Global History & Geography Essay Analysis
Test Date
August 2013
June 2013
January 2013
August 2012
June 2012
January 2012
August 2011
June 2011
January 2011
August 2010
June 2010
Thematic Topic
DBQ Topic
Armed Conflict: French
Causes and effects of
Revolution, Arab- Israeli economic changes (China,
conflict (historical
Mexico, and Botswana)
circumstance & effects)
Change: Revolution
Technological Advances:
(choices are political and Bow & Stirrup (Mongols),
non-political)- historical
Railroad (India), Use of
circumstances/causes &
the caravel (Spanish)
effects
Change: Collapse of
Need and impact of salt,
government (Rome, Czar
cotton, and sugar on a
Nicholas II, Tokagawa
specific nation/region
Shogunate, Iran, Break up
of the Soviet Union)
Technology: How and old Protest Movements (protechnology was replaced
democracy in China,
with a new technology &
women’s rights in
its impact (printing press, England, anti-apartheid in
gun powder, factory
South Africa). Historical
system)
circumstance, action,
government response
Human & Physical
Leaders (Shi Huangdi,
Geography
King Louis XIV, Peter the
Great)
Change: Individuals (Karl Transportation Systems:
Marx, Gandhi)
Roads, Canals, Railroads
Change- Global Issues
Mongol, Spanish, &
post WWII (AIDS,
Ottoman Conquests
famine, terrorism)
Technology- Effects:
Human Rights Violations:
Chemicals, satellites,
Cambodians, Rwandans,
printing press
Ukrainians
Geography Effects on
Heliocentrism, Marxism,
Civilizations
Natural Rights- Explain
ideas & influence
Goals, methods, results:
Islam, Christianity,
Nationalism
Buddhism: Effects on
region
Change: Individuals- How
Deserts, monsoons, cold
they affected a region
climates & effects on
regions
January 2010
August 2009
June 2009
January 2009
August 2008
Leaders/PhilosophersMain ideas & effects
Belief Systems: One major
idea & effect on region
Human rights denial:
causes, and means to end
violations
Geographic factors: limiting
or promoting cultural
diffusion
Geography: How humans
change their environment
June 2008
Belief systems
January 2008
Change/ Non-political
revolutions
Political systems & effects
on specific nation or region
(monarchy, direct
democracy)
Governmental policy &
change (westernization
Peter the Great)
Human Rights ViolationExample, action to correct
abuse
August 2007
June 2007
January 2007
August 2006
June 2006
January 2006
August 2005
Movement of people and
goods- trade organizations
(trans-Saharan)
Conflict that threatened
peace (Crusades, French
Revolution)
Change: Philosophers &
leaders
Change: Leaders who
have changed society
Neolithic Revolution,
Agrarian Revolution,
Green Revolution
Control of waterways:
social, political, and
economic effects
Middle Ages, Industrial
Revolution in England,
Age of Globalization
Gandhi, da Vinci,
L’Overereture
Migration: Africans to
Americas, Jews to Palestine
and Israel, Muslims
between Pakistan and India
Genocide, threats to the
environment, weapons of
mass destruction
Peter the Great, Mao
ZeDong, Hitler
Oil, coal, water, diamonds
helping or hindering
development
Manorialism, mercantilism,
communism
French Revolution &
Napoleon’s reign
Cold War effects in Asia,
Europe, & Latin America
Industrial Revolution:
positive & negative effects
Imperialism: different views
Printing press, atomic
bomb, steam powered
machinery
June 2005
Global Problems (cause &
effect)
Wars (social, economic,
political causes and effects)