Time+Travel+Brochure

=Time Tour Brochure Page Instructions=

==Background January 1, 2105—After years of experimentation, a team of international scientists successfully tested a cheap, practical time machine. Now that people could travel to the places they studied in school or college history courses, historians around the world faced the real possibility that the new machines would eliminate their jobs. Faced with this crisis, the International Historical Association, an organization of professional history teachers and scholars, came up with a plan. The president of the association gave the keynote address that was to be the group’s final annual conference:== ==My fellow historians, an unprecedented crisis is upon us. This new time travel device threatens us all. We can either adapt (here the speaker was interrupted with shouts from the floor), we can either adapt, or face extinction as a profession.== ==Look at the competition at our universities and colleges! How can we compete with the sciences and their corporate funding, or with the football program and its advertising dollars? We need, ladies and gentlemen, to generate sales!==

(At this point the room fell into stony silence.)
==I propose, my fellow historians, a new model for our profession. I submit that in this new environment, we disband the International Historical Association. It would seem that its day is done. I propose in its place that we form the International Historical Time Travel Agency. With branches at every school district, college, and university, a friendly, customer-service oriented faculty, a wide range of time travel packages, and, most of all, a lot of advertising. I see a long, bright future ahead for us all. We are no longer historians, my friends: we are sales associates! As a result, historians and history teachers, rather than fight the time machines, voluntarily disband. No more history classes, history books, or those 50-minute-long history videos that fit just right in a class period. But as someone who used to be a historian, a specialist in the history of Afroeurasia from 300 BCE to 500CE, putting bread on the table would be essential.==

Therefore, going into the Travel Agent business would be a must.
=Task= ==You will prepare a brochure for potential Time Tourists looking for tours to Afroeurasia. Your agency will consist of four former historians, each of whom specialized in the period, but each with a different emphasis: one in geography, one in politics, one in religion, and one in economy. Each of you will produce one page of the brochure in your specialty, and then you will collaborate on an eye-catching, customer-attracting front page.==