atlantic trade dbq

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2011 AP WORLD HISTORY FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS

WORLD HISTORY

SECTION II

Part A

(Suggested writing time—50 minutes)

Percent of Section II score –33 1/3

Directions: The following question is based on the accompanying Documents 1-9. The documents

have been edited for the purpose of the exercise. Write your answer on your own paper.

This question is designed to test your ability to work with and understand historical documents.

Write an essay that:

Has a relevant thesis and supports that thesis with evidence from the documents.

Uses all of the documents.

Analyzes the documents by grouping them in as many appropriate ways as possible.

Does not simply summarize the documents individually.

Takes into account the sources of the documents and analyzes the author’s point of

view.

You may refer to relevant historical information not mentioned in the documents.

Discuss the effects of the development of the Atlantic trade and itsimpact on the participating civilizations from 1450-1750. What othertypes of additional documents are needed.

Atlantic Trade DBQ

This question is designed to test your ability to work with historical documents. As you analyze thedocuments, take into account both the sources of the documents and the authors’ points of view.

Write an essay on the following topic that integrates your analysis of the documents. Do notsimply summarize the documents individually.



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Document 1

“I do not know if coffee and sugar are essential to the happiness of Europe,but I do know well that these two products have accounted for theunhappiness of two great regions of the world: America has been

depopulated so as to have land on which to plant them; Africa has beendepopulated so as to have the people to cultivate them.”

- from Volume 1 of J.H. Bernardin de Saint Pierre’s Voyage to the Isle de France, Isle deBourbon, The Cape of Good Hope… (1773)

Document 2

Europe Supported by Africa and America Engraving by William Blake 1796



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Document 3- Description of a Brazilian Sugar Plantation, Guiseppe Andreoni, c.1700



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Document 4

Anonymous advisor to King of France, c. 1790s

Document 5

Source: Antonio Vazquez de Espinosa –

Compendium and Description (c.1620)



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Document 6: Letter from King Affonso of Kongo to the King of Portugal to end

Portuguese Slave trade in Kongo



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Document 7: Map of Atlantic Trade Routes 1650 to 1750



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Document 8: Excerpt from The interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, 1789



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Document 9 Portrait of Georg Gisze, by Hans Holbein the Younger 1532. Gisze was a Danish merchant who had

business in London where this was painted.