1. Development and transformation of social structures
Finishing COMP and COT theses
Families and kinship, social and economic class, gender, Ethnic constructs

4. How many acronyms? Thesis Audience While Evidence
Addresses all parts of the question
Reasons for similarities and differences
Class
Although
Analysis
Relevant world historical context
Occupation
Despite
Meaning
Comparisons relevant and direct
Religion
Even though
Grouping
Nationality
Additional document
Political affiliation
Point of view
Education
Gender

5. Essay topics DBQ COMP COT Communism European imperialism Cricket
Green Revolution
Industrialism
African imperialism
Olympics
Han and Rome Technology
Silver trade
20th Century Muslim nationalism
Buddhism in China
Indentured Servitude
Merchants in Christianity and Islam
Religion/gov’t
Economic development
Demographic and environmental
Rise of Empires
Political control
Racial ideologies
Nation-States
Empire building
20th century Revolutions
Political-Economic impacts of Mongol rule
Impacts of WWI
Women
China/Japan West
Trade
Political transformation
Long distance migration
Religious beliefs and practices
Silk Routes
Indian Ocean
Formation of national identities
Cultural political Classical
Social-economic transformation Atlantic world
Labor Systems
Role of Islam P-E-C
Global Trade

6. Contextualization
Neolithic Age provides the development of labor specialization and class structure, patriarchy develops a result of men attempting to protect inheritance and property. This marks the beginning of unequal societies( see Hammurabi). Most people identified by religion, ethnicity, empire, etc.
Religion (caste, 5 relationships, priests), aristocracy/nobility, and governments( military, laws) maintain status quo with little chance of upward social mobility. Children were often a labor source and families were large in agricultural rural villages. Peasants and slaves often at the bottom (merchants in East Asia)
Some social mobility existed in China through meritocracy, industrialism, mercantilism, joint stock companies (bourgeoisie) Atlantic Revolutions, globalization, dhimmi status in Muslim world, tolerance in Persian, Muslims and some European societies, role of enlightenment on Atlantic Rev and abolition of slavery, nationalism and women’s suffrage, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Hague to hold people accountable)
Revolutions/rebellions often started by the discontent (lead by middle class often by supported by masses)
Women in mostly domestic sphere ( healers and mid-wives unit 4, nurses and teachers and factory workers unit 5, suffrage after world wars still attempting to break the glass ceiling and the appeal of Communist propaganda)
Feudalism, caste, encomienda, citizen vs non citizen, xenophobia, ethnocentrism, indentured servitude, chattel slavery, rigid social systems
Racial relations begin with Columbian exchange (Las Castas system, black codes) continue with social Darwinism and laws like Apartheid, Jim Crow Laws and divide and conquer tactics in both old and new imperialism)
From the womb to the tomb class has determined many developments: “History is a struggle between the haves and have nots”- Karl Marx. Adam Smith determined hard work and innovation would provide opportunities of social advancement.
Imperialism exploited the land, labor and capital and often coerced labor providing little opportunities ( proletariat, indentured servitude, chattel slavery, corvee labor, mita system, coolies, unemployed, migrant labor etc.)
Globalization was supposed to provide new social opportunities to more people, free trade agreements, etc. but many are still left out of the possibilities for social advancement.
Family changes from extended to nuclear to mixed.
Nationalism inspired by ethnic, religious, racial identities( Pan Slavism, Pan Arabism, Zionism, Pan Africanism, Negritude movement, etc.
1st world vs 2nd world vs third world (now developing) inequalities based on years of imperialism, unfair trade policies, dictatorships, civil unrest, global south unequal to global north

7. Think feudalism and caste system
The rigid social hierarchies in Western Europe and India 600B.C.E-600C.E. denied any chances of social mobility, were justified under the religious values of following one’ station with a reward in the next life, although

8. Think Confucianism and Aztec
Childhood in East Asia and Latin America was very short lived as larger families provided a source of labor to work on the farms, educated elites learned to provide economic opportunities for their families, even though

9. Think revolutions and cult of domesticity
Women in Western Europe and Latin America both took part in the revolutionary process, both were marginalized due to the patriarchy which persisted, although

10. Think paterfamilias and 5 relationships
4. Families in both Western Europe and East Asia 600 B.C.E-600 C.E emphasized the role of the father as the dominant parent, relegated the role of the mother toward domestic duty, despite

11. Think industrial revolution and role of unions
The proletariat in both North America and Western Europe would struggle under subsistence wages and unsafe and unfair working conditions ,although

12. Think religions and philosophies of the classical world
In both East Asia and South Asia social promotion was limited to those who were provided opportunities outside the realm of belief systems, outside forces would challenge the status quo despite

13. Think role of Communism
Women in both East Asia and Eastern Europe present elevated their status through the opportunities of working within the Communist System, worked in jobs not traditionally associated with women, although

14. Think end of feudalism and Mandate of Heaven
Peasant rebellions were common in Western Europe and Eastern Asia out of dissatisfaction with the rule of government and its negligence, its crippling tax hikes which forced many to go without the basic essentials although

15. Think Revolutions again( and enlightenment)
The bourgeoisie in Latin America and North America were both inspired by enlightened ideals of liberty and property rights, both staged rebellions against absolute monarchies even though

16. Think post colonialism and indigenous populations)
Ethnic minorities in both Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America in the 20th century have been subjected to horrific acts by ethnic majority groups, have faced discrimination by their respective governments Although

17. Dar al Islam
The Arabs in the Middle East began a pattern of centralization under the banner of Islam and the Umma, coifed laws which governed behavior under the Sharia while

18. Think revolutions and Communism
The Han Chinese 1911-Present combined various ethnic Turkic, Mongol and Uighur groups under the idealization of nationalism, embarked on an program of equity under the Communist cultural revolution, even though

19. Think Holocaust
Jews in Western Europe 1900-present were subjected to anti-semitic discrimination, were denied access to institutions within the government, despite

20. Think Westernization or Islamic fundamentalism
Women’s in the Middle East in the 20th century enjoyed less restrictions in dress in places like Turkey and Egypt, gained access to schools, even

21. Think Industrialism and Globalization
Families in North America 1750-present went from the extended to the nuclear family, were often disjointed due to relaxed marital and cultural values despite

22. Think colonialism and the church
Latin America 1750-Present was dominated by the patriarchy of machismo, limiting women’s roles culturally to the domestic sphere even though

23. Think Aztec/Inca and then colonialism
Social hierarchies in Latin America would be dominated by land owning class, would relegate most domestic roles to women even though

24. Think Genocide
Minority groups in Rwanda and Bosnia in were targeted toward elimination, they both were scapegoated for the negative economic problems of the ri respective countries despite

25. Think total War (Rosie the riveter)
World War one provided women’s right in both north America and Western Europe eventually gaining women suffrage rights and gaining access into the industrial workforce on a more regular basis although

26. Think post-colonialism and Balfour declaration and Sykes-Picot agreement
Arabs and Israelis 1947-present both contend the lands in the Eastern Mediterranean to be of historical importance to their respective people’s, both claim religious legitimacy to the lands, despite