- Describe the establishment of the Qing dynasty in China and the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan and compare the ways each asserted its legitimacy and responded to the challenges of global economic integration.
- Compare the evolution of the English state and its policies with the evolution of the Russian state and its policies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
- Analyze the impact of the Atlantic slave trade on African societies between 1600 and 1750. In the aggregate, which social groups benefited, and which did not? How did participation in the slave trade contribute to the formation of states, and what were its pitfalls?
