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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. Early civilization that occupied the western Asia minor and were responsible for the first coinage of money
samurai
Guatama Buddha
Lydians
manoralism
2. Concept in scholasticism in which reality consists of ideas (universals) that exist in the mind - independent of sensory powersof perception
The Renaissance
realism
Christopher Columbus
reasons for Byzantine's successs
3. Equal to a vassal or knight in feudal Japan
Chaldeans
Cardinal Richelieu
samurai
Causes of Rome's fall
4. 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
Babylonians
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
Guatama Buddha
Congress of Verona (1822)
5. A feudal lord in feudal Japan
Edict of Nantes
defeat of Spanish Armanda
vassals
daimyo
6. Societies in which men started to hunt and women gathered readily available foods
Feudal Japan
karma
Anasazi culture
hunter/gatherer societies
7. 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
Hammurabi's Code
Kublai Khan
Byzantine Empire
St. Augustine
8. 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
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
Napoleon -
Hammurabi's Code
The Reconquista
9. English moarch to begin colonization of North America
James I
Israelites
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
Mississippian culture
10. What is gained by whom and what is lost or sacrified
cost - benefit analysis
Adam Smith
The Hundred Years War
samurai
11. Officially recognizes Lutheranism but allowed Catholicis princes to support Catholicism
karma
scholasticism
the Peace of Augsburg
Rome
12. Mongol ruler that first opened China to the West through explorer Marco Polo
Chaldeans
Byzantine Empire
Kublai Khan
Constantine
13. A family that united and ruled most of India and built The Taj Mahal
Isaac Newton
Ancient Egypt
Mughuls
vassals
14. The practice of worshipping one god
Christopher Columbus
the Iron Age
monotheism
mythology
15. Mongol leader who took over the Chinese
Islam
Mughuls
Genghis Khan
Africa's four rivers
16. Caused by dis - satisfaction with church ritual and Latin overtones
The Reformation
Pax Romana
realism
Kush
17. Philosophy that deals with theconsistency of faith and reason
romanticism
Congress of Verona (1822)
scholasticism
feudalism
18. English government consists of the House of Lords (for the wealthy) and House of Commons
Kublai Khan
Hopewell people
Rome
English parliament
19. 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
Byzantine Empire
Protestantism
Taoism
The Reformation
20. Early civililzation that developed the first lasting monotheism
Thirty Years War
Israelites
capitalism
The Renaissance
21. A period of peace for two centuries without a major war
means of productions
hunter/gatherer societies
Louis XIV
Pax Romana
22. The first ruler of the French Republic. Established a Code of Napoleon that modernized French law- was ultimately defeated in The Battle of Waterloo
Zimbabwe
the Ming Dynasty
Napoleon -
hiearchy of needs
23. The idea of total obedience to the sovereign because of their 'divine right'
Louis XIV
lords
absolutism
Islam
24. The way that a product is produced - in capitalism - it is ownedby the individual
Lydians
Persians
means of productions
the Peace of Augsburg
25. 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
Taoism
Lao - tzu
Hinduism
romanticism
26. Author of absolutist politics
Alexander the Great
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
Phonecians
Cardinal Richelieu
27. The river valleys near the Tigres and Euphrates and Nile Rivers - which were the cradle of civlization
the Fertile Crescent
'The Grand Experiment'
Mississippian culture
Muslims
28. 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
Cardinal Richelieu
The Renaissance
Alexander the Great
Europe's Industrial Revolution
29. If supply is greater tahn demand - the value of a product is lower; if demand is greater than supply - the value of a product is higher
Feudal Japan
Mississippian culture
law of supply and demand
Phonecians
30. Chinese dynasty that ousted the Mongols and then limited contact with the West through isolationism
Israelites
the Ming Dynasty
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
Confucianism
31. Ends Spanish attempts to invade England
manoralism
Henry VII
defeat of Spanish Armanda
'laissez faire' economy
32. Ghana - Mali and Songhai
Zimbabwe
Ferdinand Magellan
The Hundred Years War
Three famous African empires
33. Chinese philosophy with a focus on concept of respect to one's family - parents - government and rulers - supported tendency to respect authority
Sumeria
realism
Confucianism
Genghis Khan
34. 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
Age of Pericles
The Age of Exploration
Pax Romana
Byzantine Empire
35. Settled in the Mississippi Valley developed in 880 AD and built large religious mound structures
Islam
Sir Francis Drake
hunter/gatherer societies
Mississippian culture
36. Christian disciple responsible for the spread of Christian theology
Paul the Apostle
Muslims
French religious wars (1562-1598)
realism
37. A religion against pre - destination - in which people are destined to go to heaven and hell no matter how they act
Kush
Protestantism
Lydians
French Revolution
38. Jesuits were the official Catholic response to the reformation
Louis XIV
The Reconquista
Society of Jesus
Economics
39. Fought between Catholics and Huguenots for control of france
French Revolution
Martin Luther
reincarnation
French religious wars (1562-1598)
40. Early civilizaion that was the first explorers - traders and colonizers of the anfcient world and develop the first alphabet
Babylonians
Christopher Columbus
Phonecians
Napoleon -
41. A growing interest in culture of learning and reading. Led to a questioning of Christianity and church dogma.
Age of Pericles
Age of Enlightenment
The Renaissance
Oliver Cromwell
42. English pirate sailing for England became the second man to circumnavigate the globe
Sir Francis Drake
romanticism
The Dark Ages
Alexander the Great
43. Nile - Congo - Niger - and Zambizi
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44. Religious stories about gods and goddesses who had human - style weaknesses and disagreements
Kush
mythology
Holy bible
French religious wars (1562-1598)
45. Led to the destruction of early civilizations like the Egyptians - Assyrians and Babylonians through the development of iron weapons
Alexander the Great
the Iron Age
Mughuls
Persians
46. Started absolutism in Russia started with Ivan the Terrible
Mughuls
Romanov dynasty -
Frederick Barbarosa
modern capitalism
47. The basic of justice systems used throughout the western world
Phonecians
The Justinian Code
Holy bible
Edict of Nantes
48. An economy in which people leave the funding alone
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49. Indian culture that developed in Southwest and were skilled builders
monotheism
karma
Anasazi culture
The Justinian Code
50. 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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