AP World History Make-Up DBQ

Directions: The following question is based on the accompanying documents (1-7). The documents have been edited for the purpose of this exercise.

This question is designed to test your ability to work with and understand historical documents.

Write an essay that:

Has a relevant thesis that is supported by evidence from the documents

Uses all of the documents Analyzes the documents by grouping them in as many appropriate

ways as possible. Does not simply summarize the documents individually.

Takes into account the sources of the documents and analyzes the author's point of view

Identifies and explains the need for at least one additional type of document

You may refer to relevant historical information not mentioned in the documents.

Using documents, discuss the effects of the development of the Atlantic trade and its impact on the participating civilizations from 1450-1750. Keep in mind what kinds of additional documents you need to assess the consequences of this economic endeavor.

DOCUMENT 1

“I do not know if coffee and sugar are essential to the happiness of Europe, but I do know well that these two products have accounted for the unhappiness of two great regions of the world: America has been depopulated so as to have land on which to plant them; Africa has been depopulated so as to have the people to cultivate them.”

- from Volume 1 of J.H. Bernardin de Saint Pierre’s Voyage to the Isle de France, Isle de Bourbon, The Cape of Good Hope… (1773)

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DOCUMENT 4

Source: Antonio Vazquez de Espinosa - Compendium and Description (c.1620)

DOCUMENT 5

Portrait of merchant George Gisze, painted c. 1532

- Anonymous advisor to King of France

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