Empire's Two Effects
One sentence, two directions
- Imperial endeavours significantly affected society, diplomacy, and culture in Europe and created resistance to foreign control abroad.
- The sentence turns on and: effects in Europe, and resistance abroad.
- The objective's own wording — both European and non-European societies — makes the two-sidedness compulsory.
Select all three European domains the CED names.
Plus resistance abroad, in the same sentence.
Effects in Europe: three named domains
- Society: populations, goods and people moving along imperial routes; new occupations and new hierarchies at home.
- Diplomacy: overseas claims became a subject of European negotiation, and 7.3's alliances a way of managing them.
- Culture: images, languages and ideas about difference circulating in European life, including 7.4's racialist theories.
The CED's verb for resistance abroad is...
Which makes resistance a product of empire.
Resistance abroad
- Created resistance to foreign control is the CED's own phrase, and created makes it a product of empire.
- So resistance is not an interruption of the imperial story; it is part of what the story produced.
- An answer that describes only what Europeans did has left out half of the CED's sentence.
The CED's intensifier is that imperial endeavours ____ affected Europe.
It licenses treating empire as a cause of European developments.
The CED says imperial endeavours created resistance to foreign control abroad. Resistance is therefore a product of empire, not an interruption of it — and an answer describing only what Europeans did has left out half of a one-sentence claim.
Which effect of empire?
Sort each consequence of imperial endeavours.
An answer describing only what Europeans did has left out half of the CED's claim.
The objective says both European and non-European societies.
'Significantly' is the CED's own weight
- The CED rarely uses an intensifier, and here it does: imperial endeavours significantly affected Europe.
- That licenses treating empire as a cause of European developments, not just a European activity.
- So an essay may legitimately explain a domestic change by pointing overseas.
The strongest structure for this objective is...
The link is usually one technology or institution seen from two ends.
Writing both societies
- The strongest structure is symmetrical: one European domain, one form of resistance, and a link between them.
- The link is usually the same technology or institution seen from two ends — a railway, an administration, a school.
- That symmetry is what the objective's both is asking for.
A rail line built to move raw materials to a port also moves people, newspapers and organisers between towns that had never been a day apart. The same track serves the administration and the movement that opposes it.
Imperial endeavours significantly affected society, diplomacy, and culture in Europe and created resistance to foreign control abroad. Three domains at home — society, diplomacy, culture — and created resistance abroad, which makes opposition a product of empire. Significantly is the CED's own intensifier, licensing empire as a cause of European developments.