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HomeStudent topics: current suggestions (Oct. 21)

Student topics: current suggestions (Oct. 21)

Below you find the links to the blog posts with the current ideas. I have included a brief description of your idea. As your project develops, and you tweak or even ditch and completely change topics, you should update your blog post (no need to create a new one, just edit the existing one), and keep us all up to date. I will update the description as necessary when I get information and a chance to do so.

Alex's idea: dyes in textiles
Daje's idea: Silk Roads (possibly ethnicity)
Derek's idea: buildings (variations due to status, or regional differences)
Hannah's idea: buildings as symbols and tourist attractions
Jialin's idea: shadow puppets
Jonas's idea: tombs, maybe craftsmen who created tombs
Jose's idea: Tang law and documents
Kristine's idea: drums and music
Paige's idea: jade
Leia's idea: wild animals
Stephen's idea: gems in Minecraft and Chinese/Asian history
Tomo's idea: Silk production and significance in China
Yael's idea: Tang funerary art and possible connections with Silk Road influences
Bryana's idea: buildings and (TBD: status/religion/...)
Chau's idea: make-up and beauty ideals
Derian's idea: buildings and building techniques/engineering
Josh's idea: weapons
Anthony's idea: weapons
Tori's idea: evolution of tombs and ideas about them

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