<p>ii have a question ... is india considered apart of southeast asia??!?!?!?</p>
<p>b.c i wrote my second essay on the partition of india</p>
<p>india is considered south asia</p>
<p>wait so am i wrong then?? =(</p>
<p>isnt india SOMMME part of south east asia tho?</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure it's only south asia. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.</p>
<p>talk<em>about</em>ambition</p>
<p>Yeah, I somehow managed to do that.... Don't know how, but I would like to think that I'm just good at history. :P Wasted about 6 minutes after that second guessing myself on one or two questions, but I think that I got them right.</p>
<p>I don't think that the essay questions are out yet... Meaning I don't think we should talk about them yet, at least for a few hours more.</p>
<p>EDIT: Yeah, India is part of South Asia. Look it up on Wikipedia.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asia%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asia</a></p>
<p>haha vrdabomb5717 - i think your a genius then. lol</p>
<p>2nd essay - i wrote about palestine / israel .. iran and the shah, and then the rev with the ayatollah, egypt and nasser and fundamentalism / anti western sentiment and the muslim league (i wrote about funadamentalism an anti western sentiment due to mcdonalization and globalization as a whole for all of m.e) and of course, OPEC.</p>
<p>Well, I self-taught myself the curriculum this year (although, I took an Honors World History Course two years ago as a freshman) and felt that the test, in general was quite easy. I finished both sections early. Mult Choice was done about 20 minutes early and the essays, wrote all three in 80 minutes. Those of you who plan on taking the us history ap test, it is much harder than the world history test was this year.</p>
<p>My friend did Japan and china as south east asia... we laughed quite a bit XD</p>
<p>How many pages of essays did you write? I wrote 11 total.</p>
<p>I wrote 11 total as well</p>
<p>4 for DBQ (which is shorter than I usually write)
4 for COT
3 for Compare/Contrast</p>
<p>and I actually write pretty small so I was surprised with how much I wrote (for US i wrote 6 for DBQ, and 1.5 for each essay last year)</p>
<p>im not sure, i didnt count. i think i had 2 pages left towards the end of the booklet though. how many pages is that?</p>
<p>it SUCKS that we have to wait until july for scores -_-</p>
<p>I feel bad now because I only focused on Israel/Palestine in the second question but knew a lot about Arab countries' feelings towards globalization which had a lot more to do with national identities as compared to what I wrote which dealt more with the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians, I hope they go easy on me. </p>
<p>I steel feel good because a lot of guys in my class wrote about India and such which isn't even in SouthEAST Asia and my teacher was quite worried when he found out.</p>
<p>This dude in my class wrote about Charlemagne for the third essay because he thought Charlemagne was leader of the Ottoman Empire, talk about getting owned and probably no more than a 3 on that essay.</p>
<p>lolllll. uhhh the 3rd essay wasnt so bad either. i just went in order, reconquista inquisition exploration and class system.. ottomans - constantinople in 1453 suleiman tolerance millets land routes and its class system.</p>
<p>i cant remember if i mentioned encomienda, i thought i did but now that i think about it ... im pretty sure i forgot.</p>
<p>Well, now I'm worried about how I did. I was thinking my essays weren't great but they weren't bad, either... For the second one I talked about how religion determined your national identity in the Middle East. How at first it determined a large portion of it, then Mustafa began to secularize Turkey and it didn't matter as much. Then Ayatollah had a Shi'ite revolution in Iran and it mattered more again. For the third I talked about how the Spanish forced their subjects in their colonies than the Ottoman empire did, talking about the differences in each of the three categories - political, social, and economic.</p>
<p>Was that bad? Both were about two pages in length.</p>
<p>Here is what I wrote for the essays: </p>
<p>Let me know what you think!</p>
<p>COT (I chose Middle East):</p>
<p>Thesis: Islamic conservatism in the Middle East hindered changes brought on by modernizing reformers and thus some continuities endured even as regions began to forge new national identities</p>
<ul>
<li>post-WWI status quo: League of Nations mandates from decline of Ottoman Empire</li>
</ul>
<p>Turkey: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
- secularized Turkey (change in church-state relationship)
- industrialized and modernized Turkey
- aligned Turkey with West which enabled relations with EU by 21st century
- improved women's rights</p>
<p>Saudi Arabia: Ibn Saud
- unified Arabian Peninsula (political change)</p>
<p>Egypt: Gamal Abdul Nasser
- Pan-Arabism</p>
<p>(conservative example) Iran: Reza Shah Pahlavi
- implemented ill-received reform - resented by Iranians
- tried modernization but thwarted and limited change
- Muhammad Reza Shah and 1979 Iranian Revolution (Islamic fundamentals)
- Ayatollah Khomeini was supreme leader both spiritually and secularly (continuity of Sultan's role as leader of Islamic faith and state)
- decline in women's rights (seclusion continued)</p>
<p>C/C Essay: Spanish vs. Ottomans</p>
<p>common problem of uniting multinational empires</p>
<p>began with military expansion (similarity)
- both had technology (Ottomans were gunpowder empire)
- Spanish conquistadors (Ex: Hernan Cortez and Francisco Pizarro)
- seige of Constantinople by Mehmed II in 1453</p>
<p>both attempted political integration of empires (similarity)
- large empires therefore relied on regional administrators
- pashas and viziers in Ottoman Empire
- local viceroyalities in Spanish America
- limited effectiveness of rule because local administrators given virtual autonomy</p>
<p>differing policies of cultural integration
- Spanish sponsored missionaries and Inquisition to generate religious homogeneity
- Ottomans allowed religious toleration of ethnic minorities</p>
<p>in the end both empires began to collapse anyways..rushed ending because I was almost out of time</p>
<p>For anyone frightened at the level of sophistication here: remember that the type of person who posts at CC is probably a high achiever, and their AP essays reflect that. Most of these people got fives. AP scorers understand that you are under pressure and writing a rough draft of an essay in 40 minutes. You can still pass, even with a 4 or 5, by writing about basic stuff. There is a curve, and the people who wrote bad essays that are lowering that curve don't spend time posting at CC!</p>
<p>haha your so right ..</p>
<p>For second essay i wrote about the middle east.</p>
<p>israel/gaza
iran rev. shah, ayatollah.</p>
<p>what scares me is that i wrote a sorta biased paragraph on the Iraq (the question said "1914-present"). i hope the reader is not conservative or a bush supporter yikes!</p>
<p>I wouldn't worry; history teachers would be to smart to do that!</p>
<p>bush is the man.</p>