2017年AP世界历史简答题真题+答案+PDF下载
DETAIL IMAGE FROM A SCROLL PAINTED DURING THE SONG DYNASTY, CIRCA 1100 C.E.
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.
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 to be 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.
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 economic turning point in global history.
b) Identify and explain ONE way in which industrialization in the period circa 1750–1900 can be considered a political turning point in global history.
c) Identify and explain ONE way in which industrialization in the period circa 1750–1900 can be considered a social turning point in global history.
Answer all parts of the question that follows.
4. a) Identify ONE technology that has contributed to globalization since the end of the Second World War and explain how it contributed to globalization.
b) Identify a SECOND technology that has contributed to globalization since the end of the Second World War and explain how it contributed to globalization.
c) Identify a THIRD technology that has contributed to globalization since the end of the Second World War and explain how it contributed to globalization.
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