Five Handy Examples

COT Essay Sample # 1

• Choose ONE of the following systems of labor. Discuss how it changed and/or did not change between the middle of the 1400s and the late 1800s.

• The Arab slave trade• Serfdom in Russia• The Atlantic slave trade• Plantation agriculture in Latin America

COT Essay Sample # 2

• Choose ONE of the following trade routes. Discuss its global importance, as well as how patterns of economic exchange shifted and altered during the periods designated for each.

• Indian Ocean trade network (1000-1500)• The gold trade in West and Equatorial

Africa (500-1300)• The Silk Road (100 BCE – 500 CE)• The Eastern Mediterranean (500-1300)

COT Essay Sample # 3• Choose ONE of the following political

units (countries, empires, etc) and discuss how technological developments from 1450 to 1750 changed its global influence. Be sure to describe its position of power and influence in the beginning of the period as your starting point.

• England • Russia• Ottoman Empire• China

COT Essay Sample # 4

• Discuss how technological changes since 1750 have had an impact on family structure in ONE of the following nations. Be sure to include continuities as well as changes.

• China• Japan• India• Great Britain

COT Essay Sample # 5

• Evaluate the evolution of nationalism since 1750 in ONE of the regions listed below. Include a discussion of the relationship between nationalism, racism, isolationism, and imperialism. Describe the status of the region around 1750 as your starting point.

• The Middle East• Eastern Europe• South America• The Far East

COT Essay Sample # 6

• Choose ONE of the areas listed below and analyze the area was affected or influenced by colonialism from 1750 to the present. Be sure to include the area’s role in global patterns of political and economic behavior in your answer.

• India

• Central America

• North Africa

• The Middle East

COT Essay Sample # 7

• Discuss how the change or continuity to the demographics of ONE of the following regions. Focus on the period 1450 to 1914 and include some analysis on the role of disease.

• Western Europe• West Africa• Central America• The Caribbean