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DBQ Preparation Writing Practice
Contextualization/Thesis Practice:
Directions: For the following prompts, read the student’s contextualization statements and theses. Indicate if they would receive the thesis
point. If they wouldn’t, fix them for the student.
Prompt: Analyze how leaders in the early modern period consolidated power using religion, art and architecture.
Student Contextualization: In the period before 1450, in places like the Middle East and Europe, power tended to be decentralized. At the
beginning of the early modern period, rulers in the Ottoman Empire, Russia, and France began to centralize and consolidate power in the
hands of absolute monarchs and sultans.
Credit? ( Y /N) If no, fix:
Student Thesis: In the early modern period, leaders such as Louis XIV and Suleyman the Magnificent used religion and art and architecture to
consolidate power.
Credit? (Y/ N ) If no, fix: In the early modern period, leaders such as Louis XIV and Suleyman the Magnificent used architecture as a way to show
off their wealth and power, while they used state religion as a way to legitimize their rule.
Prompt: Compare the goals of the southern Baroque and the northern Baroque.
Student Contextualization: The Baroque was an art movement that followed the Renaissance.
Credit? (Y/ N ) If no, fix: The Baroque was an artistic movement that followed the Renaissance in Europe, and that was inspired by the social and
political changes of the period as well as the lingering effects of the Protestant Reformation and the Counter-Reformation from the Catholic
Church. The movement was more emotional and dramatic than previous art movements in Europe.
Student Thesis : While both the southern Baroque and northern Baroque were used by religious institutions and political leaders to further their
goals, the southern Baroque focused mostly on religious scenes, while the northern Baroque focused on portraying the burgeoning middle
class.
Credit? ( Y /N) If no, fix:
Directions: For the following prompts, write a contextualization sentence and thesis.
Prompt: Compare the demographic and environmental effects of the Columbian Exchange from 1492-1750 on any two of the following: the
Americas, Africa, East Asia, South Asia, Europe.