1. Practice Essays
Early Modern Period

2. CCOT 2003
Describe and analyze the cultural, economic, and political impact of Islam on ONE of the following regions between 1000 C.E. and 1750 C.E. Be sure to discuss continuities as well as change.
West Africa
South Asia
Europe

3. CCOT 2005
Analyze the social and economic transformations that occurred in the Atlantic world as a result of new contacts among Western Europe, Africa, and the Americas from 1492 to 1750.

4. CCOT 2008
Analyze the changes and continuities in commerce in the Indian Ocean region from 650 C.E. to 1750 C.E.

5. Compare and Contrast state structures of one European and one Afro-Asiatic empire
France
Portugal
Spain
England
Holland
Russia
Austria
Ottoman Empire
Safavid Empire
Mughal Empire
Ming Chinese Empire
West African Sahel State
Japanese Shogunate

6. Trace the intellectual and artistic transformation from 600 to 1750 in any one region:
East Asia
South Asia
Southwest Asia
West Europe
East Europe

7. Compare Russia’s interactions with any two:
Ottoman Empire
Ming/Ching China
Western Europe
Eastern Europe

8. Compare the process of empire building of one European and one Afro-Asiatic empire (gun-powder empire)
France
Portugal
Spain
England
Holland
Russia
Austria or Prussia
Ottoman Empire
Safavid Empire
Mughal Empire
Ming Chinese Empire
West African Sahel State
Japanese Shogunate

9. Compare Mesoamerican and Andean systems of economic exchange.

10. Compare and contrast any two coercive systems of labor
Caribbean slavery
Slavery in English North American colonies
Slavery in Brazil
Spanish Mita system in South America
West African slavery
Muslim slavery in Southwest Asia
India Hingu castes
East European serfdom