ASSIGNMENT 1
Name: ________________________
Short answer essays: Chose one from chapter 18 and one question from chapter 19. Answer your chosen questions with a short-answer essay for each. Each of your essays should be about 250-400 words in length. Do not plagiarize. This needs to be type-writtend, double spaced, 10 or 12 point font, 1 inche margins. Each essay is worth 10 points. 20 points total.
Chapter 18:
What were the main tenets of Ming-Qing culture? What are the similarities of culture with past Chinese dynasties? What influence, if any, did the West have on Chinese cultural development?
How did contact with Westerners influence Japanese culture? To what extent were cultural contacts with the West maintained after the expulsion of foreigners in the seventeenth century?
Chapter 19:
Compare and contrast Constitutionalism/Parliamentary government and Absolutism in England and France.
Discuss the development of Russia, Prussia and Austria in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Be sure to include the ruling houses of each.
Name: ________________________
Short answer essays: Chose one from chapter 18 and one question from chapter 19. Answer your chosen questions with a short-answer essay for each. Each of your essays should be about 250-400 words in length. Do not plagiarize. This needs to be type-writtend, double spaced, 10 or 12 point font, 1 inche margins. Each essay is worth 10 points. 20 points total.
Chapter 18:
What were the main tenets of Ming-Qing culture? What are the similarities of culture with past Chinese dynasties? What influence, if any, did the West have on Chinese cultural development?
How did contact with Westerners influence Japanese culture? To what extent were cultural contacts with the West maintained after the expulsion of foreigners in the seventeenth century?
Chapter 19:
Compare and contrast Constitutionalism/Parliamentary government and Absolutism in England and France.
Discuss the development of Russia, Prussia and Austria in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Be sure to include the ruling houses of each.
