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1. For this first part, examine your source. Note any dates you’re given and the form the document comes in. Note any information that reveals who the author was, whom they were writing to, and where they came from. These are all elements that a historian tries to determine when first examining any document: (1) the time frame of the material, (2) the genre of the text, (3) the author’s background and identity, (4) the intended audience, and (5) the geographical context of the authors and recipients. You may use the introductory paragraph that precede source to help answer these questions. If you can’t find exact information in the introduction or from the source, see what you can come up with by doing some logical guessing. Be sure to give specific details, examples, and evidence for your claims throughout. Remember, this context helps us understand more about the source. (HINT: For this source, you will need to hypothesize about the different types of authors of the different notes because there were many, and the genre is graffiti.)
2. Pompeii was destroyed in 79 CE (AD) by a volcanic eruption from nearby Mt. Vesuvius. It was devastating to Pompeii as well as the neighboring town of Herculaneum. However, the ash and rock preserved this Roman city in a way that hardly ever happens. Most cities are hard to capture at different times in their past because cities are always changing–being rebuilt and modified again and again–but Pompeii was frozen in time early in the Roman imperial period. One of the finds, which historians are still giddy about, is graffiti, giving us the kind of information that often gets washed away or otherwise destroyed over the years but which can tell us more about everyday people than a thousand sources written by elite Romans could. Okay, so for this part, what do you learn about the hustle and bustle of city live in imperial Rome? What kind of street life do you see–the types of people? Their concerns? Their troubles? Their entertainments? How does this help supplement the information we get from more elite members of society?
In this last part, think about your own reaction to this source. 3. What struck you as most surprising and why? Walk us through your example and the reasoning behind your choice.
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