You are going to write three essays for the test, and a butt ton over the year for homework. First is the dreaded DBQ, or document based question, you will learn about these first and hate them til the very end. You have to answer a question using the documents give. Also there's the CC, cultural comparison, you have to tell about how to cultures where the same and different in a given time, easy, right? Finally there's the CCOT, it's like the cc but you are comparing a culture at the beginning of a time to the same culture at the end, also p easy.