Major comparisons & snapshots
- Compare colonial administrations
- Compare coercive labor systems: slavery and other coercive labor systems in the Americas
- Analyze the development of empire (i.e., general empire building in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas)
- Analyze imperial systems: a European seaborne empire compared with a land-based Asian empire
- Compare Russia's interaction with two of the following (Ottoman Empire, China, western Europe, and eastern Europe)
- Compare Mesoamerican and Andean systems of economic exchange
