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Prompt
  • Compare and contrast two of the following
    imperial systems during the period 1450-1750.
    Focus primarily on the measure of state power.
  • Romanov Russia
  • Tokugawa Japan
  • France
  • Ottoman Empire

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Prompt
  • Compare and contrast two of the following
    imperial systems during the period 1450-1750.
    Focus primarily on the measure of state power.
  • Romanov Russia
  • Tokugawa Japan
  • France
  • Ottoman Empire

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Thesis Paragraph
  • From 1450-1750 absolutist control affected
    Japan and Russia. Although both Tokugawa Japan
    and Romanov Russia leaders held power over the
    culture in their nations and shared common
    political policies, Japan and Russia disagreed in
    the way they viewed and reacted to Western
    influence.

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1st Body Paragraph
  • Both Tokugawa Japan and Romanov Russias
    leaders were involved in the culture of the
    country. Shogunate Japan, as well as Romanov
    Russia, had power over the religion of the area.
    Russias tsar, in order to hold more power over
    Russia, had Orthodox Christianity under the
    states control, while Tokugawa Japan showed its
    influence over religion by persecuting and
    evicting Christians due to the fear that it would
    promote western ideals that Japan did not want to
    affect their culture. Both Japan and Russias
    leaders aided in the artistic realm of their
    countrys culture. Peter the Great, in hopes of
    westernizing Russia, brought artisans back from
    Europe and ballet from France which enriched the
    Russian culture significantly. Due to Japans
    seclusion started by the absolutist shoguns,
    Japan was able to enrich its own culture by
    starting kabuki theatre and Haiku poetry. Both
    of these techniques used by the leaders in Russia
    and Japan enabled a larger educated class to grow
    as a result.

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2nd Body Paragraph
  • Tokugawa Japan and Romanov Russia had similar
    political policies. The Tokugawa shoguns limited
    the power of the daimyos by requiring them to
    alternate their living patterns from their home
    to the capital. Similarly, Alexis abolished the
    noble assemblies in Russia. The Russian and
    Tokugawa Japan leaders did this because they did
    not want their power to be threatened and they
    wanted to keep a close eye on the nobles. Japan
    and Russias leaders also moved their capital,
    which exhibited the power of their political
    positions, even though their reasons for doing so
    were different. The shogun in Japan moved the
    capital to Edo to surround himself with his
    supporters while Peter the Great moved the
    capital to St. Petersburg to be closer to the
    West.

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3rd Body Paragraph
  • Japan and Russia differed in their views on
    Western influence. Peter the Great, unlike the
    Tokugawa shoguns believed that Russia needed to
    become westernized in order to achieve greatness.
    Peter put several policies into effect in order
    to do this, such as having his people wear
    European garments and demanding men shave their
    beards. On the other hand, Japans shogun started
    the isolation policy, which limited the extent of
    Western influence to practically nothing due to
    the shogunates dislike of the West. While
    Russia secured a port on the Baltic Sea in order
    to trade with the West, Japan closed down all of
    its ports except for one to foreign merchants.
    Japan only permitted the Dutch to enter because
    they were willing to submit to the shoguns
    requests. Western influence was not welcomed
    into Japan due to its threat upon Japans culture
    and political status. Peter the Great saw that
    implementing advancements from the West would
    help Russia rebuild after being so far behind the
    West while under Mongol rule. Japanese dislike
    for the West was similar to the Ottoman Empire at
    this time because they thought of the Europeans
    as barbaric and not educated enough to provide
    advancements, which ended up hurting the Ottomans
    in the long-run.

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Conclusion
  • Even though both Russia and Japan were ruled by
    an absolute leader, Russia benefited more
    economically due to the fact that they
    voluntarily opened up to the West while Japan
    took longer to break free from well-established
    traditions.

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Things Not To Do
  • Dont use I, refer to the reader, or ask
    questions at any time in the essay
  • Dont just put the direct comparison or analysis
    words in the paragraphs to get creditthe
    information you write has to all make sense!
  • Do not use vague statements for evidence it must
    be facts
  • --Economically the trade with Europe continued
    to grow. (how?)
  • --The czars became more powerful and expanded
    Russia (how?)
  • --The nobles were pressured to adapt to
    western customs (which ones?)

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Prompt
  • Compare and contrast Russias interaction with
    the West with the interaction of one of the
    following with the West
  • Ottoman Empire
  • China
  • Tokugawa Japan
  • Mughal India

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Acceptable Thesis Paragraph
  • The interactions between the West and the
    Russian and Ottoman Empires helped shape the
    world during that time period. Although the
    Russian and Ottomans both avoided the religions
    of Western Europe, they differed in the fact that
    the Russians looked up to the West and took many
    innovations from them while the Ottomans thought
    themselves superior and that Russia peacefully
    coexisted with the West in contrast to the
    Ottomans land wars.

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1st Body Paragraph
  • The Russian and Ottoman empires both steered
    clear of Western Catholicism and Protestantism.
    While Western Europe was being swept up in the
    Protestant Reformation, the Russians and those
    who lived in the Balkans were unaffected. Due to
    the schism, the Russians held on to their Eastern
    Orthodox beliefs and did not allow Catholicism
    nor Protestantism to spread via trade routes of
    the Westernization brought on by Peter the Great.
    They also rejected the missionaries from these
    prospective religions. Similarly, the Ottomans
    also resisted the spread of Catholicism and
    Protestantism from the West into their own
    empire. Being predominately Muslim, the Ottomans
    shut out missionaries from any other religion.

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Prompt
  • Compare and contrast gender relations in two of
    the following areas and explain womens rights
    and responsibilities.
  • India
  • China
  • Greece
  • Rome

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Thesis Paragraph
  • In the classical era, the patriarchal societies
    of India and Greece held women inferior.
    Although Greece and Indian women had the same
    gender roles in public status, their
    responsibilities and rights differed.

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1st Body Paragraph
  • In both Greece and India, men enjoyed high
    pubic status while women were not given much
    status at all. During this time both empires
    sought to educate the men. However, women, seen
    as inferior, were left out of the education
    process. Both empires religions, Hinduism in
    India, and polytheism in Greece, created more
    inequality by lowering women in each class
    system. This was due to the fact that the
    religions stories usually depicted women in a
    bad light. In addition, a mans higher status
    allowed him to work for the government in both
    Greece and India while the women could not
    achieve this status. The womens inferiority in
    both governments illustrates their similar public
    status.

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Second Paragraph
  • Greek and Indian women had significantly
    different responsibilities in their societies.
    Greek women were given enough responsibilities to
    run a household or even a business, unlike the
    Indian women who were given little or no
    responsibility, even in their own home. This is
    exemplified by the fact that Greek women had a
    say in their home, after their husband. On the
    other hand, Indian women were to worship their
    husbands as gods and differ to them. Also, Greek
    women could influence their husbands vote in
    public issues decided in a democratic way, unlike
    India, where a wife was not even allowed to share
    her opinion unless told. Another example of the
    difference in responsibilities is the fact that
    Indian women were seen as property, almost like
    slaves. In contrast, Greek women were not owned
    by their husbands, in fact, their were
    considerably freer than in India.

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Third Paragraph
  • The rights of women in Greece allowed for more
    autonomy than the rights of women in India. In
    Greece, if a womans husband passed away, she was
    allowed to remarry. However, an Indian women was
    forced to burn herself. As time progressed,
    womens rights improved in Greece, unlike in
    India, whose treatment of women regressed over
    time. This was because of the influence Hinduism
    and the caste system had in Indian society. The
    lack of rights in India was similar to the rights
    that most of the women in other societies, such
    as Han China, had at this time.
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