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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. Ancient civilization that we owe our literary heritage - science - mathematics and democratic forms of governments
the Fertile Crescent
Oliver Cromwell
ancient Greek
Punic Wars
2. Philosophy that deals with theconsistency of faith and reason
Taoism
scholasticism
The War of Roses
karma
3. Equal to a vassal or knight in feudal Japan
Romanov dynasty -
Mughuls
The Reformation
samurai
4. Primarily agricultural economy dependent upon the lord of the manor and control over the serfs
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
manoralism
Frederick Barbarosa
The Justinian Code
5. The concept of United States history as the mass migration of one group (Europeans) overwhelmed and put another group to extinction (Indians)
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6. Profits are linked to the manufacturing of products
Elizabeth I
lords
modern capitalism
Causes of Rome's fall
7. English government consists of the House of Lords (for the wealthy) and House of Commons
Society of Jesus
Confucianism
caliphs
English parliament
8. A belief develoepd that an individual's karma caused their birth in one of four social groups - or castes - from the Brahmins to the Untouchables - modern India outlawed the caste system after the Mahatma Gandhi
Battle of Hastings (1066)
Hinduism
'laissez faire' economy
Byzantine Empire
9. Chinese philospher who built up concept of yin and yang to form Taoism
Isaac Newton
Lao - tzu
Genghis Khan
Pax Romana
10. A way of thinking that inspired the nationalistic philosophy and the idea of self - determination
romanticism
The Hundred Years War
karma
The Reconquista
11. Early civilizaion that was the first explorers - traders and colonizers of the anfcient world and develop the first alphabet
Three famous African empires
Phonecians
The Hundred Years War
Holy bible
12. Works by the Greek writer Homer
The Renaissance
Mississippian culture
Sir Francis Drake
Illiad and Odyssey
13. Ancient Asian civilization that developed own language and system of writing - literature and poetry - Shinto religion
Feudal Japan
The Renaissance
Age of Enlightenment
the four characteristics of civilization
14. Following a battle with Carthage - Rome emerged as the dominant power in the mediterranean
Punic Wars
the Ming Dynasty
Henry VII
'The Grand Experiment'
15. Early civilization that attempt to unify the near East under zoroastrianism zoroastrianism - an ethical religion based on the concepts of good and evil
reincarnation
Persians
Martin Luther
The Renaissance
16. Italian religious leader that established the independency of the papacy through the Vatican
feudalism
the four characteristics of civilization
The Justinian Code
Pope Leo IX
17. Proximity to arabs - Salvs - n and Turks - Constantinople sacked during the fourth Crusade
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18. Skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
Hopewell people
modern capitalism
Holy bible
St. Augustine
19. Commercial trade routes - distance from tribes that sacked Rome
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20. Inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Illiad and Odyssey
French religious wars (1562-1598)
the Pueblo Indians
Christopher Columbus
21. Buddhist idea of re - birth after death
Lao - tzu
Age of Enlightenment
reincarnation
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
22. Nullified the Congress of Vienna and allowed the european powers to be guided by their own interests
ancient Greek
Africa's four rivers
Congress of Verona (1822)
feudalism
23. 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
Rome
Protestantism
The Hundred Years War
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
24. Time when European countries focused attention outward because they were attracted to spices and other goods that were part of that world and wanted to find an overland routes to Asia were expensive and took very long
St. Augustine
Taoism
Israelites
The Age of Exploration
25. Early civilization that encouraged material progress - including large - scale irrigation projects - an advancced system of mathematics and invention of the wheel
Muslims
Islam
Alexander the Great
Sumeria
26. Ended the Anglo - Saxon rule in England
Zimbabwe
Society of Jesus
Battle of Hastings (1066)
absolutism
27. Based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed in the holy book known as the Koran
Mughuls
Africa's four rivers
Islam
Ferdinand Magellan
28. Ends Spanish attempts to invade England
cost - benefit analysis
defeat of Spanish Armanda
Napoleon -
The Crusades
29. Jesuits were the official Catholic response to the reformation
absolutism
Rome
Battle of Hastings (1066)
Society of Jesus
30. Group that took over the Byzantine and Persian Empires and worked on medicine - a stronomy - mathematics - architecture and literature
Muslims
Edict of Nantes
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
Alexander the Great
31. Ruler who dominated the political structure of the early Midle Ages - revived the Holy Roman Empire and included Germanic lands between the Rhine and Elbe Rivers
Kublai Khan
Illiad and Odyssey
Charlemagne
Genghis Khan
32. What is gained by whom and what is lost or sacrified
Zimbabwe
cost - benefit analysis
scholasticism
James I
33. Nile - Congo - Niger - and Zambizi
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34. The practice of state regulation and control fo the economy in an attempt to insure prosperity
reasons for Byzantine's successs
mercantilism
Edict of Nantes
Martin Luther
35. Deals with the production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services
Alexander the Great
James I
Cardinal Richelieu
Economics
36. A growing interest in culture of learning and reading. Led to a questioning of Christianity and church dogma.
Age of Enlightenment
The Reformation
Louis XIV
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
37. 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
Age of Pericles
the Peace of Augsburg
Charlemagne
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
38. A social - economic and poltiical system with de - centralized power
the Fertile Crescent
Magna Carta
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
feudalism
39. Ghana - Mali and Songhai
Three famous African empires
Babylonians
Charlemagne
Hinduism
40. The beginnin of the English Reformation when the pope refused to annul the marriage of Henry VII to Catherine of Aragon - led ultimately to England to establish Protestantism and the Anglican Church
mercantilism
the Act of supremacy
The Age of Exploration
the Peace of Augsburg
41. Mongol ruler that first opened China to the West through explorer Marco Polo
Romanov dynasty -
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
Congress of Verona (1822)
Kublai Khan
42. Battle over the succession of thet hrone in England. The House of Lancaster crushes the House of York and Henry VII establishes the infamous Tudor dynasty
Oliver Cromwell
English parliament
Rome
The War of Roses
43. The river valleys near the Tigres and Euphrates and Nile Rivers - which were the cradle of civlization
the Fertile Crescent
daimyo
caliphs
Age of Enlightenment
44. English pirate sailing for England became the second man to circumnavigate the globe
Edict of Nantes
Sir Francis Drake
Isaac Newton
Mughuls
45. War between England and France that led to France rising as a nation
Illiad and Odyssey
The Hundred Years War
the Pueblo Indians
feudalism
46. Ruled as dictator and abolished the moarchy - after his death - the monarchy was restored
St. Augustine
Alexander the Great
Confucius
Oliver Cromwell
47. Land owned by the lords of feudal Europe
Africa's four rivers
Paul the Apostle
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
fiefs
48. The practice of worshipping one god
Islam
reincarnation
French Revolution
monotheism
49. Important iron working center for African civilization
The Dark Ages
Hammurabi's Code
Kush
Confucius
50. Caused by dis - satisfaction with church ritual and Latin overtones
church
Sumeria
The Justinian Code
The Reformation