CCOT Overview

• CCOT = Comparison of time periods

= Continuities & Changes

= Major Theme of Historical Analysis

= Cause & Effect essay

• Read the ? Carefully

• Determine: theme, areas, and time periods to compare

• Be flexible in your organization:

geographic region

PERSIA categories,

changes & continuities

chronologically

3 Parts:

• Introduction

• Body

• Conclusion

Write a thesis statement that answers the following prompt:

Analyze the major social and cultural changes and continuities that have occurred in your life over the last ten years.

Practice CCOT

Prompt: Trace the social, political, & economic changes in Latin America from the Early Modern (1450-1750) to Modern Era (1750-1914)

1. Answer the prompt ; don’t just re-state it2. Be specific – state the specific changes and continuities

that occurred over the time period 3. Give the specific dates that they are asking you to discuss4. Support your thesis with accurate historical evidence; 5. Show CCOT using relevant historical facts; contrast this with

the starting date and what stayed the same 6. Answer All parts of the question7. Analyze the process of CCOT and explain how and why it

occurrs

•Analyze at least 1 reason for a change or continuity for each country or time period the prompt specifies

•Don’t just describe the change, spend some time explaining why the change/continuity occurred

Most effective if you use a cause & effect chain

“________ occurred because. ____ is significant because….”

• Support the thesis with relevant historical facts

• Contrast change against either the starting point or something that didn’t change

•If you have questions with multiple themes or geographic areas, you will also need to complete a chart for each area

• Actually doing a compare/contrast & CCOT essay

Use the time periods as your organizing principle

NAME: _____________________________________________________ PERIOD: _______ DATE: ________________CHART: CHANGE OVER TIMECOMPARISON THEMES (SCRIPTED):________________________ ___________________________ ____________________________TIME PERIODS: _____________________ _______________________ ________________________

THESIS

BEGINNING TIME PERIOD

Describe FirstTheme

Describe SecondTheme

Describe ThirdTheme

Comparison to Wider World

INTERIM TIME PERIOD

Key Changes and/or Continuities in each theme from previous period

Analyze the reasons for change or continuity

Comparison to Wider World

ENDTIME PERIOD

Key Changes and/or Continuities in each theme from previous periods

Analyze the reasons for change or continuity

Comparison to Wider World

CONCLUSION

Paragraph 2 = A whole paragraph of 3-4 sentences

Strongest Argument + Support

Paragraph 3 = A whole paragraph of 3-4 sentences

2nd Best Argument + Support

Paragraph 4 = A whole paragraph of 3-4 sentences

Weakest Argument + support

•Thesis must address ALL 3 pieces of info

• Note both changes & continuities

=

what remains the same?

what changes?

+ ++

Analyze BOTH differences & similarities

Connect the paper to the larger global process

specifically link the changes & continuities in the region discussed to a change somewhere else

Industrialization CCOT

Directions: You are to answer the following question: You should spend five minutes organizing or outlining your essay. Write an essay that:

• Has a relevant thesis and supports that thesis with appropriate historical evidence• Addresses all parts of the question• Uses historical context to show change over time and/or continuities• Analyzes the process of change over time and/or continuity

Describe and analyze the impact of industrialization from 1750 to 1914 on ONE of the following countries. Be sure to discuss continuities as well as changes.United KingdomChinaJapanRussiaOttoman Empire

Practice CCOT

Prompt: Trace the social, political, & economic changes in Latin America from the Early Modern (1450-1750) to Modern Era (1750-1914)

Thesis

3 Body Paragraphs

1 for each tm pd

topic sentences for each paragraph

connectors to explain change/continuity

Conclusion

Sample Continuity-Change-Over-Time Essay:

Directions: You are to answer the following question. In writing your essay, you should use the first 5 minutes planning your essay. Your essay should:

• Have a relevant thesis supported by appropriate historical evidence.

• Answer all parts of the question.

• Use historical context to show change and/or continuity over time

Explain how the globalization of commerce brought about major changes over time among the peoples of two of the regions listed below between 1450 and 1750. Note major developments, exchanges, shifts of power, and demographic changes.

• Eurasia

• Africa

• The Americas

Major Developments: You might include the following topics in your discussion about the globalization of commerce between 1450-1750

• Scientific Revolution

• Acceleration of change, cultural diffusion

• Columbian Exchange

• Transoceanic linking of major regions

• Shift in trade routes from the Mediterranean to Atlantic

• Globalization of trade

• Spanish conquer/colonize Central/South America

• British in North America

• Dutch & Portuguese in Africa, Asia, and island nations

• Global demand for Asian goods

• Global demand for African slaves

• Capitalism emerges as dominant system for

Organizing labor

Production

Trade

• Urbanization

Exchanges

• Europe to Americas:

slavery, plantation system

Disease

Genocide

Plants: wheat, melons, grapes

Animals: cattle, pigs, goats, chickens, donkeys, horses

Western clothing

Carpentry, locksmithing

Wheeled vehicles

Organized education

Christianity, specifically Roman Catholicism

Spanish, Portuguese, & English language and culture predominated

Africa to Americas

• Plants: bananas, coconut palms, coffee, sugar cane, okra

• Farming methods

• Cooking styles

• Ironworking

• African languages and culture

Americas to Europe

• Gold

• Silver

• Other jewels

• Plants: corn, beans, squash, tomato, chocolate

Europe to Asia

• Cartography

• Astronomy

• Mathematics

• Plants: corn, potatoes from Andes Mts.

• Christianity, specifically Roman Catholicism

Asia to Europe

• Guns

• Gunpowder

• Silk

• Porcelain

• Metalwork

• Block printing

• Paper

Shifts of Power

• Spain = most powerful European country

Conquered/colonized Americas

Seized Philippines (link to Asia)

Gold and silver from the Americas disrupted the economy, price revolution

• Portuguese power declined globally

• Chinese

Ming Dynasty’s power declined

Qing Dynasty’s power rose

• French power declines in

India

Africa

North America

• African power declined = negative effects of the slave trade

• British power rose in

India

Africa

• European competition in the Caribbean, North America, & Africa

Dutch

French

Spanish

English

Demographics

• Slave trade ravages African populations

• Enslaved Africans transported to Americas

• Catastrophic decline of Native Americans

Genocide

Enslaved

Disease

• Migration of Europeans to Americas

• Global population increases

Agricultural Revolution, higher food production

Better crops

More known about disease

Other Points to Consider

Mercantilism

• Mother country must export more than it imports

• Colonies provide

Resources

Raw materials

Markets for goods exported from the mother country

• European effort to control & manage

Regulation of trade

Selling of trade monopolies

Establishment of protective tariffs

Economic Changes in Europe

• Upsurge in prices (price revolution)

• Population increase

Greater demand for goods

More need for services

Urbanization

• Rise of modern capitalism