CHANGE OVER TIME APWH Essays:

Basic Core: Change Over Time

Expanded Core: Comparative Essay

The Question:  The Change Over Time Essay  Will ask you about change over time  Will involve one or more periods as designated in the course description: Foundations (8000 BCE – 600 CE) Present  Will highlight the broad issues in world history  In one cultural area OR several

The Game Plan:  Start by stating what the condition was at the beginning of the span of time you are to address  Show how the condition or circumstance changed from then until the end of the time span  If you have to write about more than one time period or region:  note how the circumstance or condition was different AND the same in each time period/region Start Finish

Essay Practice: Question Topic Thesis Statement Beginning of Time Frame End of Time Frame

Practice Question: Unit 1  Analyze the cultural and political changes and continuities in ONE of the following civilizations during the last centuries of the classical era (2006)  Chinese, 100CE-600CE  Roman, 100CE-600CE  Indian, 300CE-600CE

Practice Question: Unit 2  Analyze the social and economic transformations that occurred in the Atlantic world as a result of new contacts among Western Europe, Africa, and the Americas from 1492 to (2005)

Practice Question: Unit 3  Analyze the changes and continuities in commerce in the Indian Ocean region from 650CE -1750CE. (2008)

Practice Question: Unit 4  Analyze the changes and continuities in labor systems from in ONE of the following regions. In your analysis, be sure to include the causes of change as well as the reasons for the continuities. (2004)  Latin America and the Caribbean  Russia  Sub-Saharan Africa

Practice Question: Unit 5  Analyze major changes and continuities in the formation of national identities in ONE of the regions listed below from 1914 to the present. Be sure to include evidence from specific countries in the region selected. (2007)  Middle East  Southeast Asia  Sub-Saharan Africa