Women in the ancient and early-modern world

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Write a paper thoroughly on the subject.Papers are to be single sided, in 12 point standard font, double-spaced, with one inch margins & page numbers. No title page/bibliographies. When writing, you must support your own ideas by citing short passages from the primary documents in our class’ assigned primary source readings. Please note, these citations should be short (ranging from just part of a sentence to a full sentence or two).Be sure to include the cited text inside quotation marks (showing the reader you are not using your own words), and then place the author’s name and the name of the particular passage in parentheses.For example, if you were discussing the differences between the historical writing of Herodotus and Thucydides, you would cite a passage from the online reading in the following manner: Whereas Thucydides’ histories were written in a detached, objective manner, focusing mainly on causation and the motives of statesman, Herodotus frequently explained historical events using supernatural and mythical concepts. For instance, in his description of the Battle of Marathon, Herodotus evoked the Olympian gods when he described how the Athenians “as their camp at Marathon had been pitched in a precinct of Hercules, so now they encamped in another precinct of the same god at Cynosarges.” (Herodotus: “The Battle of Marathon”) No secondary sources of ANY kind (not even the introductions to and overview of the primary sources) should be quoted and cited. If you are uncertain about what exactly constitutes a “primary source,” please consult the links on our class’ homepage under the module “Course Materials”. Do not quote and cite the textbook or info from lecture. You may draw upon what you have learned in lecture, from the videos or textbook as background material, but the information you use from them must be put in your own words. The use of any sources other than the primary sources from our specific course collection of readings is not permitted (this is explicitly not a research paper, but an exercise in primary source analysis). However, be sure you are always writing in your own words, and not stealing the words of others. That’s plagiarism. If you are caught plagiarizing, you will not only receive an “F” for the paper. Q:What was life like for women in the ancient and early-modern world? Compare and contrast (don’t just describe, but analyze) the roles that women played in the economic, political, religious and social life of the following four civilizations we discussed in class: Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Hebrews (before Christianity), and Classical Greece. In your discussion, include relevant primary source quotes and their corresponding citations from at least four different readings in our class’ specific selection of primary documents