period of your topic. This could mean as much as a few centuries afterwards since these people would have access to sources that no longer exist today. For example, if you are writing a paper on Julius Caesar you would first use Caesar’s own accounts of his military campaigns. Then you could also find accounts written by his contemporaries such as Cicero before moving on to later authors who wrote biographies of Caesar or histories of his time. Some of these authors lived a few centuries later but are still acceptable. )

DON’TS:

• plagiarism is not allowed at all
• all other internet sources such as sites like Wikipedia are NOT acceptable and will not fulfill this requirement

DO NOT use books/articles aimed at young people/children.

DO NOT use books/articles that are too old (nothing from the nineteenth or first half of the twentieth centuries).

DO NOT use anything with “Dictionary” or “Encyclopedia” in the title.

DO NOT do a biography of a famous person or the rise and fall of a dynasty or empire.

DO NOT compare & contrast ancient topics, or compare & contrast an ancient and a modern topic.

-Your paper must have a proper bibliography page at the end (the bibliography page does not count towards the page total). The bibliography must contain all the information about each source you used. It must include the author’s name (last name first), the year the book was published, the title of the book (in italics), and the publisher. For a journal article, you must include the author’s name, year published, title (in quotation marks), the name of the journal (in italics), and page numbers. For primary sources either include the above information from the book along with the name of the translator or the information from the website where you found the source.

-Your paper should have a clear thesis or argument within the introduction

-the introductory paragraph (or few paragraphs) should introduce the subject of your paper, state your thesis, and offer some information on how the paper will be organized or how your argument will proceed