[header] How to write good essays in ap world history [title] Understand the format. [step] The point of this essay is to show that you can see a historical document, whether a ship's register or a written historical account, and make correct observations from it. You will receive four to ten documents and should demonstrate mastery of the wider context of world history. 
During the exam, you have fifty minutes to complete this essay. Ten minutes are for reading and looking at the document, forty minutes are for writing.