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CSET Subtest 1: History 4
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
The War of Roses
Genghis Khan
Edict of Nantes
Babylonians
2. Used what he learned in classic books and original insights to develop law of gravity and physics
Chaldeans
reasons for Byzantine's successs
Taoism
Isaac Newton
3. 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
Age of Pericles
Congress of Verona (1822)
Charlemagne
Sumeria
4. Equal to a vassal or knight in feudal Japan
Henry VII
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
Feudal Japan
samurai
5. A period of peace for two centuries without a major war
Constantine
Pax Romana
Taoism
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
6. Enlightenment aritsts who emphasized the classical era's symphonies - rhythms and melodies
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
Martin Luther
Frederick Barbarosa
hiearchy of needs
7. Nile - Congo - Niger - and Zambizi
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8. Chinese philospher who built up concept of yin and yang to form Taoism
Confucianism
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
French Revolution
Lao - tzu
9. An economy in which people leave the funding alone
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10. Gave Hugenots political and religious freedom
Louis XIV
the Peace of Augsburg
Edict of Nantes
Illiad and Odyssey
11. 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
St. Augustine
Edict of Nantes
Pope Leo IX
12. Provided new political boundaries and established Calvinism - Germany divided into Protestant and Catholic areas
Islam
Byzantine Empire
Lao - tzu
Peace of Westphalia
13. French King who evoked absolutism with the palace of Versailles and lavishness
French Revolution
Charlemagne
Byzantine Empire
Louis XIV
14. 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
The Renaissance
'laissez faire' economy
cost - benefit analysis
Protestantism
15. A feudal king in feudal Japan
Battle of Hastings (1066)
The Crusades
shogun
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
16. Proximity to arabs - Salvs - n and Turks - Constantinople sacked during the fourth Crusade
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17. The river valleys near the Tigres and Euphrates and Nile Rivers - which were the cradle of civlization
Protestantism
absolutism
the Fertile Crescent
Anasazi culture
18. Early civilization that attempt to unify the near East under zoroastrianism zoroastrianism - an ethical religion based on the concepts of good and evil
feudalism
Persians
St. Augustine
hunter/gatherer societies
19. Commercial trade routes - distance from tribes that sacked Rome
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20. Greek leader who conquered Persia - Asia Minor - and egypt to establish a world empire
Alexander the Great
Paul the Apostle
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
Thirty Years War
21. Ancient civilization that we owe our literary heritage - science - mathematics and democratic forms of governments
ancient Greek
Assyria
the Iron Age
Kublai Khan
22. 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
church
Magna Carta
Persians
The Hundred Years War
23. English government consists of the House of Lords (for the wealthy) and House of Commons
English parliament
Hinduism
Zimbabwe
capitalism
24. Early civilization that encouraged material progress - including large - scale irrigation projects - an advancced system of mathematics and invention of the wheel
Sumeria
shogun
Africa's four rivers
scholasticism
25. Indian culture that developed in Southwest and were skilled builders
Society of Jesus
Anasazi culture
absolutism
Guatama Buddha
26. English moarch to begin colonization of North America
James I
Sumeria
law of supply and demand
church
27. 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
'laissez faire' economy
Ancient Egypt
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
28. The church's holy war to recapture the Holy Land - the Pope called for holy warriors to liberate the holy land from the infidels
manoralism
The Crusades
Isaac Newton
the Iron Age
29. A growing interest in culture of learning and reading. Led to a questioning of Christianity and church dogma.
Elizabeth I
Edict of Nantes
Age of Enlightenment
nominalism
30. The first ruler of the French Republic. Established a Code of Napoleon that modernized French law- was ultimately defeated in The Battle of Waterloo
Illiad and Odyssey
Muslims
The Reconquista
Napoleon -
31. Societies in which men started to hunt and women gathered readily available foods
hunter/gatherer societies
means of productions
Battle of Hastings (1066)
church
32. Author of 'Wealth of Nations' which advocates that manufacturing is truly the soruce of the nation's wealth
daimyo
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
monotheism
Adam Smith
33. Based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed in the holy book known as the Koran
The Reformation
Hinduism
The Renaissance
Islam
34. Ghana - Mali and Songhai
church
Edict of Nantes
Mughuls
Three famous African empires
35. Leaders in Islammic civilizations that improved farming methods and crop yields
Pope Leo IX
Age of Enlightenment
hiearchy of needs
caliphs
36. The Christian Word of God
karma
Holy bible
realism
Punic Wars
37. Writing - mathematics - sicence - philosophy and arts
the four characteristics of civilization
monotheism
Chaldeans
Punic Wars
38. English pirate sailing for England became the second man to circumnavigate the globe
Sir Francis Drake
The War of Roses
Constantine
hunter/gatherer societies
39. Chinese philosophy with a focus on concept of respect to one's family - parents - government and rulers - supported tendency to respect authority
Confucianism
Kublai Khan
vassals
Hammurabi's Code
40. 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
Chaldeans
Louis XIV
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
The War of Roses
41. Ends Spanish attempts to invade England
The Crusades
defeat of Spanish Armanda
Paul the Apostle
the Fertile Crescent
42. The practice of worshipping one god
the Act of supremacy
Protestantism
monotheism
French religious wars (1562-1598)
43. 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
samurai
Christopher Columbus
Chaldeans
capitalism
44. The zenith of Athenian society and the hight of its democracy
Age of Pericles
the Peace of Augsburg
capitalism
Oliver Cromwell
45. Settled in the Mississippi Valley developed in 880 AD and built large religious mound structures
Adam Smith
Mississippian culture
vassals
James I
46. Buddhist idea of re - birth after death
romanticism
Assyria
Zimbabwe
reincarnation
47. 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
hiearchy of needs
Peace of Westphalia
French Revolution
48. War between most European powers and led to the devestation of Germany
Hammurabi's Code
realism
The Hundred Years War
Thirty Years War
49. Enlightenment philosophers who questioned the proper function of government and their ideas led to the American and French Revolutions
Chaldeans
nominalism
the Iron Age
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
50. Philosophy that deals with theconsistency of faith and reason
Genghis Khan
Ferdinand Magellan
the Pueblo Indians
scholasticism