Create a cause-and-effect diagram with a partner showing the conflicts two or more African states of your choice have encountered as they struggled to gain independence and how their political relationships have affected economic relationships with other countries or states. Illustrate your diagram using other forms of media.

Compare and contrast what has happened to the imports and exports between the United States and its NAFTA partners.

Create a chart showing the events that led to the rise of independence movements in Southeast Asia and explaining how these movements and new regimes in Southeast Asia created conflict and instability.

What is an informal empire?

In a key passage on page 1010 , Walker uses a metaphor and a simile to describe how African American women handed down their "creative spark" over the generations. What are these imaginative comparisons between two very different things? (Can you think of others she might have used?)

Explain the impact of the rapid rise in population on Latin American cities.

What were the experiences of the Philippines as a result of the changes following World War II?

What effect did the formation of OPEC have on Western countries?

What political changes occurred in the late 1960s in Mexico?

Summarize how radical Islamic fundamentalism contributed to the growth of al-Qaeda.

What conclusion can you draw from the attempt by the Netherlands to suppress the Indonesian republic declared by Sukarno?

How did nationalism contribute to the defeat of Napoleon?

Highlight the words "black as Cain" in the second to last line of the poem. Explain this reference.

What were the effects of the changes to the political systems of many European colonial territories in the mid- to late 1900s?