Practice LEQ Prompts By Time Period
Unit Six
§ Compare and contrast the causes of the rise of Fascism in Europe with the causes of the rise of communism in Asia in the first half of the 20th century.
§ Evaluate the extent to which the Green Revolution was a turning point in the 20th century.
§ Analyze the changes and continuities in warfare and tactics from 1750-1950.
§ To what extent was the fall of the Ottoman Empire a turning point in global history?
§ Compare and contrast the decolonization movements of the second half of the 20th century with the independence movements of the 19th century.
§ Analyze changes and continuities in nationalist ideology and practice in ONE of the following regions from the First World War to the present: Middle East, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa.
§ Analyze the causes to environmental change in the period 1900 to present.
§ Analyze continuities and changes in long-distance trade 1800 to present.
§ Analyze the causes of migration within the period 1900 to present.
Unit Five
§ Compare and contrast the effects of the growing popularity of Marxism in the modern era (1750-1900) with the effects of the growing popularity of Protestantism in the early modern era (1450-1750).
§ Compare and contrast the response to industrialization in the Ottoman Empire with that of either the Russian Empire or Qing China.
§ To what extent was the Enlightenment a turning point in the period 1750-1900?
§ Analyze the changes and continuities in family dynamics and the role of women from 1750-1900 in countries that experienced the Industrial Revolution.
§ Analyze the changes and continuities in migration patterns from 1750-1900.
§ Compare and contrast the “new” imperialism of the modern (1750-1900) era with the “old” imperialism of the early modern (1450-1750) era.
§ Compare and contrast the causes of the French Revolution with those of either the Haitian Revolution or the Chinese Revolution.
§ Analyze how political transformations contributed to continuities and changes in the cultures of Western Europe during the period 1750-1900.
§ Analyze the causes of migration from 1750-1900.
§ Compare and contrast the outcomes of French Revolution with those of either the Russian Revolution or the Haitian Revolution.
§ Analyze the extent to which the French Revolution could be considered a turning point in global history.
§ Analyze continuities and changes in demographics and the environment from 1750-1900.
§ Analyze the extent to which industrialization brought significant social change to European society from 1750-1900.
§ Analyze the extent to which the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain could be considered a turning point in global history.
§ Analyze continuities and changes in long-distance trade from 1800 to present.
§ Analyze the extent to which anti-imperial resistance within empires led to the creation of new states on their peripheries from 1750-1900.
§ Analyze continuities and change in the response of native peoples to imperialism in ONE of these regions between 1750 and 1900: India, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America
§ Analyze continuities and changes of the impact of the shift from mercantilism to laissez-faire economics in ONE of the following between 1750 and 1900: British colonies/United States, Great Britain, Latin America
§ Analyze the social changes and continuities which resulted from industrialization in the period 1750-1900.
Unit Four
§ Compare and contrast the social structure either of Latin America or the Indian caste system in the early modern period (1450-1750) with the Confucian social structure of classical China (600 BCE-600 CE).
§ To what extent were the European transoceanic explorations of the 16th and 17th centuries a turning point in global history?
§ Analyze changes and continuities in the Indian Ocean trade network from 1000-1700.
§ Compare and contrast the status of women in the post-classical (600-1450) era with those of the early modern (1450-1750) era.
§ To what extent was the Columbian Exchange a turning point in global history?
§ To what extent was the defeat of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire a turning point in global history?
§ To what extent was the Protestant Reformation a turning point in the early modern (1450-1750) period?
§ Analyze the causes of Western European conquests from 1450 to 1750.
§ Analyze how political transformations contributed to continuities and changes in the cultures of Western Europe during the period 1500CE-1750CE.
§ Analyze the similarities and differences between the Columbian Exchange from 1450-1750 and the exchanges that had taken place along the Silk Roads from 600 BCE to 1400 CE.
§ Analyze continuities and changes in demographics and the environment from 1750 to 1900.
§ Analyze the effects of the global silver trade on two of the following in the period 1492-1750: China, Japan, Spain, England.
§ Compare the demographic and environmental effects of the Columbian Exchange from 1492-1750 on any two of the following: the Americas, Africa, East Asia, South Asia, Europe.
§ Analyze continuities and changes in religion in Latin America from 1450 CE to 1900 CE.
§ Analyze continuities and changes in religion in sub-Saharan Africa from 1450 CE to 1900 CE.
Unit Three
§ Compare and contrast the effects either of the Trans-Saharan trade network or the Silk Roads with the Indian Ocean trade network in the post-classical (600-1450) era.
§ Compare and contrast the effects of the Bubonic Plague in the 1300s with those of the influenza pandemic following World War I.
§ Analyze changes and continuities in forms of coerced labor in the post-classical (600-1450) era with those of the early modern (1450-1750) era.
§ To what extent was the establishment of the Mongol Empire a turning point in the post-classical era?
§ Analyze similarities and differences in the outcomes of the Mongol conquest of China and of Russia.
§ Evaluate the extent to which the emergence of Islam in the seventh century can be considered a turning point in world history.
§ Analyze similarities and differences in the impact of the Mongols’ conquest of China and Persia.
§ Analyze similarities and differences in the impact of the Mongols’ conquest of Russia and Persia.
§ Analyze continuities and changes in long-distance trade circa 600 CE to 1600 CE.
Unit Two
§ Compare and contrast the growth either of Buddhism or Christianity in the classical (600BCE-600CE) era with the growth of Islam in the post-classical (600-1450) era.
§ Analyze the changes and continuities in interregional trade routes in Eurasia in the classical (600BCE-600CE) era.
§ Using specific examples, analyze causes of imperial expansion and consolidation in the period 600BCE-600CE.
§ Analyze how political transformations contributed to continuities and changes in the cultures of Western Europe during the period 200 CE to 1000 CE.
§ Analyze causes of imperial decline and collapse in the period 600BCE-600CE.
§ Using specific examples, analyze continuities and changes in the relationship between legal systems and social hierarchies in the period 2000BCE-1000CE.
§ Analyze continuities and changes in demographics and the environment from 8000BCE to 600CE.
Unit One
§ Compare and contrast the causes of the Neolithic Revolution in the foundations (8000BCE-600BCE) era with those of the twentieth-century Green Revolution.
§ Analyze the causes of environmental change in the period 8000BCE-600BCE.
§ Evaluate the extent to which the emergence of Buddhism in the fifth century BCE can be considered a turning point in world history.
§ Analyze continuities and changes in demographics and the environment in the period 8000BCE-600CE.