Create and complete newspaper articles on the various topics covered in the unit we’re studying.  The articles should give the reader a clear overview of each topic, and you need to be as creative as possible in writing the articles.  A sample template can be found on the website to give you an idea of how this newspaper should look when complete. 

http://www.makemynewspaper.com/ is a wonderful resource for those wanting to do an online paper.
           
Requirements:
  • 4-page minimum (2 pages per person)
  • Go beyond the list provided to give at least 2 additional articles on topics of your choosing from the unit

Unit I - In the Beginning...

Neolithic Revolution
Ice Age
Sumerians
Ancient Egypt
Phoenicians
Babylonians/Hammurabi’s Code
​Civilization
The Great Pyramids
Israelites
​Cro-Magnons v. Neanderthals
Persian Empire (650B.C.–330B.C.) 

Unit II - Ancient Greece

Alexander the Great
Ancient Athens
Ancient Sparta
Battle of Marathon
Battle of Plateau
​Battle of Thermopylae
Golden Age of Greece
Greco-Persian War
Greek Democracy
Greek Philosophy
​Greek Science
Greek Theatre
​Hellenistic Kingdoms
Homer’s Iliad & Odyssey
Peloponnesian War

Unit III - The Rise and Fall of Rome

Barbarian Invasions
Battle of Adrianople
Colosseum
Council of Nicaea
First/Second Triumvirate
Gracchi brothers
Great Fire of Nero
Marius and Sulla/Civil War
Pantheon
Persecution of the Christians
Punic Wars
Rise of Christianity
Rise of Julius Caesar/Civil War
Roman Empire
Roman Republic
Roman Roads
Trajan
Tribunes 

Unit IV - The Dark Ages

​Battle of Tours/Charles Martel
Catholic Church
Charlemagne
Chivalry
Code of Justinian 
​Emperor Justinian
Feudalism
Holy Roman Empire
King Richard I
King John I
​Knight Templar
Magna Carta
Muslim Conquest
Norman Invasion
Plague of Justinian
​Roman Catholic Church
St. Benedict
Vikings/Leif Erikkson

Unit V - The Middle Ages

​1st Crusades
2nd Crusades
3rd Crusades
4th Crusades
Battle of Agincourt
​Battle of Castilian
Battle of Crecy
Battle of Poitiers
Black Death
Fall of Constantinople (1453)
Genghis Khan
Gothic Architecture
Great Schism
Guilds
Hundred Years War
Inquisition
Joan of Arc
Medieval China
​Middle Ages Universities
Mongol Empire
Rise of Spain
Siege of Orleans
Silk Road
Travels of Macro Polo

Unit VI - Renaissance and Discovery

​Amerigo Vespucci
African Slavery
Age of Exploration
Bartholomew Dias
Christopher Columbus
Columbian Exchange
Dante Alighieri
​English Colonization
Ferdinand Magellan
Francis Drake
Hernando Cortéz
Italian Renaissance
Leonardo da Vinci
Lorenzo de’ Medici
Michelangelo
Middle Passage
Niccolò Machiavelli
Renaissance Art
Spanish Conquistadors
The Canterbury Tales
The Conquering of the Americas
​The Divine Comedy
The Renaissance
Triangle Trade
Vasco da Gama
William Shakespeare’s Work
Works of William Shakespeare

Unit VII - Crisis of Faith

​Council of Trent
English Civil War
Enlightenment
French Civil War
Galileo
Glorious Revolution
Henry VIII
Isaac Newton
John Locke
King Philip II (Spain)
Life of Henry VIII
Life of Martin Luther
Louis XIV
Martin Luther
Montesquieu
Oliver Cromwell
Peace of Westphalia
Queen Elizabeth
Queen Mary I
Reformation
Scientific Revolution
​Spanish Armada
Thirty Years War
Voltaire
William and Mary

Unit VIII - Revolutionary World

American Revolution
Battle of Austerlitz
Battle of Waterloo
Battle of Yorktown
Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party
​Continental System
​Continental System
French Revolution
Gen. George Washington
Jean Paul Marat
King Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Maximilien Robespierre
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon’s “3-Mistakes”
Napoleon’s Hundred Days
Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia
Napoleonic Code
Napoleonic Wars
Seven Years’ War
Storming of the Bastille
The Terror
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Unit IX - Industrial Imperialism

James Watts
Assembly line/Mass Production
Berlin Conference
Charles Dickens
Communist Manifesto
Crimean War
Crisis in the Balkans (1908)
Feminism
Franco-Prussian War
German Unification
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Henry Bessemer
Herbert Spencer
Imperialism
Imperial Wars
Industrial Revolution
Italian Unification
James Cook
Karl Marx
Luddites
Manchester, England
Otto von Bismarck
Queen Victoria
Railroads
​Social Darwinism
White Man’s Buren
Revolution of 1848
Steam Engine
Technology of Industrial Revolution Zionism

Unit X - The Great War

Archduke Ferdinand
Armenian Genocide
America’s Entry into World War I
Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
Battle of Gallipoli
Battle of Marne
Battle of Somme
Battle of Verdun
Christmas Truce
Czar Nicholas II           
Fall of Empires
February Revolution
Grigory Rasputin
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Mandate System
October Revolution
Rape of Belgium
Russian Civil War
Russian Revolution
Schlieffen Plan
Spanish Influenza
​Treaty of Versailles
Trench Warfare
Vladimir Lenin
Woodrow Wilson
World War I
World War I Technology

Unit XI - World War II

Adolf Hitler
Appeasement
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Battle of Britain
Battle of Coral Sea
Battle of Kasserine Pass
Battle of Kursk
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Battle of Midway
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of the Bulge
Benito Mussolini
Casablanca Conference
Enabling Act
Fascism
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower
Gen. Erwin Rommel
Gen. George Patton
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Iwo Jima/Okinawa
Joseph Stalin
Miracle at Dunkirk
Munich Conference
Nazi Germany’s Expansion 1940
Nazism
​Neville Chamberlin
Operation Overlord
Operation Barbarossa
Potsdam Conference
Premier Tojo
Tehran Conference
Tokyo Firebombing
Winston Churchill

Unit XII - Cold War and Terrorism

38th Parallel
Apartheid
Arab Spring
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Wall
Cold War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Decolonization
European Union
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Fall of the Soviet Union
Globalization
Holocaust
Israel
Kim Jong Il
Korean War
M.A.D.
Marshall Plan
​Mikhail Gorbachev
NATO
Nuremberg Trials
Sputnik
Terrorism around the World
United Nations