PRACTICE STATE EXAM: WORLD HISTORY
8 Constructed-Response Questions
Time Permitted: 40 minutes
1. Compare and contrast the government of Athens in ancient Greece to the government found in the Han Dynasty of ancient China.
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2. Choose 1 world religion that was diffused along either one of, or a combination of, the trade networks shown in the map below. Explain what factors enabled the diffusion of that religion and where it diffused to by 1500 CE.
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3. Identify and describe 2 impacts that the Islamic Middle East had upon Europe between 600 CE and 1500 CE.
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4. Using the following diagrams, compare the social structures of Hindu India to the social structure of feudal Japan.
ANCIENT INDIABrahmins
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Nobility & Warriors
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Merchants
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Laborers
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Untouchables / FEUDAL EUROPE
Pope
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King
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Noble Vassals
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Knights
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Peasants
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5. Identify the trade system that is shown in the map below and explain its operation between the three regions as it existed between c1500 CE and c1800 CE.
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6. Explain the relationship between the 4 events as demonstrated below in the chart.
RENAISSANCE à REFORMATION à ABSOLUTISM à ENLIGHTENMENTConstructed Response:
7. Based upon the following primary source, explain how 2 different Enlightenment philosophers inspired Thomas Jefferson to write the American Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Excerpt from the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson,July 4, 1776
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
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8. Identify a cause and an effect of the issue that is demonstrated in the following political cartoon.
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