2011 AP WORLD HISTORY FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS

WORLD HISTORY SECTION II Part A (Suggested writing time50 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 This question is designed to test your ability to work with and understand historical documents.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 documents and analyzes the authors 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 its impact on the participating civilizations from 1450-1750. What other
types of additional documents are needed.

Atlantic Trade DBQ This question is designed to test your ability to work with historical documents.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.

Document 1 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 the unhappiness of two great regions of the world: America has been depopulated so as to have land on which to plant them; Africa has been depopulated so as to have the people to cultivate them.
- from Volume 1 of J.H. Bernardin de Saint Pierres Voyage to the Isle de France, Isle de Bourbon, The Cape of Good Hope (1773)

Document 2 Europe Supported by Africa and America Engraving by William Blake 1796

Document 3- Description of a Brazilian Sugar Plantation, Guiseppe Andreoni, c.1700

Document 4 Anonymous advisor to King of France, c. 1790s

Document 5

Source: Antonio Vazquez de Espinosa Compendium and Description (c.1620)

Document 6: Letter from King Affonso of Kongo to the King of Portugal to end

Portuguese Slave trade in Kongo

Document 7: Map of Atlantic Trade Routes 1650 to 1750

Document 8: Excerpt from The interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, 1789

Document 9 Portrait of Georg Gisze, by Hans Holbein the Younger 1532. Gisze was a Danish merchant who had business in London where this was painted.