Download 10 World History Study Guide

Grade 10 World History
Study Guide
Grade 10
End-of-Course Exam Study Guide
The Grade 10 World History Local End-of-Course Exam Study Guide is meant to be
a tool for students to use to help prepare for the LEOCE. The content of this study
guide is correlated to the standards and benchmarks outlined in the course
description. For further information and explanation of standards please see the
course description and item specs documents on CPALMS.
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1.
List and explain the major contributions of the Byzantine Empire.
2.
List key figures of the Byzantine Empire and why they are important.
3.
What were the causes and effects of the Great Schism of 1054 CE?
4.
List the reasons for the rise and growth of the Ottoman Turks.
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5.
Explain how the collapse of the Western Roman Empire impacted Europe.
6.
What helped to promote cultural unity in Europe after the collapse of the Western
Roman Empire?
7.
What were the causes and effects of the Great Famine of 1315-1316, The Black
Death, The Great Schism of 1387, and the Hundred Years’ War on Western
Europe?
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8.
Identify several key figures and artistic/intellectual achievements of the medieval
period in Western Europe and explain why they were important.
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Christine de Pisan
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Anslem of Canterbury
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Chaucer
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Thomas Aquinas
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Dante
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Code of Chivalry
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Gothic Architecture
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Illumination
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Universities
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Natural Law Philosophy
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Scholasticism
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9.
Describe the developments in medieval English legal and constitutional history
and their importance to the rise of modern democratic institutions and
procedures.
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Common Law
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Magna Carta
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Due Process of Law
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Habeas Corpus

Parliament
10.
Describe the extent of Byzantine territory at the height of the empire.
11.
Identify significant people and beliefs associated with Islam and discuss their
importance.
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The prophet Muhammad
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The early caliphs
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The Pillars of Islam
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Islamic law

The relationship between government and religion
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12.
Identify the achievements, contributions, and key figures associated with the
Islamic Golden Age and discuss their importance.
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Al-Ma’mun
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Avicenna

Averroes
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Al-Khwarizmi
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Al-Razi
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Alhambra
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The Thousand and One Nights
13.
Explain the role and importance of the Muslim office of caliph.
14.
Identify important figures associated with the Crusades and explain their
importance.
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Alexius Comnenus
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Pope Urban
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Saladin
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Richard the Lionhart

Louis IX
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15.
Identify key figures and significant economic, political, and social characteristics
associated with Mali and explain their significance.

Sundiata

Mansa Musa

Ibn Battuta

Gold mining and salt trade

Slavery
16.
Compare the key economic, cultural, and political characteristics of the major
civilizations of Meso and South America.
Characteristic
Aztec
Inca
Maya
government
trade networks
agriculture
architecture
literature
language
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18.
What was the importance of the major artistic, literary, and technical
contributions of the following individuals?

Petrarch

Brunelleschi

The Medici Family

Michelangelo

Leonardo da Vinci

Erasmus

Thomas More

Machiavelli

Shakespeare
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Gutenberg
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El Greco

Artemisia Gentileschi
How did ideas from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance lead to the Scientific
Revolution?
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20.
21.
Identify the major contributions of the following individuals associated with the
Scientific Revolution.
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Francis Bacon
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Nicholas Copernicus

Rene Decartes

Galileo Galilei
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Johannes Kepler
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Isaac Newton

Blaise Pascal

Vesalius
Summarize the religious reforms associated with the following people and their
effects of the Reformation on Europe.

Martin Luther

John Calvin

Zwingli

Henry VIII
What was the Roman Catholic Church’s response to the Protestant Reformation?
What actions and figures did it use to support the Catholic Reformation?
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22.
What was the impact of the Colombian Exchange on the following:
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Europe

Africa

Asia

The Americas
23.
Describe triangular trade (the triangle-shaped series of Atlantic trade routes
linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas), what was traded on each leg, and how
it was transported.
24.
Outline the causes and effects that led to the development of a constitutional
monarchy in England and absolute monarchy in France, Spain, and Russia.
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25.
Identify the major causes and ideas that brought forth the Enlightenment.
26.
Explain how the ideas of the Enlightenment influenced the American and French
Revolutions.
27.
Explain the causes and effects of the French Revolution that led to the rise and
rule of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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29.
30.
Summarize the social and economic effects of the Industrial Revolution on the
following:
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Urbanization
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Increased productivity and wealth

Rise of the middle class

Conditions faced by workers

Rise of labor unions

Expansion of colonialism
Explain the philosophies of capitalism, socialism, and communism as described
by Adam Smith, Robert Owen, and Karl Marx.
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Adam Smith – capitalism –
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Robert Owen – socialism –

Karl Marx – communism –
Explain the primary causes and effects of imperialism in the 19th and 20th
centuries.
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31.
Explain how the formation of European alliances and the roles of imperialism,
nationalism, and militarism led to the start of WWI.
32.
Summarize the reasons for the rise of authoritarian governments in the Soviet
Union, Italy, Germany, and Spain.
33.
Explain the reasons and actions that allowed Japan, Italy, and Germany to invade
and seize other countries and how it eventually led to World War II.
34.
What was the impact of World War II on the following:

Human toll

Financial cost

Physical destruction

Emergence of the US and Soviet Union as superpowers

Creation of the United Nations

Defeated countries
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35.
36.
Describe the following in relation to the early Cold War:
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Containment policy
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Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

NATO

Iron Curtain

Berlin Airlift

Warsaw Pact
How did the following factors lead to the decline and fall of communism in the
Soviet Union and Eastern Europe?
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The arms race
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Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

Resistance to communism

Perestroika and glasnost

United States influence
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37.
Identify and explain the factors that lead to the establishment of the modern state
of Israel in 1948.
38.
Describe the following causes and effects of post-World War II economic and
demographic changes:

Medical and technological advances

Free market economics

Increased consumption of natural resources and goods

Rise in expectations for standards of living
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39.
40.
Describe the causes and effects of the following twentieth century nationalist
conflicts:

Cyprus

Kashmir

Tibet

Northern Ireland
Outline the general goals and ideology behind terrorist groups and describe the
impact of and global response to international terrorism.
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