- Each essay should have a strong thesis statement and
conclusion, and the body paragraphs should support the thesis statement. - Short answer essay questions assess your ability to analyze patterns and processes in global history, and your capacity to write a coherent essay response. You will succeed if you construct a strong, argumentative essay that concentrates on an interpretation of the events.
Consider the following to succeed on the Short Essays:
- Each essay should be approximately 2-4 paragraphs in length.
- Each essay should have a strong thesis statement and conclusion, and the body paragraphs should support the thesis statement.
- 1TOPIC: The links between imperialism, industrialization, and global conflict.
- In what ways did industrialization encourage imperialism, and vice versa?
- How did industrialization lead to conflict within societies?
- How did imperialism lead to conflict between nation-states?
- How did the second wave of imperialism lead to new conflicts between colonizer and colonized?
- What primary sources are helpful in answering this question?
- 2TOPIC: Assessing the rise of the Western world.
- What factors led to the rise of the Western world from the industrial revolution to the present?
- Which nation-states and empires were leading powers during each major period since the industrial revolution?
- Has the success of the Western world come at the expense of others?Have racism, labor exploitation, and imperialism been part of this process?
- Why might non-Western societies still view the West with suspicion, given these historical legacies?
- What primary sources are helpful in answering this question?
- 3TOPIC: High Imperialism and Decolonization
- What factors led to a second wave of imperialism in the late nineteenth century?
- How did European powers approach imperialism in this period differently than in the early modern period?
- What forces contributed to widespread decolonization after 1945?
- What does Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place tell us about the decolonized world?About how the decolonized feel about their former colonizers?About their current place in the world?
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