Hello everyone, it is summer break for me, and I am a freshman going into sophomore year. I am taking ap world history next year. I want to study a little for this class over the summer as I have a bunch of free time, so what should I learn? Any tips to be successful in this class, and anything I need to know? All help is appreciated!
Taking World next year.
Over the summer what are some good books that go over the world history concepts I should read.
That might have been the hardest test I've ever taken. No amount of studying could have prepared me for that dbq from hell.
My school doesn't offer AP World so i'll have to take the class online. i'll be taking it during summer and for my next school year. What are some things I should know? Any tips for me to prepare better?
I know the test was like 2 weeks(No I did not redo it) but is it okay if had a spelling error. Since I actually spelled Hajj as Haij. I was wondering if they would count it wrong since I did that.
Basically I'm doing the late AP World test tomorrow and I'm really scared ngl. I feel like theres a ton of stuff I dont remember and i barely remember how to do things like leqs tbh. i tried doing a practice leq today so can someone just roughly say what i could improve/which parts worked? i know it's probably shit but i need someone to look at it lol, thx
Prompt: In the period from 1450-1750, the development of religions and the interactions of belief systems often had political, social, and cultural implications. Develop an argument that evaluates the extent to which interactions between societies and cultures affected the institutions of land-based empires in this period.
Response: The period 1450-1750 was characterized by a global power shift from Asian states like China to primarily European states like Spain, Portugal, and Britain as a result of technological innovations such as the Portuguese Caravel, which enabled maritime exploration and colonization. This facilitated the discovery of the Americas in an attempt to find an alternate trade route to Asia so that European nobility would pay less for luxury goods along the Silk Roads. The discovery of the Americas led to flourishing trade along the Atlantic, including things like cattle and grains such as rice to the Americas, crops like potatoes into Europe, and African slaves into the Americas. This cultural exchange is known as the Columbian Exchange. In the period from 1450-1750, interactions between societies and cultures significantly affected the institutions of land-based empires, as seen with the emergence of syncretic belief systems and cultural changes resulting from the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade.
As a result of the discovery of the Americas, cross-Atlantic trade between Afro-Eurasia and the rest of the Western Hemisphere exploded. One result of this emerging network of exchange was the transfer of beliefs from Afro-Eurasia to the Americas, most notably Christianity from European missionaries and traditional African animist beliefs. As a result of the sudden mixing of indigenous American beliefs, traditional African beliefs, and Christianity, many new syncretic belief systems formed. One such example is the emergence of the Vodun religion, which emerged from the mixing of animism, brought from enslaved African populations, and Christianity from European Jesuit missionaries. Another instance of such syncretism is found more broadly in the mixture of certain important religious figures, such as Our Lady of Guatelupe, who was a blend of the Christian Virgin Mary and matron figures within indigenous American religions. Both of these examples show a change from before European colonization of the Americas. Whereas previously, Amerindians practiced their own religions and Africans practiced either traditional belief systems like animism or Islam, their mixture in the Americas facilitated completely new religions to emerge, causing some to abandon their native faith.
Additionally, the discovery of the Americas resulted in a drastic increase in the number of enslaved Africans. Immediately following the discovery of the Americas, many European settlers established plantations in order to grow cash crops, such as the growing of sugarcane in the Caribbean for the purpose of exporting it back to Europe and selling it for a profit. This increased the demand for African slaves to perform difficult manual labor on such plantations. As a result of this increased demand, many Africans were kidnapped from their homes in order to be sold along trans-Atlantic trade routes. This had a variety of effects on African culture, namely a decline in the power of African kings and a significant gender imbalance. Because slaves were primarily taken to perform grueling manual labor, male slaves were in much higher demand than female slaves. As a result of this, male slaves were kidnapped and sold at a 2:1 ratio compared to female slaves, resulting in a significant gender imbalance in African states. This resulted in cultural and societal changes in Africa such as the emergence of polygamy, in which one man would take multiple wives. Additionally, because African kings couldn’t prevent the kidnappings of their people by European slave traders, respect and trust in them began to decline, as many Africans believed that their rulers couldn’t protect them anymore, weakening African political institutions.
However, not all interactions between belief systems resulted in institutional change. For example, although Christian missionaries and oppressive systems such as the Encomieda system attempted to convert many Native Americans, many chose to outwardly adopt Christianity while practicing their traditional religions in secret. While this was often met with colonial violence when discovered, the fact that many Natives didn’t ever abandon their faith, even when met with grueling labor and the threat of death, means that underlying institutional beliefs and cultures in many areas of the Americas remained the same even after colonization. The practicing of Native belief systems in secret shows that some Native institutions and belief systems resisted change and colonial authority.
hey, so I help out at Knowt (the studying app) and the team is spending the next few weeks reworking our AP question bank and practice exams. before we start tearing things apart i kind of just wanted to throw this out there and see if anyone who used Knowt this year would share what they actually thought.
not looking for nice feedback. honestly more interested in the stuff that annoyed you. like:
if you took even one practice exam from us, your feedback would be genuinely useful. form's like 5–10 mins.
link: https://airtable.com/appPpquVSRstf6gpS/shrzr7WObMKX0xqrg
also sending some free Knowt merch to 5 random people who fill it out — just drop your email in the form so we can reach you. picking winners next Sunday.
and once we've actually used the feedback to change stuff, i'll come back and post what we changed and what we didn't (and why). no black box.
happy to answer questions or take feedback in the comments too if the form's not your thing.
