TEXES EC 6 SOCIAL STUDIES
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION TESTED
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED SOLUTIONS
●● Evaluating Internet Materials
Answer: purpose? url? author? accuracy? objectivity?
●● Chronology
Answer: arrangement of events in order of occurrence
●● Century
Answer: 100 years
●● Prehistory
Answer: period before writing was developed
●● Domestication of Plants
Answer: plants required that people stay in one place, food surpluses
made it possible for community to specialize in activities besides
farming, skills were traded for food, farming societies formed
settlements that led to more complex economies
,●● Civilization
Answer: complex society with a government, religion, writing, and
learning
●● Monotheism
Answer: the belief of one Supreme Being
●● Polytheism
Answer: the belief in many gods
●● Rosetta Stone
Answer: large black stone found in Egypt containing a hieroglyphics
message in Greek, Egyptian Script, and Egyptian which allowed
archeologists to use Greek to decode and read the recorded history of the
ancient Egyptians
●● Civil War
Answer: a war in which groups of people from the same place or country
fight each other
●● Magna Carta
Answer: signed by King John of England in 1215 establishing the kings
recognition of the rights of his nobles, kept the power of the English
king from becoming 'absolute' - limiting his power
,●● Renaissance
Answer: c. 1400-1600 when Europe experienced a rebirth in philosophy,
learning art, and science (ex: Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci,
Copernicus (showed Earth resolved around the sun) and Galileo
(inventor of the telescope))
●● Johan Gutenberg
Answer: invented the printing press, books could now be printed in large
numbers, and became less expensive, new ideas spread more quickly
●● Isaac Newton
Answer: mathematician and physicist who developed the idea of the
scientific method, Principa Mathematica (1687) described laws of
motion and of gravity (*one of the most important scientific books ever
published)
●● Nationalism
Answer: a strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country
●● Imperialism
Answer: a policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other
countries politically, economically, or socially
, occurred during the empire building of the 19th century when countries
of Europe colonized and controlled vast areas of of Africa and Asia
●● Conscription
Answer: a law that required men to serve in the military or be drafted
●● Cold War
Answer: time period after World War II when the US and Soviet Union
prepared for war, lasted from the end of WW II (1945) until the end of
the Soviet Union (1991)
●● Atlatl
Answer: a spear used by early hunters over 10,000 years ago
●● Vikings
Answer: 1000 A.D, led by Leif Eriksson sailing from Greenland and
established fishing and hunting bases in 'Vinland' in Canada
●● Christopher Columbus
Answer: first European to 'discover' the Americas sailing from Spain
with the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Mariam in August 1492, found land in
the Bahamas in October 1492, Columbus Day is celebrated on the
second Monday of October, his discoveries opened the way to Western
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION TESTED
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED SOLUTIONS
●● Evaluating Internet Materials
Answer: purpose? url? author? accuracy? objectivity?
●● Chronology
Answer: arrangement of events in order of occurrence
●● Century
Answer: 100 years
●● Prehistory
Answer: period before writing was developed
●● Domestication of Plants
Answer: plants required that people stay in one place, food surpluses
made it possible for community to specialize in activities besides
farming, skills were traded for food, farming societies formed
settlements that led to more complex economies
,●● Civilization
Answer: complex society with a government, religion, writing, and
learning
●● Monotheism
Answer: the belief of one Supreme Being
●● Polytheism
Answer: the belief in many gods
●● Rosetta Stone
Answer: large black stone found in Egypt containing a hieroglyphics
message in Greek, Egyptian Script, and Egyptian which allowed
archeologists to use Greek to decode and read the recorded history of the
ancient Egyptians
●● Civil War
Answer: a war in which groups of people from the same place or country
fight each other
●● Magna Carta
Answer: signed by King John of England in 1215 establishing the kings
recognition of the rights of his nobles, kept the power of the English
king from becoming 'absolute' - limiting his power
,●● Renaissance
Answer: c. 1400-1600 when Europe experienced a rebirth in philosophy,
learning art, and science (ex: Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci,
Copernicus (showed Earth resolved around the sun) and Galileo
(inventor of the telescope))
●● Johan Gutenberg
Answer: invented the printing press, books could now be printed in large
numbers, and became less expensive, new ideas spread more quickly
●● Isaac Newton
Answer: mathematician and physicist who developed the idea of the
scientific method, Principa Mathematica (1687) described laws of
motion and of gravity (*one of the most important scientific books ever
published)
●● Nationalism
Answer: a strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country
●● Imperialism
Answer: a policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other
countries politically, economically, or socially
, occurred during the empire building of the 19th century when countries
of Europe colonized and controlled vast areas of of Africa and Asia
●● Conscription
Answer: a law that required men to serve in the military or be drafted
●● Cold War
Answer: time period after World War II when the US and Soviet Union
prepared for war, lasted from the end of WW II (1945) until the end of
the Soviet Union (1991)
●● Atlatl
Answer: a spear used by early hunters over 10,000 years ago
●● Vikings
Answer: 1000 A.D, led by Leif Eriksson sailing from Greenland and
established fishing and hunting bases in 'Vinland' in Canada
●● Christopher Columbus
Answer: first European to 'discover' the Americas sailing from Spain
with the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Mariam in August 1492, found land in
the Bahamas in October 1492, Columbus Day is celebrated on the
second Monday of October, his discoveries opened the way to Western
