Compare and contrast the structure and character of political institutions in the Greek city-states with political institutions in other early western civilizations we have explored to date in class. In your discussion be sure to provide specific and documented examples to support your arguments. After posting your initial response, compare and contrast your points of focus in your response to other students who arrived and different conclusions.

Posts Are Required To:

o Provide specific comments, observations, points of inquiry on the topic (not generalizations, summaries of sources or assigned reading materials, opinions, guesses, impressions)

o Provide proper references (both in text citations and a list of sources used) that shows both research skills and that you tried to increase your depth of understanding of the topic

o Provide and present scholarly arguments based on a variety of scholarly sources that serve to bolster and advance the arguments offered for consideration

o Provide meaningful observations that show thought, analysis, synthesis (not impressions, generalizations, guesses, opinion)

o Comments on a continual basis

Sources

• Use of a minimum of 2 total separate sources required for initial posts and appropriate use of sources in all other posts -you are permitted to use your assigned text(s) as one of the 2 minimum sources-note that text books are not scholarly sources and no other text books are permitted-in addition to your assigned text, a minimum of two additional primary or secondary scholarly sources must be used for initial replies

• The use of primary or secondary Scholarly Sources-no other resources are permitted-any use of non scholarly resources will result in a zero for that post or reply. If you are not sure what a scholarly source is, please refer to the following resources: http://www.millsaps.edu/academics/heritage_how_to_indentify_scholarly_sources.php . Remember scholarly sources are not found on the internet-they are found in the Library. Remember as well that not every source in a Library is a scholarly source-learning the difference is part of the requirements for our class and part of learning to better evaluate and use credible sources.