2013年AP世界历史简答题真题+答案+PDF下载
1. Analyze connections between regional issues and European struggles for global power in the mid-eighteenth century. Identify an additional type of document and explain how it would help your analysis of these connections.
Document 1
Source: Robert Clive, British East India Company officer, report to the company after defeating the ruler of Bengal and his French allies at Plassey, 1757.
The substance of the settlement with Mir Jafar* is as follows:
1. Mir Jafar will be the new viceroy of Bengal.
2. Mir Jafar and the East India Company will enter into an alliance with the Mughal Empire, against all enemies, including other Europeans such as the French.
3. The Bengali government will pay the Company for military expenses in this battle.
4. The Bengali government will compensate English subjects, Hindus, Muslims, Armenian Christians, and other natives who suffered during the latest battles.
5. Land around Calcutta will be given to our Company with permission to charge rents.
6. Mir Jafar will pay our Company’s troops if he needs them in the future.
*Mir Jafar: Bengali general who defected to the British during the Battle of Plassey
Document 2
Source: Kisensik, Nipissing chief, speech at the Council of Indian Nations convened by the French general Montcalm, Quebec, Canada, 1757.
My brothers, we Catholic Indians from New York thank you Indians from the Great Lakes region for helping us defend our territory against the British who wish to usurp these lands. Our cause is good and the Master of Life favors it.
Document 3
Source: Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, letter to Maria Antonia, wife of the future ruler of Saxony, a German state that was allied with Austria against Prussia, October 1761.
Our mutual enemy, King Frederick of Prussia, is at full strength because the Russians have withdrawn their forces. Now he will certainly attack somewhere with concentrated force. Austria has always hoped to change the theater of the war and to move troops to the territories Frederick seized from us. We had hoped to hold Frederick so firmly there that he could not turn back to your Saxony, but the deceptions and incompetence of the Russians upset all our plans.
Peace seems further away than ever. I fear that sometime during the coming winter the Prussians will move against our allies the French, and we will not be able to prevent this.
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