Causes and Consequences of the Period
The four threads, closed
- The CED closes the unit with the same four statements it opened with: rediscovered classical works and observation, overseas exploration and settlement, commercial and agricultural capitalism notwithstanding medieval structures, and the struggle for sovereignty.
- So the review objective asks you to run each thread from cause to consequence.
- That is a different task from 1.1, which asked only for the conditions at the start.
Select all four threads the CED uses to close the unit.
The same four it opened with, now run from cause to consequence.
The threads caused each other
- Printing spread the classical revival; the revival supplied methods that challenged institutions; challenged institutions gave monarchs an opening.
- Overseas trade shifted economic power to the Atlantic; that wealth funded the centralising state.
- So a strong answer names a cross-thread link, not four separate stories.
In a unit-review answer, the analysis lives in...
Four separate stories is not an analysis.
Consequences reach past 1648
- The Reformation of unit 2 depends on 1.3's Christian humanism and 1.4's printing.
- The absolutism of unit 3 depends on 1.5's four monopolies and 1.10's wealth.
- So naming a later unit's development as a consequence is a legitimate and strong move.
Cause, consequence, or a cross-thread link?
Sort each statement in a unit-review answer.
Select all the costs the CED states as consequences.
Printing is a cause within the period, not a cost.
The unit's consequences include its costs. 1.8 names destruction of some indigenous civilisations, a shift toward European dominance, and the expansion of the trade in enslaved persons. A review answer listing only cultural and political achievements has chosen which consequences to report.
Naming a development from a ____ unit as a consequence is a legitimate move.
The Reformation depends on 1.3 and 1.4; absolutism on 1.5 and 1.10.
And they include the costs
- 1.8's three results — destruction of some indigenous civilisations, a shift toward European dominance, the expansion of the trade in enslaved persons — are consequences of this unit.
- So an answer that lists only cultural and political achievements has selected its consequences.
- The CED states the costs in the same review, and a complete answer states them too.
Put the unit-review routine in order.
The cross-thread sentence is what makes it a review rather than a summary.
A unit-review routine
- Pick two of the four threads. State one cause and one consequence for each.
- Then name a link between them — the cross-thread sentence is where the analysis lives.
- Close by naming one consequence that reaches into a later unit, and one that is a cost.
Cross-thread sentence: printing carried a method of textual criticism to northern scholars, whose religious application in unit 2 gave monarchs an argument for taking control of the Church — which was one of the four monopolies the centralised state was built on. Three threads, one sentence.
The unit closes on its four opening statements: classical rediscovery and observation, overseas exploration and settlement, capitalism notwithstanding medieval structures, and the struggle for sovereignty. Run each from cause to consequence, name a cross-thread link, reach into later units, and include the costs the CED states in 1.8.