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AP World Spring 2020 Final ExamCoach BaileyDirections: Please use the rubric below as a guide and type your response after the prompt at the end of the documents. Also, please use the graphic organizer below if it helps you to plan your writing. It is not required. Due: Friday, May 15th by Midnight. Please email your work in a Microsoft Word document. Good Luck ?Evaluate the extent to which European maritime empires transformed societies in the Americas in the period circa 1450 to 1750 CE.Contextualizationdescribe a broader historical context relevant to the prompt; 3-4 sentences of background information to start your response1 pt.Thesis w/ Line of Reasoningrespond to the prompt w/ a historically defensible claim that establishes a line of reasoning; 1-2 sentences; place at end of intro paragraph after context1 pt. Evidence from the Documents to Support an Argumentsupport an argument in response to the prompt using at least 4 documents- describe content from 2 docs = 1 pt.- use content from 2 docs to support an argument = +1 pt.- describe & use content from 4 docs to support an argument = +1 pt.3 pts.Additional Outside Evidenceuse at least 2 additional pieces of specific historical evidence (beyond that found in the documents) relevant to an argument about the prompt- use 1-2 sentences to describe an additional piece of evidence = 1 pt.- use 1-2 sentences to describe a second additional piece of evidence = + 1 pt.2 pts.Source Analysis & Evaluationfor at least 2 documents, explain how or why the document’s point of view, historical context, purpose &/or audience is relevant to the argument- use 1-2 sentences to analyze/evaluate the sourcing of 1 doc = 1 pt.- use 1-2 sentences to analyze/evaluate the sourcing of a 2nd doc = + 1 pt.2 plexityuse evidence to corroborate, qualify, or modify an argument that addresses the prompt1 pt.Optional Planning Graphic OrganizerPrompt (determine the time period & historical thinking skill)Time Period (19th c. = 1800s)Compare/ContrastCause/EffectChange & Continuity Over Time (CCOT)Document AnalysisMain Ideas & ArgumentsAdditional Outside EvidenceSourcing (POV, context, purpose, audience)Document 1Document 2Document 3Document 4Document 5Document Themes/GroupingsTheme:Document #s: Topic Sentence:Theme: Document #s:Topic Sentence: Thesis Statement With Line of Reasoning (1-2 sentences):Contextualization (3-4 sentences that situate your thesis in a broader historical context): Additional Evidence Beyond the Documents (identify, explain & connect the evidence to the prompt)Evidence #1: Evidence #2: Sourcing (explain how the POV, context, purpose or audience of the source might influence its use)Sourcing #1:Sourcing #2:Complexity (3-4 sentences that present a different perspective related to the prompt):Directions: This question is based on the five accompanying documents. The documents have been edited for the purpose of this exercise. In your response you should do the following. ● Respond to the prompt with a historically defensible thesis or claim that establishes a line of reasoning. ● Describe a broader historical context relevant to the prompt. ● Support an argument in response to the prompt using at least four documents. ● Use at least two additional pieces of specific historical evidence (beyond that found in the documents) relevant to an argument about the prompt. ● For at least two documents, explain how or why the document’s point of view, purpose, historical situation, and/or audience is relevant to an argument. ● Use evidence to corroborate, qualify, or modify an argument that addresses the prompt Evaluate the extent to which European maritime empires transformed societies in the Americas in the period circa 1450 to 1750 CE.Document 1Source: Alonso de la Mota y Escobar, Bishop of Guadalajara, Mexico, geographical treatise, 1605.“The Mexican city of Zacatecas is renowned for the enormous quantity of silver that has been extracted from it and continues to be extracted today. At the time of the discovery of the silver, there were many forests and woodlands in this rocky land, all of which have since vanished so that now except for some little wild palms, no other trees remain. Firewood is very expensive in the city because it is brought in carts from a distance of eighteen hours away.The silver was discovered in the year 1540, in the following way: after the fall of the Aztec Empire, Spanish soldiers remained, spread over the entire country. Since no more towns remained to conquer and since they had so many Indian slaves, they devoted themselves to seeking riches from silver mines. One of these soldiers was Juan de Tolosa, who happened to have an Aztec among his Indian slaves. The Aztec, it is said, seeing his master so anxious to discover mines and to claim silver, told him: ‘If you so desire this substance, I will take you where you can fill your hands and satisfy your greed with it.’The city houses at least 600 White residents, and most of them are Spaniards. There are about 800 Black slaves and mulattoes*. There are about 1,500 Indians in the work gangs who labor in all types of occupations in the mines.”