Changes and Continuities in Interregional Trade Across Eurasia 600 Bce to 600 Ce

Long Essay Question

Section II, Part B of the AP Exam consists of a choice among three long essay questions from different time spans of the course.

• Students choose from the three long essay questions, which deal with periods 1–2, periods 3–4, or periods 5–6 of the course.
• The three question options all address the same theme and assess the same reasoning skill.

In order to receive the highest scores, students must develop an argument and support it with an analysis of specific, relevant historical evidence of their choosing. Long essay questions ask about large-scale topics specifically mentioned in the concept outline, but they are framed to allow students to provide in-depth discussion of specific examples drawn from the concept outline or from classroom instruction.

Long Essay Question Rubric

Practice LEQ Essay Prompts

Period 1

• Using specific examples, analyze the environmental causes and/or effects of the transition to agriculture in the period 8000 BCE to 600 BCE. (Causation)
• Using specific examples, analyze the demographic and social effects of the transition to agriculture during the period 8000 BCE to 600 BCE. (Causation)
• Using specific examples, analyze the economic effects of the transition to agriculture during the period 8000 BCE to 600 BCE. (Causation)
• Using specific examples, analyze similarities and differences in the social organization of pastoral and agricultural societies in the period 8000 BCE to 600 CE. (Comparative)
• Using specific examples, analyze similarities and differences in Mesopotamian and Egyptian cultural practices in the period 8000 BCE to 600 BCE. (Comparative)
• Using specific examples, analyze continuities and changes in the relationship between legal systems and social hierarchies in the period circa 2000 BCE to circa 600 CE. (CCOT)
• Using specific examples, analyze continuities and changes in belief systems from 8000 BCE to 600 CE in one of the following regions: (a) The Middle East, (b) South Asia, (c) East Asia, (d) Europe (CCOT)

Period 2

• Using specific examples, analyze one cause and one effect of spread of Buddhism in the period of 600 BCE to 600 CE. (Causation)
• Using specific examples, analyze one cause and one effect of spread of Christianity in the period of 600 BCE to 600 CE. (Causation)
• Using specific examples, analyze the causes of imperial expansion and consolidation in the period circa 600 BCE to 600 CE. (Causation)
• Using specific examples, analyze similarities and differences in methods used by TWO of the following classical age empires to gain and maintain power. (Comparative)
• Han China (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.)
• Mauryan/Gupta India (320 B.C.E.-550 C.E.)
• Imperial Rome (31 B.C.E.-476 C.E.)
• Using specific examples, analyze the causes of imperial decline and collapse in the period circa 600 BCE to 600 CE.
• Using specific examples, analyze similarities and differences in decline and collapse of TWO of the following classical age empires. (Comparative)
• Han China (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.)
• Mauryan/Gupta India (320 B.C.E.-550 C.E.)
• Imperial Rome (31 B.C.E.-476 C.E.)

Period 3

• Using specific examples, analyze similarities and differences in the spread of Islam during the period 600 CE to 1450 CE and one of the following. (Comparative)
• The Spread of Christianity from 30 CE to 1000 CE
• The Spread of Buddhism from 550 BCE to 1000 CE
• Using specific examples, analyze the continuities and changes in gender roles that resulted from the spread of ONE of the following religions or belief systems in the period 600 CE to 1450 CE. (CCOT)
• Islam
• Buddhism
• Confucianism
• Using specific examples, analyze similarities and differences in TWO of the following trade networks in the period 600 C.E. to 1450 C.E. Your response may include comparisons of biological, commercial, or cultural exchanges. (Comparative)
• Indian Ocean
• Silk Roads
• Trans-Sahara
• Using specific examples, analyze causes of the growth of interregional trade in luxury goods during the period 600 C.E. to 1450 C.E. (Causation)
• Using specific examples, analyze the continuities and changes in the economic activity of one of the following trade routes. (CCOT)
• Silk Road from 200 BCE to 1450 CE
• Indian Ocean Sea Lanes from 600 CE to 1450 CE
• Trans-Sahara Trade Routes from 600 CE to 1450 CE
• Using specific examples, analyze the continuities and changes in the role of the state in facilitating interregional trade across Eurasia during the period 600 C.E. to 1450 C.E. (CCOT)
• Using specific examples, analyze the similiaries and differences between the trade routes of the Americas and Afro-Eurasia during the period 600 C.E. to 1450 C.E. (Comparative)
• Using specific examples, analyze the effects of long distance human migrations during the period 600 CE to 1450 CE. (Causation)
• Using specific examples, analyze similarities and differences in how TWO of the following empires used religion to govern before 1450 CE. (Comparative)
• Byzantine Empire
• Islamic Caliphates
• Mauryan/Gupta Empires
• Using specific examples, analyze similarities and differences in the decentralized forms of government found in Europe and Japan during the during 600 CE to 1450 CE. (Comparative)
• Using specific examples, analyze similarities and differences of Mongol rule on TWO of the following regions (Comparative)
• China
• Middle East
• Russia
• Using specific examples, analyze one cause and one effect of increased agricultural and industrial production during the period 600 CE to 1450 CE. (Causation)
• Using specific examples, analyze one cause for the decline of cities and one cause for the revival of cities in the period of 600 CE to 1450 CE. (Causation)
• Using specific examples, analyze continuities and changes in the relationship between labor systems and social hierarchies in the period circa 600 CE to circa 1750 CE (CCOT)
• Using specific evidence, analyze continuities and changes in cultural beliefs and practices in ONE of the following regions from 300 CE to 1450 CE (CCOT).
• South Asia
• East Asia

