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Document letters have been replaced with numbers and 5 documents (the former Documents 3, 5, 6, 7, 10) have been removed so that there are only seven documents.  \nEUROPEAN HISTORY  \nSECTION II  \nTotal Time – 1 hour, 30 minutes  \nQuestion 1 (Document-Based Question)  \nSuggested Reading period: 15 minutes  \nSuggested writing time: 40 minutes  \nDirections: Question 1 is based on the accompanying documents. The documents have been edited for the purpose of this exercise. You are advised to spend 15 minutes reading and planning and 45 minutes writing your answer.  \nWrite your responses on the lined pages that follow the question.  \nIn your response you should do the following:  \n􀁸 State a relevant thesis that directly addresses all parts of the question.  \n􀁸 Support the thesis or a relevant argument with evidence from all, or all but one, of the documents.  \n􀁸 Incorporate analysis of all, or all but one, of the documents into your argument.  \n􀁸 Focus your analysis of each document on at least one of the following: intended audience, purpose, historical context, and/or point of view.  \n􀁸 Support your argument with analysis of historical examples outside the documents  \n􀁸 Connect historical phenomena relevant to your argument to broader events or processes.  \n􀁸 Synthesize the elements above into a persuasive essay that extends your argument, connects it to a different historical context, or accounts for contradictory evidence on the topic.  \n1. Analyze attitudes toward and evaluate the motivations behind the European acquisition of African colonies in the period 1880 to 1914.  \nHistorical Background: The maps below show European expansion in Africa from 1878 to 1914.  \nNOTE: Ido not expect that the new format DBQs will have historical background, but since these old form DBQs were often based on obscure topics, I have kept the historical background section as it was in the original DBQ.  \nDocument 1  \nSource: Prince Leopold, heir to the throne of Belgium and future king, conversation, 1861.  \nSurrounded by the sea, Holland, Prussia and France, our frontiers can never be extended in Europe. . . . [But] the universe lies in front of us; steam and electricity have made distances disappear, all the unappropriated lands on the surface of the globe may become the field of our operations and of our resources. . . . Since history teaches that colonies are useful, that they play a great part in that which makes up the power and prosperity of states, let us strive to get one in our turn . . . let us see where there are unoccupied lands . . . where are to be found peoples to civilize, to lead to progress in every sense, meanwhile assuring ourselves . . . the opportunity to prove to the world that Belgians also are an imperial people capable of dominating and enlightening others.  \nDocument 2  \nSource: Benjamin Disraeli, British prime minister, speech to the House of Commons regarding the Suez Canal, February 1876.  \nI have never recommended, and I do not recommend now, this purchase either as a financial investment or as a commercial speculation. I have always and do now recommend it to the country as a political transaction, and one which I believe is calculated to strengthen the empire.  \nDocument 3  \nSource: Joseph Chamberlain, British industrialist, politician, and reformer, speech, 1888.  \nWe have suffered much in this country from depression of trade. We know how many of our fellowsubjects are at this moment unemployed. Is there any man in his senses who believes that the crowded population of these islands [the British Isles] could exist for a single day if we were to be cut adrift from the great dependencies which now look to us for protection and which are the natural markets for our trade? . . . 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