*a person of mixed European and African ancestryDocument 2Source: Historical chronicle of the Maya Kaqchikel people, composed and edited by different members of the Maya political elite in the Kaqchikel language, circa 1571–1604.“In the course of the fifth year [1519] the terrible pestilence began. First there was a cough, then blood. The number of deaths at this time was truly terrible.In 1520 the pestilence spread. Truly, the number of deaths among the people was terrible and the people could not escape from the pestilence.In 1521 my father, King Hunyg, died. The elders and the priests died alike from the pestilence. Half the people threw themselves into the ravines to escape it. The oldest son of the king died at the same time as well as his young brother. Thus, our people became poor.In 1524 the Spanish arrived in our country and destroyed our people. The Spanish conquered all towns.In 1542 Dominican friars arrived from Mexico, and they taught us the Doctrine of Christ in our language. Until that time we had been ignorant of the word and the commandments of God.In 1560 the pestilence that had formerly raged among the people returned again. It was truly terrible when this death was sent among us by the great God. Many families disappeared. All here were soon attacked, and I was also attacked with the disease.”Document 3Source: Bartholomew de las Casas, Dominican priest, Short Report of the Description of the Indies, 1552.In the year 1526, by lying and deceiving and by making offers to the [Spanish] King, another unhappy [Spanish] man was elected governor of the kingdom of Yucatan. … This tyrant, with three hundred men began by making cruel war on those good and innocent people, who kept within their houses without offending anyone. The country produces no gold, and if it had he would have used up the people by working them in the mines; to coin gold therefore out of the bodies and souls of those for whom Jesus Christ died, he made slaves indifferently of all whom he did not kill; many ships were attracted thither by the news that slaves were to be had, all of which he sent back loaded with human beings whom he sold for wine, oil, vinegar, pork, clothing, horses and whatever else he and his men thought they needed. … He continued with these operations, ruining and depopulating those countries, and killing those people without pity, till news of the riches of Peru reached the place and the Spaniards left him, and that hell ceased for some days. Afterwards, however, his ministers returned to commit more great evils, robbery, wickedness, and great offence against …These then are the deeds of the Spaniards who go to the Indies; in their desire for gold they have numberless times sold, and do sell, and have forsworn Jesus Christ.Document 4Source: “The Demand” (Requerimiento), document issued by the Spanish royal council of Castile in 1510. Spanish conquistadors were legally required to read the document aloud to indigenous Americans before taking their land.“On behalf of the king and queen of Spain, we notify you that the pope has donated to them these islands and lands and all who have received this notice should receive and serve their Highnesses as subjects ought to do.We ask that you acknowledge the Church and the pope as the ruler of the whole world. We ask further that you acknowledge that the king and queen of Spain shall rule as lords and kings of these islands and lands by virtue of the pope’s donation. If you obey your king and queen, you will do well and we shall receive you with all love and charity and shall leave you, your wives, your children, and your lands free without servitude.But, if you do not obey, we shall powerfully enter into your country, and shall make war against you and shall subject you to the yoke and obedience of the Church and the king and queen of Spain. We shall take you, your wives, and your children and make all of you slaves and we shall take away your goods. We assert that the deaths and losses that would accrue from this are your fault, and not that of their Highnesses, or ours, nor of these soldiers who come with us.”Document 5The left image shows Vari Viracocha Runa and Vari Viracocha Uarni, a mythical first couple of humans created by the Inca god Viracocha. The right image shows Adam and Eve, the first couple of humans in the Bible.Source: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Christian descendant of Inca nobles, from The First New Chronicle and Good Government, an illustrated history of South America that he sent to the King of Spain, circa 1615. ................
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