How did that particular person, movement, event, idea, etc. “set the stage” for our own time period? How did it/they lay the foundation for our own time?

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Many people think that studying history before the 20th century doesn’t really make sense because the 18th and 19th centuries were so long ago that we can’t really apply that history to the modern day. But of course, as history students yourselves, you know that’s not true. Think of an event, a movement, a moment, a person, a law, or literally anything we just discussed throughout the course–anything that made history.

1.How did that particular person, movement, event, idea, etc. “set the stage” for our own time period? How did it/they lay the foundation for our own time?

2. How does your choice/topic affect us today? Is there a modern version?

 

Get the picture? Keep in mind that the whole point of this discussion is to see how you engage with history– really think about where we’ve come from and how our history got us to where we are today.