CCOT

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CCOT

• Change AND Continuity over Time
• AP World History
• Mr. Becker (with thanks to Mrs. Bui)

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Purpose

• To evaluate your ability to analyze historical
  changes and continuities that have shaped social,
  political, economic developments in history and
  to gauge your analysis of global processes.
• This is really a high level analysis of history.

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Prompt Example

• Analyze continuities and change in patterns of
  interaction along the Silk Road from 200 B.C.E.
  to 1450 C.E.

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Scoring Worksheet/Rubric

• Thesis (1 point)
• Includes both changes and continuities (2 points)
• Uses accurate historical evidence (2 points)
• Uses global historical context (1 point)
• Analyzes process of change and/or continuity (1
  point)

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Rubric--Thesis

• Thesis that answers the question (1 point)
• Must include both a change and a continuity
• Ex. While goods traded and nations and people
  involved changed over time, the continuous flow
  of new technology, religions, customs, ideas and
  occasional plague never abated.

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RubricChange and Continuity

• Addresses both changes and continuities (2
  points)
• In other words, both must be discussed at some
  point in the essay.
• Ex. changes in the amount of trade, ideas and
  goods exchanged, etc. Continuity in that
  religion and ideas spread continuously

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Changes

• Must discuss, utilize concrete detail and analyze
  changes that occurred relevant to the prompt and
  correctly!
• If the prompt discusses command terms (social and
  economic) you need to focus on social and
  economic.
• If your prompt is more vague- you need to think
  of aspects on which to base your analysis- use
  the PERSIAN chart!

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Continuities

• The prompt also asks you to address
  continuities--generally these are patterns or
  cultural tendencies that remain stagnant for
  years and years.
• Example Think of role of women, religions,
  philosophies or clash/conflict between the social
  classes.
• You need to have concrete detail to back up your
  continuity however.

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Rubric--Evidence

• Provide as much detailed, concrete evidence as
  possible. Also use key terms whenever possible
• E.g.Han China, Roman Empire, Buddhism, Islam,
  Christianity, Abassid Empire, Delhi Sultanate,
  Bubonic Plague, Mongols, ship-building and
  navigational technologies

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RubricGlobal Context

• Must be able to connect the analysis to a larger
  global phenomenon e.g. patriarchy in
  civilizations, global trade systems, etc.
• In other words, how can you connect larger forces
  to the question you are answering How did the
  fall of the classical empires impact Silk Road
  trade? How did the rise of Indian Ocean trading
  impact Silk Road trade?

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RubricProcess of Change

• Analyzes process of change over time and/or
  continuity (1 point)
• Not just what changed or stayed the same, but why
• Could be either change or continuity
• E.g. The amount of trade fell by 600 C.E. This
  is due to the fall of the Han and Roman Empires.
  Because these large empires could no longer
  guarantee safety for travelers, interactions
  became more dangerous and the overall amount of
  trade thus declined

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STEPS TO WRITING AN EFFECTIVE CCOT

• You must create a baseline at the starting point
  of the prompt
• E.g. what interactions were happening on the Silk
  Road in 200
• Rise of classical empires rising demand for
  goods and interactions (e.g. Buddhism)

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STEPS TO WRITING AN EFFECTIVE CCOT

• You should discuss important change points within
  the time period, not just at the end
• Change rarely happens quicklyit usually occurs
  in stages over time.
• Exampletrade flourished between 200 BCE and 200
  CE, then declined somewhat from 200 CE to 1200
  CE, then rose again from 1200 to 1450 under Pax
  Mongolica.

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Paragraph Construction

• Intro background statement with date, intro for
  reader. Thesis that answers in detail the
  question.
• BODY will depend on prompt. You can choose to
  format it two ways.
• PERSIAN Social paragraph in which you discuss
  the social starting point, social changes and
  analyze OR.
• TIME Starting point In which you will address
  and analyze the social, political and economic
  starting points. Second body paragraph would
  then discuss social, political and economic
  transition.

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Prompt 1

• Key social and political changes to keep in mind
• Aztec and Inca prior to 1450
• What political and social systems are in place
• How do Spanish change social system--think
  creoles, mestizos, etc.
• What new kinds of peoples were introduced?
• What happened to overall population?
• How was the colony managed politically?
• Labor systemsencomienda and mita
• Possible continuities?

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• By 600 CE, some Indian Ocean trade, but it really
  gets going after this point
• Changes in the period 600 to 1450? What new
  religious group gets involved? What regions are
  connected? What ideas and goods are being
  exchanged?
• Changes after 1450what new group enters the
  trade? How do they alter balance?
• Possible continuities?

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Prompt 3

• What was going on socially and economically in
  Europe, the Americas and Africa prior to 1492?
• What changed in each place? Think Columbian
  Exchange, silver, sugar, slavery, potatoes,
  smallpox, inflation, world trade, population
  numbers (demographics) and makeup of each region
• Possible continuities?

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Read primary source from King Afonso of Kongo to
Portuguese King

• What impacts is slave trade having on his
  country?
• What is his attitude about it?