Past Essay Topics: AP World History Exam
2013
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CCOT
COMP
European Countries struggle for global power in the mid eighteenth century
Identify CCOT in the Mediterranean region from 200 C.E. to 1000 C.E.
Compare the role of the state in the economic development in ONE of the following regions in
the early 19th and 20th centuries: China, Japan, Russia
2012
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CCOT
COMP
Analyze the relationship between cricket and politics in South Asia from 1880 to 2005.
Analyze continuities and changes in trade networks between Africa and Eurasia from circa 300
C.E. to 1450 C.E.
Compare demographic and environmental effects of the Columbian Exchange on the Americas
with the Columbian Exchange’s demographic and environmental effects on ONE of the
following regions between 1492 and 1750. Africa, Asia, Europe
2011
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CCOT
COMP
Analyze the causes and consequences of the Green Revolution from 1945 to the present.
Identify long-distance migrations from two different world regions and analyze the changes and
continuities in these migrations from 1700 to 1900.
The rise of two of the following empires: a West African Sudanic empire (Mali, Ghana, or
Songhay), the Aztec Empire, or the Mongol Empire
2010
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CCOT
COMP
Compare the characteristics of the mechanization of the cotton textile industry in Japan and India
during the late-19th and early-20th centuries.
Religious beliefs and practices in either sub-Saharan Africa or Latin America/the Caribbean from
1450 to the present
Han China (206 B.C.E. to 220 C.E.), Mauryan/Gupta India (320 B.C.E. to 550 C.E.), Imperial
Rome (31 B.C.E. to 476 C.E.) — pick 2 and compare the ways those empires exerted political
control over their populaces.
2009
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CCOT
COMP
African responses to European imperialism during the late 19th & early 20th centuries.
Patterns of interactions along the Silk Roads from 200 B.C.E. to 1450 C.E.
Racial ideologies & social effects of those ideologies in two regions: N. America and L. America
2008
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CCOT
COMP
The Modern Olympic Movement
Commerce in the Indian Ocean Region from 650 C.E. to 1750 C.E.
The emergence of nation-states in nineteenth-century Latin America with the emergence of
nation-states in ONE of the following regions in the twentieth century.
Sub-Saharan Africa or the Middle East
2007
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CCOT
COMP
Han and Roman technology (Foundations period)
National identity in specific regions 1914-present
Empire Building 1450-1800
2006
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CCOT
COMP
Global Silver Flow 1570-1750
Civilizations in Classical Era 100-600
Revolutionary processes in two regions 1910-1917
2005
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CCOT
COMP
Muslims in S. Asia and N. Africa 1914 to present
Contacts Among Western Europe, Africa, and Americas (1492-1750)
Atlantic World
Effect of Mongol Rule on Other Regions
2004
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CCOT
COMP
Spread of Buddhism in China (Foundations)
Changes in Labor Systems 1750-1914
WWI and Outcomes on Specific Regions 1914-present
2003
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CCOT
COMP
Causes and Consequences of Indentured Servitude in 17th and 18th Centuries
Impact of Islam on Other Regions 1000-1750
Women’s Roles 1750-1914
2002
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CCOT
COMP
Attitudes of Christians and Muslims Toward Merchants to 1500
Global Trade Patterns in Two Regions 1750 to present
China and Japan’s Response to Western Penetration in 19th Century