Illustrative Examples are specific topics chosen by College Board to represent certain historical developments. For example, knowing that the decline in shipbuilding in India and Southeast Asia directly relates to the historical development "While Middle Eastern and Asian countries continued to produce manufactured goods, these regions’ share in global manufacturing declined." in topic 5.4. (KC-5.1.II.B)

According to College Board, "These include possible examples of content that might be used to teach the historical development, process, or event. These are intended as examples and do not in any way constitute additional, preferred, or required information."

If you understand these specific examples, you will be better able to demonstrate your skills and understanding of the course content.

These are further identified with the themes of AP World History. See the Course Info page if you need to know what they all are!

Non-state to state colonial control:

  • Shift from the private ownership of the Congo by King Leopold II to the Belgium government

  • Shift from the Dutch East India Company to Dutch government control in Indonesia and Southeast Asia

European states that expanded empires in Africa:

  • Britain in West Africa

  • Belgium in the Congo

  • France in West Africa

  • Settler colonies established in empires:

  • New Zealand

Direct resistance:

  • Tupac Amaru II’s rebellion in Peru

  • Samory Toure’s military battles in West Africa

  • Yaa Asantewaa War in West Africa

  • 1857 rebellion in India

New states:

  • Establishment of independent states in the Balkans

  • Sokoto Caliphate in modern-day Nigeria

  • Cherokee Nation

  • Zulu Kingdom

Rebellions:

  • Ghost dance in the U.S.

  • Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement in Southern Africa

  • Mahdist wars in Sudan

Regulation of Immigrants:

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • White Australia policy

Demands:

  • Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

  • Olympe de Gouges’s Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen

  • Seneca Falls Conference (1848) organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

Call for national unification or liberation:

  • Propaganda Movement in the Philippines

  • Maori nationalism and the New Zealand wars in New Zealand

  • Puerto Rico--writings of Lola Rodriguez de Tio

  • German and Italian unifications

  • Balkan nationalism

  • Ottomanism

Return of migrants:

  • Japanese agricultural workers in the Pacific

  • Lebanese merchants in the Americas

  • Italian industrial workers in Argentina

Migrants:

  • Irish to the United States

  • British engineers and geologists to South Asia and Africa

Migrant ethnic enclaves:

  • Chinese in Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, South America, and North America

  • Indians in East and Southern Africa, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia

  • Irish in North America

  • Italians in North and South America

Regulation of Immigrants:

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • White Australia policy

Decline of Middle Eastern and Asian share in global manufacturing:

  • Shipbuilding in India and Southeast Asia

  • Iron works in India

  • Textile production in India and Egypt

State-sponsored visions of industrialization:

  • Muhammad Ali’s development of a cotton textile industry in Egypt

Transnational businesses:

  • Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC)

  • Unilever based in England and the Netherlands and operating in British West Africa and the Belgian Congo

Financial instruments:

  • Stock markets

  • Limited-liability corporations

Resource export economies:

  • Cotton production in Egypt

  • Rubber extraction in the Amazon and the Congo basin

  • The palm oil trade in West Africa

  • The guano industries in Peru and Chile

  • Meat from Argentina and Uruguay

  • Diamonds from Africa

Industrialized states practicing economic imperialism:

  • Britain and France expanding their influence in China through the Opium Wars

  • The construction of the Port of Buenos Aires with the support of British firms

Commodities that contributed to European and American advantage:

  • Opium produced in the Middle East or South Asia and exported to China

  • Cotton grown in South Asia and Egypt and exported to Great Britain and other European countries

  • Palm oil produced in sub-Saharan Africa and exported to European countries

  • Copper extracted in Chile

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APWH:M Illustrative Examples