Humanities Homework Help

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.
• 1. TOPIC: The
  myth of peaceful and powerful European expansion in the early modern
  period.
  ·
• Was crossing the Atlantic a unique accomplishment
  during the period?
• What other empires besides Iberians had the
  potential to discover the New World?
  ·
• Why were Portugal and Spain able to colonize the New
  World, given their relatively weak position in global affairs?
  ·
  Was colonization a peaceful process? Why or why not?
• 2. TOPIC: The relationships
  between conquering colonizers and the colonized.
• ·What tactics and strategies were used by conquering
  imperialists to expand their empires and subdue their subjects?
  · What responses did the colonized have to European
  expansion?
  ·
• What general patterns emerge from the primary
  sources?
• What do they tell us about the
  relationships between Europeans and non-Europeans upon first contact?
• 3. TOPIC: The
  various models and mentalities of European conquest and expansion in the early
  modern period.
  ·
  How did different empires across the world maintain
  their dominance? What strategies did
  each major empire use?
  Once they conquered a territory or controlled trade,
  how did each empire exploit their authority or centralize their power?
  ·
• What resistance was there to these various models of
  imperial rule?
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• How did imperialism shape the cultures and societies
  of expanding empires?