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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. Commercial trade routes - distance from tribes that sacked Rome
2. Concept in scholasticism in which symbols or names for objects. Only perceived objects are real
The Age of Exploration
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
The Crusades
nominalism
3. Enlightenment philosophers who questioned the proper function of government and their ideas led to the American and French Revolutions
the four characteristics of civilization
Hinduism
The War of Roses
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
4. Buddhist idea that fate is earned
karma
'The Grand Experiment'
serfs
Cardinal Richelieu
5. Ancient Asian civilization that developed own language and system of writing - literature and poetry - Shinto religion
Sir Francis Drake
Frederick Barbarosa
Feudal Japan
the Pueblo Indians
6. Enlightenment aritsts who emphasized the classical era's symphonies - rhythms and melodies
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
Charlemagne
ancient Greek
law of supply and demand
7. The church's holy war to recapture the Holy Land - the Pope called for holy warriors to liberate the holy land from the infidels
The Crusades
Romanov dynasty -
Society of Jesus
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
8. Author of absolutist politics
Holy bible
Constantine
The Renaissance
Cardinal Richelieu
9. Proximity to arabs - Salvs - n and Turks - Constantinople sacked during the fourth Crusade
10. War between most European powers and led to the devestation of Germany
mythology
Assyria
Thirty Years War
Sir Francis Drake
11. Writing - mathematics - sicence - philosophy and arts
Taoism
the four characteristics of civilization
Assyria
absolutism
12. 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
Battle of Hastings (1066)
Adam Smith
nominalism
13. Ends Spanish attempts to invade England
Rome
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
Punic Wars
defeat of Spanish Armanda
14. 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
15. The idea of total obedience to the sovereign because of their 'divine right'
The Reformation
The Dark Ages
shogun
absolutism
16. Knights or military in feudal Europe
daimyo
Assyria
Confucianism
vassals
17. Officially recognizes Lutheranism but allowed Catholicis princes to support Catholicism
the Peace of Augsburg
Causes of Rome's fall
capitalism
Napoleon -
18. Was the most popwerful position and had a major landholder in feudal Europe. The Roman Catholic Church is extremely wealthy and powerful - left behind glorious looking churches and Cathedrals - Bibles were the most produced document
Age of Pericles
The Crusades
church
St. Augustine
19. English moarch to begin colonization of North America
Henry VII
Persians
James I
Mississippian culture
20. Ruled as dictator and abolished the moarchy - after his death - the monarchy was restored
Edict of Nantes
Oliver Cromwell
Age of Pericles
Islam
21. A religion against pre - destination - in which people are destined to go to heaven and hell no matter how they act
The Reformation
Protestantism
Louis XIV
Thirty Years War
22. Religious stories about gods and goddesses who had human - style weaknesses and disagreements
Guatama Buddha
mythology
Hinduism
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
23. Gave Hugenots political and religious freedom
nominalism
Muslims
Lydians
Edict of Nantes
24. Ghana - Mali and Songhai
Israelites
Alexander the Great
the Pueblo Indians
Three famous African empires
25. 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
manoralism
Hammurabi's Code
reincarnation
the Act of supremacy
26. English government consists of the House of Lords (for the wealthy) and House of Commons
The War of Roses
English parliament
Thirty Years War
Confucianism
27. English pirate sailing for England became the second man to circumnavigate the globe
Sir Francis Drake
Genghis Khan
Protestantism
Kush
28. Mongol leader who took over the Chinese
ancient Greek
Kublai Khan
Christopher Columbus
Genghis Khan
29. Started absolutism in Russia started with Ivan the Terrible
Guatama Buddha
Confucius
Romanov dynasty -
Isaac Newton
30. 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
Confucianism
feudalism
Chaldeans
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
31. What is gained by whom and what is lost or sacrified
Isaac Newton
Sumeria
Edict of Nantes
cost - benefit analysis
32. One of the most important developments in Europoean history in which the king consented to the rule of law as opposed to 'divine right.' It is considered the foundation for the English Common Law system and the American Constitution
Magna Carta
Israelites
Confucius
Three famous African empires
33. Promotes concept of balanced Europe as England gains power
Henry VII
Battle of Hastings (1066)
lords
Sir Francis Drake
34. Encourages the accumulation of wealth and property by individuals but is regulated by the state
capitalism
St. Augustine
Chaldeans
realism
35. 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
Martin Luther
monotheism
Society of Jesus
The Renaissance
36. The first ruler of the French Republic. Established a Code of Napoleon that modernized French law- was ultimately defeated in The Battle of Waterloo
Napoleon -
Babylonians
scholasticism
James I
37. Mongol ruler that first opened China to the West through explorer Marco Polo
Islam
The Renaissance
Kublai Khan
Mississippian culture
38. A way of thinking that inspired the nationalistic philosophy and the idea of self - determination
capitalism
Hammurabi's Code
romanticism
monotheism
39. Early civilization that developed military techniques and iron weapons - also had postal service - extensive library and system of highways
Pope Leo IX
The Reconquista
Assyria
Louis XIV
40. Chinese philosopher who developed the idea of Confucianism
Guatama Buddha
Confucius
cost - benefit analysis
lords
41. Battle between Charles Martel and the Muslims prevented Islam from entering Europe
ancient Greek
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
Causes of Rome's fall
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
42. Buddhist idea of re - birth after death
Persians
reincarnation
French Revolution
Taoism
43. Concept in scholasticism in which reality consists of ideas (universals) that exist in the mind - independent of sensory powersof perception
realism
capitalism
Congress of Verona (1822)
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
44. Based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed in the holy book known as the Koran
Israelites
Taoism
Cardinal Richelieu
Islam
45. Early civilization that established hierogyphic writing system - had a basic agricultural system and polytheistic belief - and whose culture depended on the annual flooding of the Nile as the basis for a sustained economy
Ancient Egypt
samurai
Persians
lords
46. 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
hiearchy of needs
French Revolution
Ferdinand Magellan
Hinduism
47. The civilization that embodied the east half of the Roman empire survived for a thousand of yars as the Byzantine Empire and preserved the Eastern Orhthodox Church
Battle of Hastings (1066)
Assyria
Byzantine Empire
Elizabeth I
48. 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
Charlemagne
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
The Reformation
Holy bible
49. Early civilization that attempt to unify the near East under zoroastrianism zoroastrianism - an ethical religion based on the concepts of good and evil
Confucianism
Persians
hunter/gatherer societies
Society of Jesus
50. Led to the destruction of early civilizations like the Egyptians - Assyrians and Babylonians through the development of iron weapons
Taoism
Africa's four rivers
the Iron Age
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven