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Texes 232 Social studies 7-12 ExamQuestions and Answers
Which of the following was most responsible for the declining power of the Catholic
Church in Western Europe during the late Middle Ages? - Answer -The growing spirit of
inquiry in European urban centers.
Which of the following groups comprised the majority of the slave population in ancient
Greece? - Answer -Foreigners who had been captured by Greek city-states in war.
Which of the following was most responsible for the unprecedented unity of China
during most of the four centuries that the Han Dynasty ruled the empire? (206 BC- AD
220) - Answer -The governmental activities of scholar-officials educated in Confucian
principles.
The primary gods of ancient Maya religious cultures represented - Answer -Answer: The
natural forces that most directly influenced the material welfare of the people.
Which of the following was the most enduring effect of the conquests of Alexander the
Great - Answer -The spread of Greek culture eastward from the Mediterranean world.
Judaism differed most from other pre-Christian religions of the ancient Mediterranean
world in its: - Answer -Belief that a single god created and controlled the universe.
As the imperial government weakened the power Roman landowners organized their
own private armies to police their estates and fend off governmental agents, particularly
tax collectors. The emperors also favored certain estates with grants of immunity from
authority, a practice that Germanic kings often followed and that became the rule with
Charlemagne's successors in their competitive efforts to fill their armies.... And where
immunity from the kings authority was not freely granted, it was often usurped.
The developments described in the passage above are most closely related to the: -
Answer -Emergence of feudalism as a system of political organization.
(First part chopped off) of representative government in the United States. Which one of
the following would be an appropriate learning goal for the teacher to use in assessing
student understanding of the topic? - Answer -Explain the importance of the Mayflower
Compact, the Fundamental orders of Connecticut, and the Virginia House of Burgesses.
, A teacher who is planning a unit on the civil rights movement wishes to develop a
lesson that will promote students' use of critical thinking skills. Which of the following
materials would probably be most useful for this lesson? - Answer -Original documents
that provide insight into the strategies adopted by movement leaders.
In response to pressure from the Christian Church, Carolingian rulers of the ninth
century made monogamous marriage their official policy. An important consequence of
this development was that: - Answer -Wives acquired greater dignity and legal security.
Read the excerpt below from a speech by the ancient Greek political leader Pericles;
then answer the question that follows.
Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority
but the whole people.... Here each individual is interested not only in his own affairs but
in the affairs of the state as well: even those who are mostly occupied with their own
business are extremely well-informed on general politics----this is a peculiarity of ours:
we do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own
business; we say that he has no business here at all.
The statement above bests illustrates the ancient Athenian commitment to which of the
following political principles? - Answer -Popular Sovereignty
Which of the following best describes an important long-term consequence of the
Norman Conquest of England in 1066? - Answer -It strengthened the English monarchy
at the expense of feudal barons
Read the passage below about late-nineteenth century Japan; then answer the question
that follows:
Thousands of young Japanese were sent abroad to receive Western Educations,
especially in the social and natural sciences. A German-style army and a British-style
navy were established. The Japanese copied the industrial and financial methods of the
United States and developed a modern commercial and industrial system. A highly
centralized administrative system copied from the French replaced the old feudal
system.
The developments described in the passage above were primarily a response to which
of the following? - Answer -Western imperialist activities in East Asia
Which of the following most influenced the emergence of Renaissance culture in
northern and central Italy during the fourteenth century? - Answer -The rise of a wealthy
and ambitious class of merchants.
Which of the following most influenced Portuguese and Spanish plans for maritime
expansion during the fifteenth century? - Answer -Muslim control of eastern land routes
to Asian markets.
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