1.    Compare and contrast American slavery with one of the following coercive systems of labor - Russian serfdom or the encomienda system.

2.    Describe and analyze the impact of the Columbian Exchange on one of the following regions between 1400 and 1700.  Be sure to discuss the causes of the changes as well as reasons for the continuities.

3.    Compare and contrast the exploration and colonization practices of the Portuguese and Spanish with one of the following:

        French
        British
        Dutch
   
4.    Describe the developments and shifts in thought in Europe between 1450 and 1750.  Use two of the following cultural movements to discuss the causes of the changes as well as the reasons for the continuities.

        Reformation
        Renaissance
        Enlightenment
        Scientific Revolution

5.    How did the international role of Europe change from the Post-Classical Period to the Early Modern Period?

6.    Compare Russia’s interaction with the West with the interaction of two of the following:

        Ottoman Empire
        China
        Tokugawa Japan
        Mughal India

7.    How does the world economic network of 1750 compare with that of 1000?

8.    Compare the intellectual and artistic developments of Europe to one of the following:

       Mughal India
       Tokugawa Japan
       Ming China

9.    What were the demographic and environmental changes caused by the following:

        diseases
        animals
        new crops
        population trends

10.    Compare the role of women under the Tokugawa Shogunate with two of the following:

        Western Europe
        Ottoman Empire
        Ming China

11.    Compare the Portuguese method of creating and maintaining empire with that of one of the following land-based empires

        Safavid Persia
        Ottoman Empire
        Mughal India