#25

BRAINSTORMING SESSION DAY 2

After having so much success on my mind-maps, the next day I revisited them and filled in the blank periods that were influential to Scottish culture. Listed are the time periods below. I did try to divide my idea bubbles up into green highlighted categories of “HISTORY” and purple highlighted categories of “CULTURE”.

I did this in order to solve my research question which I was brainstorming could be the concept of asking “DOES HISTORY DESIGN CULTURE OR DOES CULTURE DESIGN HISTORY”

STUART DYNASTY BEGINS TO FAIL AND ESCALATES INTO WAR

STABILITY OF UNION USHERS IN ENLIGHTENMENT TO SCOTLAND, DEVELOPING SCOTTISH CULTURE TO THIS DAY

UNION WITH ENGLAND IS FINALLY ACHIEVED, SETTING OFF DOMINO EFFECT OF CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN SCOTLAND

STABILITY OF UNION USHERS IN ENLIGHTENMENT TO SCOTLAND, DEVELOPING SCOTTISH CULTURE TO THIS DAY

#24

FIRST BRAINSTORMING SESSION

I sat down on one of my days off and started researching various Scottish topics and I kept getting overwhelmed about where to start and what to invest my effort and attention in. I realized the topic of all Scottish history and culture since the dawn of time until now was too much of a daunting task.

Instead of looking on the web and going down the rabbit hole I decided to mind-map. I had just about lost faith in mind-mapping for a history project when I got on a roll and quickly scrawled out 5 pages of 5 historical periods that I felt were essential to developing modern day Scottish culture.

CELTS SETTLE IN SCOTLAND 1200 BC

ROMAN OCCUPATION between 79 AD and 124 AD

VIKING EXPLORATION AND INTEGRATION starting in 800 AD

ENGLISH SUCCESSION CRISIS OF 1066 AD is a domino effect of cultural influence into Scotland

SCOTTISH SUCCESSION CRISIS OF 1286 inspires domino effect of cultural influence