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AP Practice #1
WHAP/Napp
The Short-Answer Questions:
“On the AP World History exam, test-takers will answer four short-answer questions.
Two or more of them will include a stimulus. Each question is divided into either two parts
(A and B) or three parts (A, B, and C). A single part might ask for either ONE or TWO
examples.”
Practice Short-Answer Questions:
1. Answer parts A and B.
A. Analyze ONE reason why the Mandate of Heaven was developing by the Zhou
Dynasty in China.
B. Identify and explain ONE similarity and ONE difference between the power of
Chinese rulers under the mandate and the power of the Egyptian pharaoh.
Question 2 refers to the passage below.
“Women and men have entered the historical process under different conditions and have
passed through it at different rates of speed. If recording, defining, and interpreting the
past marks man’s entry into history, this occurred for males in the third millennium B.C.
It occurred for women (and only some of them) with a few notable exceptions in the
nineteenth century. Until then, all History was for women pre-History.”
Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy, 1986
2. Answer parts A and B.
A. Provide TWO pieces of evidence from ancient civilizations that support this
argument, and explain how each piece of evidence supports the argument.
B. Provide ONE piece of evidence from ancient civilizations that undermines this
argument, and explain how it undermines the argument.
The Long Essay Question:
“Test-takers will answer one of a pair of questions with a long essay in 35 minutes. The
question will focus on causation, comparison, continuity and change, or periodization.
Before you begin to write, take 5 or 10 minutes to identify key points and plan the structure
of your essay. Your essay responses will be evaluated on the strength of the thesis, the
support for the argument, the use of historical thinking skill, and the synthesis of
information.”
Define each of the following:
 Causation

Comparison

Continuity and Change

Periodization

Thesis

Synthesis
“Begin developing your writing skills as soon as the course starts. Rather than simply
writing and rewriting compete essays, break down the skills needed to write an effective AP
history essay into sequential steps and work on one of them at a time. Following are six
basic steps in writing an essay”:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Analyze the question
Organize the evidence.
Develop a thesis.
Write an introductory paragraph.
Write the supporting paragraphs and conclusion.
Evaluate the essay.
Practice Long Essay Questions:
Directions: Write an essay to respond to either question 1 or question 2. State a thesis in
the first paragraph, support it with specific historical evidence, and address the historical
thinking skill in the question.
1. Analyze relevant historical evidence that supports the conclusion that the Sumerian
culture of the years 3000 B.C.E. and 2300 B.C.E. provided the basis for later
civilizations in the Middle East.
2. Analyze relevant historical evidence that supports the conclusion that the Olmec
culture of the years 1200 B.C.E. and 400 B.C.E. was a foundational culture in
Mesoamerica.
Directions: For additional preparation, write an essay to respond to each question.
3. Analyze similarities and differences between the religious development of the
ancient Hebrews and Aryans.
4. Explain environmental and biological changes and continuities as humans went
through the Neolithic revolution, starting about 10,000 years ago.
5. Analyze how human social and political activities changed over time as people
moved from hunter-forager bands to settled urban societies.
Identify the following Key Terms by Theme:
Environment
Tigris and Euphrates
Mesopotamia
Fertile Crescent
Carthage
Sahara
Kalahari
Nile River
Desertification
Indus River Valley
Environmental degradation
Deforestation
Huang He
Chiang Jiang
Loess
Mesoamerica
Maize
Oceania and Polynesia
Ancestor Veneration
Golden Age
Culture: Literature
Scribes
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Cuneiform
Alphabetic Script
Hieroglyphics
Papyrus
Book of the Dead
Indo-European
Sanskrit
Rig-Veda
Upanishads
Pictographs, glyphs
Austronesian speakers
Economics
Division of Labor
Barter
Social Structure
Patriarchal
Clans
Feudalism
Culture: Religion
Polytheistic
Ziggurats
Astronomy, astrology
Hebrews, Israelites, Jews
Abraham
Moses
Ten Commandments
Monotheism
Jewish Diaspora
Theocrats
Aten
Mummification
Aryans
Vedas and Vedic Age
Brahmin
Brahma
Dharma
Karma
Moksha
State-Building: Kingdoms
Sumer and Sumerians
Uruk
City-States
King and kingdom
Babylonians
Empire
Phoenicians
Old, Middle, and New
Kingdoms
Hyksos
Hittites
Kush
Axum
Dravidians
Harappa
Mohenjo-Daro
Chavín civilization
Olmec
Easter Island
Aboriginals
State-Building: Leaders
Hammurabi
King Menes
Pharaoh
Akhenaton
Ramses the Great
Xia Dynasty
Shang Dynasty
Mandate of Heaven
Zhou Dynasty