DBQ Stuff
In a LAQ or DBQ, this is a statement that makes a claim or argument that you are going to prove with evidence.
What is a thesis?
If I am a Venetian, I am from this former naval superpower.
What is Venice?
Present day Turkey.
What is Anatolia?
This was the Dynasty of the Mongols that controlled China.
Who were the Yuan.
This river separates New Jersey from Pennsylvania.
What is the Delaware River?
When writing a DBQ, SAQ or LAQ you must provide this to backup your claim and prove what you are claiming historically, without just quoting the sources.
What is evidence?
When westerners referred to Cathay, this is where they were talking about.
What is China?
Mexico, Chile and the other countries in Central America and South America are often referred to as this region.
What is MesoAmerica?
This disease was unintentionally brought to the west by the Mongols.
What is Bubonic/Black Plague?
This state university was founded in 1766 and was originally called Queen's College.
What is Rutgers University?
These types of pronouns should not be used in your writing of LAQs, SAQs, and DBQs.
What are personal pronouns?
Historically, after Christianity was adopted by the Romans, when written accounts refer to Rome, they are referring to this authority.
What is the Papacy/Pope?
This archipelago had samurai, bushido and Shintoism as their indigenous religion.
What is Japan?
Who are women?
This river separates New Jersey from New York City.
What is the Hudson River?
These two words should not be the used in a final paragraph in AP World History.
What are in conclusion?
If a person was Florentine, it meant they were from this Italian city-state.
What is Florence?
This is one of the two rivers served by the Grand Canal in China.
What are the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers?
This is how Mongols broke down city walls that were under siege by them.
What is diverting rivers?
These were the first Europeans to claim New Jersey as a colony.
Who were the Dutch/Netherlands?
This is what readers from the College Board/AP test do not score/read.
What are quotes?
Italian accounts from the 13th-16th centuries refer to certain people as Saracens, this is who they were talking about.
Who are Arab Muslims?
Norway, Sweden, Denmark and sometimes Finland are classified as this geographically/culturally.
What are Scandinavia or Nordic.
This dynasty in India of the 16th to 19th centuries utilized gunpowder and claimed to be descendants of the Mongols.
Who were the Mughals?
This state university used to be called Glassboro College and was founded as a "normal school" (teachers college) in 1923 in South Jersey.
What is Rowan University?