AP World History: Review
WHAP Essay Questions
DBQ
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Analyze Han and Roman attitudes toward technology.
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Analyze the responses to the spread of Buddhism in China.
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Analyze attitudes of Christian and Muslim merchants toward trade.
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Analyze the social and economic effects of the global flow of silver between the 16th and 18th centuries.
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Analyze the causes and consequences of indentured servitude during the 19th century.
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Analyze the connections between regional issues and European struggles for global power
in the mid-18th century.
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Analyze African actions and responses to the European “scramble for Africa.”
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Analyze the similarities and differences in the mechanization of the cotton industry in Japan and
India between 1880 and 1930.
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Analyze the relationship between cricket and politics in South Asia from 1880 to 2005.
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Analyze the factors that shaped the modern Olympic movement.
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Analyze issues that 20th century Muslim leaders faced in defining their nationalism.
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Analyze the causes and consequences of the Green Revolution from 1945 to the present.
CCOT
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Analyze the political and cultural changes and continuities in one civilization.
o Roman (100-600), China (100-600), India (300-600)
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Analyze how political transformations contributed to continuities and changes in the
cultures of the Mediterranean region during the period circa 200 CE to 1000 CE.
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Analyze the changes and continuities of interactions along the Silk Road between 200 and 1450.
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Analyze the changes and continuities in African and Eurasian trade between 300 and 1450.
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Analyze the changes and continuities in Indian Ocean commerce between 650 and 1750.
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Analyze the impact of Islam on one of the following regions between 1000 and 1750.
o West Africa, South Asia, Europe
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Analyze social and economic transformations in the Atlantic world between 1492 and 1750 as a
result of new contacts.
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Analyze the changes and continuities in religious beliefs and practices in one region since 1450.
o Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America
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Analyze the changes and continuities in long-distance migrations in the period 1700 to 1900.
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Analyze changes and continuities in labor systems between 1750 and 1914 in one region.
o Latin America, Russia, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analyze the changes and continuities in two regions’ relationship to global trade since 1750.
o Eastern Europe, North America, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East, South & Southeast Asia, East Asia
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Analyze the changes and continuities in the formation of national identities in one region since 1914.
o Middle East, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
AP World History: Review
Comparison
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Compare the methods of political control in two classical empires.
o Han China, Imperial Rome (31 BCE – 476 CE), Maurya/Gupta India (320 BCE – 550 CE)
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Compare the rise of two empires.
o Ghana/Mali/Songhay, Aztec Empire, Mongol Empire
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Compare the political and economic effects of Mongol rule on two regions
o China, Middle East, Russia
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Compare the processes of empire building between 1450 and 1800 in the Spanish Empire and
o Ottoman Empire or Russian Empire
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Compare the demographic and environmental effects on the Columbian Exchange on the
Americas with one of the following between 1492 and 1750:
o Africa, Asia, Europe
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Compare the racial ideologies and their effects between North American and Latin American
societies during the period 1500 to 1830.
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Compare the role of women in two regions between 1750 and 1914.
o East Asia, Latin America, Western Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Compare Chinese and Japanese responses to western penetration during the 19th century.
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Compare the role of the state in economic development during the late 19th and early 20th
century in Japan and
o China, Ottoman Empire, Russia
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Compare the emergence of Latin American nation-states during the 19th century with the
emergence of nation-states in one region during the 20th century.
o Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East
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Compare the goals and process of two revolutionary movements
o Mexico (1910), China (1911), Russia (1917)
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Compare the impact of World War I on two regions between 1914 and the start of World War II.
o East Asia, Middle East, South Asia