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Assignment - For this assignment, we will look at long-term or underlying causes, just as we looked at them in the last discussion. Remember, When we speak about causes we classify them as either short term or immediate causes and long term or underlying causes. For example, we can say that the immediate causes of the American Revolution were the Boston Tea Party in 1773, the Intolerable Acts in 1774, and the Battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775. These are short term or immediate causes. The cause of these events, however are all rooted in long-term causes such as the British colonization of North America, growing American national identity, and a belief that the colonies were unfairly treated by the British. These are long-term, or underlying, causes because they drive the short term causes and have unintended consequences. If this idea is still not clear, you can ask me or watch this informative video about cause and effect. If the link does not work, use this address:

For your third writing assignment, let's consider why representative governments do not flourish in the ancient world. The two civilizations we have studied that had representative governments were the Greeks, especially Athens, and the Roman Republic. Each of them faced challenges to maintain a representative government.

Compare the collapse of, or challenges in preserving, representative government in both cases and explain what long-term factors made such forms of government difficult to sustain in the ancient world.

Write an essay that has the following essential components:

1) Your essay clearly and directly address all parts of the prompt.

2) Your essay uses information from the assigned materials to support your argument

3) Your essay quotes a primary source, an eye-witness account from the period of time you are studying. You can find primary sources at the Internet History Sourcebook Project, but be aware that not every link on this site is a primary source. If you need help, let me know.