Period 4

• Analyze continuities and changes in the commercial life of the Indian Ocean region from 650 C.E. to 1750 C.E. (CCOT)
• Using specific examples, analyze the causes of the increase global circulation of goods in the period of 1450 to 1600 CE. (Causation)
• Using specific examples, analyze the economic effects that occurred as a result of new connections between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres from 1492 to 1750 (Causation).
• Using specific examples, analyze the social effects that occurred as a result of new connections between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres from 1492 to 1750 (Causation).
• Using specific examples, analyze the environmental effects that occurred as a result of new connections between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres from 1492 to 1750 (Causation).
• Using specific examples, analyze the cultural effects that occurred as a result of new connections between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres from 1492 to 1750 (Causation).
• Using specific examples, identify and explain the economic effects of the global flow of silver from 1500 to 1750. (Causation)
• Using specific examples, identify and explain the economic and social effects of the global flow of sugar from 1500 to 1750. (Causation)
• Using specific examples, analyze continuities and changes in cultural beliefs and practices in ONE of the following regions from 1450 to the present.
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• Latin America/Caribbean
• Using specific examples, analyze continuities and changes in labor systems in ONE of the following regions within the time period 1450 to 1900. (CCOT)
• Latin America and the Caribbean
• North America
• Using specific examples, analyze the similarities and differences in processes of empire building in the Spanish maritime empire during the period from 1450 through 1800 with the processes of empire building in ONE of the following land-based empires. (Comparative)
• The Ottoman Empire
• The Russian Empire
• Using specific examples, analyze one similarity and one difference between the methods used by the Qing (Manchu) dynasty and the Ottomans to administer their empires (Comparative).

Period 5

• Using specific examples, analyze at least one similarity and one difference in the causes of the French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution. (Comparative)
• Using specific examples, analyze at least one similarity and one difference in the outcomes of French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution. (Comparative)
• Using specific examples, analyze the causes for the start of the industrial revolution in Europe, specifically Great Britain, around 1750 CE. (Causation)
• Using specific examples, analyze the effects on the global economy of the industrial revolution between 1750 and 1900 CE. (Causation)
• Using specific examples, analyze the political effects of the industrial revolution in Europe between 1750 and 1900 CE. (Causation)
• Using specific examples, analyze continuities and changes in the British social class system between 1750 and 1900 resulting from the Industrial Revolution (CCOT).
• Using specific examples, analyze the similarities and differences in how the governments of Japan and Qing China responded to economic change during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (Comparative)
• Using specific examples, analyze the similarities and differences in how the governments of Japan and the Ottoman Empire responded to economic change during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. in how Japan and Qing China respond to  in Europe between 1750 and 1900 CE. (Comparative)
• Using specific examples, analyze the causes for the rise of global imperialism in the 19th century. (Causation)
• Using specific examples, analyze the causes for the rise of anti-imperalist attitudes in the 19th century. (Causation)
• Using specific examples, analyze two causes and one effect of the increase in global migration in the 18th and 19th centuries. (Causation)

Period 6

• Using specific examples, analyze similarities and differences in the decline and collapse of TWO of the following land based empires in the early 20th century. (Comparative)
• The Ottoman Empire
• The Russian Empire
• Using specific examples, analyze the similarities and differences in the decline and collapse of TWO of the following land based empires in the early 20th century. (Comparative)
• Using specific examples, analyze the causes of the dissolution of colonial empires in the period 1945 to 1975. (Causation)
• Using specific examples, analyze three causes of World War I in the period circa 1875 to 1914. (Causation)
• Using specific examples, analyze three causes of World War II in the period circa 1918 to 1939. (Causation)
• Using specific examples, compare the implementation of Communism by Communist rulers in the Soviet Union and China in the period circa 1917 to 1970 (Comparitive).

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