New Visions Global History II Exam Question Bank: Part 3
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What is this exam question bank and why is it needed?
Starting in June 2018, Global History and Geography students in New York State will be able to take the
Global History and Geography II exam. To help administrators, teachers, and students prepare for the
exam, we have written test items that align with the prototype put out by the New York State
Education Department (NYSED) in April 2016. To learn more about the exam, visit the NYSED page
about the test and their page that is specifically about the Enduring Issues Essay.
As we learn more about the assessment and get feedback on these items we will revise and add to this
exam bank. In addition, we hope to include exemplars and example student responses in the future.
About Part 3 of the Exam
Part 3: Extended Essay will be the only essay on the exam and is commonly referred to as the
“Enduring Issues Essay.” The prompt will be the same every year, but the documents that accompany it
will change. Though Part 3 will only be on Global II content, we have created prompts that address
Global I content as well to help teachers and students get comfortable with the format.
Guidelines for Part 3 Construction put out by NYSED in April, 2016
● Total of five documents
● At least one document connected to Framework key ideas 10.1 through 10.6
● At least two documents connected to Framework key ideas 10.7 through 10.10
● At least one document is a visual (cartoon, map, photograph, chart, timeline, graph)
● More than one enduring issue to be found within each document
● Inclusion of common enduring issues to be found across document set
● Availability of potential outside information considered
Want to contribute?
As social studies educators in New York State, we are all in this together, so let’s collaborate! If you
would like to share test items you have written with others, please send items to
. We’ll be glad to give you credit for the items you’ve created.
Link to Exam Bank Home | Link to Top of Page
,Part 3: Enduring Issues Essay
The collection of Enduring Issues document sets below come from NYS Global II Regents Exams and End of Unit
Assessments and Enduring Issues Check-Ins from the New Visions Social Studies Curriculum. Some of the sets from
Enduring Issues Check-Ins, especially those from the Global I course do not have a full set of five documents.
Location in
Topics Addressed in Documents Possible Enduring Issues
Curriculum
9.2 Neolithic Revolution, Terrace Farming, Irrigation techniques used
Innovation, Scarcity, Population
End of Unit in Ancient Egypt, Innovations in the Agricultural Revolution
Growth
Assessment (1700s), The Green Revolution
Need for laws, Belief that laws
9.2
come from God, Enforcement of
Enduring Code of Hammurabi, Ten Commandments, Divine Right, Protests
laws with harsh punishments,
Issues in Tahrir Square
debate over where the power to
Check-In
make laws comes from
9.3
Legalism, Roman roads, Mongol conquests, Autocracy Power, Conflict, Ideas and
End of Unit
(Absolutism), Nazi Germany Beliefs, State Oppression
Assessment
9.3
Slavery, human rights violations,
Enduring Map of Silk Routes and goods traded, Slavery in Rome, Human
effects of trade, effects of
Issues trafficking
interconnectedness
Check-In #1
9.3
War, conflict, violence, use of
Enduring Appian, the Destruction of Carthage (146 BCE), WWI military
technology in war, effects of
Issues techniques, Chemical attacks in Syria (2011)
military innovations
Check-In #2
9.3 Collapse of empires, decline in
Enduring Map of invasions of Roman Empire, Map of division of Mongol power, effects of conflict,
Issues Empire, Fall of British Empire challenges of controlling large
Check-In #3 empires
9.4 Ashoka’s Rock and Pillar Edicts, Christianity's influence on the fall Power, Ideas and Beliefs, Use of
End of Unit of Rome, stipulations for non-Muslims in areas ruled by Islamic religion to gain, consolidate, and
Assessment Caliphates, Mongol religious toleration, Iranian Revolution maintain power
9.4
Description of Baghdad during the Abbasid Dynasty, Timbuktu Effects of interconnectedness,
Enduring
during the height of the Mali Empire, Silicon Valley in the 21st effects of trade, effects of
Issues
Century cultural diffusion
Check-In
9.5 Interconnectedness, Cultural
