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AP World History Cross-Unit Drill 30

Drill 30 · Multiple Choice · Unit 9: Globalization

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AP World History Cross-Unit Drill 30 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 9: Globalization. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.

This final drill is a cross-unit synthesis drill drawing on themes from across all nine units of AP World History Modern. Read the passage carefully and draw on your knowledge of the full course to answer all five questions.

Passage

Adapted from a modern historian's account.

"If there is a single thread running through world history from 1200 to the present, it is the recurring tension between the impulse to connect and the impulse to control. Trade networks, religious missions, imperial conquests, colonial enterprises, and digital platforms have all extended the reach of human interaction across distance. But each expansion of connection has also produced new mechanisms of control — over labor, over belief, over markets, over information. The Silk Roads moved silk and spices and also spread plague and religion. The Atlantic system moved goods and also moved millions of enslaved people. Industrial capitalism linked distant economies and also concentrated wealth with devastating inequality. The internet connected the world's information and also enabled surveillance and manipulation. Connection and control are not opposites. They are, in world history, inseparable partners."

Questions in This Drill

  1. Which of the following best states the historian's central argument?
  2. The historian's argument that connection and control are "inseparable partners" would be most effectively challenged by evidence that
  3. The historian's example of the Atlantic system moving "goods and also millions of enslaved people" is best contextualized by which broader development?
  4. The historian argues that "Industrial capitalism linked distant economies and also concentrated wealth with devastating inequality." Which of the following pieces of evidence would most directly support this claim?
  5. Based on the historian's framework, which of the following best represents a continuity from the patterns described across all nine units of AP World History Modern?