Humanities Homework Help

Write an essay about world history discussing the topics listed below. Please do not answer these questions separately. You should write an essay that addresses all of them. You do not have to follow the order in which I listed the questions if you don’t want to do so. Some sentences may address more than one question.

Goal: show that you know the main concepts in all the materials we have studied so far and you are able to explain it in an integrated narrative where you consider the main themes.

What can we learn about our society today when studying hunting and gathering societies in the past? 

How did agriculture create a difference between development in some societies and underdevelopment in others? (according to the documentary Guns, Germs and Steel).

What was the role of China, the Mongol Expansion, and Islam in world history towards the 1500s?

What was the role of trade in the colonization of the Americas?

Provide an account of the Industrial Revolution from a point of view that stresses social transformations rather than technological change. 

Provide an account of the Old Regime and its main characteristics.

Describe the main ideas of the Enlightenment and provide an analysis of the impact of the Enlightenment on the development of science, society, and politics.