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I put this as well.</p>
<p>Plenty of young non-students participated, racial equality wasn’t the only aim, there were areas beyond the US and Western Europe, and something else negates a wrong answer.</p>
<p>I thought mandate of heaven was constitutional monarchy because it allowed people to rise up against the king if he did something wrong.</p>
<p>I thought for the Romans and Catholics passage, the second answer was that the person who signed the document did not want to identify himself to the Roman government because the signature of obliterated.</p>
<p>I thought the Nehru questions were: 1) that colonialism and exploitation is bad, and 2) that later he pushed for parliamentary government (which he did) because of that.</p>
<p>From my calculations, you can still get an 800 by omitting 11 and getting 5 wrong? At least according to the score curve in the blue book.</p>
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I believe these are wrong, and the right answers are mentioned earlier in the thread. The latter had an argument around the right answer. Naturally, I believe the side I took up to be right.</p>
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It depends on the test, but -17 and -20 are past curves, and what you said would be -17.</p>
<p>What about the 60s students question?</p>
<p>Let’s try to remember the rest of the questions. I think we are only lacking like 30 or so. After we are done I’ll post a consolidated list :)</p>
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<p>Yes. VOC (DEIC’s real name) merchants dominated the Indian Ocean in the 16th century, and they got very rich. The question is very similar to the Medici family from Italy.</p>
<p>About the Columbus, Ferdinand, and Isabella thing:
Barron’s mentioned that the Spanish monarchs supported his quest because of his interesting theory: that the world was small enough, so that if he sailed west, he could reach the Indies.</p>
<p>Omitted Mandate of Heaven.
That Ashoka’s passage is definitely not similar to Legalism. Legalism believes that people are inherently evil.</p>
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<p>The Columbus, Ferdinand and Isabella thing:
I found this link [Columbus</a>, Ferdinand, and Isabella](<a href=“http://www.indepthinfo.com/columbus-christopher/ferdinand-and-isabella.htm]Columbus”>http://www.indepthinfo.com/columbus-christopher/ferdinand-and-isabella.htm) where it basically says that Columbus was rejected at first but then at the prospect of him getting sponsored by the French they changed their minds in the hopes of finding more land. </p>
<p>But I mean, I dunno, it seems like there’s more than one option here that could have worked. It depends on what the CB deems correct :S</p>
<p>Legalism is similar because legalism also prescribed a way of how the king should rule. Also, there was a specific line in the passage about “sending spies” which was a feature of Legalism also if I remember correctly.</p>
<p>Was the answer to the Benedict question A?</p>
<p>And what was the biggest colony or something in Africa? (Cape Colony, Uganda, etc)</p>
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I put less trade with Western nations, but I’m probably wrong.</p>
<p>Can anyone remember the question after why Muslims were puzzled by Roman Catholicism? Something about tenets of Islam… Some of the question choices were Jesus & Abraham as prophets, use of religious pictures, and um, priests…?</p>
<p>What about the biggest colony in Africa? I put down Cape Colony, but again, I might very well be wrong…</p>
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<p>Legalism was prevalent under Qin Dynasty’s reign. I don’t know… I actually omitted this one. </p>
<p>The Columbus, Ferdinand, and Isabella thing:
I don’t know about that, either. But I’m pretty certain that there’s no such option there. The two most likely were direct route or something to do with Spain.</p>
<p>Gosh I omitted a lot. I was sure that even if I omitted 15, I would still have the chance of getting an 800. So I refrained from answering the questions I wasn’t sure about… :/</p>
<p>@Unconfidential: I think that sometimes it’s just better to guess. But hey, cheer up! I’ve heard that December curves are usually better than June’s, because most students prefer to take SAT II along w/ AP World History. So you still have a shot at 800! 
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<p>I think I got something like 12 wrong. <em>facepalm</em></p>
<p>I chose Legalism as well, and the direct route thing for Spain.</p>
<p>Anyone remember the Balfour Declaration thing? I think that it was the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, but I spent a lot of time vacillating between that and splitting Palestine equally between Jews & Muslims.</p>
<p>@hellohurricane:
it is the establishment of the Jewish homeland in Palestine.
This is the statement: <a href=“http://israelvets.com/picts/nation_reborn/full_size_images/Balfour_declaration.jpg[/url]”>http://israelvets.com/picts/nation_reborn/full_size_images/Balfour_declaration.jpg</a>
It says nothing about splitting Palestine equally between Jews and Muslims. </p>
![http://israelvets.com/picts/nation_reborn/full_size_images/Balfour_declaration.jpg[/url]](http://israelvets.com/picts/nation_reborn/full_size_images/Balfour_declaration.jpg%5B/url%5D){kind=link}
<p>(at least I hope what it says in the letter is all that there was to it - I chose what you chose too :/)</p>
<p>@hellohurricane: Hi, nice username. I do hope so. The hardest questions of this test are the passage-related ones. There were lots of them in the beginning, and they really baffled me. Thank god it was fairly straightforward from number 50 onwards.</p>
<p>Balfour is the establishment of the Jewish homeland in Palestine.</p>
<p>And that junk (ship passage): the first one is Chinese (it mentioned bamboo), and the second one is Yunglo…something… The year on the passage was 1330, exactly around the time when Ming Dynasty sent armies for diplomacy in the Indian Ocean.</p>
<p>Yes, it was clearly referencing the ships of the Ming Dynasty, made famous under Admiral Zhang He.</p>
<p>What was the particular context for the possible legalism answer? If it was the one that referenced Ashoka, I would have put Buddhism, but I cannot recall.</p>
<p>The Balfour Declaration called for a Jewish homeland in Palestine (to get Jews behind Britain in WWI). The British government said that Palestinians should not be moved, and that the land should be for both, but that was not actually in the Declaration.</p>
<p>^BillyMC, are you an international or domestic? </p>
<p>About the Voodoo question, what’s the answer? I didn’t even dare to answer that, since I had no idea at all.</p>
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I am a citizen of the United States. Why do you ask?</p>
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Roman Catholicism + African Traditions (Think Louisiana… Settled by Catholic Frenchmen, and those of African descent there mixed that with traditional African beliefs).</p>
<p>For some reason I thought that you’re an international. Have you ever taken AP WH?</p>
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Yes, that was the last AP course I took (sophomore year), before switching to full time dual enrollment at a local state college. I received a 5 on the exam. I am currently a senior, and have taken several history courses since, at the local state college. My intended major is history.</p>
<p>Well, I think you’re really well-informed. At least, much more knowledgeable than I am. </p>
<p>Questions: The Jesuit, Chinese, thing; that Taiping rebellion, is it the one led by a Christian Chinese?</p>
<p>@Unconfidential: Jesuits helped to open more ports or increase commerce; the answer was something along those lines. The Taiping Rebellion was civil; the people were upset at the corruption or ineffectiveness of the Chinese government at the time. :)</p>