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Lesson 3: The Change Over Time Essay Lesson Questions: What are the evaluative standards for the Change Over Time Essay? How should one organize a Change Over Time Essay?
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Lesson 3: The Change Over Time Essay Lesson Questions: What are the evaluative standards for the Change Over Time Essay? How should one organize a Change Over Time Essay? Lesson Objectives: The students will understand the evaluative standards for the Change Over Time Essay as well as the essay’s basic structure.
Change Over Time Prompt: Analyze the nature of the Russian Empire’s expansion and Russian cultural developments from 1480 to 1725.
1480 1550s 1690s Continuities 1725 Muscovite State Ivan the Terrible’s Reign Peter the Great’s Reign Peasant Culture Largest Empire Landlocked Sweden, Poland, Ottomans Great Embassy 1689-90 No Westernization European Power No Warm Water Port Expansion in C. Asia Modernization of Army Folk Culture Diplomatic Ties New Cultural Identity Cossacks Great No. War 1701-21 Illiteracy Westernizers Russian Orthodoxy Multiethnic Empire European Practices Superstition Slavophiles Cultural Division: Elite vs. Peasant .
Thesis Formula: Dates in Prompt + 1st Change + 2nd Change + Continuity(ies) Sample Thesis: Between the years 1480 to 1725, Russia became an empire by expanding across Eurasia and underwent a rapid program of Westernization initiated by Peter the Great, while throughout this same period the Russian peasantry maintained its traditional folk culture untouched by Western influences.
Change Over Time Essay Prompt: Analyze the political and religious developments in France during the period of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era from 1789 to 1815.
Change Over Time Essay Prompt: Analyze the social and economic transformations that occurred in the Atlantic world as a result of new contacts among Western Europe, Africa, and the Americas from 1492 to 1750.