Topic: Essay Question Suggestions!

Hello children, by tomorrow I have to have chosen a question for a 2500 word essay for one of my history classes. The only restriction is that is has to deal with the somewhere between the 6th century and the 15th century.

So any suggestions on something cool and interesting for me to write about? Currently I'm thinking of doing one of the Crusades, the Vikings or the Byzantines.

Go go go!

Re: Essay Question Suggestions!

Too obvious subjects, they're subjects a child would pick. There are a lot more interesting things to write about.
Medieval city revolts (like Jacob van Artevelde's revolt) are quite interesting..

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Whatever the topic is, be specific. Instead of writing about the crusades, write about a particular crusader.

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How about "Did King Arthur exist and what historical evidence is there supporting or denying his existence?"

Yes it is an obvious question, but it can raise some very interesting sidelines.

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Female pope, how.

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William the conqueror and the norman invasion of 1066?

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Explain the significance of the introduction of the stirrup to Western Europe!

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Re: Essay Question Suggestions!

> Wild Flower Soul wrote:

> Too obvious subjects, they're subjects a child would pick. There are a lot more interesting things to write about.
Medieval city revolts (like Jacob van Artevelde's revolt) are quite interesting.. <

Your historical elitism is duly ignored Wouty.

Also nobody cares about Belgian history.

9 (edited by Wild Flower Soul 11-Oct-2011 09:59:02)

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There's no elitism involved whatsoever, it's just a hint to make it easier for you, Boris. There's just so much material about the subjects you proposed, that you'll struggle to find the right works. Pick a small subject, get some articles about it and you're there.
A medieval city revolt is just a suggestion, Belgium has nothing to do with it. I just gave you a particular one you could look up on wikipedia to get an idea (because, of course, the larger netherlands is the part I know most of).

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is that the one where they killed Charles the Good while he was giving alms to the poor from a stool, and then when the French put the rebels down, they hanged most of them, and it wasn't fast enough to suit the citizens and they climbed onto the gallows and strangled the perps with a dog's intestines, and then put their corpses in a tree hugging each other to show their conspiracy; and the one rebel said "Hey I'm a noble" so they gave him trial by combat, and he was gonna win and cut the knights head off, and he was sitting on the knight's chest to take off his helmet, and the knight reached up and "pulled his private parts through the plates of his armor" so the rebel begged off and was hanged with the rest?

Cause if not, you should do that one instead it was cool

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Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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Nope, that's a different one tongue

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12 (edited by The Crow 12-Oct-2011 13:12:54)

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> Sarah Palin wrote:

> William the conqueror and the norman invasion of 1066?


This.

Question should be...what did England do the three weeks they were independent from the Vikings before the French took over, and how has this affected the british need for self-confirmation through delusions of grandeur the followings centuries.

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