<p>are you talking about compare and contrast?</p>
<p>Yeah, the revolutions one.</p>
<p>revolutions are never professional. Thats why the're called revolutions.
Russian revolution was basically overthrow of professional government by petrograd mob and poor stupid uneducated factory workers and peasants.</p>
<p>Yes, but Lenin emphasized the need for "professional" revolutionaries.</p>
<p>how about Indian civ (essay 2)? What you guys put for that?</p>
<p>not really. He wanted motivated and passionate revolutionaries, "true marxists". Besides, professional means they get paid to do that. I'm sure thats not the case</p>
<p>Surge, I think you mean that Lenin emphasized a revolution of intellectuals while Mao went for a revolution of peasants. Essentially Lenin was top - down, while Mao was bottom - up.</p>
<p>Mao led the peasants, Lenin led the proletarians (workers)</p>
<p>ok well for the rome part, i put about how it was a roman republic then became a roman empire. their culture was that it was derived from the greek gods and they adopted it to their roman ideal. christianity was deemed legal by the 370s after constantine converted himself after he became emperor. visigoths invade in 410, west falls 476, constantinople is capital, changed to byzantium, that fell in 1453. </p>
<p>ok well for cot, i put about how both china and russia's goals were to become communist. outcomes were that one failed and fell and one succeeded. waah i forgot to mention names like stalin and lenin and zedong. is that gonna really affect my grade. like i was hoping for a 6 will that drop me to a 5 or 4??? <em>worried face</em></p>
<p>ottomans sacking constantinopole is waayyyyyyy out of the time period they asked for</p>
<p>Yea, but it sounds like that just mentioned it in passing. But I thought Rome fell in 676 so I shouldn't be talking...</p>
<p>it was just one sentence tho....
i just put "after the classical age had passed, the byzantine empire had fallen in 1453."</p>
<p>I put that Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453 also. I used it to emphasize my point about the Empire splitting under Constantine...etc. Mine was also one line.</p>
<p>Doesn't really matter then--just makes you look smarter ;)</p>
<p>DBQ - split into Economic and Social impacts; inflation nailed Spain and I may have said something about how the Chinese couldn't eat or "use" silver -- they can't retrade it because the only countries they would trade with have massive amounts of it; then of course the fact that the silver trade make the social class stratification much greater than before....i thought that it was pretty bad...</p>
<p>COT - Did Rome; continuities were Latin or some derivative were still spoken and that there was still a "Rome" (Byzantium); changes were the splitting of the Roman empire after the Pax Romana and Christianity coming into Rome and finally being accepted officially by Constantine</p>
<p>CAC - Did Russia and Mexico; Russians were more promoting an ideal and wanted to establish their government while Mexicans were just rurals wanting to make their country better; one similarity was that they both failed in their original goal, but each country's gov't still retained socialist ideals after their revolutions</p>
<p>Hope I did aight...</p>
<p>I did the China 100-600 CE but it was probably my weakest one... I may have made some historical inaccuracies (i.e. BS'ed a fair amount), and I didn't reeeeeally discuss change vs. continuity because I completely forgot that it was that type of essay. I just sort of... wrote. </p>
<p>I'm hoping that I answered a lot of the multiple choice correctly!</p>
<p>Did Rome for change over time... Byzantines, Chistianity, fall of western Rome, Citizenship gained by males of the empire, the usual.</p>
<p>Grouped DBQ into:
The growth of silver acceptance and usage
The processes used to obtain the silver(by trade/conquest)
The negative effects of silver on the commerce nations.</p>
<p>Compared Russia/China, guessed on China's political ideology, got it right. But still my weakest essay with not enough information.</p>
<p>I compared China/Russia ... I talked a lot about how China initially wanted to remove the "foreign" Manchu i.e. Qing Dynasty, whereas the Russian czar wasn't considered to be foreign, and I tied that into the nationalist/communist conflict in China that didn't exist in Russia.</p>
<p>What prep books (if any) did you use? I had Kaplan and I liked it, it was helpful for general trends and had lots of comparative charts and such. A friend used Barrons and says it overprepared her. I didn't take the course, my friends and I all taught each other the material.</p>
<p>I used Barron's (read throughi thoroughly). I dunno why everyone thinks it overpreps.... maybe for MC but def. not for essays. It neither gives any in-depth analysis on topics nor does it have comparison (charts) [like Princeton, Kaplan, Peterson]. It leaves you to make the comparisons.</p>
<p>ok guys.....what were your scores?</p>
<p>i am waiting for the mail.</p>