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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. The idea of total obedience to the sovereign because of their 'divine right'
absolutism
Adam Smith
Assyria
Anasazi culture
2. Ends Spanish attempts to invade England
defeat of Spanish Armanda
The Renaissance
Edict of Nantes
the Peace of Augsburg
3. Caused by dis - satisfaction with church ritual and Latin overtones
The Reformation
Mughuls
The Crusades
caliphs
4. A period of peace for two centuries without a major war
Sir Francis Drake
Adam Smith
Muslims
Pax Romana
5. English pirate sailing for England became the second man to circumnavigate the globe
Lydians
Sir Francis Drake
Ferdinand Magellan
Frederick Barbarosa
6. Land owned by the lords of feudal Europe
fiefs
Zimbabwe
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
mythology
7. French King who evoked absolutism with the palace of Versailles and lavishness
hiearchy of needs
vassals
Louis XIV
the Act of supremacy
8. War that re - established Christian control over Muslim Spain in 1492
The Reconquista
French Revolution
the four characteristics of civilization
Society of Jesus
9. Early civilization that developed military techniques and iron weapons - also had postal service - extensive library and system of highways
Assyria
Byzantine Empire
Charlemagne
English parliament
10. Provided new political boundaries and established Calvinism - Germany divided into Protestant and Catholic areas
Peace of Westphalia
Muslims
Islam
church
11. Chinese philosophy with a focus on concept of respect to one's family - parents - government and rulers - supported tendency to respect authority
Confucianism
Charlemagne
the Ming Dynasty
The Reformation
12. 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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13. Chinese philosopher who developed the idea of Confucianism
Europe's Industrial Revolution
monotheism
Confucius
mythology
14. 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
Byzantine Empire
French religious wars (1562-1598)
Protestantism
15. Buddhist idea that fate is earned
karma
Illiad and Odyssey
means of productions
Three famous African empires
16. 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
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
the Iron Age
French Revolution
17. 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
Martin Luther
James I
'laissez faire' economy
18. Early civilization that conquered Sumeria and established the Code of Hammurabi was the first written code to regulate society - achieved central government and advancements in algebra and geomoetry
Cardinal Richelieu
Hinduism
Lao - tzu
Babylonians
19. Emperor of the Byzantine empire that esetablished a new Rome in Constantinople
cost - benefit analysis
Constantine
Illiad and Odyssey
Byzantine Empire
20. Leaders in Islammic civilizations that improved farming methods and crop yields
karma
caliphs
Charlemagne
Europe's Industrial Revolution
21. 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
the Pueblo Indians
samurai
'The Grand Experiment'
22. Proximity to arabs - Salvs - n and Turks - Constantinople sacked during the fourth Crusade
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23. What is gained by whom and what is lost or sacrified
cost - benefit analysis
mercantilism
Genghis Khan
Paul the Apostle
24. Greek leader who conquered Persia - Asia Minor - and egypt to establish a world empire
Alexander the Great
the four characteristics of civilization
Muslims
serfs
25. Author of 'Wealth of Nations' which advocates that manufacturing is truly the soruce of the nation's wealth
Adam Smith
Feudal Japan
Magna Carta
monotheism
26. A family that united and ruled most of India and built The Taj Mahal
Lydians
hunter/gatherer societies
Mughuls
defeat of Spanish Armanda
27. Buddhist idea of re - birth after death
Phonecians
Genghis Khan
reincarnation
Ancient Egypt
28. 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
Adam Smith
defeat of Spanish Armanda
church
Lao - tzu
29. Chinese philospher who built up concept of yin and yang to form Taoism
'The Grand Experiment'
Lao - tzu
Martin Luther
Persians
30. A religion against pre - destination - in which people are destined to go to heaven and hell no matter how they act
Protestantism
absolutism
The Dark Ages
Napoleon -
31. 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
Genghis Khan
The Renaissance
'The Grand Experiment'
Feudal Japan
32. Works by the Greek writer Homer
'laissez faire' economy
manoralism
Battle of Hastings (1066)
Illiad and Odyssey
33. Early civilizaion that was the first explorers - traders and colonizers of the anfcient world and develop the first alphabet
Phonecians
Congress of Verona (1822)
Anasazi culture
Feudal Japan
34. After the fall of Rome - Europe lacked strong poltiical and economic center - transitioning into the Medieval Ages
Hinduism
Persians
The Dark Ages
the Iron Age
35. Nullified the Congress of Vienna and allowed the european powers to be guided by their own interests
Hammurabi's Code
Congress of Verona (1822)
the Peace of Augsburg
caliphs
36. The zenith of Athenian society and the hight of its democracy
Pope Leo IX
The Hundred Years War
the Act of supremacy
Age of Pericles
37. A feudal king in feudal Japan
The Age of Exploration
Christopher Columbus
samurai
shogun
38. Equal to a vassal or knight in feudal Japan
samurai
modern capitalism
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
Frederick Barbarosa
39. English government consists of the House of Lords (for the wealthy) and House of Commons
St. Augustine
means of productions
Lao - tzu
English parliament
40. Nile - Congo - Niger - and Zambizi
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41. Profits are linked to the manufacturing of products
Chaldeans
the Pueblo Indians
modern capitalism
Hinduism
42. 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
Louis XIV
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
The Age of Exploration
Sumeria
43. 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
The Age of Exploration
Charlemagne
Pax Romana
the four characteristics of civilization
44. Based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed in the holy book known as the Koran
Islam
Oliver Cromwell
The Crusades
Paul the Apostle
45. Primarily agricultural economy dependent upon the lord of the manor and control over the serfs
Society of Jesus
manoralism
James I
the Pueblo Indians
46. The first great Christian philosopher
St. Augustine
Martin Luther
Punic Wars
The Age of Exploration
47. Deals with the production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services
Economics
The Age of Exploration
the Ming Dynasty
Hopewell people
48. Italian religious leader that established the independency of the papacy through the Vatican
law of supply and demand
Society of Jesus
Africa's four rivers
Pope Leo IX
49. The first written form of law and came from the Babylonian times
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50. English moarch to begin colonization of North America
James I
Lydians
Africa's four rivers
the Ming Dynasty