hi,
how would you guys answer this question (topic is Julio-Cluaidns and the Roman Empire AD 14-69): Assess the effectiveness of the administration of the empire in this period.
thanks
Hey, i don't do ancient, but im gonna try and give a hand anyway!
Hey tina
With a question like that, the way that I would go about it (not that you have to do what I did!), would be to either structure it thematically, according to the ways in which administration of the empire was conducted (eg. maybe I'd have a paragraph on the role of the senate, or the imperial bureaucracy, etc. etc), or you could structure it according to the different emperors, so a paragraph on Tiberius, a paragraph of Gaius, a paragraph on Claudius, and a paragraph on Nero
I'll let you fill in the blanks (ie what to put in each paragraph), if you need any more help please let us know.
Hope this helps!
Building on susie's answer, im going to say the second one may be more effective. Only because doing it thematically (focusing on certain aspects of the aministration) sounds to me (my opinion only) that you're assuming that each aspect of the administration (to take one for example, the senate) was run similarly over that entire period.
By doing it with paragraphs based on the leaders, you can look at the different ways, successes and faliures that were involved with each specific ruler.
Also, remember this is an
assessquestion. Basically asses means "make a judgement based on criteria. So you need to look at everything those specific leaders did during their time in power, (everything they did, their successes and faliures are the criteria) and make a judgement about how effective or ineffective it that ruler was and their administration.
This is very rough, so i hope it makes sense!
It's also my opinion, and how i'd structure the response, you don't have to do it this way, but i hope it helps you decide!
Good luck!