1. Introduction
Copy the ”TTC” framework on a piece of paper, leaving yourself space to fill in the bones of an essay outline. You will be writing a thesis and outlining an essay based on the prompt on the following slide.

2. Example CCOT
Describe and analyze the cultural, economic, and political impact of Islam on ONE of the following regions between 1000 CE and 1750 CE (West Africa, South Asia, or Europe). Be sure to discuss continuities as well as changes.

3. College Board Feedback
If our students were prepared well for this question, they would know that the nature of change caused by the interaction between Muslims and people of other religions and cultures was cultural, economic, and political and occurred repeatedly over the whole time period. Students would be able to suggest that the changes related in some way to the emphasis in Islamic civilization on scientific and mathematical knowledge and on trade. The ripple effects students might have used as detail to support generalizations about changes could be about how repeated interactions with Muslims changed language, food, gender roles, social standing of different professions or ethnic groups, attitudes toward other belief systems, and bureaucratic structures that affected taxation or commercial law. Students could analyze how any of these changes happened in one of the regions at a particular time or from repeated interactions with or domination by Muslims. The students also could explain that the spread of Islam beyond the Arabian Peninsula to Spain and Eastern Europe, West Africa, and South Asia did not change every cultural, economic, and political feature in those regions. Some parts of people's lives remained the same despite interactions with Muslims.

4. Analytical Thesis
Between 1000 and 1750 C.E. Islam entered West Africa and increased its trade and centralized its politics but many aspects of African religion and gender roles remained unchanged.

5. Less than Analytical Thesis
“Between 1000 and 1750 C.E. Islam impacted West Africa by changing its economics and political structure but many of its cultural aspects remained the same.”

6. Framework
Between __(beginning date)____ and __(ending date)______, ___(area you chose to write about___) changed in the area of ____(category(ies) from the prompt)___ but stayed the same in the area of __(the other category(ies) from the prompt)__.

7. A Reminder
CAUTION: The categories you put in your thesis must be the ones given by the prompt! If the prompt asks you to address changes in labor systems, don’t write about political change! If it asks for demographic changes, don’t write about changes in patterns of trade!