Maybe something on the Han and Three Kingdoms periods contrasted with the creating of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms over a millennia later?

It would be a great opportunity to demonstrate all of the above - but it would also require a lot of work. You'd need context for both the third- and fourteenth-centuries and discuss the development of the mythos and historiography. There are probably some good books published on the topic if you can get your hands on them though!

This might be a bit much for a high-school project if that's what this is for.

For ancient Egypt, might I suggest going to your local art museum, picking out an object, and researching it? You could find out about its specific time period, what it would be used for, what it meant, what the arguments about it are (and then take a position on those arguments) -- essentially, build a world around an object.

That's the kind of stuff I like. I don't know about you.

Prehistory to 1500 CE? Wow that's wide topic, I suspect this is an introductory course?

I'd recommend you work with a primary text that's well known. This will show the prof that you can work with primary texts and secondary critique. A primary source that's well known will make it easy. I know you want to do something unique but save that for thesis papers and get to know the basics first. I've gotten poor marks because of taking the hard path and not following through.

Ancient religions? Look at Classical religious texts or myth. Propaganda and religion in Rome under Augustus is a good rich, easily identified topic for amateurs and experts. A primary source for this would be Virgil's Aeneid. Examining Roman and Greek cults like the cult of Isis would interesting too.

The topic is super broad and you should try to work with primary documents to show analysis with consultation from secondary sources. Stay simple, its better to understand a basic concept well and how to write a research paper then to show an obscure topic and get lost in it.

My own bias says stay with Greek and Roman topics because of the accessibility to English and understandable sources.

Edit question: History course, 1st year college? Stay away from art as a primary focus, often these classes want a specific demonstration of research and writing skills on written sources. Art might not be the best subject.

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