Prompt

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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.