Expository Presentation Prompts:

1. Choose one of the following Roman Emperors. What did this particular emperor do to
help make or break the Roman Empire?

Trajan Claudius
Nero Commodus
Constantine Titus
Caligula

2. Compare and contrast the Middle East of the Middle Ages with the Middle East of today.
What has changed culturally? What is still the same?

3. What are some of the most common misconceptions around Islam? Why do you think
these misconceptions exist?

4. Of all of the Roman and Muslim accomplishments we have studied, which do you think
is the single most important to our lives today and why?

5. What is cultural diffusion, and how has it spread Roman and Muslim ideas to the rest of
the world?