2017 AP World History Free-Response Questions - Section I, Part B - 4 Questions

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2017 AP World History Free-Response Questions provide students with short-answer prompts for World History Section I, Part B, limited to 50 minutes and four questions. Directions require complete sentences and responses that fit the designated lined space, with all parts answered. The materials include a continuity/change analysis using an artwork reference from the Song dynasty and a passage from John F. Richards, plus questions addressing intensified land use, industrialization as economic/apolitical/social turning points, and technologies driving globalization after World War II.

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World History

Section I, Part B

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Section II

Question 1 (Document-Based Question)

2017 AP World History Free-Response Questions © 2017 The College Board. College Board, Advanced Placement Program, AP, AP Central, and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board. Visit [the College Board on the Web: www.collegeboard.org](the College Board on the Web: www.collegeboard.org). [AP Central is the official online home for the AP Program: apcentral.collegeboard.org](AP Central is the official online home for the AP Program: apcentral.collegeboard.org). 2017 AP® WORLD HISTORY FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS WORLD HISTORY SECTION I, Part B Time—50 minutes 4 Questions Directions: Write your responses in the Section I, Part B: Short-Answer Response booklet. You must write your response to each question on the lined page designated for that response. Each response is expected to fit within its designated page. Answer all parts of every question. Use complete sentences; an outline or bulleted list alone is not acceptable. You may plan your answers in this exam booklet, but no credit will be given for notes written in this booklet. Sources have been edited for the purposes of this exercise. © 2017 The College Board. Visit [the College Board on the Web: www.collegeboard.org](the College Board on the Web: www.collegeboard.org). GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. 2017 AP® WORLD HISTORY FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS Use the image below to answer all parts of the question that follows. DETAIL IMAGE FROM A SCROLL PAINTED DURING THE SONG DYNASTY, CIRCA 1100 C.E. The Granger Collection, New York The image shows (on left) Guo Ziyi, a Chinese general of the Tang dynasty, meeting with Uighur nomads on the frontier of China. 1. a) Identify and explain ONE way in which the interaction depicted in the image represents a continuity in Chinese imperial history. b) Identify and explain ANOTHER way in which the interaction depicted in the image represents a continuity in Chinese imperial history. c) Identify and explain ONE way in which the interaction between imperial China and Central Asian nomads changed after 1100 C.E. © 2017 The College Board. Visit [the College Board on the Web: www.collegeboard.org](the College Board on the Web: www.collegeboard.org). GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. 2017 AP® WORLD HISTORY FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS Use the passage below to answer all parts of the question that follows. “First and most important in the early modern era [1450–1750 C.E.] is the intensified human land use in every world region. Rising human numbers put increasing pressure on the land. Almost invariably [human] expansion caused a reduction in the quantity and diversity of vegetation or, to put it in other terms, a reduction in biomass and biodiversity. That is, sedentary cultivation depended on selection of one or a few favored plant species . . . in place of a variety of grass, shrubs, and trees. . . . Agriculture was and continues tobe the single most important means by which humans change the world’s lands and its ecosystems.” John F. Richards, historian, The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World, 2003 2. a) Identify and explain ONE historically specific example of intensified human land use in the period 1450–1750 C.E. that would support the author’s argument. b) Identify and explain ONE historically specific example from the period before 1450 C.E. in which humans interacted with the environment in ways similar to those described in the passage. c) Identify and explain ONE late-twentieth-century development that likely explains historians’ interest in the subject of the passage. © 2017 The College Board. Visit [the College Board on the Web: www.collegeboard.org](the College Board on the Web: www.collegeboard.org). GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. 2017 AP® WORLD HISTORY FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS Answer all parts of the question that follows. 3. a) Identify and explain ONE way in which industrialization in the period circa 1750–1900 can be considered an econom

FAQs

What are the time limit and structure for Section I, Part B?

Section I, Part B is 50 minutes and includes 4 questions. Responses are written in the short-answer response booklet.

What writing requirements apply to the free-response answers?

Answers must address all parts of every question, use complete sentences, and fit within the designated page space. Outlines or bulleted lists alone are not acceptable.

What topics are covered in the sample questions in Section I, Part B?

The prompts address continuity and change in imperial interactions with nomads, intensified human land use from 1450–1750 and earlier parallels, industrialization as economic/apolitical/social turning points (c. 1750–1900), and technologies contributing to globalization since the end of World War II.

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