950-1700

[Aconite]

I have to write an essay on an event between 950 and 1700. I am completly drawing a blank. If anyone has any ideas at all that'd be GREAT! thanks!

[Valnorran]

Oh, man...
Battle of Hastings
the Crusades
Hundred Years' War (this one alone provided numerous possibilities, such as Joan of Arc, the Battles of Poitiers and Agincourt)
the Black Death
the Wars of the Roses
The Renaissance
the discovery of the New World (both Viking and Columbus and all the guys that came after him)
The Age of Enlightenment
the English Civil War

[Toby Stimpson]

I suppose this is an ancient history course, and is not just western. Take a look at an Eastern topic, for example:

- The Unification of the Mongol Horde
- The KamiKaze of Japan
- The Spanish Conquest of the Americas
- The 'First' meeting between Aboriginal and European (Cartier)
- The decline of the Aztec Empire at the Hands of the Conquestadors
- The buiding of the Taj mahal by Shah Jehan

etc, etc, etc. hehe.

So much you could do :D

Namaste

Tobias

[ap Dafydd]

I have to write an essay on an event between 950 and 1700. I am completly drawing a blank. If anyone has any ideas at all that'd be GREAT! thanks!

Well, there's

- the Crusade against Paganism on the Baltic, or
- the witchhunts in Western Europe

if you want something with a Pagan resonance.

gwyn eich byd

Ffred

[Morr]

How about the:

~ Reformation (Calvin and Luther).
~ Discovery of America.
~ Richard LionHeart and Saladin.
~ Caesaropapism (Walk to Canossa); Church Vs. Emparor power struggle.

[Zibblsnrt]

Wow, that's the carte-blanchiest assignment I've seen in years.

Could you provide any more info? What level of class? What are the requirements for the essay, aside from the topic?

I'd assume junior high from your age and suggest stuff appropriately, but on the other hand I've known folks who were in university by twelve, so I usually try not to make assumptions as much. ;)

[Aconite]

lol WELL... You know about as much as I do. My teacher jut said we had to do an essay on any event between the years 950 and 1700. SO.. I not beign told anyhting more am begging for help lol
I really liek the idea of the with trials and the Plauge though:)

[MGD]

I have to write an essay on an event between 950 and 1700. I am completly drawing a blank. If anyone has any ideas at all that'd be GREAT! thanks!

Wierd! 950-1700 is my phone number!

[Little Billy]

I have to write an essay on an event between 950 and 1700. I am completly drawing a blank. If anyone has any ideas at all that'd be GREAT! thanks!

The plague pandemics. Easy.

[WokeUpDead]

The alien invasion of 1432 or some slab of land being found in between the Pacific and Atlantic.

[David19]

Maybe you could do something like the Crusades (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc), maybe look into Middle Eastern History like Saladin, etc,
Conquest of America
Inquisition

That's about all i can think of now, as i've just done a few essays, and now i think my brains tired :)

If you're still stuck, maybe ask the teacher for some help or ask your friends and maybe share ideas.

[singer]

I second all those suggestions and I add THE MAGNA CARTA a document necessitated by the dictatorial abuses of King John resulting in a revolt by nobles who compelled him to execute this recognition of rights for both noblemen and ordinary Englishmen. It established the principle that no one, including the king or a lawmaker, is above the law... the full text of which can be found here http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/medieval/magframe.htm

[Alaiyo]

950-1700...kinda narrow ennit?

[Alaiyo]

I would look at the Americas at that time as well as Africa.

The War of the Roses is good for an essay.

There is the Lost Colony.

[Evendusk]

You could write on the Black Death which wiped out 1/3 to 1/2 the population of Europe. It affected the arts for generations with society's morbid obsession with death, technology in the sense that labor saving devices had to be developed since there were fewer people to work, and the study of medicine. A contemporary writer, Giovanni Boccaccio wrote 'The Decameron' which depicts 10 people who escaped Florence during the plague.
There is also a classic children's rhyme 'ring around the rosie' which is thought to come from plague times.

Here's a website to start you off if you're interested:

http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/fleas/bdeath/

[LadyCelt]

the reformation, the inquisition and/or trials for witchcraft, black plague, scientific revolution, humanism, the crusades, the new world/the americas, leonardo divinci and his military inventions and art, the printing press.

[Aconite]

Thankyou for your great suggestions, Im going to do the plague!!!!