Below are three historical topics we have covered in class. Select a topic. Each includes clips from film or radio inspired by the historical events, several news articles and histriography; how we study and understand history. Watch the clips and read the articles. Using the video clips, articles, course content and your textbook write a one-page essay summarizng your knowledge of the topic and how or if it changed the world.  1) The Reformation and Counter- Reformation; Christianity Goes Global https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1GswInmZZk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVbXluPyrTA http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/germany/artic les/martin-luther-95-theses-reformation-anniversary/  https://aleteia.org/2017/09/13/countering-the-reformation-with- images-of-women-painted-by-women/ http://www.ozy.com/flashback/how-the-latin-alphabet-ended-up-in- vietnam/80731 2) The Commerical Revolution; Indian Ocean Trade & the Company https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2djWwOK0Im8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3I0FF2i_MA http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/20160314-oman- shipwreck-explorer-vasco-da-gama-age-of-exploration-india-route/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-tulip- fever-180964915/ http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160330-the-worlds-most- powerful-corporation http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2014/newsspec_8704/index.html

3) Debate Histriography: Did the West beat the Rest? http://www.npr.org/2011/11/02/141942357/how-the-west- beat-the-rest-six-killer-apps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLK3_9Seok0 https://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n21/pankaj-mishra/watch-this- man https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/civi lization-the-west-and-the-rest-by-niall- ferguson/2011/12/28/gIQAVzQxwP_story.html?utm_term =.4b22a2bc9de6