​Many historians have compared America to Rome for many reasons, including our global military presence, form of government to even our former usage of slaves. However, one of the biggest could be comparing Bread and Circuses. Does the modern United States have Bread and Circuses like the ancient Romans? Why or why not?
*Feel free to do additional research!
**​Due by midnight on Friday 11.2

As a final assignment to our week-long unit on Pre-Columbian Exchange Africa, I would like you all to do just a small amount of research. You and members of your corresponding row will be assigned to one of the 5 regions of Africa. Your task is to find a modern issue that people in that region are dealing with today. You do not have to become an expert nor do you have to do any sort of presentation for this research-based assignment, but you do have to learn and synthesize! What this means, as we have said in class numerous times in the past, is you are to research a fairly large topic, and then teach it to me in your own words...in other words, learn something! Take my example in class about the gold mining in the Congo Basin; an "issue" could be lots of things [social, political, interaction, cultural, economic, etc). We will define modern in this assignment to be anything from 1990 to today. onus point if you can figure out why I selected the year 1990 as the cutoff (periodization!). Keep your responses to no more than a paragraph and make sure that everything is your own work / words...ummmkay? And remember that your post must be read and approved by me before it appears, so don't, like, trip if you do not see it right away. Also, always good to copy / paste your reply from another source lest you fall victim to timing out.

Due Friday 19th at 11:59 PM