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| 3523404630 | Economic/Political effects of Mongol rule on Russia and China? | SIM - tax farming - rulers appointed by Khan - Mongol rule does not dominate all parts of life DIFF - standardized tax in China - Russia submits/China resists - Russia from afar/China actively - Russia adopts Mongol government practices/China eliminates all traces | 0 | |
| 3523581201 | Racial Ideologies North America vs Latin America/Caribbean | SIM - European superiority - - DIFF - Relocation vs Forced Labor - Unity vs Creoles/Peninsulares - social mobility in Latin America - little black = BLACK - no racial mixing due to gender balance | 1 | |
| 3531656166 | Compare the processes of empire building in the Spanish Empire with the empire-building processes in The Ottoman Empire | SIM -Both invaded different empires -Both brought their religion on other e.g. forced conversion, devsirme) -Administrative processes(Encomienda vs educated class) -Both built upon war(expulsion of the Moors vs conquering Constantinople) DIFF -Ottomans who converted would be first class, while native people in the Spanish empire maintained a second class status -Goals for conquest e.g. Spain wanted a merchant empire and the ottomans wanted a militant empire -Land vs Naval empire | 2 | |
| 3531676603 | Compare demographic and environmental effects of the Columbian Exchange on the Americas with the Columbian Exchange's demographic and environmental effects on ONE of the following regions between 1492 and 1750. Africa | SIM - Introduction of new crops - Decrease of pop. in native people - Both die from disease e.g Syphilis in Africa from NE - Shift in gender population DIFF - Africans get enslaved and sent to New World, ---------------remainder of Native Americans get sent to forced labor - Male slaves sent to NE, makes men pop. in Africa go ------down and for majority of the Americas to be male - Large percent of native population died in NE while -----shift in population in Africa was from slave trade | 3 | |
| 3531710659 | Analyze similarities and differences in how TWO of the following empires used religion to govern before 1450. Byzantine Empire Islamic Caliphates | SIM -Religious Justification to rule by deity -monumental architecture to display opulence and -power -religious laws -religious tax DIFF -peaceful conversion/oppressive -icons -Caesaropapism/Sunnis | 4 | |
| 3531726066 | Analyze similarities and differences in TWO of the following trade networks in the period 600 C.E. to 1450 C.E. Your response may include comparisons of biological, commercial, or cultural exchanges. Indian Ocean Silk Roads | SIM - Mahayana Buddhism on Silk Road/Theravada on IOMS spread of technology - increase in economic growth of entrepots and port cities - diseases - smallpox, measles DIFF - Silk Road focused on luxury items - IOMS is fragmented/Relay trade - IOMS is seasonal (monsoons) - success of IOMS did not rely on security from other empires (had no owner) | 5 | |
| 3531751384 | Analyze similarities and differences in the rise of TWO of the following empires. The Aztec Empire The Mongol Empire | SIM -Both the Mongols and Aztecs initially had fierce warriors who helped conquer land, and had a highly aggressive program of military conquest -Both invaded areas with political fragmentation (Aztec invaded tribes, Mongols invaded China when they had lost control of their northern lands) -Were known for their ruthless brutality (Aztecs practiced mass human sacrifice, Mongols killed entire towns when raiding) -Both actively used their political and military power to try to control trade or tribute in the lands around them for resources DIFF -Mongols allowed religious tolerance and freedom in conquered states while Aztecs enforced their religion onto the people they conquered. -Mongols conquered the largest land empire in the history of the world, while the Aztec's empire was tiny in comparison but had far control out of its core area. -Aztecs were predominately agricultural with advanced farming systems like chinampas, while Mongols were mostly pastoralist | 6 | |
| 3531774701 | Analyze similarities and differences in methods of political control in TWO of the following empires in the Classical period. Han China (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.) Imperial Rome (31 B.C.E.-476 C.E.) | SIM - Han China and Imperial Rome authorities both invoked supernatural sanctions to support their rule - (Mandate of heaven, deceased emperors as Gods) - Both China and Rome fell because their empire became too big and was not able to sustain it with resources - Both Rome and China had an emperor, Augustus in Rome starting from 27 BCE, and Han China had emperors like Wudi and Wendi. DIFF - Rome was built on the idea of creating something new, while China was ruled with the idea of restoring. China and Rome dealt with threatening nomadic peoples differently (China - bribery/Rome - continuously conquer areas to create buffer) - Rome was based on strict laws while Han China was based on moral and Confucian officials, with a system of meritocracy and the civil service exams in China and a strict legal code in Rome. - Han rule was based greatly on its bureaucracy while Romans had a small scale, centralized government in Rome composed of the Senate and the Emperor. - Roman sanctioned citizenship to newly conquered peoples while Chinese generally did not need to because the Chinese ethnicity was very widespread | 7 |
