<p>So if y'all have any questions or want us to grade any essays, you are welcome to! If you guys also want, we can start quizzing each other to ensure that we are ready for the test. So I'll start us of with a question:
1. How did Mao and Li Dazhao apply Marxism to China?</p>
<p>bump 10char</p>
<p>not an answer to the question but would you happen to have a list of the chinese dynasties in order that we have to know for the test with the dates for each one? i can only find weird ones with a bunch of the dynasties divided up…</p>
<p>I don’t have dates, but my class learned a silly song to the tune of “Frere Jacques” (“Are You Sleeping”).</p>
<p>Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han
Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han
Sui, Tang, Song
Sui, Tang, Song
Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic
Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong</p>
<p>Considering I remember it six months later, it works oddly well. You shouldn’t need to know the dates for each one, just the one or two high points for each, and their relative position in history (e.g. the Qin unified China under a strong leader, and that Mao drove out Chiang Kai-shek in the late 40s after a civil war and after WWII).</p>
<p>that’s pretty much the most helpful thing i’ve read all day lol! thanks!</p>
<p>I haven’t started studying for whap at all and I plan on starting on tuesdaybecause that’s when my chem ap ends…
do you think simply reading through the princeton review book in 2 days is enough to score a 5 lol?</p>
<p>i doubt that if you just read through the princeton review book and if you don’t know anything about ap world already, you wouldn’t get a 5 lol xP
but if you do know most of the stuff and just use the princeton reviewing to refresh your memory, then you probably can 8D!</p>
<p>Lol now that was a funny song, especially when you get to the Mao Zedong part</p>
<p>It’s nearly impossible to know EVERYthing that will be asked on the exam… especially the essays. The curriculum is too broad that no one book, review guide, teacher, or class can POSSIBLY cover it all. Something you may have never been exposed to can end up being one of the essay questions. </p>
<p>I am so not thrilled about this exam. Everybody at my school takes APWH as a sophomore and AP Bio as a senior or never (it’s considered “difficult” at my school ???). I’m a sophomore, and the APWH exam seems like one of the hardest there is. Bio was a piece of cake today.
The test is just so broad and doesn’t test your knowledge on specific things; instead, it tests your understanding of large themes and changes over time and across regions.</p>
<p>I wonder how much of a curve there is…</p>
<p>Mao supported the peasants and he believed they were vital for a communist revolution, kind of similar to the proletariat in Marxism?</p>
<p>@SeekingUni: Yeah, I took a practice test today and totally didn’t see anything like “what happened in the Decemberist Manifesto?” or anything specific like that. It was always things like “X, Y, and Z are examples of what in -INSERT TIME FRAME HERE-” or something like that. </p>
<p>My teacher divides everything into Political, Social, Economic, and Cultural when he talks about societies… and its all just running together for me D=. I know I’m going to have to pull up facts for those essays, (except maybe the DBQ) but this is gonna be soooo hard.</p>
<p>LOVE that song. Definitely gonna remember those dynasties. And Mao Zedong now. Thank you!</p>
<p>… @Fresh-man, is that a question for me to answer? Umm. the USSR under Stalin?</p>
<p>lycoris: My teacher does a similar thing. All throughout the year, for every region and time-period we encountered, we had to do a PIRATES chart: Politics, Innovations, Religion, Art/Architecture, Technology, Economy, Social.</p>
<p>For the essays, my teacher says to ALWAYS include aspects from the top three: Politics, Economics, and Culture. Then if you have free time, add more from the rest of the PIRATES chart.</p>
<p>Well, Mao claimed that China was the proleteriat against the capitalist West.
And yeah, just know the main points of each dynasties, but I would memorize the dates anyways, like Han was from 202 BCE-220 CE (like don’t think that Han was from 500-900 CE. Cos that’s just bad). </p>
<ol>
<li>What were some major “conflicts” of the cold war? What happened in them? (Hint: stuff like Korean War, etc.)</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Vietnam war, Korean war, Cuban Missile Crisis, Bay of Pigs invasion, space race, arms race, containment (of communism), Truman Doctrine (stated that support (military and financial) should be given to countries that are combating communism), NATO & Warsaw Pact (U.S and Soviet Union, respectively): Military plans/movements.</li>
</ol>
<p>We also learned the Chinese Dynasty song, but the last lines were “Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping” (Deng Xiaoping basically restructured the economy and used more capitalistic ideas to do so, although the government was/is still technically communist)</p>
<p>Cold War basically led to US vs USSR, with both countries supporting capitalistic and communist countries, respectively. This often led to proxy wars, such as in Korea (north is communist, south was supported by US).</p>
<p>Here’s a question that might be fairly difficult, but may show up on an FRQ:</p>
<ol>
<li>Compare and contrast the push and pull factors involved in the Italian (to Argentina) and Japanese (to Brazil) migrations.</li>
</ol>
<p>Wow my class used that song too o.o</p>
<p>does anyone have the released ap world exam for 2007? i can trade a 2002</p>
<p>@seekinguni really? that might actually be a frq? O_O i do not know anything at all about either of those migrations atm…</p>
<p>Well, ANYTHING can be an FRQ. My teacher said that there are several topics that should be stressed when studying, as they haven’t been asked yet:</p>
<p>Migrations (including migrations to the U.S. from Africa and Asia), womens’ roles, religions, and trans-Saharan trade. </p>
<p>See this thread: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/926160-whap-essay-predictions.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/926160-whap-essay-predictions.html</a></p>