AP WORLD EXTRA CREDIT ESSAYS
Directions: Choose one essay per week to write and submit for extra credit for a total of FOUR extra credit assignments. You may choose a maximum of TWO(2) CCOT essays and a maximum of TWO (2) CC essays. ALL essays MUST be submitted electronically either via email or saved to the u:drive. Any academic dishonesty will eliminate a students from ALL extra credit opportunities.
CCOT
Choice #1: Analyze the social and economic transformations that occurred in the Atlantic world as a result of new contacts among Western Europe, Africa and the Americas to 1750.
Choice #2: Analyze continuities and changes in the way rulers and religious authorities used art and architecture before 600 C.E.
Choice #3: Analyze changes and continuities in trade networks between Africa and Eurasia from circa 300 C.E. to 1450 C.E
Choice #4: Analyze continuities and changes in the cultural and political life of ONE of the following societies:
-Chinese, 100 C.E. to 600 C.E.
-Roman, 100 C.E. to 600 C.E.
-Indian, 300 C.E. to 600 C.E.
CC
Choice #5: Compare the process of state building on TWO of the following in the period 600 C.E. to 1450 C.E.
-Islamic states
-City-states
-Mongol Khanates
Choice #6: Analyze the similarities and differences in the rise of TWO of the following empires.
- A West African Sudanic empire (Mali OR Ghana OR Songhay)
- The Aztec Empire
- The Mongol Empire
Choice #7: Compare demographic and environmental effects of the Columbian Exchange on the Americas with the Columbian Exchange’s demographic and environmental effects on ONE of the following regions between 1492 and 1750.
-Africa
-Asia
-Europe
Choice #8: Compare and contrast the roles of women in TWO of the following regions during the period of 1750 to 1914.
-East Asia
-Latin America
-Sub-Saharan Africa
-Western Europe