Originally Posted by hotreds (Post 1565087)

How about the American Revolution?

Originally Posted by VirtualSmitty (Post 1565333)

Tension between France and Germany after the Franco-Prussian and the end of the second french empire and the loss of the Alsace-Lorraine river valley, the failure of Bismarcks diplomatic strategy, the two Balkan Wars, the German Kaisers goal to out build the British Navy, imperialist colonization and competition, the First World war was the result of many things not just a single assassination. Hence the term powder keg, when Archduke Ferdinand was murdered that was the spark that ignited over fifty years of tension. That topic however requires far more work than Youtube or wikipedia can provide.

Why not do something simpler?

Originally Posted by ninjavanish (Post 1565181)

I gotta go with Pirates, conquistadors, the colonization of the West Indies, the discovery of tobacco, it's cultivation and introduction to Europe (And eventually Colonial America/The U.S.) and the springboard that the tobacco trade became to the development of the economy of the Western Hemisphere and the lasting effects it had.Huge scope (Roughly dating from the 1600's to current.), but you can focus on something that you like, and maybe tell an interesting story while doing so.

Originally Posted by VirtualSmitty (Post 1565333)

Tension between France and Germany after the Franco-Prussian and the end of the second french empire and the loss of the Alsace-Lorraine river valley, the failure of Bismarcks diplomatic strategy, the two Balkan Wars, the German Kaisers goal to out build the British Navy, imperialist colonization and competition, the First World war was the result of many things not just a single assassination. Hence the term powder keg, when Archduke Ferdinand was murdered that was the spark that ignited over fifty years of tension. That topic however requires far more work than Youtube or wikipedia can provide.

Why not do something simpler?

Originally Posted by icehog3 (Post 1565610)

The Curse of the Goat on the Chicago Cubs?

Originally Posted by Silound (Post 1565836)

The decline and modernization of the Ottoman Empire is a fascinating subject to me, mostly because the Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest lasting empires in world history; one which almost a century after dissolution still impacts our world heavily today.

Originally Posted by SDmate (Post 1565849)

How about a paper on the history of the greatest game ever invented :)