1 2011 AP WORLD HISTORY FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS WORLD HISTORY SECTION II Part A (Suggested writing time—50 minutes) Percent of Section II score –33 1/3 Directions: The following question is based on the accompanying Documents 1 -9. The documents have been edited for the purpose of the exercise. Write your answer on your own paper. This question is designed to test your ability to work with and understand historical documents. Write an essay that: Has a relevant thesis and supports that thesis with evidence from the documents. Uses all of the documents. Analyzes the documents by grouping them in as many appropriate ways as possible. Does not simply summarize the documents individually. Takes into account the sources of the d ocuments and analyzes the author’s point ofview. You may refer to relevant historical information not mentioned in the documents. Discuss the effects of the development of the Atlantic trade and its impact on the participating civilizatio ns from 1450-1750. What other types of additional documents are needed. Atlantic Trade DBQ This question is designed to test y our ability to work with historical documents. As you analyze the documents, take into account both the sources of the documents and the authors’ points of view. Write an essay on the following topic that integrates your analysis of the documents. Do not simply summarize the documents individually.
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Directions: The following question is based on the accompanying Documents 1-9. The documents
have been edited for the purpose of the exercise. Write your answer on your own paper.
This question is designed to test your ability to work with and understand historical documents.
Write an essay that:
Has a relevant thesis and supports that thesis with evidence from the documents.
Uses all of the documents.
Analyzes the documents by grouping them in as many appropriate ways as possible.
Does not simply summarize the documents individually.
Takes into account the sources of the documents and analyzes the author’s point of
view.
You may refer to relevant historical information not mentioned in the documents.
Discuss the effects of the development of the Atlantic trade and itsimpact on the participating civilizations from 1450-1750. What othertypes of additional documents are needed.
Atlantic Trade DBQ
This question is designed to test your ability to work with historical documents. As you analyze thedocuments, take into account both the sources of the documents and the authors’ points of view.
Write an essay on the following topic that integrates your analysis of the documents. Do notsimply summarize the documents individually.
“I do not know if coffee and sugar are essential to the happiness of Europe,but I do know well that these two products have accounted for theunhappiness of two great regions of the world: America has been
depopulated so as to have land on which to plant them; Africa has beendepopulated so as to have the people to cultivate them.”
- from Volume 1 of J.H. Bernardin de Saint Pierre’s Voyage to the Isle de France, Isle deBourbon, The Cape of Good Hope… (1773)
Document 2
Europe Supported by Africa and America Engraving by William Blake 1796