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The LEQ (Long Essay Question) ü 1 Question | 40 Minutes | 15% of

The LEQ (Long Essay Question) ü 1 Question | 40 Minutes | 15% of Exam Score ü You will be given a choice between 2 LEQ options. ü There are 4 kinds of LEQs that the AP can ask you. Comparison and Contrast Changes and Continuities Over Time Causation Periodization

About the CCOT LEQ: You must ü analyze and evaluate historical patterns of continuity

About the CCOT LEQ: You must ü analyze and evaluate historical patterns of continuity and change over time. ü Connect patterns of continuity and change over time to larger historical processes or themes.

Your CCOT Question: Using specific evidence, analyze economic continuities and changes in commerce along

Your CCOT Question: Using specific evidence, analyze economic continuities and changes in commerce along the Silk Roads in the period from 600 to 1450 CE.

SPICE Social • Gender roles and relations • Family and kinship • Racial and

SPICE Social • Gender roles and relations • Family and kinship • Racial and ethnic constructions • Social and economic classes Political • Political structures and forms of government • Empires • Nations and nationalism • Revolts and revolutions • Regional, trans-regional, and global structures and organizations Interactions • Demography and disease • Migration • Patterns of Settlement • Technology Culture • Religions • Belief systems, philosophies, and ideologies • Science and technology • The arts and architecture Economic • Agricultural and pastoral production • Trade and commerce • Labor systems • Industrialization • Capitalism and Socialism

Silk Road Chronology 600 CE 700 CE Roman Empire Byzantine Empire. Tang dynasty: Silk

Silk Road Chronology 600 CE 700 CE Roman Empire Byzantine Empire. Tang dynasty: Silk Road reaches its golden age. Islam founded & expands Muslims control Mesopotamia and Iran, along with the Silk and Spice routes. 800 CE Porcelain, compass, & gunpowder made in China. Venice established as a city-state. Arabs conquer Spain Block printing developed in China Tang dynasty declines, and with it, the Silkroad. 900 CE Tang Dynasty ends China fragmented. Song Dynasty reunites China.

1000 CE 1100 CE First Crusade Exchange of technology between Europe and SW Asia.

1000 CE 1100 CE First Crusade Exchange of technology between Europe and SW Asia. Genghis Khan unites Mongols. Paper money developed in China. 1200 CE 1300 CE Death of Genghis Khan. Mongols invade central and Western Asia, Russia & E Europe Pax Mongolia Kublai Khan establishes Yuan dynasty. Marco Polo leaves for the East. Ottoman Empire in power. Tamerlane Empire Ibn Battuta, travels to China. Black Death spreads Asia to Europe. Cannons used first in Europe. Mongol Yuan Dynasty collapses. Chinese Ming Dynasty begins. 1400 - 1450 CE Renaissance begins in Western Europe. Zheng He Decline of Mongols. Ottomans conquer Constantinople. Gutenberg printing press in use. Ming China closes the door to foreigners. Reduces Silk Road trade.

LEQ RUBRIC Skill: Contextualization Describes a broader historical context relevant to the prompt. Requires

LEQ RUBRIC Skill: Contextualization Describes a broader historical context relevant to the prompt. Requires an explanation typically consisting of multiple sentences. Information here cannot be repeated in the body paragraphs. 1 Thesis: States a thesis that makes a historically defensible claim and responds to all parts of the question and establishes a line of reasoning. 1 EVIDENCE To earn one point, the response must identify specific historical examples of evidence relevant to the topic of the prompt. To earn two points the response must use specific historical evidence to support an argument in response to the prompt. ü Explains the reasons for historical continuity AND change over time (1) ü Describes historical continuity AND changes over time. (1) 0 -2

LEQ RUBRIC Continued… Analysis And Reasoning Uses historical reasoning (e. g. comparison, causation, CCOT)

LEQ RUBRIC Continued… Analysis And Reasoning Uses historical reasoning (e. g. comparison, causation, CCOT) to frame or structure an argument that addresses the prompt. (1) OR Demonstrates a complex understanding of the historical development that is the focus of the prompt, using evidence to corroborate, qualify, or modify an argument that addresses the question. (2) ü Explaining nuance by analyzing multiple variables ü Explaining both similarity and difference, both continuity and change, or multiple causes, or both causes and effects ü Explaining relevant and insightful connections within and across periods ü Confirming the validity of an argument by corroborating multiple perspectives across themes ü Qualifying or modifying an argument by considering diverse or alternative views or evidence 0 -2

Bad or “Meh” Theses: Figure out WHY A: In the years of 600 CE-1450

Bad or “Meh” Theses: Figure out WHY A: In the years of 600 CE-1450 CE, there were many changes in patterns of Silk Road trade such as religion and empires, but there were also continuities in Silk Road trade such as technology. B: During the period of 600 CE to 1450 CE, patterns of interaction both changed and remained the same due to the rise and fall of different societies. C: Over the centuries from 600 CE to 1450 CE, the Silk Road grew from a local network to a massively extensive system of commerce spanning thousands of miles and incorporating many nations and commodities.

Good Theses: Figure out WHY A: Between 600 CE and 1450 CE, travelers along

Good Theses: Figure out WHY A: Between 600 CE and 1450 CE, travelers along the Great Silk Road transferred diseases or plagues throughout Eurasia. However, some merchants on the Great Silk Road diffused religions while others diffused technological ideas from Asia to the Mediterranean trade network. B: Between 600 CE and 1450 CE, merchants and sometimes missionaries consistently diffused religions into areas of Eurasia connected by the Silk Road. However, Islam became a new religion that was diffused in this period along the Silk Roads from its origin in Southwest Asia. The empires that participated in Silk Road trade changed over time, too, such as a shift from the Roman Empire to the Byzantine Empire or the Song dynasty to the Mongol Empire.

Historical Context ü Need to place changes in the larger world context AND identify

Historical Context ü Need to place changes in the larger world context AND identify what GLOBAL events brought about changes. ü Discuss how continuities persist despite these global forces that bring about change. ü You must make an extra-regional connection or a global process to explain continuity or change in your essay. For example, saying that “The Byzantines and China both had trade” is a comparison, NOT a connection.

I Introduction: Outlining Your Essay A) Thesis statement must: ü Include time period: 600

I Introduction: Outlining Your Essay A) Thesis statement must: ü Include time period: 600 – 1450 CE ü Include region: Silk Roads (include end points such as East Asia and Western Europe) ü Include at least 2 changes and 1 continuity, or 1 change and 2 continuities B) Historical context II Body Paragraph One Changes III Body Paragraph Two Continuities IV Conclusion A) Prove your thesis statement B) Historical context (if you haven’t already discussed it)

Terms to use Changes Continuities Previously Lasting Up until Enduring Formerly Ongoing From that

Terms to use Changes Continuities Previously Lasting Up until Enduring Formerly Ongoing From that point forward Sustained Prior to Maintained