Records of the Grand Historian

Herodotus and Sima Qian are known as two of the greatest historians of their time. In comparing each of their writings several different roles that women were meant to fill become clear. Although these vastly different cultures had limited contact, women in Greece and China were very similar during this time period. Each writer gives distinct evidence of women fulfilling, or denying the roles placed upon them as wives, mothers, daughters, oracles, soldiers, commanders, gifts, property, and royalty. Sima Qian’s writing contains several different examples of the expected female role in Chinese society. He speaks of the basic nature of a man, which involved loving life, thinking of one’s relatives, and to take care of his wife and children (91). It is clear that the man is the one responsible for the well-being of his family…

Sima Qian was a great historian for China during the Han Dynasty (141 - 87 BCE). Under Emperor Wu, he is credited with creating China’s first detailed and compiled history book. He lived from 145 to 86 BCE and made many great accomplishments in his life. His most notable accomplishment was writing a history book called Records of the Grand Historian, without this book the past would have disappeared with the people that lived it. The question that I’m going to be answering in this paper is…

perhaps is what Sun Tzu’s ultimate secret is. Nation often rush into wars, with very little concern or thinking through of the course it is going to be; not only in money but in terms of human suffering; not only to ourselves but the civilians of the country which we may be fighting. Before we go to war, we should question ourselves, are the reasons why we are fighting worth the total cost of the war or is there an alternative way. As Sun Tzu asserts “the angry may be made happy again, but the…

1. In lines 6-10, Li Si describes the great achievements of Shi Huangdi. According to Li Si, what are two achievements that Shi Huangdi was able reach that the leaders before him were unable to reach? 2. What does the phrase “opinionated scholar” (li. 18) mean? 3. According to lines 18-23, what are these “opinionated scholars” doing and saying in response to the reforms made by Shi Huangdi? How does Li Si feel about their actions? 4. What does Li Si suggest that Shi Huangdi do in…

Assyria was the area in the Near East which, reached from Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) through Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and down through Egypt. The empire began modestly at the city of Ashur (known as Subartu to the Sumerians), located in Mesopotamia north-east of Babylon. The Xia Dynasty 2070 B.C.E. – 1600 B.C.E. is the first dynasty to be described as independent in both the official Records of the Grand Historian and unofficial Bamboo Annals, which record the names of seventeen kings over…

All Western historians and Women Historians should consider picking up a copy of the twenty-one essays collected and organized in the The Women’s West by Susan Armitage, Ph.D., and Elizabeth Jameson. Originally collected from the Women’s West Conference in 1983, it represents a cohesive and diverse perspective on the roles of women living in the Trans Mississippian West. In their book, Armitage and Jameson endeavor to recount the role of women through arguments attempting to rectify the…

It was “summarily to relate, not to discuss opinions [or] to give a verdict of what he relates.” “I search not what indefinitely ought to be, but what was with us in England.” “I take pleasure in going back to studies of antiquity, and in looking behind me to our grand-sires better times.” But that was only the first step. Selden also warned against idle antiquarianism—or, as he put it, “the too studious affectation of bare and sterile antiquity, which is nothing else but to be exceeding[ly]…

humans have faced and overcome. They have tried to put together Earth’s record of a timeline through history, which is called Geological Time Scale. In this time scale the periods of time have been divided and called epoch(s). Each epoch has a name and the one humans are in is called Anthropocene, but in order to understand more about the current epoch the previous epoch must be known. The Holocene, the previous epoch, was when humanity started to have results of how hunaity effects Earth.…

Alumni Club of Sigma Nu and was a regular attendee at their meetings and events. Ray’s story is unlike any other—and it is one that we’re proud to have associated with Beta Zeta Chapter. As a child, he was diagnosed with poliomyelitis or infantile paralysis and was told he’d never walk again. But he was determined he would—and after years of diligence, he achieved that and so much more. After regaining the ability to walk, Ray set his sights on competing in jumping in track & field. He made a…

and jazz, but music, like all artistic forms of expression, is an ever evolving medium. It is the historians task to track and explain that change over time and not harken back to a romantic past when everything was “better” or “simpler.” Bayles derides Mick Jagger and Griel Marcus, primarily from his book Mystery Train: Images of American Rock and Roll Music, for their romantic notions of past blues musicians as primitives. However, she also falls into the similar “things were better in the…