Proposal: make an argument for the significance of the cultural object you have chosen.
Using a the cultural object of your mid-essay, or a new more relevant object/commodity of focus, show how your product, artifact, idea, resource or technology illustrates the dynamics and the effects of the shift in global economic power toward the Atlantic World between 1450-1750.

Briefly summarize the main elements of the shift and expansion in economic dynamism that characterizes the emergence of the Atlantic maritime region, and explain how your chosen topic illustrates this shift.
If you are selecting a new cultural object, describe why the object you selected for the mid-term essay is no longer significant for the Atlantic World focus, and explain how your new object of focus illustrates the differing political, cultural and economic dynamics of the period.
If you are maintaining your focus, explain how changes in how the object moved, was used or was traded make it significant for illustrating the rising Atlantic World, and how that represents a change from meanings or values that you demonstrated in your mid-term essay, and represents the changing characteristics of this long-term shift.