AP World History Long-Essay Question on Decolonization in Asia & Africa

👋 Welcome to the AP World Unit 8 LEQ (Decolonization in Asia & Africa). 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 8 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 8 Overview.
• • 😩 Getting stumped halfway through answering? Look through all of the available Unit 8 Resources.

Question

Compare the processes and success of decolonization in TWO of the following regions:

• South Asia
• Southeast Asia
• Sub-Saharan Africa