World history before 1600

• Students must write a persuasive paper on a historical topic related to World History before 1600. The font and point size of your paper must be 12 pts, Arial or Helvetica font.
• The writing portion of the paper must be double spaced and a minimum of 5 pages of typed writing.
• In addition to the 5 pages of writing, the paper must include a Title Page and a Bibliography citation page so the paper must be a minimum of 7 PAGES IN TOTAL.
• The paper must have a minimum of FOUR peer-reviewed scholarly sources (i.e. ebooks from the online BC Library or articles from the BC online databases, like JSTOR. Articles can be primary or secondary sources. If you want to add an online source that is not scholarly but it is credible then you can count that as your FIFTH source; you still need scholarly sources).
• Again, the citation must be using in-text citation, according to Chicago Style citation format (Footnotes) and a Bibliography on the last page, also according to Chicago Style citation format. Historians use the Chicago style and expect consistent use in research papers.