Contextualization:

● Context/historical evidence from 50-100 years prior

● About 3 sentences

LEQ:
When, Where, what
Line of reasoning
Counter with specific evidence

When: before 1450 c.

Where: Eurasia
Topic: Religious and State responses to wealth accumulation
Comparison

Summary of Docs

D Source Key Takeaways

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1 The Chronicle of Zuo,​ one of the earliest
State
Chinese historical works, composed
during the Warring States period, circa Positive - Ruler likes- people's right to
350 B.C.E. accumulate wealth should be protected-
everyone liking merchants better than
one getting jade

2 Chanakya, advisor to the first Mauryan

emperor, ​Arthashastra​, economic and
political treatise, circa 250 B.C.E. State

Tight control- want to know exactly how

much money; fine but don’t take
advantage

3 Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman

State
statesman and philosopher, ​An Essay
about Duties​, circa 50 B.C.E. Ok, but agriculture preferred to
moneylending; feeding=good
 4 Gerontius, Christian monk, ​The Life of
Religious
Melania the Younger​, a saint’s biography
composed circa 450 C.E. Negative - Christian monk - Wealth is
the temptation of the Devil

5 The Qur’an,​ the holy book of Islam

Religious

Positive - Islam - Good so that wealthy

may help the needy; (Muhammad was
a merchant) outside evidence

6 Painting from the Buddhist cave temples

Religious
at Bezeklik, Central Asia, circa 800 C.E.
Positive - Buddihism - Good so that
they may give to the temple; help the
needy

7 Ganapatideva, ruler of the South Indian State

Kakatiya state, edict, circa 1245 C.E. Positive - free market; sea traders
should be able to keep most of their
profits with little taxation; only 1/30 tax
to keep growing

Organization of ideas.

Religious Both State

Negative - temptation of the Positive - (Docs, 1, 5, 6, & Positive - it is just for

Devil (Doc 4) 7) people to keep what they
own (Doc 1) and what they
Positive - to help people Ok - (Docs 2 & 3)
have worked for (Doc 7)
(Doc 5) and worship (Doc
Negative - (Doc 4)
6) Ok - as long as consumers
aren't taken advantage of
(Doc 2) and (Doc 3)

In Eurasia, before 1450 c. Islam spread greatly and Silk Road and Indian Ocean trade
expanded greatly. The expansion of these trade routes and development of economic
innovations such as banking houses and flying cash led to significant increase in the
activity of merchants. Islam was also spread greatly at the time due to interaction
between various cultures through diasporic communities and the active role that Sufis
played in spreading the religion while adapting to various local cultures. Both the spread
of Islam and the expansion of Silk Road and Indian Ocean trade led to wealth
accumulation. (Thesis 1) Although responses to wealth accumulation in Eurasia in the
period prior to c.1450 were similar in that both religions and states generally
encouraged it, they differed significantly in their rationale because religions believed
wealth should be utilized for the greater good while states believed wealth accumulation
was a right as long as businesses did not mistreat consumers.

LEQ: No documents; writing from known knowledge

3 types of historical reasoning skills:
Comparison (similarities and differences)
Although they were slightly different, they were mostly similar because a and b
CCOT
Causation
Find 3 causes; rank in order; find weakest clause and use as counter
Although cause C was relevant because, Causes B and A had the most significant
impact on ...
Thesis: 1 point: must make a claim; use language of prompt
Contextualization: use language to connect: 3 sentences
OUTLINE: Contextualization then thesis statement
Body: All about A for first all about B for second; Support with more specific evidence to
support each; mention evidence in thesis
Analysis and Reasoning: talk about historical reasoning skills and how they apply
Complexity point in Analysis and Reasoning: The although part of the thesis allows for
the counterargument in third but discredit to show why not as strong with evidence. Has
to be more fully developed later in the essay
How to even start?
40 minutes; 5 minutes to prewrite and brainstorm

Causation Outline:
Paragraph 1: Introduction: Context (set the scene) and Thesis (answers the prompt)
Paragraph 2: cause a (2-3 pieces of evidence)
Paragraph 3: cause b (2-3 pieces of evidence)
Paragraph 4: cause c (discredit with 2-3 pieces of evidence)
CCOT Outline:
Paragraph 1: Introduction: Context (set the scene) and Thesis (answers the prompt)
Paragraph 2: Change 1
Paragraph 3: Change 2
Paragraph 4: Continuity
Comparison:
Paragraph 1: Introduction: Context (set the scene) and Thesis (answers the prompt)
Paragraph 2: Similarity a (2-3 pieces of evidence)
Paragraph 3: similarity b (2-3 pieces of evidence)
Paragraph 4: difference c (discredit with 2-3 pieces of evidence)

Similarities between africa and eurasia Differnces between africa and eurasia

Essay Writing DBQ 

General 
❏ Will be from periods 3-6 
❏ 25% of AP Exam 
❏ Can include but not limited to: primary source excerpts, secondary source 
excerpts, photographs, etc.  
❏ Categorize documents to see which fit in each categories 
❏ Source 4 of them and use all 7 
❏ Use the word pov, audience, etc 
❏ Mention whether it makes it more or less credible and why 
Scoring 
❏ Scored on 7 points 
❏ Thesis and contextualization are the same 
❏ Extra point for evidence 
Complexity 
❏ 1 point for complexity (counterargument, similarities and differences, 
changes and continuities) 
 Thesis 
❏ 1 point for thesis (crucial) 
❏ Use places and times 
❏ Although X, Y, because of A and B 
❏ Use terms like mostly or slightly 
❏ For causation come up with 3 categories for causes/effects, top 2 can 
support and the weakest is the counterargument 
❏ Although C had a slight effect, A and B were a primary cause 
Contextualization 
❏ 1 point for contextualization (fairly straightforward) 
❏ 3 sentence strategy 
❏ Use language of topic to show a clear connection 
Analysis 
❏ No points for analysis with a line of reasoning 
❏ At least 3 but 4 is preferable 
Evidence 
❏ DBQ wants you to use evidence from the documents; use all 7 of the 
documents and show how they support an argument to ensure that you 
get full points 
❏ Don’t quote anything, paraphrase and use your own words instead 
❏ Get the point for sourcing the document in terms of POV (Marco Polo and 
Ibn Battuta would have different views), historical situation (when ally with 
Japan will be super nice), the audience (film will work to entertain not be 
accurate), or purpose to determine the reliability 
❏ Just talking about evidence is not enough 
❏ Can also get a point for evidence beyond the document 
❏ For outside evidence: boldface terms 
Format 
❏ Topic sentence (don’t talk about documents) 
❏ Introduce document 
❏ Connect document to the topic sentence 
❏ Talk about HAPPY 
❏ Mix up the order of documents 
 ❏ Organize documents into 3 categories 
❏ One for each main body and 3rd is for the counterargument 
❏ Topic sentence should come from the thesis 
❏ DON’T USE DOCUMENTS IN TOPIC SENTENCE 
❏ Give the title of the document and the document number 
❏ Finally, bring up counterargument and discredit it 
❏ 8 total pieces of evidence (7 documents  
How to Begin 
❏ Have 60 minutes, use 15 to prewrite 
❏ Group documents according to their themes 
Intro 
❏ Don’t mention docs here 
No documents 
Body 1 
Topic sentence  
❏ Don’t mention docs here 
3 documents 
❏ Evidenceevidenceevidence (doc 1) 
❏ Source with parenthetical citations 
Body 2 
3 documents 
Counter  
1 document