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