This course was a bit of a challenge for because I have always struggled in history classes throughout all my years in school.  I have more of a math and science brain so history content does not click well with me.  I found that even though this course was still more challenging than usual, I enjoyed it much more than I imagined I would.  With Longwood’s curriculum changing, it allowed my professor to branch off and teach a course based off of his own interests and create a course that was not your normal basic history class.  In this class, we focused on the everyday man or poor man in mainly ancient Europe.  This made this class more intriguing to me since this was the life of everyday people and stories of the lives of commoners more like myself in this world and it allowed me to connect more with the coursework.  It taught me that even my weaknesses can become strengths if I find a way to connect myself to the work or twist it in a way that suits me best.

 

Below is my final paper for this course.  We had to connect a cultural concept between two ancient places and compare the two side by side.  I choose to talk about the similarities and differences in marriage between Greek and Roman societies.