Sample Comparative Essay Questions
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Sample Comparative Essay QuestionsThese questions are not in any finalized form. You should tweak them to be more manageable, I have simply taken prompts from your era study guides and formed them into questions or taken other teachers' suggestions. Foundations c. 8000 BCE to 600 CE • Compare and contrast two of the following early civilizations’ cultural, political and social structures.
600 CE – 1450 • Students will compare the role of Buddhism in Tang China and 11th c. Japan, Christianity in Byzantium, Islam in 8th c. Iran. • Missionary activity flourished in the period from 700 to 1000 as societies expanded beyond their traditional boundaries. Explain the major similarities and differences of missionary activity between two of the following: • Compare and contrast the development of African and New World societies: Ghana, Songhay, and Mali, with Toltec, Inca, and Aztec. Consider reasons for growth, trade patterns, social structures, role of religion, role of women, contacts with other cultures, and reasons for decline. • Contrast the economic, social, cultural, and political role of cities such as Guangzhou (Canton), Samarkand, Timbuktu, Cairo, and Venice played vital roles in the development of in the period 1100-1368. Choose two the urban centers and analyze how their location, and other factors, contributed to their role as a member of the interregional networks of this era. • Compare and contrast the impact of the Mongol invasions on two of the four regions listed below. China India Russia Persia Middle East • Compare and contrast “civilized, settled” societies with the nomadic ones they interacted with (like the Huns, Vikings, Mongols). What factors characterized their interactions? In what ways did the values of these societies differ? Their social structure? Their treatment of women? • Discuss and analyze the differences Battuta observed in the freedom and status of women in Timbuktu and in North Africa. • Compare and contrast “civilized, settled” societies (including Arab Caliphates) with the nomadic ones they interacted with (like the Turks). What factors characterized their interactions? In what ways did the values of these societies differ? Their social structure? Their treatment of women? • Compare the significance of Indian Ocean trade patterns to those of the so-called “Silk Road” and the trans-Saharan caravan routes. Do land-based transportation networks impact adjacent peoples differently from maritime networks? • Compare and contrast the causes and consequences of major disease flows across the world. In your answer you might consider these examples: Black Death in China and Europe - l300's; Demise of New World Populations after contacts with Europeans - 1500's; Influenza Epidemic of l9l9-l920; AIDs pandemic. • Compare how women's lives in East Asia were affected by Neo-Confucianism from the 12th to the 19th centuries. (Neo-Confucianism strengthened patriarchies in China’s Song Dynasty, Japan’s Tokugawa Period, Korea’s Yi Dynasty and Vietnam’s Tran and Viet dynasties.) • The era of 600-1450 was marked by different forms of treatment of women and the different roles they played in society. Choose two different cultures below and compare and contrast the role and treatment of women in them. East Asia Americas Western Europe Sub-Saharan Africa • Compare and contrast Japanese and European feudalism in terms of economic, cultural, social, political and technological features. • Compare and contrast the developments in political and social institutions in eastern and western Europe from 600 to 1450. • Compare and contrast the impact of Islam on two gender systems in sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia or South Asia. • Compare and contrast the role and function of cities in two major societies in East Asia, Western Europe or the Middle East. • Compare and contrast the social, cultural, political and economic structures of the Aztec Empire and Inca Empire. • Compare and contrast European and sub-Saharan African contacts with the Islamic world 1450–1750 • Compare different forms of economic organization over time: Indian Ocean trade, Silk Road, Atlantic trading system, Globalization. In your comparison you might consider extent, methods of contact, dominant states, effect of societies, technological level, and effects of trade.
1750–1914 • World history from 1750 onward is considered one of Western domination. Compare and discuss changes in the functions and structures of states brought about by European involvement from 1750-1920. Choose two of the regions listed below.
1914–Present • Compare the patterns and results of the decolonization movements in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East in the twentieth century with earlier independence movements in Mexico and South America. • Compare and contrast patterns of resistance to European/Western dominance in two of the following regions during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. China Japan Argentina Ottoman Empire Mexico India South Africa • Compare and contrast the effects of World War I on TWO of the following regions. Middle East Sub-Saharan Africa Southeast Asia East Asia South Asia • Compare and contrast the effects of World War II on TWO of the following region. • Middle East Sub-Saharan Africa Southeast Asia East Asia South Asia • Compare and contrast the effects of the Cold War on TWO of the following region. • Middle East Eastern Europe Southeast Asia East Asia Latin America • Compare the relationship between ideas of the nation state, sovereignty, and democracy in two of the following regions from l700 to 2000. France US China Nigeria Russia. • Compare a traditional with a command economy or a free market economy. Be sure to explain the characteristics of each as well as to cite its strengths and weaknesses. Use an example for each of the economies mentioned. What technological factors appeared at what times to increase agricultural yields? What role did these increased yields play in making changes within different societies? • Compare and contrast the role of women from 1900 to the present in three of the following countries. China Japan India Egypt Iran Vietnam • Compare and contrast the causes, warfare, and effects of World War I and World War II. • During the twentieth century, considerable effort was expended by Western nations to support democratic and western-friendly governments in developing nations. Select TWO of the nations below and compare the success of such efforts. Iran Vietnam Nicaragua Chile Congo Iran South Africa Egypt • Compare and contrast the French and Chinese revolutions and their effects on social and gender structures. • Compare and contrast the decolonization/independence movements in two of the countries below. India Vietnam Algeria Ghana • Compare and contrast the patterns and results of decolonization in Africa and India • Pick two of the following revolutions and compare their effects on the roles of women. Russian Chinese Cuban Iranian • Compare the effects of the World Wars on areas outside of Europe • Compare the legacies of colonialism and patterns of economic development in two of three areas. Sub-Saharan Africa Middle East Southeast Asia Latin America • Compare and contrast the notion of “the West” and “the East” in the context of Cold War ideology versus the notion that existed in the 19th C. • Compare and contrast nationalist ideologies and movements in European and colonial environments. • Compare and contrast the different types of independence struggles in the 19th C and 20th C. • Compare the impacts of Western consumer society on two civilizations outside of Europe • Compare high tech warfare with guerrilla warfare. • Compare and contrast the different proposals (or models) for third world economic development and their social and political consequences. Directory: userfiles -> 413 -> Classes -> 10382 10382 -> Slavery in Classical Greece and Rome Introduction 10382 -> Dqb industrial Revolution 1750 1900 ap world History dbq the Industrial Revolution Directions 10382 -> Ap world history name: unit 5: the long nineteenth century, 1750-1914 ce the Industrial Revolution in Russia and Japan Part I: Due Wednesday February 26 10382 -> The Global Great Depression. The Great Depression had worldwide causes and effects. Reactions to this economic earthquake were varied. The most startling change in western Europe was the rise of Nazism. Causation 10382 -> Classical China The Zhou 10382 -> Imperial China Sui, Tang, Song Dynasties After the fall of the Han Era of Disunity 10382 -> Foundations: c. 8000 B. C. E.–600 C. E 10382 -> L/D "The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Systems" ap world History 10382 -> 8000 B. C. E. 600 C. E. Major Developments 10382 -> 1900-Present Major Developments Download 22.06 Kb. Share with your friends:
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