Worlds Together, Worlds Apart with Sources, Volume 2, From 1000 CE to the Present, by Elizabeth Pollard Clifford Rosenberg Robert Tignor, ISBN 9780393668551.

The essays should be covering any two of those prompts:

Choose TWO of the following essays prompts. Type your responses in Word and upload to Blackboard by Saturday, 3/13 at 11:59pm.

1. Compare the ways that the bureaucratic structures of the Ming and Ottoman dynasties supported the strength of the ruling family.

2. How did the basic tenets of European Renaissance humanism challenge political and religious assumptions?

3. Analyze the impact of the Atlantic slave trade on African societies between 1600 and 1750. Which social groups benefited, and which did not? How did participation in the slave trade contribute to the formation of states, and what were its pitfalls?

4. Analyze how the Enlightenment was defined both in terms of ideas and in terms of social practices, and explain the context from which those ideas and practices emerged. What were the global effects of Enlightenment thought?