AP World History Short-Answer Question on The Ottoman & Mughal Empires

👋 Welcome to the AP World Unit 3 SAQ (The Ottoman & Mughal Empires). These are shorter questions, but you'll still 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 for this question, but it can give you an idea of how an SAQ for Unit 3 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 3 SAQs, and you will be given 40 minutes to complete the SAQ section. (This means you should give yourself ~13 minutes to go through each practice SAQ.)

• 🤔 Need a quick refresher of the unit as a whole? Check out the Unit 3 Overview.
• • 😩 Getting stumped halfway through answering? Look through all of the available Unit 3 Resources.

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Questions

(a) Describe how cross-cultural technological exchange led to the growth of the empires above.

(b) Analyze a similarity in how both the Ottoman and Mughal empires chose to administer their empires.

(c) Analyze one way in which the Ottoman and Mughal rulers differed in their policies towards treatment of religious groups within their empires.