Quick question...I'm assuming most of these topics will fall under the threshold of AP Euro, but has anyone ever taught about James/Stuarts & Henry/Tudors as part of their AP World pacing, or is there simply not time to include them in their full "story-version?" I enjoy teaching about these historical figures and find that my non-AP world students tend to enjoy learning about them. I'm just wondering if this is something I could include, or if it would jack up my pacing.
I am a sophomore, and AP world has by far been the hardest class I've taken so far, but surely that means the test is going to be easier than expected, right? Anywho just need to gather my fellow late testers as sorta emotional support
So am I cooked if on one of the ap world saqs if I misspelled the Spanish Casta system as Spanish caste system but I further explain like what it was with the penisulares and the hierarchy.
Its been a long run ladies and gents Im glad this class is over Ive given it my all signing out -Jamal- 🫡
my ap world final project is a powerpoint presentation on a random topic from history and it needs at least 5 slides so i need to have enough info on the topic and stuff but also it could be funny like historical figures’ spirit animals. it can’t be U.S. history either
i was thinking something with henry viii and his ex wives or animals that were involved in war but i’m not sure yet. also i could do napoleon being attacked by bunnies but idk if i have enough information on it
for the one where it asked why he went to cairo and makkah i said that he went because he was muslim and hajj was a religious pilgrimage 💔💔
am i cooked?? there’s no way that’s an invalid answer but now i feel like im wrong because apparently he also did it to attain influence
So during the test I answered the mcq saq and leq i think I did decent idk if I did great but the thing is I did the leq first and during the test I got HORRIBLE cramps it was so bad, I was spending more time thinking about that and wanted to cry and I just gave up and ran out of time so I didn't do the DBQ I genuinely feel like an idiot but do I think I am cooked for the ap world test?
I talked to some people after the test and they were like OMG how did you NOT do the DBQ and they made it sound like I screwed my score.
I went to bathroom but It did not help and drank water during the test!
I honestly think I am getting a 2 or maybe 3 if I get a lucky but not a 5 otr 4.
For the SAQ I was able to answer the questions for one of them I choose the Indian ocean trade I yapped about Moonsoon winds and lateen sail and how the winds helped the traders for innovation.
And for this question: Explain how the growth of trade in the Indian Ocean affected states or societies in the period circa 1200 to 1450
I talked about the Malabar cost and how spices were being traded etc I lowkey yapped and I talked about since they were a costal area they got rich.
For the LEQ I choose the
I yapped about the Americas Christopher Columbus and how native population was oppressed, mass converted and social pyramid where landowning white men were at top then white women at the bottom native Americans and Africans for the social and how Europeans migrated to USA.
And for the cultural I talked about how later on due to the transatlantic slave trade and French and other European migration people came together and combined food and recipes for example gumbo where okra came from Africa, file (native Americans), roux (French) Etc.
I took the AP World History Modern exam yesterday.
5-8 minutes before the end of the test, my reoccurring daily phone alarm went off. Everyone I know and including myself was finished.
I have a OnePlus phone. I made sure to turn it off before the test and had a teacher witness. Then I was the first one to get up when they told us to double check if it was off.
But apparently OnePlus phones, power on 1 minute before any existing alarms, even if completely shut off. So it turned on and started screaming and screwed me over.
I got pulled out and my proctor was going back and forth on to whether if she would cancel my exam. She seemed reluctant to do so. She ended up doing so, because she cancelled a previous student and it wouldn't have been fair to not do it to me. At the time, we didn't know my phone was being stupid. She thought I made a mistake.
Later on, I tried to convince her and then she called CollegeBoard and confirmed she had to cancel it.
Then the night of yesterday is when I found out, it wasn't my fault. So I emailed her and talked to her today and she is still firm on cancelling it. She said its because it made a disruption, so no matter what it's cancelled.
I think she is scared because CollegeBoard told her to cancel it. So, I guess the reason she is still firm, even though it was complete misfortune, is because she doesn't want to get in trouble.
I don't know if she filed the incident report yet. I asked her earlier today and she didn't do so then. But, she might've done it already.
What do I do? I am able to retake it. I think my Mom already paid. But I was so locked in yesterday and I feel pretty strong about my answers. Also the FRQ prompts were amazing. I really don't wanna retake. Guys please help me
After taking the exam, I realized i made several mistakes. First off i know i answered 2 questions from the SAQ in the wrong time period.. Also, for the dbq and leq i labeled each paragraph “context:” and then “thesis:” and then “paragraph 1:” Is that bad? will i get points off? I might have also written a little out of time period for the LEQ, i chose the one about global conflict and peace but i wrote about UNICEF and non governmental organizations. what’s the likelihood of me scoring a 5….
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