Unit 2 LEQ (Afro-Eurasian Trade)

AP World History Long-Essay Question on Afro-Eurasian Trade

👋 Welcome to the AP World Unit 2 LEQ (Afro-Eurasian Trade). These are longer questions, so you'll want to grab some paper and a pencil, or open up a blank page on your computer. 

⚠️ (Unfortunately, we don't have an Answers Guide or Rubric for this question, but it can give you an idea of how an LEQ for Unit 2 might look on the exam.)

⏱ The AP World exam has a mixture of free-response questions and allotted times. For these types of questions, there will be 1 LEQ, and you will be given 40 minutes to complete the LEQ section. (This means you should give yourself 40 minutes to go through each practice LEQ.)

• • 🤔 Need a quick refresher of the unit as a whole? Check out the Unit 2 Overview.
• • 😩 Getting stumped halfway through answering? Look through all of the available Unit 2 Resources.

Question

Analyze economic continuities and changes in trade networks within Afro-Eurasia in the period from 1200 C.E. to 1450 C.E