NYSTCE CST Social Studies
What did the English Parliament create in 1689? - ✔✔ correct answer The English Bill of Rights
What was King John of England forced to sign in 1215? - ✔✔ correct answer The Magna Carta.
What was the Magna Carta? - ✔✔ correct answer The Magna Carta is Latin for "Great Charter". It set
down rights which became part of English law and which are now the foundation of the constitution of
all countries which speak English.
What did the Medieval Manor represent? - ✔✔ correct answer The medieval manor was an agricultural
estate. It was usually comprised of tracts of agricultural land, a village whose inhabitants worked that
land, and a manor house where the lord who owned or controlled the estate lived. Manors were largely
self-sufficient.
What is the most important invention of the fifteenth century? - ✔✔ correct answer When Gutenberg
invented the printing press in 1445, he forever changed the lives of people in Europe and, eventually, all
over the world.
Which of the following was the most frequent source of conflict between church and state in Europe
throughout the Middle Ages? - ✔✔ correct answer The doctrine of papal supremacy: The Catholic Pope
Which of the following breakthroughs of the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries presented a major challenge to traditional religious conceptions in Europe? - ✔✔ correct
answer The discovery that the earth and the other planets revolved around the sun. Shifting from a
geocentric to a heliocentric perspective.
Describe the Romantic Era. - ✔✔ correct answer An artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that
originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century. Partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, it
was also a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms.
Which of the following played a major role in the spread of both communist and fascist ideologies in
Europe between World War I and World War II? - ✔✔ correct answer The economic devastation caused
by the Great Depression
A paragraph about China ends with this question:
, NYSTCE CST Social Studies
Which of the following is an example of ethnocentrism? - ✔✔ correct answer A country develops
legislation to restrict the opportunity of immigrants.
What was the main difference between China's Revolution and the Russian Revolution? - ✔✔ correct
answer The Chinese Revolution lasted about 28 years, while the Russian Revolution only lasted about
one year.
What was a major reason European nations
competed for control of Africa during the second
half of the 1800s? - ✔✔ correct answer Africa had a wealth of natural resources.
The main source of wealth and power among the empires of West Africa between A.D. 400 and 1500
was control of: - ✔✔ correct answer The trans-Saharan salt and gold trade.
What is The Silk Road? - ✔✔ correct answer The trade route that extended from Asia to the
Mediterranean Basin.
Which factor made Athens' direct democracy different from representative democracy? - ✔✔ correct
answer Citizens directly made the laws
themselves.
One can best distinguish totalitarian from authoritarian governments by examining which of the
following aspects of their political systems? - ✔✔ correct answer The pervasiveness of government
control over non- governmental sectors of society.
What is a similarity between the hierarchy of Feudalism demonstrated by both the Shogun in Feudal
Japan and Catherine the Great. - ✔✔ correct answer Noble classes became more powerful
What form of government relates to the phrase "reigns but does not rule?" - ✔✔ correct answer
Constitutional monarchy: The Queen of England
What did the English Parliament create in 1689? - ✔✔ correct answer The English Bill of Rights
What was King John of England forced to sign in 1215? - ✔✔ correct answer The Magna Carta.
What was the Magna Carta? - ✔✔ correct answer The Magna Carta is Latin for "Great Charter". It set
down rights which became part of English law and which are now the foundation of the constitution of
all countries which speak English.
What did the Medieval Manor represent? - ✔✔ correct answer The medieval manor was an agricultural
estate. It was usually comprised of tracts of agricultural land, a village whose inhabitants worked that
land, and a manor house where the lord who owned or controlled the estate lived. Manors were largely
self-sufficient.
What is the most important invention of the fifteenth century? - ✔✔ correct answer When Gutenberg
invented the printing press in 1445, he forever changed the lives of people in Europe and, eventually, all
over the world.
Which of the following was the most frequent source of conflict between church and state in Europe
throughout the Middle Ages? - ✔✔ correct answer The doctrine of papal supremacy: The Catholic Pope
Which of the following breakthroughs of the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries presented a major challenge to traditional religious conceptions in Europe? - ✔✔ correct
answer The discovery that the earth and the other planets revolved around the sun. Shifting from a
geocentric to a heliocentric perspective.
Describe the Romantic Era. - ✔✔ correct answer An artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that
originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century. Partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, it
was also a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms.
Which of the following played a major role in the spread of both communist and fascist ideologies in
Europe between World War I and World War II? - ✔✔ correct answer The economic devastation caused
by the Great Depression
A paragraph about China ends with this question:
, NYSTCE CST Social Studies
Which of the following is an example of ethnocentrism? - ✔✔ correct answer A country develops
legislation to restrict the opportunity of immigrants.
What was the main difference between China's Revolution and the Russian Revolution? - ✔✔ correct
answer The Chinese Revolution lasted about 28 years, while the Russian Revolution only lasted about
one year.
What was a major reason European nations
competed for control of Africa during the second
half of the 1800s? - ✔✔ correct answer Africa had a wealth of natural resources.
The main source of wealth and power among the empires of West Africa between A.D. 400 and 1500
was control of: - ✔✔ correct answer The trans-Saharan salt and gold trade.
What is The Silk Road? - ✔✔ correct answer The trade route that extended from Asia to the
Mediterranean Basin.
Which factor made Athens' direct democracy different from representative democracy? - ✔✔ correct
answer Citizens directly made the laws
themselves.
One can best distinguish totalitarian from authoritarian governments by examining which of the
following aspects of their political systems? - ✔✔ correct answer The pervasiveness of government
control over non- governmental sectors of society.
What is a similarity between the hierarchy of Feudalism demonstrated by both the Shogun in Feudal
Japan and Catherine the Great. - ✔✔ correct answer Noble classes became more powerful
What form of government relates to the phrase "reigns but does not rule?" - ✔✔ correct answer
Constitutional monarchy: The Queen of England