Effects of the Crusades, spread of the Black Death, spread of
End of Unit Diffusion, the Effects of Trade,
Buddhism, Triangular Trade, Globalization
Assessment Conflict
9.5 Christian persecution in the Roman Empire, Origins of Sikhism, Persecution of ethnic/religious
Enduring Reaction to Protestants, Rohingya Crisis minorities, conflict, use of
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, Issues government power
Check-In
9.6 Plutarch’s Description of Spartans, Civil Service Examinations,
Power, Ideas and Beliefs,
End of Unit Hitler Youth, Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution, United
Education
Assessment Kingdom’s Dept of Education Standards
9.6
Enduring Use of walls, need/desire for
Great Wall of China, Berlin Wall, Hungarian Border Barrier
Issues security, effects of conflict
Check-In
Interconnectedness, Innovation,
9.7 Spread of papermaking and print technology from China to
Ideas and Beliefs, Cultural
End of Unit Europe, travels of Marco Polo, the Printing Press, evolution of
Diffusion, Increased
Assessment telephone technology, Internet usage
Communication
9.7
Book Burning and Persecution of Scholars During Shi Huangdi’s
Enduring Oppression, Effects of abuse of
Rule, Counter-Reformation, Trial of Galileo, Apartheid South
Issues power, repression of opponents
Africa, Aung San Suu Kyi
Check-In
9.8
Irrigation in Ptolemaic Egypt, terrace farming, use of chinampas, Environmental Impact,
End of Unit
Agricultural Revolution, deforestation Innovation, Scarcity
Assessment
9.8
Enduring Map of invasions of Roman Empire, The Classic Maya Collapse, Collapse of empires, decline of
Issues Mali Empire, Break-up of Austria-Hungarian Empire power
Check-In
9.9
Pax Mongolica, spread of disease throughout history, Atlantic Interconnectedness, Cultural
End of Unit
slavery, imperialism, Globalization/Americanization Diffusion, Innovation, Conflict
Assessment
9.9
Hindu Caste System, European Feudal System, Social Structure of
Enduring Inequality, effects of social
the Spanish Colonies, Three Estates in Pre-Revolutionary France,
Issues structures
Modern Day Economic Inequality
Check-In
Impact of interconnectedness,
10.1 Tokugawa’s Exclusion of the Portuguese, 1639, Chinese
isolation in reaction to outsiders,
End of Unit nationalist reactions to Qing Dynasty, North Korean isolationism,
the use of self-reliance to protect
Assessment Gandhi leads protests against British, Increase in tariffs in 2018
a country
Cahiers de Doléances, social class system in Haiti before the
10.2 revolution, social class system in Spanish colonies in the Inequity can lead to political
End of Unit change, unequal power
Americas, Communist Manifesto, Nigerian perspective on
Assessment structures
imperialism
10.2 Excerpt from the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen Desire for political
Enduring (1789), Jamaica Letter, Simon Bolivar (1815), Sixteen Political, freedom/equality, reactions to
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, Issues Economic, and Ideological Points, Budapest (1956), Tiananmen oppression/inequity
Check-In Square Protests (1989), Protests in Tahrir Square (2011)
Jethro Tull’s seed drill and increased in urbanization, changes in impact of innovation, population
10.3
manufacturing during Industrial Revolution, increase in world growth, environmental impact,
End of Unit
population since Industrial Revolution, climate change, effects of industrialization,
Assessment
automation effects of modernization
10.3 Photograph of Widnes, England in the late 19th century, Political
Enduring cartoon from Punch magazine (1858), Air pollution in modern day Effects of industrialization,
Issues China, Modern day water stress, Water pollution in modern-day pollution, scarcity
Check-In India
Atlantic Magazine Article on the “Indian Revolt,” 1857; Fei
10.4 Ch’i-hao’s account of the Boxer Rebellion, 1900; Declaration effects imperialism, impact of
End of Unit (Proclamation) of Korean Independence, 1919; Umkhonto We western intervention, resistance
Assessment Sizwe, We are at War!, December 16, 1961; Map of the Arab against outsiders, conflict
Spring, 2010
10.4 Photographs from report on child labour (1842), Map of Spheres Desire for wealth, effects of
Enduring of Influence in China, Photographs from King Leopold’s Soliloquy desire for natural resources,
Issues (1905), Conflict Diamonds, Open letter from Davi Kopenawa effects of capitalism, global
