Choosing any non-Western society between 1400 and 1800 AD, answer the following: If
you could go back in time and choose to begin a family in Africa, the Middle East, Asia,
or the Americas any time between 1400 and 1800, which would you choose and why?
Make sure to explain your answer by comparing your chosen time/place with the other
societies you did NOT choose. Write this as if you needed to convince a panel of experts
that you have carefully researched your choice and that the alternative places/times would
be inferior to your choice. Consider the following: technology, politics, personal
freedoms, citizenship, standard of living, cultural values, security, etc., as you explain
yourself.
you could go back in time and choose to begin a family in Africa, the Middle East, Asia,
or the Americas any time between 1400 and 1800, which would you choose and why?
Make sure to explain your answer by comparing your chosen time/place with the other
societies you did NOT choose. Write this as if you needed to convince a panel of experts
that you have carefully researched your choice and that the alternative places/times would
be inferior to your choice. Consider the following: technology, politics, personal
freedoms, citizenship, standard of living, cultural values, security, etc., as you explain
yourself.
A History of World Societies, Volume 2
by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks; Patricia Buckley Ebrey; Roger B. Beck; Jerry Davila; Clare Haru Crowston; John P. McKay