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Mock Exam: SAQs

In your response, be sure to address all parts of the question. Use complete sentences; an outline or bulleted list alone is not acceptable.

Group 1

Use the following two images to answer all parts of the question that follows.
ILLUSTRATION SHOWING ASTRONOMERS EMPLOYED BY THE MONGOL ILKHANS OF PERSIA MAKING CALCULATIONS, CHARTING THEIR OBSERVATIONS, AND USING ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS, EARLY FOURTEENTH CENTURY. - The illustration was included in a world history manuscript that was produced for the Mongol court.
ILLUSTRATION FROM A HEBREW TRANSLATION OF THE CANON OF MEDICINE, A MUSLIM MEDICAL TEXT. THE TRANSLATION WAS PRODUCED BY A JEWISH SCHOLAR AT THE COURT OF THE CHRISTIAN KINGS OF SICILY, CIRCA 1250. - The illustration shows the various stages of a physician’s visit with a patient.

Question 1a

Short answer
Identify ONE way that Image 1 illustrates an effect of Mongol rule in Eurasia.

Question 1b

Short answer
Explain ONE likely purpose for the inclusion of Image 1 in the manuscript.

Question 1c

Short answer
Explain ONE way that Image 2 illustrates the spread of scientific knowledge in the period before 1450.

Group 2

Use the passage to answer all parts of the question that follows.
“Revolutions have been rare but momentous occurrences in modern world history. . . . They have given birth to nations whose power markedly surpassed their own prerevolutionary pasts. . . . Nor have revolutions had only national significance. In some cases, revolutions have given rise to models and ideals of enormous international impact and appeal. . . . [Major] revolutions affect not only those abroad who would like to imitate them. They also affect those in other countries who oppose revolutionary ideals but are compelled to respond to the challenges or threats posed by the enhanced national power that has been generated [by those revolutions]. . . .

[Political] upheavals and socioeconomic changes have happened in every country. But . . . revolutions deserve special attention, not only because of their extraordinary significance for the histories of nations and the world but also because of their distinctive pattern of [social and political] change. Revolutions are rapid, basic transformations of a society’s state and class structures; and they are accompanied and, in part, carried through by class-based revolts from below.”
Theda Skocpol, United States political scientist, States and Social Revolutions, book published in 1979

Question 2a

Short answer
Describe ONE argument that the author makes about revolutions in the first paragraph.

Question 2b

Short answer
Explain how ONE piece of evidence from the period after 1750 would support the author’s argument about revolutions and class.

Question 2c

Short answer
Explain how ONE piece of evidence from the period after 1750 would challenge the author’s argument in the passage.

Group 3

Answer all parts of the question that follows.

Question 3a

Short answer
Identify ONE way that technological changes facilitated trade in the Indian Ocean in the period 1200–1450.

Question 3b

Short answer
Explain ONE way that trade in the Indian Ocean in the period 1200–1450 led to political change.

Question 3c

Short answer
Explain ONE way that trade in the Indian Ocean in the period 1200–1450 led to cultural change.

Group 4

Answer all parts of the question that follows.

Question 4a

Short answer
Identify ONE way that technological changes facilitated global trade in the second half of the twentieth century.

Question 4b

Short answer
Explain ONE way that increased trade in the second half of the twentieth century led to global political change.

Question 4c

Short answer
Explain ONE way that increased trade in the second half of the twentieth century led to global cultural change.

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