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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. What is gained by whom and what is lost or sacrified
Causes of Rome's fall
cost - benefit analysis
Louis XIV
Islam
2. 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 Ming Dynasty
Byzantine Empire
Charlemagne
Society of Jesus
3. Ruled as dictator and abolished the moarchy - after his death - the monarchy was restored
feudalism
Martin Luther
Oliver Cromwell
Louis XIV
4. The first ruler of the French Republic. Established a Code of Napoleon that modernized French law- was ultimately defeated in The Battle of Waterloo
The Hundred Years War
'The Grand Experiment'
Napoleon -
mercantilism
5. 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
ancient Greek
Genghis Khan
Romanov dynasty -
Hinduism
6. 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
Hammurabi's Code
Hinduism
the Act of supremacy
7. 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
The Age of Exploration
Confucianism
defeat of Spanish Armanda
Holy bible
8. Concept in scholasticism in which reality consists of ideas (universals) that exist in the mind - independent of sensory powersof perception
Peace of Westphalia
realism
Illiad and Odyssey
the Iron Age
9. 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
Three famous African empires
Paul the Apostle
the Peace of Augsburg
Chaldeans
10. Ancient civilization that we owe our literary heritage - science - mathematics and democratic forms of governments
Oliver Cromwell
ancient Greek
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
The Reformation
11. A growing interest in culture of learning and reading. Led to a questioning of Christianity and church dogma.
Romanov dynasty -
Age of Enlightenment
serfs
English parliament
12. Indian culture that developed in Southwest and were skilled builders
Pax Romana
reincarnation
Anasazi culture
The Reconquista
13. Societies in which men started to hunt and women gathered readily available foods
The War of Roses
the Iron Age
Oliver Cromwell
hunter/gatherer societies
14. Emperor of the Byzantine empire that esetablished a new Rome in Constantinople
Constantine
Louis XIV
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
Alexander the Great
15. Nile - Congo - Niger - and Zambizi
16. Encourages the accumulation of wealth and property by individuals but is regulated by the state
Magna Carta
hiearchy of needs
capitalism
Phonecians
17. The basic of justice systems used throughout the western world
karma
Confucius
Cardinal Richelieu
The Justinian Code
18. Commercial trade routes - distance from tribes that sacked Rome
19. The zenith of Athenian society and the hight of its democracy
Age of Pericles
realism
Byzantine Empire
Kublai Khan
20. An economy in which people leave the funding alone
21. Fought between Catholics and Huguenots for control of france
Napoleon -
James I
reincarnation
French religious wars (1562-1598)
22. Officially recognizes Lutheranism but allowed Catholicis princes to support Catholicism
Israelites
Frederick Barbarosa
manoralism
the Peace of Augsburg
23. The practice of state regulation and control fo the economy in an attempt to insure prosperity
mercantilism
Thirty Years War
Ferdinand Magellan
Congress of Verona (1822)
24. Philosophy that deals with theconsistency of faith and reason
Confucius
shogun
scholasticism
Ancient Egypt
25. Spanish explorer who sailed west from Spain and landed in the Carribbean - thinking it was India
Pope Leo IX
cost - benefit analysis
Christopher Columbus
English parliament
26. Early civilizaion that was the first explorers - traders and colonizers of the anfcient world and develop the first alphabet
Phonecians
Illiad and Odyssey
manoralism
The Crusades
27. Mongol ruler that first opened China to the West through explorer Marco Polo
Louis XIV
Thirty Years War
Kublai Khan
Battle of Hastings (1066)
28. Buddhist idea that fate is earned
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
scholasticism
Islam
karma
29. Mongol leader who took over the Chinese
English parliament
church
Mughuls
Genghis Khan
30. Profits are linked to the manufacturing of products
caliphs
modern capitalism
Henry VII
ancient Greek
31. 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
Illiad and Odyssey
Martin Luther
church
Babylonians
32. Religious stories about gods and goddesses who had human - style weaknesses and disagreements
manoralism
samurai
Israelites
mythology
33. A feudal king in feudal Japan
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
the Peace of Augsburg
Congress of Verona (1822)
shogun
34. A way of thinking that inspired the nationalistic philosophy and the idea of self - determination
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
romanticism
The Crusades
Zimbabwe
35. Author of 'Wealth of Nations' which advocates that manufacturing is truly the soruce of the nation's wealth
Cardinal Richelieu
Adam Smith
hiearchy of needs
Lao - tzu
36. Ended the Anglo - Saxon rule in England
Babylonians
Persians
Frederick Barbarosa
Battle of Hastings (1066)
37. Greek leader who conquered Persia - Asia Minor - and egypt to establish a world empire
Phonecians
scholasticism
Alexander the Great
Ferdinand Magellan
38. Italian religious leader that established the independency of the papacy through the Vatican
The Age of Exploration
Pope Leo IX
Charlemagne
Martin Luther
39. 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
Assyria
The Renaissance
Protestantism
Magna Carta
40. Equal to a vassal or knight in feudal Japan
samurai
Ferdinand Magellan
Feudal Japan
Paul the Apostle
41. Land owned by the lords of feudal Europe
caliphs
fiefs
Byzantine Empire
hiearchy of needs
42. The idea of total obedience to the sovereign because of their 'divine right'
law of supply and demand
the Pueblo Indians
The Reconquista
absolutism
43. Chinese philosopher who developed the idea of Confucianism
Confucius
Assyria
caliphs
serfs
44. Landowners in feudal Europe
Battle of Hastings (1066)
Edict of Nantes
lords
Christopher Columbus
45. Before human can turn their attention to finer things in life - humans need to focus on their primary needs - physiological - they must have enough to eat or drink and a warm place to sleep - security and safety - river settlements were the easiest t
Anasazi culture
Pope Leo IX
defeat of Spanish Armanda
hiearchy of needs
46. Leaders in Islammic civilizations that improved farming methods and crop yields
capitalism
caliphs
samurai
Age of Enlightenment
47. Chinese dynasty that ousted the Mongols and then limited contact with the West through isolationism
the Ming Dynasty
Illiad and Odyssey
Confucius
Islam
48. Writing - mathematics - sicence - philosophy and arts
the Iron Age
the four characteristics of civilization
Islam
Genghis Khan
49. Proximity to arabs - Salvs - n and Turks - Constantinople sacked during the fourth Crusade
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