Spring Break Homework
Outline & Analysis
See end for assignment
Unit I& II
Major Comparisons and Analyses: Examples
Compare major religious and philosophical systems including some underlying similarities in cementing a social hierarchy, e.g., Hinduism contrasted with Confucianism
Compare the role of women in different belief systems—Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, and Hinduism
Understand how and why the collapse of empire was more severe in western Europe than it was in the eastern Mediterranean or in China
Compare the caste system to other systems of social inequality devised by early and classical civilizations, including slavery
Compare societies that include cities with pastoral and nomadic societies
Compare the development of traditions and institutions in major civilizations, e.g., Indian, Chinese, and Greek/Roman
Describe interregional trading systems, e.g., the Silk Roads
Compare the political and social structures of two early civilizations:
Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley, Shang, and Mesoamerica and Andean South America
Analyze the role of technologies in the growth of large state structures
Unit III
Major Comparisons and Analyses: Examples
Compare the role and function of cities in major societies
Analyze gender systems and changes, such as the effects of Islam
Analyze the interactions between Jews, Christians, and Muslims
Compare developments in political and social institutions in both eastern and western Europe
Compare Japanese and European feudalism
Compare European and sub-Saharan African contacts with the Islamic world
Analyze the Chinese civil service exam system and the rise of meritocracy
Unit IV
Major Comparisons and Analyses: Examples
Compare colonial administrations
Compare coercive labor systems: slavery and other coercive labor systems in the Americas
Analyze the development of empire (i.e., general empire building in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas)
Analyze imperial systems: a European seaborne empire compared with a land-based Asian empire
Compare Russia’s interaction with two of the following (Ottoman Empire, China, western Europe, and eastern Europe)
Compare Mesoamerican and Andean systems of economic exchange
Unit V
Major Comparisons and Analyses: Examples
Compare the causes and early phases of the Industrial Revolution in western Europe and Japan
Compare the Haitian and French Revolutions
Compare reaction to foreign interference in the Ottoman Empire, China, India, Southeast Asia, and Japan
Compare nationalism in the following pairs: China and Japan, Egypt and Italy, Pan Africanism and the Indian Congress Movement
Explain forms of Western intervention in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia
Compare the roles and conditions of elite women in Latin America with those in western Europe before 1850
Unit VI
Major Comparisons and Analyses: Examples
Compare patterns and results of decolonization in Africa and India
Pick two revolutions (Russian, Chinese, Cuban, Iranian) and compare their effects on the roles of women
Compare the effects of the World Wars on areas outside of Europe
Compare legacies of colonialism and patterns of economic development in two of three areas (Africa, Asia, and Latin America)
Analyze nationalist ideologies and movements in contrasting European and colonial environments
Compare the different types of independence struggles
Examine global interactions in cultural arenas (e.g., reggae, art, sports)
Analyze the global effects of the Western consumer society
Compare major forms of twentieth-century warfare
Assess different proposals (or models) for economic growth in the developing world and the social and political consequences
Spring Break Homework---Acorn comparison & analysis
Due Tuesday April 9th
All of these questions are suggested from the Acorn guides, from which they tend to get the essay questions on the test
- Choose the most difficult (complicated ) question from each section and analyze it—describe the parts of the question that would need to be answered. (20 pts)
- Choose one comparison question from each section(different from #1 analyze) and create a simple outline for the possible answer. If a compare/contrast question, include at least 2 aspects and how you would both compare and contrast those aspects. (Don’t write the essay, just the simple outline—30 pts)
Example Outline I. Aspect(category comparing/contrasting) & Similarity
Ex: Political--both countries have a monarchy
- Aspect(category comparing/contrasting) & Difference
Ex: Pol--powerless Queen of England, Powerful King in Denmark
III. Aspect #2(category comparing/contrasting) & Similarity or Difference
Ex: Econ--England capitolist/Denmark socialist
- Extra Credit—write a thesis for each question included in 1-2 above ( 1 pt. for each thesis written up to 10 total)--very rare opportunity--you cannot get answers from but feel free to get feedback from your Thesis Company.
- Do you want a 4 or 5 on the exam--do a thesis and an outline for ALL OF THE Questions (you will not get extra points here nor will you be guaranteed a 4-5 on the exam, but you will be far more prepared for the essays.)
- Want to really analyze the questions and MAYBE narrow down what they MIGHT ask on the test, compare all of the questions above to all the questions that have been used (see my webpage)--questions that have been asked in the past are less likely to be asked again.
Scoring Rubric
1) Choose the most difficult (complicated ) question from each section and analyze it _____________/20 (4 pts each)
2) Choose one question from each section(separate from above) and create a simple outline for the possible answer. [2 aspects/comp & cont—5 questions—6 pts each] _____________/30
4) Extra Credit—write a thesis for each question included in 1-2 above ( 1 pt. for each thesis written up to 10 total)
_______________/10 pts
Total Points ______________/50