Link to Class Review PowerPoint for First Semester Exam
Essay Topics (questions based on College Board materials):
I. Describe and explain continuities and changes in religious beliefs and practices in
ONE of the following regions from 1450 to the present.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Latin America/Caribbean
II. Compare the emergence of ONE nation-states in nineteenth-century Latin America with the
emergence of ONE nation-states in Europe during the nineteenth century.
III. Within the period from 1450 to 1800 compare the process of nation building in the Spanish empire (e.g. political, social, economic) with the process of nation building in ONE of the following:
-the Ottoman empire
-the Russian empire
IV. Compare and contrast the roles of women in TWO of the following areas between 1700 and 1900: East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, Western Europe
