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DBQ Essay Example With Scoring Explanation
DBQ Essay Example With Scoring Explanation
Directions: Write a well-organized essay that includes an introduction, several paragraphs, and a conclusion. Use evidence from at least four documents in your essay. Support your response with relevant facts, examples, and details. Include additional outside information.
Historical Context:
Throughout history, the usage and control of waterways such as rivers, canals, straits, and seas have had economic and political effects on many societies.
Task:
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Using the information from the documents and your knowledge of global history, write an essay in which you Discuss how the usage or control of waterways has had economic effects and/or political effects on societies
Not only have waterways throughout the world had economic effects on society but they have also had political effects as well. One example of this is the Bosporus Strait. Throughout most of its history, Russia has desired a warm water port through which they could trade with the world by sea. Russian has had ports, but many are frozen for most of the year. One of the only warm water ports that they owned was on the Black Sea and the problem with that is that the only way out of the Black Sea was through a narrow passage called the Bosporus Strait. Unfortunately for Russia though, they did not control the Bosporus, the Ottoman Empire did. Russia tried unsuccessfully to take the Bosporus for two centuries, once in the Russo-Turkish War (Document 6). Waterways such as rivers, canals, straits and seas have had many political and economic effects on societies throughout history. The effects these waterways have had is undeniable when you stop and study specific societies throughout history. There is a no doubt that waterways have been one of the most important players in the writing of history.
-The essay develops the task by talking about how waterways have had both economic and political effects on societies
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-It both describes and analyzes the documents -It clearly uses relevant information from at least four documents1, 2, 5, 6 -The essay also includes relevant outside information not found in the documents (e.g., the Nile floods and leaves silt every year) -Supports the historical context with relevant facts, examples and details -Uses appropriate language and writing skills -Shows good organization and writing skills by including an introduction and a conclusion that is not simply copied