AP Practice Exam - Section I: Part B

There are FOUR short-answer questions on the exam. Students MUST answer question 1 and question 2. They then choose to answer EITHER question 3 or question 4.

40 Minutes

Group 1

Use the passage below to answer all parts of the question that follows.

Source 1.1

“Caravan traffic existed primarily by and for long-distance trade. For the most part nobody but a merchant would have the means, the motivation, or the courage to undertake travel when its conditions were so rigorous and its outcome so uncertain. This also explains why it was mainly goods of high value in proportion to their bulk that were carried along the Silk Road: one had to stand to make a considerable profit from his [goods] for such a daunting endeavor to seem at all worthwhile.

Still, there were people who joined caravans for other than purely commercial reasons. Diplomatic missions attached themselves to them. . . . Others had scholarly interests, and traveled for purposes of research.

With the appearance of proselytizing religions came missionaries. . . . As new religious traditions carried by the Silk Road spread eastwards and took root along the way, travelers were increasingly able to find fellow believers in even the most far-flung and out-of-the-way places who could provide them with assistance, fellowship, [and often cash donations].”

Richard Foltz, historian, Religions of the Silk Road, book published in 2000

Question 1a

Short answer

Identify ONE argument that the author makes in the passage.

Question 1b

Short answer

Identify ONE piece of evidence that the author uses to support an argument that he makes in the passage.

Question 1c

Short answer

Explain how ONE specific historical development could be used to support the author’s argument in the third paragraph.

Group 2

Use the two maps below to answer all parts of the question that follows.

Source 2.1

Map 1: BRITISH, SPANISH, AND DUTCH TRADE ROUTES AS SHOWN BY SHIP LOGS, 1750-1800.Heavier shading indicates more frequently used routes.

Source 2.2

Map 2: COMMERCIAL SHIPPING LANES, 2010. Heavier shading indicates more frequently used routes.

Question 2a

Short answer

Explain ONE significant reason for changes in the patterns of global economic interactions from circa 1750 to circa 2000, as illustrated by the two maps.

Question 2b

Short answer

Explain ONE significant reason for continuities in the patterns of global economic interactions from circa 1750 to circa 2000, as illustrated by the two maps.

Question 2c

Short answer

Explain ONE limitation of using the maps to measure global interactions from circa 1750 to circa 2000.

Group 3

Answer all parts of the question that follows.

Question 3a

Short answer

Identify ONE technological transfer between world regions that affected state power in the period 1450–1750.

Question 3b

Short answer

Explain ONE similarity in the way that technology affected state power in Asia and in the way that technology affected state power in Europe in the period 1450–1750.

Question 3c

Short answer

Explain ONE difference in the way that technology affected state power in Asia and in the way that technology affected state power in Europe in the period 1450–1750.

Group 4

Answer all parts of the question that follows.

Question 4a

Short answer

Identify ONE economic change in the period 1750–1900 that led to the formation of new elites.

Question 4b

Short answer

Explain ONE way that, despite economic change, traditional elites remained powerful in the period 1750–1900.

Question 4c

Short answer

Explain ONE way in which the formation of new elites in the period 1750–1900 led to the emergence of new ideologies.

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