Check-In Yanomami (2017) inequity
A.M. Edmund “Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother,” 1848;
10.5 Illustration by William Digby of grain collected by British during famine, effects of government
End of Unit Indian famine, 1878; Photographs of the Holodomor, 1930-1933; control, effects of controlled
Assessment Great Leap Forward; Excerpt from “Climate Change and Water economy
Woes Drove ISIS Recruiting in Iraq” by Peter Schwartzstein, 2017
10.5
Excerpt from the Treaty of Nanjing (1842), Treaty of Kanagawa Use of treaties to gain power,
Enduring
(1854), Map of Africa (1913), Select Articles from the Treaty of effects of treaties, effects of
Issues
Versailles (1919), Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) conflict
Check-In
Travels in France by Arthur Young (1741-1820); Friedrich Engels, effects of economic systems,
10.6 The Condition of the Working Class in England, 1845; Jawaharlal capitalism vs. communism,
End of Unit Nehru, The Discovery of India, 1946; Chart of Unemployment government decisions have
Assessment Rate in Germany (1991-1993); Graph of Projected GDP of China, effects of the people in those
United States, India, Indonesia, Japan, Germany and Mexico countries
10.6
Effects of conflict, effects of a
Enduring The Ambiguous Legacy of the Revolution, Indian forces in WWI
nation’s actions on other
Issues and WWII, Cold War Hot Spots, War in Korea, Syrian Civil War,
countries, conflict
Check-In
Quote from Count Camillo di Cavour, 1852; Constitution of reactions against colonialism,
10.7
Unification or Death, 1911; Jomo Kenyatta, “The Kenya Africa reactions against foreign rule,
End of Unit
Union is Not the Mau Mau;” Nelson Mandela, Cape Town City desire for independence, desire
Assessment
Hall Speech, 1990; Catalan Independence Protests for democracy and equality
10.7 The Decree Abolishing the Feudal System (1789), Mohandas Limits on personal freedoms,
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Link back to question bank home document
What is this exam question bank and why is it needed?
Starting in June 2018, Global History and Geography students in New York State will be able to take the
Global History and Geography II exam. To help administrators, teachers, and students prepare for the
exam, we have written test items that align with the prototype put out by the New York State
Education Department (NYSED) in April 2016. To learn more about the exam, visit the NYSED page
about the test and their page that is specifically about the Enduring Issues Essay.
As we learn more about the assessment and get feedback on these items we will revise and add to this
exam bank. In addition, we hope to include exemplars and example student responses in the future.
About Part 3 of the Exam
Part 3: Extended Essay will be the only essay on the exam and is commonly referred to as the
“Enduring Issues Essay.” The prompt will be the same every year, but the documents that accompany it
will change. Though Part 3 will only be on Global II content, we have created prompts that address
Global I content as well to help teachers and students get comfortable with the format.
Guidelines for Part 3 Construction put out by NYSED in April, 2016
● Total of five documents
● At least one document connected to Framework key ideas 10.1 through 10.6
● At least two documents connected to Framework key ideas 10.7 through 10.10
● At least one document is a visual (cartoon, map, photograph, chart, timeline, graph)
● More than one enduring issue to be found within each document
● Inclusion of common enduring issues to be found across document set
● Availability of potential outside information considered
Want to contribute?
As social studies educators in New York State, we are all in this together, so let’s collaborate! If you
would like to share test items you have written with others, please send items to
. We’ll be glad to give you credit for the items you’ve created.
Link to Exam Bank Home | Link to Top of Page
,Part 3: Enduring Issues Essay
The collection of Enduring Issues document sets below come from NYS Global II Regents Exams and End of Unit
Assessments and Enduring Issues Check-Ins from the New Visions Social Studies Curriculum. Some of the sets from
Enduring Issues Check-Ins, especially those from the Global I course do not have a full set of five documents.
