Continuity and Change Over
Time
Part B: CCOT
(Suggested Planning Time – 40 minutes)
Percent of Section II score = 33 1/3
What It Is
• Analyzes continuity and change over time
• Covers at least one time period
• Addresses a theme such as trade, culture,
technology, migration, environment
• Analyzes the process and causes of
change using specific examples
• Analyzes the process and causes of
continuities using specific examples
Generic Rubric
• Has an acceptable thesis.
(Addresses the global
issues and the time
period specified.)
• Addresses all parts of the
questions, though not
necessarily evenly or
thoroughly. (Addresses
most parts of the
question: for example,
addresses change but not
continuity)
• 1 point
• 2 points
• Substantiates thesis with
appropriate historical
evidence. (Partially
substantiates thesis with
appropriate evidence)
• Uses relevant world
historical context
effectively to explain
continuity and change
over time
• Analyzes the process of
continuity and change
over time
• 2 points
• 1 point
• 1 point
• Basic Core points - 7
Expanded Core
• Clear, analytical and
comprehensive thesis
• Analyzes all issues of the
question: global context,
chronology, causation,
change, continuity,
effects, content
• Ample historical evidence
• Links to relevant ideas,
events, trends in
innovative ways
• 0 – 2 points
Directions: You are to answer the
following question. You should spend
5 minutes organizing or outlining
your essay.
Write an essay that:
• Has a relevant thesis and supports that thesis with
appropriate historical evidence.
• Addresses all parts of the question
• Uses world historical context to show change and
continuity over time
• Analyzes the process of change and continuity over time
2. Analyze the social and economic
transformations that occurred in the
Atlantic world as a result of new
contacts among Western Europe,
Africa and the Americas from 1492
to 1750.
Thesis
• Must be at the beginning of the essay.
• Must explicitly address social and economic
changes and continuities
• “Between 1492 and 1750, a period marked by
exploration and European imperialism, a global
economy emerged in which Africa, the Americas
and Europe all interacted and exchanged goods
through commerce. The social hierarchies and
demographics of these areas were also
dramatically altered by globalization and
contacts with the New World, although the basic
political structures were left largely unchanged.”
Addresses all parts of Question
• Students must accurately describe six social
and economic changes or continuities, at least
one social and one economic.
• Students may address transformations within the
Atlantic World, or within specific regions:
Western Europe, Africa, Americas
• “The most radical change . . .revolved around
the new global economy, which was marked by
the system of Triangular trade which took raw
materials from Africa and the Americas across
the Atlantic to be transformed into manufactured
products in Western Europe.”
Historical evidence
• Nine pieces of historical evidence, at least
one on social and one on economic
changes
• “European economy boomed with the
introduction of New World crops such as
potatoes and corn, and the population
increased dramatically.”
Historical Context
• Uses historical context to effectively show
change and continuity in the Atlantic world
• Placing the Atlantic world in the context of world
history
• Connecting the Atlantic world to global
processes
• Describing the interaction between two regions
• “This exchange led to dramatic social changes
in West Africa, where millions of men and
women were exported across the Atlantic to be
used as slaves in the Americas.”
Analyzes the process of change
and continuity
• Explain the causation of exchange around
the Atlantic world
• “Since this sort of labor involving sugar
cane was highly demanding and required
great physical force, men were generally
needed and women were left back in
Africa.”