Jason Stubler has correctly identified this as the Kazanskii vokzal (Kazan Station aka Moscow Railway Station) for extra credit.  Photo courtesy Thomas T. Hammond.

• Read chapter 29 in the textbook.
• Briefly review the chapters in the textbook for units 8-15.
• Read my notes on the future?
• Study the Questions to Consider and the Key Terms for the unit.
• Post (or respond) your thoughts/ideas about this unit's reading and assignment in the Blackboard online discussion forum. Do not post your assignment there.
• Take the Final Exam.

• Listen to some further information about this unit as a mp3 file.  You can also read the information as a txt file.
• Take a look at the notes on the Dair Mar Elia monastery in Iraq. These were done by Joe Costigan, a student in HIS 111.

• See also the videos dealing with the UN Declaration of Rights in the HIS 112 course.
• For extra credit please suggest to your instructor a relevant video for this unit of the course. Send the title of the video, the url and a brief explanation of why you find the video interesting and applicable to the material that is being studied in this unit.

• Take the short 5-point quiz for chapter 29. Log into Blackboard and look under "Chapter Quizzes." You have five minutes to complete each quiz (multiple-choice questions).
• Comment in a long paragraph on the validity/accuracy/relevance of the characteristics of "civilization" according to François Pierre Guillaume Guizot, a nineteenth-century French historian, for a maximum of 25 points.
• For extra credit of a maximum of 25 points, write a short paragraph in which you explain why you think it is important to study history (check these two links for more information, Historians and Why we study history).
• For extra credit, please suggest a relevant website for this unit of the course.  Send the title of the site, the url and a brief explanation why you find the information interesting and applicable to the material being studied this unit.
• Suggest an assignment for use somewhere in the course.  Be creative!
• For extra credit of a maximum of ten points, write a short paragraph in which you explain what you found most interesting about your study of history in HIS 102 (or what you liked most about the course).