How did the use of standard currency, or coins, help the economy of the Roman Empire? * Coins had more uses in the ancient world than many other trade items.
Most other cultures did not understand what the purpose of coined money was.
People would trade for Roman coins even if they did not want Roman goods.
The Romans used coins to represent loans when they could not afford goods.

Not sure if it’s within 12 months, but you could talk about the spreading of alt-right hate speech and whether that is covered by the right of freedom of speech? or, cover how during the midterm elections in some states many native american populations were declined to vote because they didn’t have the proper id, despite being citizens? also, the death of that journalist last month, who spoke freely and reported about the saudi government and how corrupted it is and was killed because of that (lack of free press/speech). just some ideas for this prompt, i hope at least one of them : )