Location in
Topics Addressed in Documents Possible Enduring Issues
Curriculum
9.2 Neolithic Revolution, Terrace Farming, Irrigation techniques used
Innovation, Scarcity, Population
End of Unit in Ancient Egypt, Innovations in the Agricultural Revolution
Growth
Assessment (1700s), The Green Revolution
Need for laws, Belief that laws
9.2
come from God, Enforcement of
Enduring Code of Hammurabi, Ten Commandments, Divine Right, Protests
laws with harsh punishments,
Issues in Tahrir Square
debate over where the power to
Check-In
make laws comes from
9.3
Legalism, Roman roads, Mongol conquests, Autocracy Power, Conflict, Ideas and
End of Unit
(Absolutism), Nazi Germany Beliefs, State Oppression
Assessment
9.3
Slavery, human rights violations,
Enduring Map of Silk Routes and goods traded, Slavery in Rome, Human
effects of trade, effects of
Issues trafficking
interconnectedness
Check-In #1
9.3
War, conflict, violence, use of
Enduring Appian, the Destruction of Carthage (146 BCE), WWI military
technology in war, effects of
Issues techniques, Chemical attacks in Syria (2011)
military innovations
Check-In #2
9.3 Collapse of empires, decline in
Enduring Map of invasions of Roman Empire, Map of division of Mongol power, effects of conflict,
Issues Empire, Fall of British Empire challenges of controlling large
Check-In #3 empires
9.4 Ashoka’s Rock and Pillar Edicts, Christianity's influence on the fall Power, Ideas and Beliefs, Use of
End of Unit of Rome, stipulations for non-Muslims in areas ruled by Islamic religion to gain, consolidate, and
Assessment Caliphates, Mongol religious toleration, Iranian Revolution maintain power
9.4
Description of Baghdad during the Abbasid Dynasty, Timbuktu Effects of interconnectedness,
Enduring
during the height of the Mali Empire, Silicon Valley in the 21st effects of trade, effects of
Issues
Century cultural diffusion
Check-In
9.5 Interconnectedness, Cultural
Effects of the Crusades, spread of the Black Death, spread of
End of Unit Diffusion, the Effects of Trade,
Buddhism, Triangular Trade, Globalization
Assessment Conflict
9.5 Christian persecution in the Roman Empire, Origins of Sikhism, Persecution of ethnic/religious
Enduring Reaction to Protestants, Rohingya Crisis minorities, conflict, use of
Link to Exam Bank Home | Link to Top of Page
, Issues government power
Check-In
9.6 Plutarch’s Description of Spartans, Civil Service Examinations,
Power, Ideas and Beliefs,
End of Unit Hitler Youth, Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution, United
Education
Assessment Kingdom’s Dept of Education Standards
9.6
Enduring Use of walls, need/desire for
Great Wall of China, Berlin Wall, Hungarian Border Barrier
Issues security, effects of conflict
Check-In
Interconnectedness, Innovation,
9.7 Spread of papermaking and print technology from China to
Ideas and Beliefs, Cultural
End of Unit Europe, travels of Marco Polo, the Printing Press, evolution of
Diffusion, Increased
Assessment telephone technology, Internet usage
Communication
9.7
Book Burning and Persecution of Scholars During Shi Huangdi’s
Enduring Oppression, Effects of abuse of
Rule, Counter-Reformation, Trial of Galileo, Apartheid South
Issues power, repression of opponents
Africa, Aung San Suu Kyi
Check-In
9.8
Irrigation in Ptolemaic Egypt, terrace farming, use of chinampas, Environmental Impact,
End of Unit
Agricultural Revolution, deforestation Innovation, Scarcity
Assessment
9.8
Enduring Map of invasions of Roman Empire, The Classic Maya Collapse, Collapse of empires, decline of
Issues Mali Empire, Break-up of Austria-Hungarian Empire power
Check-In
9.9
Pax Mongolica, spread of disease throughout history, Atlantic Interconnectedness, Cultural
End of Unit
slavery, imperialism, Globalization/Americanization Diffusion, Innovation, Conflict
Assessment
9.9
Hindu Caste System, European Feudal System, Social Structure of
Enduring Inequality, effects of social
the Spanish Colonies, Three Estates in Pre-Revolutionary France,
Issues structures
Modern Day Economic Inequality
Check-In
Impact of interconnectedness,
10.1 Tokugawa’s Exclusion of the Portuguese, 1639, Chinese
isolation in reaction to outsiders,
