Chapter 18- The Atlantic System and its Consequences, 1690-1740 (665-704)

AP FRQ Essays:

• How and to what extent did the Commercial Revolution transform the European economy and diplomatic balance of power in the period from 1650 to 1763 ?  (2006 B)
• Analyze the effects of the Columbian exchange (the interchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World and the New World) on the population and economy of Europe in the period 1550 to 1700. (2006 A)
• Assess the impact of the Scientific Revolution on religion and philosophy in the period 1550 to 1750. (2004 A)
• Identify features of the eighteenth-century Agricultural Revolution and analyze its social and economic consequences. (2003 A)
• In what ways and to what extent did absolutism affect the power and status of the European nobility in the period 1650 to 1750? Use examples from at least TWO countries. (2002 A)
• Analyze at least TWO factors that account for the rise and TWO factors that explain the decline of witchcraft persecution and trials in Europe in the period from 1580 to 1750. (2002 A)
• Describe and analyze how overseas expansion by European states affected global trade and international relations from 1600 to 1715. (2001)

Other Potential Essays:

• How did England and the Dutch Republic successfully compete with France and Spain for control of trade and overseas territories?
• By 1700 it had become evident that Western Europe and Eastern Europe were moving in opposite directions in terms of their basic social structures.  Discuss
• Describe Peter the Great's attempts to westernize Russia.  Be sure to include a discussion of the causes as well as an evaluation of its effectiveness over time.
• How did the agricultural revolution serve as a starting point for the industrial revolution and the changes it made on society?
• Describe the change in the lifestyle and working conditions of the average peasant forced out by the enclosure movement.
• Analyze the changes in the European economy from about 1450 to 1700 brought about by the voyages of discovery and by colonization.  Give specific examples
• In 1490 there was no such country as Spain, yet within a century it had become the most powerful nation in Europe and within another had sunk to the status of a third-rate power.  Describe and analyze the major social, economic, and political reasons for Spain's rise and fall.
• Describe and analyze how overseas expansion by European states affected global trade and international relations from 1600-1715.