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CSET Subtest 1: History 4
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Equal to a vassal or knight in feudal Japan
the four characteristics of civilization
samurai
fiefs
Kush
2. Encourages the accumulation of wealth and property by individuals but is regulated by the state
The Dark Ages
the Fertile Crescent
shogun
capitalism
3. Battle between Charles Martel and the Muslims prevented Islam from entering Europe
Hinduism
English parliament
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
the Act of supremacy
4. War that re - established Christian control over Muslim Spain in 1492
The Reformation
romanticism
The Reconquista
the four characteristics of civilization
5. Early civilization that attempt to unify the near East under zoroastrianism zoroastrianism - an ethical religion based on the concepts of good and evil
Anasazi culture
Persians
Guatama Buddha
The Dark Ages
6. Ancient empire that conquered Greece about 500 years after the founding of Rome. at its heydey - it took over most of Europe - Middle East and Mid Africa
the Iron Age
Rome
French Revolution
Isaac Newton
7. Ends Spanish attempts to invade England
Martin Luther
defeat of Spanish Armanda
Byzantine Empire
lords
8. Prince who was born in India who went ona mission to discover the sources of human suffering - taught that suffering is the fiailure to control one's own desires - foudner of buddhism
Guatama Buddha
means of productions
Age of Enlightenment
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
9. The river valleys near the Tigres and Euphrates and Nile Rivers - which were the cradle of civlization
Confucius
The Renaissance
the Fertile Crescent
Mississippian culture
10. French King who evoked absolutism with the palace of Versailles and lavishness
Louis XIV
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
The War of Roses
Romanov dynasty -
11. A family that united and ruled most of India and built The Taj Mahal
Mughuls
Assyria
karma
Hopewell people
12. Primarily agricultural economy dependent upon the lord of the manor and control over the serfs
samurai
mercantilism
manoralism
the Ming Dynasty
13. A congress consisting of representatives of the various European - speciifcally Britain - Russia - Prussia - France - and Austria - nullified by the Congress of Verona (1822) - which allowed the european powers to be guided by their own interests
Edict of Nantes
Three famous African empires
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
Europe's Industrial Revolution
14. Ended the Anglo - Saxon rule in England
mythology
Battle of Hastings (1066)
absolutism
The Dark Ages
15. English ruler who helped England emerge as a major European power
Elizabeth I
Genghis Khan
Hammurabi's Code
church
16. English pirate sailing for England became the second man to circumnavigate the globe
Ancient Egypt
Alexander the Great
James I
Sir Francis Drake
17. The state controls the means of production and distributes the profits for the beneficiary of the people
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18. Italian religious leader that established the independency of the papacy through the Vatican
Ferdinand Magellan
the Fertile Crescent
Pope Leo IX
serfs
19. An angry former priest distributed a protest called 'Ninety Five Theses' against the church and its practices in 1517 - which led to the creation of the Protestant Church
The Dark Ages
Hopewell people
Martin Luther
Alexander the Great
20. Provided new political boundaries and established Calvinism - Germany divided into Protestant and Catholic areas
vassals
Pax Romana
Peace of Westphalia
romanticism
21. The practice of worshipping one god
Hammurabi's Code
monotheism
modern capitalism
Christopher Columbus
22. Chinese philosophy with a focus on concept of respect to one's family - parents - government and rulers - supported tendency to respect authority
Confucianism
Oliver Cromwell
means of productions
reincarnation
23. English government consists of the House of Lords (for the wealthy) and House of Commons
Three famous African empires
capitalism
St. Augustine
English parliament
24. A feudal king in feudal Japan
law of supply and demand
Pax Romana
vassals
shogun
25. A religion against pre - destination - in which people are destined to go to heaven and hell no matter how they act
capitalism
Romanov dynasty -
reasons for Byzantine's successs
Protestantism
26. Caused by dis - satisfaction with church ritual and Latin overtones
Adam Smith
The Renaissance
Holy bible
The Reformation
27. Important iron working center for African civilization
Byzantine Empire
The Dark Ages
Kush
the Peace of Augsburg
28. Continuous barbaric invatsion - political dinstsability - decreasing farm production - inflation - excessive taxation - decline of missionaries - rise of Christianity divided the empire - attacked by Germanic warriors from northern Europe
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29. Proximity to arabs - Salvs - n and Turks - Constantinople sacked during the fourth Crusade
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30. Started absolutism in Russia started with Ivan the Terrible
Romanov dynasty -
Genghis Khan
The Hundred Years War
Illiad and Odyssey
31. Enlightenment philosophers who questioned the proper function of government and their ideas led to the American and French Revolutions
The Reformation
Guatama Buddha
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
Henry VII
32. An African empire the developed out of an iron working stettlement and eswasbasd on gold trade
Zimbabwe
Anasazi culture
Feudal Japan
Hinduism
33. The way that a product is produced - in capitalism - it is ownedby the individual
reincarnation
means of productions
Confucianism
Mississippian culture
34. Early civilization established as a new Babylonian empire under king Nebuchadnezzar - develop astronomy - astrology - advanced government bureaucracy and architectural achievements such as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
caliphs
Constantine
the four characteristics of civilization
Chaldeans
35. Jesuits were the official Catholic response to the reformation
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
Society of Jesus
Constantine
The Age of Exploration
36. A period of peace for two centuries without a major war
Protestantism
Pax Romana
Causes of Rome's fall
Charlemagne
37. Settled in the Mississippi Valley developed in 880 AD and built large religious mound structures
Mississippian culture
Chaldeans
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
Lydians
38. Portuguese explorer who was the first man to circumnavigate the globe
Ferdinand Magellan
mythology
romanticism
Persians
39. Following a battle with Carthage - Rome emerged as the dominant power in the mediterranean
The Reformation
caliphs
Punic Wars
Romanov dynasty -
40. The idea of total obedience to the sovereign because of their 'divine right'
Cardinal Richelieu
Napoleon -
absolutism
mercantilism
41. A feudal lord in feudal Japan
Sumeria
daimyo
Hinduism
ancient Greek
42. Buddhist idea of re - birth after death
manoralism
reincarnation
Pax Romana
daimyo
43. Author of 'Wealth of Nations' which advocates that manufacturing is truly the soruce of the nation's wealth
Pope Leo IX
fiefs
Guatama Buddha
Adam Smith
44. Led to the destruction of early civilizations like the Egyptians - Assyrians and Babylonians through the development of iron weapons
ancient Greek
the Iron Age
the Ming Dynasty
Oliver Cromwell
45. Concept in scholasticism in which reality consists of ideas (universals) that exist in the mind - independent of sensory powersof perception
Economics
Sumeria
realism
Muslims
46. Commercial trade routes - distance from tribes that sacked Rome
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47. A period of cultural enlightenment that started in Italy during the 14th Century and spread over the next 200 year. It was spurted by the printing press
Confucius
the four characteristics of civilization
The Renaissance
Hammurabi's Code
48. A Chinese philosophy based on the the idea of balance - one must strive to be aware of the order and harmony of all existence and live accordingly to it
Assyria
The Dark Ages
The Renaissance
Taoism
49. Leaders in Islammic civilizations that improved farming methods and crop yields
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
romanticism
caliphs
Israelites
50. Chinese philospher who built up concept of yin and yang to form Taoism
Pax Romana
Lao - tzu
Islam
Feudal Japan