HIS 118 Milestone One Template

Assignment Overview

For your first milestone assignment, you will submit a draft introduction to your final project and an outline of the full project. At this point, it is not necessary for you to know all of the details and examples you plan to use; rather, this assignment will help you organize your thoughts and make sure you remember to include each section of the final project.

Preparing Your Outline

Use the template on the next page to prepare your Milestone One submission.

• The text in bold should remain the same, as it provides the basic structure of your final project in accordance with the Final Project Guidelines and Rubric document.

• You should change all text that appears in blue italics and replace it with your thoughts and plans for your final project.

The final project requires you to address several different topics within an overall discussion of why nation-states developed. You will answer specific questions about economic, social, and political factors that contributed to the rise of nation-states, discuss the impact of globalization, and explain the overall historical significance of the emergence of nations. In your outline, you must include each of those sections and some preliminary thoughts on how you may answer each of the questions that are posed. Refer to the Final Project Guidelines and Rubric document for the specific questions that must be answered in each section.

Feel free to include questions for your instructor as bullet points throughout the outline, particularly if there are areas where you feel unsure of how to proceed. Refer to the Milestone One Rubric before you start working on this assignment to make sure you understand the expectations for this assignment and how it will be graded.

Milestone One Template

1. Introduction With Thesis Statement
   Write out your full introduction. Make sure it includes a clear thesis statement completing the following statement: “Nation-states developed in the West in the period 1500 to the present because…” and includes the two nation-states you will use as examples to prove your thesis. Incorporate all of the feedback from your Module One journal entry as you write your introduction.

• Body of Paper (you may change the order of the body sections if you wish)

1. Social and Philosophical Forces
   1. Social Forces
      1. Two or more bullet points with thoughts on how you will explain these forces and/or specific examples you plan to use
   1. Enlightenment Philosophies
      1. Two or more bullet points with thoughts on how you will answer this question and/or specific examples you plan to use
   1. Briefly state how this section supports your thesis statement

• Economic Forces
  • Economic Forces
    • Two or more bullet points with thoughts on how you will explain these forces and/or specific examples you plan to use
  • Goods and Commodities
    • Two or more bullet points with thoughts on how you will answer this question and/or specific examples you plan to use
  • Briefly state how this section supports your thesis statement

• Political Forces
  • Events
    • Two or more bullet points with thoughts on how you will answer this question and/or specific examples you plan to use
  • State Precedes the Nation or Vice Versa
    • Two or more bullet points with thoughts on how you will answer this question and/or specific examples you plan to use
  • Briefly state how this section supports your thesis statement

• Forces of GlobalizationImpacts From Neighboring AreasTwo or more bullet points with thoughts on how you will answer this question and/or specific examples you plan to useImpact on Neighboring AreasTwo or more bullet points with thoughts on how you will answer this question and/or specific examples you plan to useBriefly state how this section supports your thesis statement

• Historical PerspectiveGlobal Connections
  Identify at least one way increasing global connections contributed to the development of nation-states (one to three sentences)Modern Events
  Provide one example of how the development of nation-states set the stage for events and characteristics of the modern world (one to three sentences)

• Conclusion
  Write a few sentences to represent your brainstorming for your conclusion. Remember that it must restate your thesis statement and refer to the broader historical significance of the rise of nation-states in the period 1500 to present.

• Bibliography
  • List at least two secondary sources you will utilize in your final project.
  • List at least one primary source you will utilize in your final project.
    Remember: Use appropriate Turabian formatting when listing the sources.

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