COMPARATIVE ESSAY PRACTICE
For the period from 1400 to 1700, compare the different means, methods and motivations of the Western Europeans with one of the following civilizations:
Ming China
The Ottoman Empire
Imperial Japan
For the period from 400 to 800, compare the different consequences of expansion the two following civilizations:
Rome
Islamic Empires
Classical China
Within the period from 700 to 1300, compare the evolution (e.g., political social, economic) of Frankish Kingdom with the evolution in ONE of the following.
· Sudanic African States
· Byzantine
· Civilizations in Mesoamerica
Analyze difference in similarities in the ways ONE of the following regions participated in interregional trade during the period circa 1500 to 1750.
· Latin America, including the Caribbean
· Sub-Saharan Africa
· Southeast Asia
Analyze similarities and differences between the role of the state in Japan’s economic development and the role of the state in the economic development of ONE of the following during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
· China
· Ottoman
· Empire Russia
Compare demographic and environmental effects of the Columbian Exchange on the Americas with the Columbian Exchange’s demographic and environmental effects on ONE of the following regions between 1492 and 1750.
· Africa
· Asia
· Europe
Analyze similarities and differences in the rise of TWO of the following empires.
· A West African Sudanic empire (Mali OR Ghana OR Songhay)
· The Aztec Empire
· The Mongol Empire
Analyze similarities and differences in methods of political control in TWO of the following empires in the Classical period.
· Han China (206 B.C.E.–220 C.E.)
· Mauryan/Gupta India (320 B.C.E.–550 C.E.)
· Imperial Rome (31 B.C.E.–476 C.E.)
For the period from 1500 to 1830, compare North American racial ideologies and their effects on society with Latin American/Caribbean racial ideologies and their effects on society.
Compare the emergence of nation-states in nineteenth-century Latin America with the emergence of nation-states in ONE of the following regions in the twentieth century.
· Sub-Saharan
· Africa
· The Middle East
Within the period from 1450 to 1800 compare the processes of empire building in the Spanish Empire with the empire building process of one of the following.
· Ottoman Empire
· Russian Empire
Compare the goals and outcomes of revolutions with two of the following civilizations beginning with the dates specified.
· Mexico 1910
· China 1911
· Russia 1917