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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. Greek leader who conquered Persia - Asia Minor - and egypt to establish a world empire
Alexander the Great
defeat of Spanish Armanda
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
Elizabeth I
2. Ghana - Mali and Songhai
monotheism
Punic Wars
Three famous African empires
the Fertile Crescent
3. Portuguese explorer who was the first man to circumnavigate the globe
manoralism
Feudal Japan
Ferdinand Magellan
Punic Wars
4. Emperor of the Byzantine empire that esetablished a new Rome in Constantinople
Constantine
Kublai Khan
Romanov dynasty -
hiearchy of needs
5. The idea of total obedience to the sovereign because of their 'divine right'
Frederick Barbarosa
absolutism
ancient Greek
Confucianism
6. Equal to a vassal or knight in feudal Japan
samurai
Lao - tzu
Persians
the Peace of Augsburg
7. Chinese philospher who built up concept of yin and yang to form Taoism
Lao - tzu
Rome
monotheism
Chaldeans
8. Ruled as dictator and abolished the moarchy - after his death - the monarchy was restored
Sir Francis Drake
Oliver Cromwell
Punic Wars
Byzantine Empire
9. Battle between Charles Martel and the Muslims prevented Islam from entering Europe
Ferdinand Magellan
samurai
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
Louis XIV
10. Concept in scholasticism in which symbols or names for objects. Only perceived objects are real
The Hundred Years War
Mississippian culture
nominalism
Hopewell people
11. Peasants who work the land in exchange for protection that allow others to live and work in exchange for loyalty and services in feudal Europe
hiearchy of needs
monotheism
hunter/gatherer societies
serfs
12. Early civilization that encouraged material progress - including large - scale irrigation projects - an advancced system of mathematics and invention of the wheel
Adam Smith
Guatama Buddha
Sumeria
Illiad and Odyssey
13. Jesuits were the official Catholic response to the reformation
Society of Jesus
The Justinian Code
Feudal Japan
Napoleon -
14. 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
Africa's four rivers
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
Hopewell people
Hinduism
15. 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
Constantine
hiearchy of needs
Isaac Newton
Martin Luther
16. Emperor that called for the union of Germany and Italy under the Holy Empire
The Justinian Code
Frederick Barbarosa
Romanov dynasty -
Economics
17. The zenith of Athenian society and the hight of its democracy
Age of Pericles
vassals
Oliver Cromwell
Phonecians
18. Indian culture that developed in Southwest and were skilled builders
The War of Roses
The Age of Exploration
The Crusades
Anasazi culture
19. What is gained by whom and what is lost or sacrified
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
Oliver Cromwell
cost - benefit analysis
Europe's Industrial Revolution
20. Inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Sir Francis Drake
the Iron Age
the Pueblo Indians
Kush
21. The first great Christian philosopher
St. Augustine
manoralism
The Reformation
Zimbabwe
22. Mongol ruler that first opened China to the West through explorer Marco Polo
absolutism
Genghis Khan
Kublai Khan
Battle of Hastings (1066)
23. Commercial trade routes - distance from tribes that sacked Rome
24. The first written form of law and came from the Babylonian times
25. Spanish explorer who sailed west from Spain and landed in the Carribbean - thinking it was India
Christopher Columbus
Lydians
hunter/gatherer societies
Holy bible
26. Early civilization that attempt to unify the near East under zoroastrianism zoroastrianism - an ethical religion based on the concepts of good and evil
Hammurabi's Code
Adam Smith
Persians
Henry VII
27. War that re - established Christian control over Muslim Spain in 1492
English parliament
Ancient Egypt
The Reconquista
scholasticism
28. Early civilization that developed military techniques and iron weapons - also had postal service - extensive library and system of highways
Assyria
Napoleon -
Frederick Barbarosa
Romanov dynasty -
29. 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
Causes of Rome's fall
shogun
Punic Wars
30. Chinese dynasty that ousted the Mongols and then limited contact with the West through isolationism
the Ming Dynasty
Europe's Industrial Revolution
the Fertile Crescent
The Reformation
31. 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
Hinduism
Phonecians
Assyria
scholasticism
32. The concept of United States history as the mass migration of one group (Europeans) overwhelmed and put another group to extinction (Indians)
33. 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
realism
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
Lydians
34. The state controls the means of production and distributes the profits for the beneficiary of the people
35. Group that took over the Byzantine and Persian Empires and worked on medicine - a stronomy - mathematics - architecture and literature
Muslims
French Revolution
Rome
Henry VII
36. Settled in the Mississippi Valley developed in 880 AD and built large religious mound structures
Mississippian culture
the four characteristics of civilization
Three famous African empires
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
37. Leaders in Islammic civilizations that improved farming methods and crop yields
caliphs
Constantine
Age of Pericles
The Renaissance
38. Used what he learned in classic books and original insights to develop law of gravity and physics
Paul the Apostle
Thirty Years War
Isaac Newton
Assyria
39. French King who evoked absolutism with the palace of Versailles and lavishness
daimyo
English parliament
Age of Enlightenment
Louis XIV
40. English ruler who helped England emerge as a major European power
fiefs
Elizabeth I
the Act of supremacy
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
41. The first ruler of the French Republic. Established a Code of Napoleon that modernized French law- was ultimately defeated in The Battle of Waterloo
realism
mercantilism
Napoleon -
vassals
42. English government consists of the House of Lords (for the wealthy) and House of Commons
hiearchy of needs
Cardinal Richelieu
ancient Greek
English parliament
43. Early civilization that occupied the western Asia minor and were responsible for the first coinage of money
the Pueblo Indians
Lydians
defeat of Spanish Armanda
Mississippian culture
44. A family that united and ruled most of India and built The Taj Mahal
Sumeria
romanticism
Mughuls
Hinduism
45. An economy in which people leave the funding alone
46. Based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed in the holy book known as the Koran
Islam
Ferdinand Magellan
'The Grand Experiment'
Frederick Barbarosa
47. A religion against pre - destination - in which people are destined to go to heaven and hell no matter how they act
Constantine
absolutism
Protestantism
monotheism
48. 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
Phonecians
Kublai Khan
mercantilism
Rome
49. The Christian Word of God
mercantilism
Hinduism
Holy bible
Byzantine Empire
50. Important iron working center for African civilization
Babylonians
Kush
Martin Luther
The Crusades