Roman Emperors- Contributions to Decline
Was decline of the Roman Empire inevitable, or do “people make choices, and choices make history?
Process of the Project:
- Take notes individually -please make sure that notes are in point-form and in your own words. You may divide up the areas of research: CHW 3M Roman Emperors Note-taking Sheets
- As a group, decide what your overall theme is going to be (see title slide of Ms. G’s Tiberius PPT). This is a one sentence argument.
- Individually, create your own slides.
- Green type for not contributing to decline. Red type for contributing to decline.
- You must include your name on your own slide(s) and you must include sources on your slide(s).
- If you want to include visuals, make sure they are relevant to the information, not just decoration (see below).
- Be familiar enough with everyone’s slides because you will need to share the information with others.
CHW3M-Roman-Empire-Websites (April,2017)
Tiberius ( sample PPT with good and bad aspects – please note that a lot of the footnotes are NOT in correct format)
Groups 2019:
Competing for Best Emperor (least contributions to decline) and Worst Emperor (most contributions to decline).
Nero: Lauren, Alex, Saleh, Salem
Trajan: Rebecca, Erika, Korosh
Hadrian: Liam,, Jessica, Josh
Diocletian: John, Annabel, Zac
Constantine: Nathan, Joe, Julian
Work periods: Fri. Nov. 8, Mon. Nov. 11, Tues. Nov. 12
Sharing of Information: Wed. Nov. 13, Thurs. Nov. 14 (no school for you on Fri. Nov. 15)
Rome Test: Mon. Nov. 18
Causes and Consequences – how to sharpen and deepen your HTC argument with precise vocabulary
CHW3M_Causes_Decline_Rome_2019 (PPT with maps and graphic organizers to help you show decline)
Vocabulary of causation
long-term: underlying, contributed, facilitated, enabled, set the scene for, eventually led to, down the road, set the foundation for, set a precedent for, generated, produced, motivated, played a role in, promoted, was responsible for, induced…
short-term: triggered, catalyst, directly resulted in, immediately, prompted, provoked, sparked, stimulated…
intended consequences (things that were meant to happen): on purpose, deliberate, desired outcomes, recognized, anticipated, expected, planned…
unintended consequences (things that were not foreseen): accidental, unforeseen, poorly thought through, blindly, unanticipated, unexpected, inadvertent…
TIPS for Image Searching:
- You are looking for images to accompany what you are saying
- You are not looking for decorations to make your slides look pretty
- You don’t want cartoons, drawings, doodles, or images from movies (these are other people’s interpretations of your event – no modern stuff, please)
- You want primary sources (real-life objects from the time and place)
- The website you search must be reliable (images must be described and dated – they should not just be floating there with no context for them – that would be an unreliable source)
- Sometimes you cannot find an image that is a direct reference to what you are saying – here is where you have to be clever and creative in your searching*
- Don’t overuse certain objects: busts and coins
- Cite the website where the image originally came from, not the Google search you did
For my Tiberius PPT when I was looking for images for my infrastructure slide this is the process I went through:
- *Knowing that Tiberius didn’t build a lot but that he did build barracks for the Praetorian Guard just outside Rome, I searched Praetorian Guard barracks – no luck.
- I searched Praetorian Guard and found an object related to the guard
THE REAL LESSON YOU SHOULD LEARN FROM FINDING IMAGES IS HOW TO ASCERTAIN WHETHER AN IMAGE/OBJECT IS RELIABLE OR NOT