Questions on topics for the fifth component of the Abitur examination? (Reference subject: History)?
Hello, my dears,
I'm currently in 12th grade and will soon have to submit my research question for the 5th PK. My reference subject will be history, and possible companion subjects include biology, geography, English, German, chemistry, art, and music.
I originally wanted to discuss the significance of the two atomic bombs during World War II (RF History, BF Chemistry), but the topic was rejected because of its lack of relevance to my minor subject.
Now I was thinking about Alfred Nobel and the impact of his invention (dynamite) on peace, but I can't think of a good question and I don't know if the minor subject of biology is sufficiently represented.
Another topic that interests me is the history of the plague, but I don't find anything controversial here either, and I'm not sure whether that wouldn't be more biological than historical….
Another topic that interests me is the art of the Byzantine Empire and how one can recognize European and Middle Eastern influences, but here, too, I can't think of a single question….
Can you possibly help me?
Kind regards and thank you in advance!!!!!!
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I only know myself in a deeper one of the topics you are talking about. And here I delivered a small ‘plänkel’ with a commentator, because he is somewhat different (I dropped it because it was no longer about the subject of the actual questioner). So it’s controversial.
The first plague wave in Europe took place at the end of the Stone Age over 4,500 years ago. In the corpse names of that time the pester sprinkler is found, which can also be genetically analyzed. Those pathogens still had genetic differences with the later pester pathogens. The gene that allowed him to survive in the flea still lacked. However, there is also the direct transfer of humans to humans (pulmonary plague). The bacterium originates from rodents of Central Asia and the human being in Europe had no immune defense.
In that time almost all (already for thousands of farming cultures, with already first settlements > 10,000 inhabitants) died in Europe (with the exception of Eastern Europe). Instead, cultures from the area north of the black sea are entering Europe (and also in other directions, by the way). They were the Indogermans. However, they are in areas already partially depopulated. Cultures e.g. on Orkney or the extremely high-level culture on Malta broke together and the islands remained unpopulated, sometimes there were no traces of attack or war. There was no conquest and displacement either. And no indication of a radical climate change in time, for example, due to a volcanic eruption.
Is the scenario of a largely depopulated country correct? But the newcomers were actually much more technological. They had the wheel, the oxen (breeding of the bull), the yoke => the oxenkarren. And first bronze – not yet optimal or culture penetrating. You think they were being expelled?
The plague of the Middle Ages is also not undeniable. Was it the plague or another disease called black death? Maybe an Ebol variant? Why do many chroniclers report black dyeings – and not the so striking beuling of the beulenpest? However, when transferring humans to humans, the bulges do not arise, only through the rat fleas.
In investigations on skeletons of human cemeteries of that time, however, an pathogen could be detected quite consistently. Yersinia Pestis. So obviously the plague.
And the Justian plague? This is most likely to be Pocken. Masons are also in discussion, but the described disease picture fits better with the pox.
The Epidemics/Pandemis always had massive historical upheavals as companions, although they were certainly at least partly causal. The almost complete replacement of the previous population by the Stone Age plague, the decimation of the Roman population (half the number of Romans in Italy) by the Antonian plague (which was probably not a plague) at the peak of the power of Rome – after which a slow decay occurred. And also black death had, of course, massive effects. Here, history and biology go hand in hand. I’m sure it won’t be rejected. It’s just the question if you want the subject.