I completely blew that question. I mentioned how they conquered other peoples, the treatment of the conquered peoples, how they fell, and their legacy >_< I don’t think any of my points will score anything and my thesis was off.</p>
@ gardfield - I said that those were Urban centers.</p>
@ kcdecember
I did the exact same thing also (Slave trade and Europe to the US). I was a good ways into the essay before I realized it. I tried to bend the slave trade to focus mainly on Latin America and Africa but I’m not sure.</p>
In the FRQ when they say “the rise of ___ empires” what do they MEAN?</p>
like how they gained the territory?! in that case it would only be military right? o.O
so basically I failed because I wrote about economic, political, and religious :((</p>
How much outside info was acceptable on the DBQ? I said Truman’s inaugural address was more about anti-Communist containment than humanitarian compassion which is why he supported the Green Revolution. A stretch?</p>
Wait, why is it bad to talk about how the empires gained territoey and kept their rule? Isn’t that completely relevant?</p>
If you discussed those 2, you actually talked about 3 regions. They didn’t say that the 2 regions have to be the destinations.</p>
What was the “specific” thing that the Comp question was asking for?</p>
Comparing the rise of the empires I believe. I don’t really recall it, that’s what my friends said lol :[</p>
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Bad idea, not really relevant to the prompt. </p>
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Comparing the rise of the empires</p>
Isn’t it sort of obvious that a COMPARATIVE essay would require you to COMPARE them?</p>
Anyway, I guess I can stop panicking about them, then.</p>
Lol yeah, but it’s not hard to miss the “rise” part of it xD Would I be right in guessing that if I wrote stuff about their decline I get no points?</p>
BTW, don’t worry too much. The rubrik for the comp essay is:
1 point for a good thesis
2 points for accurate/relevant historical evidence
2 points for addressing all parts of the question
1 point for a DIRECT comparison</p>
Even if you didn’t make a direct comparison, you should still get a 5 if you made implied comparisons by talking about the characteristics of each empire.</p>
I was wondering if I will lose points for attributing the rise of/beginning of Mali to Mansa Musa, rather than Sundiata who was Mali’s first leader.</p>
It’s okay to talk about their fall in the conclusions. As long as you used a lot of info about their rise, you’ll be fine.</p>
I said Mansa Musa was responsible for the rise because he went on his hajj, which brought REAL widespread attention to Mali, so I would say yes.</p>
I wrote about the fall in my thesis lol.</p>
The first dbq was really easy, they literally gave u the groupings right there (causes and pos/neg consequences). The second threw me off a little, but when I thought it through it wasn’t too bad. I wrote about imperialism, slave trade, and urbanization due to the enclosure acts (luckily that was 1700). In the third one I compared Sunni Ali’s conquest of Timbuktu and the Malian empire to Mongols conquest of Abbasids. They preserved Islam and contributed to the spread of it through trade routes. As a difference, Mongols expanded more due to superior fighting skills (horses, gunpowder) and were nomadic</p>
my concern is that I did not write enough pages. For my dbq I wrote 2 and a half. For my change over time I wrote 1 3/4, almost 2 and same for the compare/contrast. I did have good points thuogh.</p>
seems like a well written essay</p>
I think I probably got in the fifties or so on the multiple choice. The first twenty or so were painfully easy, and I appreciated how the questions flowed in chronological order, more or less. I felt really confident about the DBQ (five pages of solid writing), confident about the comparative (Aztecs and Mongols), and iffy on the COT…IDK what happened there. I feel good about getting a 4 or a 5, but I’ll be happy if I pass. </p>
Good luck, you guys. And guess what - WE’RE DONE WITH APWH FOREVER!</p>
Yeah… so the MC was very easy, I got probably around 62-63 correct if I had to guess. I got 61 on the released 2002 exam yesterday (and it seemed a little harder).</p>
Also, it seems as if Muslim women can divorce, remarry, and inherit property according to the Qur’an. The new testament does NOT permit this. Almost EVERYONE I know (expect me and one other person) got that wrong, including my Muslim friends. </p>
As far as the essays… The DBQ was definitely the easiest. I wrote a full four pages and put them in the obvious groupings (causes, positive, and negative effects) and suggested multiple documents and did point of view at least 3 times, just to be safe.</p>
I did the compare and contrast next and had multiple similarities and differences, so hopefully at least some of them were correct and relevant to the “rise” (whatever the hell that exactly means) of the empires. </p>
My change over time, on the other hand, was absolute crap. My argument was pretty much completely false and the examples were very questionable. I said that because most people had already converted to sedentary lifestyles, that they really didn’t see the need for migrations, and that therefore almost all migrations turned out to be forced. The forced migrations I used were the “trail of tears” (where indians moved from the east coast to the midwest) and the Boer migration to the interior of South Africa (which wasn’t even long distance). My change was the development of new governments and technologies that impacted migrations and the continuity was that all migrations were forced.<br>
My question is therefore is thus: what points can I still receive (if any) for such a horrible essay?</p>