Essay Topics: Answer one essay ( A page and a half)
1. Common ideas and themes behind genocides.
2. Pre-modern genocide: Ancient Israel; Rome and Carthage; Spanish conquests in the
Americas
3. Pre-modern genocide: Vietnam/Champa; Sparta; the Pequot War.
Identifications: Answer ten Identifications. (1 para- who, what, why)
The Punic Wars Marcus Porcius Cato
Scipio Aemilianus
Hernan Cortes
Bartolome de Las Casas Hispaniola
Tenochtitlan Holy Roman Emperor Charles V
Puritans Pilgrims
Massachusetts Bay Colony Wampanoags
Pequots Sassacus
Narragansetts John Winthrop
Messenia Helots
Thucydides Lycurgus
Hannibal Barca
Etruscans Cult of Antiquity
Cult of Agriculture Virginia Company of Plymouth
John Rolfe Iroquois Confederacy