End of Unit nationalist reactions to Qing Dynasty, North Korean isolationism,
the use of self-reliance to protect
Assessment Gandhi leads protests against British, Increase in tariffs in 2018
a country
Cahiers de Doléances, social class system in Haiti before the
10.2 revolution, social class system in Spanish colonies in the Inequity can lead to political
End of Unit change, unequal power
Americas, Communist Manifesto, Nigerian perspective on
Assessment structures
imperialism
10.2 Excerpt from the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen Desire for political
Enduring (1789), Jamaica Letter, Simon Bolivar (1815), Sixteen Political, freedom/equality, reactions to
Link to Exam Bank Home | Link to Top of Page
, Issues Economic, and Ideological Points, Budapest (1956), Tiananmen oppression/inequity
Check-In Square Protests (1989), Protests in Tahrir Square (2011)
Jethro Tull’s seed drill and increased in urbanization, changes in impact of innovation, population
10.3
manufacturing during Industrial Revolution, increase in world growth, environmental impact,
End of Unit
population since Industrial Revolution, climate change, effects of industrialization,
Assessment
automation effects of modernization
10.3 Photograph of Widnes, England in the late 19th century, Political
Enduring cartoon from Punch magazine (1858), Air pollution in modern day Effects of industrialization,
Issues China, Modern day water stress, Water pollution in modern-day pollution, scarcity
Check-In India
Atlantic Magazine Article on the “Indian Revolt,” 1857; Fei
10.4 Ch’i-hao’s account of the Boxer Rebellion, 1900; Declaration effects imperialism, impact of
End of Unit (Proclamation) of Korean Independence, 1919; Umkhonto We western intervention, resistance
Assessment Sizwe, We are at War!, December 16, 1961; Map of the Arab against outsiders, conflict
Spring, 2010
10.4 Photographs from report on child labour (1842), Map of Spheres Desire for wealth, effects of
Enduring of Influence in China, Photographs from King Leopold’s Soliloquy desire for natural resources,
Issues (1905), Conflict Diamonds, Open letter from Davi Kopenawa effects of capitalism, global
Check-In Yanomami (2017) inequity
A.M. Edmund “Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother,” 1848;
10.5 Illustration by William Digby of grain collected by British during famine, effects of government
End of Unit Indian famine, 1878; Photographs of the Holodomor, 1930-1933; control, effects of controlled
Assessment Great Leap Forward; Excerpt from “Climate Change and Water economy
Woes Drove ISIS Recruiting in Iraq” by Peter Schwartzstein, 2017
10.5
Excerpt from the Treaty of Nanjing (1842), Treaty of Kanagawa Use of treaties to gain power,
Enduring
(1854), Map of Africa (1913), Select Articles from the Treaty of effects of treaties, effects of
Issues
Versailles (1919), Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) conflict
Check-In
Travels in France by Arthur Young (1741-1820); Friedrich Engels, effects of economic systems,
10.6 The Condition of the Working Class in England, 1845; Jawaharlal capitalism vs. communism,
End of Unit Nehru, The Discovery of India, 1946; Chart of Unemployment government decisions have
Assessment Rate in Germany (1991-1993); Graph of Projected GDP of China, effects of the people in those
United States, India, Indonesia, Japan, Germany and Mexico countries
10.6
Effects of conflict, effects of a
Enduring The Ambiguous Legacy of the Revolution, Indian forces in WWI
nation’s actions on other
Issues and WWII, Cold War Hot Spots, War in Korea, Syrian Civil War,
countries, conflict
Check-In
Quote from Count Camillo di Cavour, 1852; Constitution of reactions against colonialism,
10.7
Unification or Death, 1911; Jomo Kenyatta, “The Kenya Africa reactions against foreign rule,
End of Unit
Union is Not the Mau Mau;” Nelson Mandela, Cape Town City desire for independence, desire
Assessment
Hall Speech, 1990; Catalan Independence Protests for democracy and equality
10.7 The Decree Abolishing the Feudal System (1789), Mohandas Limits on personal freedoms,
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