Assignments are due at the beginning of class on the day under which they appear.
Papers that are poorly written or spelled will be returned to be redone. Beware of explanations that compare empires to living organisms - if you use this kind of explanation, be sure to explain why. Explain your reasoning. My goal here is for you to learn about the fall of the Roman Empire to consider why things happen as well as what happens to realize that there may be many possible explanations of a complex event, and that different narrators will choose different explanations.