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CSET Subtest 1: History 4
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Jesuits were the official Catholic response to the reformation
Society of Jesus
Ferdinand Magellan
Alexander the Great
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
2. 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
monotheism
The Hundred Years War
church
Constantine
3. Mongol ruler that first opened China to the West through explorer Marco Polo
St. Augustine
Sir Francis Drake
Kublai Khan
Magna Carta
4. A religion against pre - destination - in which people are destined to go to heaven and hell no matter how they act
Protestantism
Battle of Hastings (1066)
French religious wars (1562-1598)
church
5. Portuguese explorer who was the first man to circumnavigate the globe
Ferdinand Magellan
Holy bible
serfs
Byzantine Empire
6. caused by inequitable class structure - bankruptcy of the French treasury - disorganized legal system - led to the Reign of Terror in which many of the aristocrats were beheaded
Ferdinand Magellan
modern capitalism
realism
French Revolution
7. 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 Reconquista
vassals
The Renaissance
Henry VII
8. Encourages the accumulation of wealth and property by individuals but is regulated by the state
capitalism
Isaac Newton
nominalism
French Revolution
9. 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 Hundred Years War
Zimbabwe
The Age of Exploration
Kublai Khan
10. Chinese philospher who built up concept of yin and yang to form Taoism
James I
Isaac Newton
Lao - tzu
Punic Wars
11. Started absolutism in Russia started with Ivan the Terrible
modern capitalism
Romanov dynasty -
Charlemagne
Louis XIV
12. Indian culture that developed in Southwest and were skilled builders
Congress of Verona (1822)
the Fertile Crescent
Punic Wars
Anasazi culture
13. Proximity to arabs - Salvs - n and Turks - Constantinople sacked during the fourth Crusade
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14. Author of 'Wealth of Nations' which advocates that manufacturing is truly the soruce of the nation's wealth
karma
Henry VII
Adam Smith
the Fertile Crescent
15. Group that took over the Byzantine and Persian Empires and worked on medicine - a stronomy - mathematics - architecture and literature
shogun
Muslims
Hammurabi's Code
absolutism
16. Ghana - Mali and Songhai
Three famous African empires
cost - benefit analysis
French religious wars (1562-1598)
feudalism
17. French King who evoked absolutism with the palace of Versailles and lavishness
Louis XIV
English parliament
scholasticism
St. Augustine
18. Emperor that called for the union of Germany and Italy under the Holy Empire
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
Frederick Barbarosa
daimyo
the Ming Dynasty
19. Officially recognizes Lutheranism but allowed Catholicis princes to support Catholicism
Anasazi culture
the Peace of Augsburg
Zimbabwe
Protestantism
20. Buddhist idea of re - birth after death
reincarnation
Hinduism
karma
Guatama Buddha
21. Deals with the production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services
monotheism
Economics
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
means of productions
22. Knights or military in feudal Europe
St. Augustine
Battle of Hastings (1066)
vassals
Pope Leo IX
23. Led to the destruction of early civilizations like the Egyptians - Assyrians and Babylonians through the development of iron weapons
the Iron Age
Three famous African empires
the Fertile Crescent
English parliament
24. The river valleys near the Tigres and Euphrates and Nile Rivers - which were the cradle of civlization
Society of Jesus
Punic Wars
the Fertile Crescent
the Iron Age
25. The first ruler of the French Republic. Established a Code of Napoleon that modernized French law- was ultimately defeated in The Battle of Waterloo
Napoleon -
the Peace of Augsburg
shogun
reasons for Byzantine's successs
26. The practice of worshipping one god
Taoism
reincarnation
the four characteristics of civilization
monotheism
27. Leaders in Islammic civilizations that improved farming methods and crop yields
Zimbabwe
Edict of Nantes
caliphs
Louis XIV
28. Early civilization that developed military techniques and iron weapons - also had postal service - extensive library and system of highways
Assyria
Elizabeth I
Edict of Nantes
Congress of Verona (1822)
29. What is gained by whom and what is lost or sacrified
Kush
Protestantism
cost - benefit analysis
Romanov dynasty -
30. English pirate sailing for England became the second man to circumnavigate the globe
Three famous African empires
The Reformation
Zimbabwe
Sir Francis Drake
31. A social - economic and poltiical system with de - centralized power
feudalism
Three famous African empires
The Justinian Code
Oliver Cromwell
32. Caused by availability of investment capital and rise of the middle class - established cotton textile industry - Britain's great miaritime power - availability of coal - iron and cheap labor was available
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33. English ruler who helped England emerge as a major European power
The Age of Exploration
daimyo
Elizabeth I
the Ming Dynasty
34. Skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
Hopewell people
Age of Pericles
French Revolution
Charlemagne
35. Early civililzation that developed the first lasting monotheism
Israelites
Edict of Nantes
Punic Wars
Lao - tzu
36. 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
church
Byzantine Empire
The Dark Ages
Rome
37. Fought between Catholics and Huguenots for control of france
French religious wars (1562-1598)
Three famous African empires
Constantine
Mughuls
38. Early civilization that attempt to unify the near East under zoroastrianism zoroastrianism - an ethical religion based on the concepts of good and evil
reasons for Byzantine's successs
realism
Lydians
Persians
39. The concept of United States history as the mass migration of one group (Europeans) overwhelmed and put another group to extinction (Indians)
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40. An African empire the developed out of an iron working stettlement and eswasbasd on gold trade
Zimbabwe
Phonecians
daimyo
Economics
41. Gave Hugenots political and religious freedom
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
Illiad and Odyssey
Edict of Nantes
Israelites
42. 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
Rome
Magna Carta
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
Napoleon -
43. 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
the Act of supremacy
Paul the Apostle
karma
Ancient Egypt
44. The practice of state regulation and control fo the economy in an attempt to insure prosperity
feudalism
Mughuls
Sumeria
mercantilism
45. A growing interest in culture of learning and reading. Led to a questioning of Christianity and church dogma.
Paul the Apostle
Age of Enlightenment
mercantilism
Zimbabwe
46. Enlightenment philosophers who questioned the proper function of government and their ideas led to the American and French Revolutions
Adam Smith
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
Guatama Buddha
Charlemagne
47. The way that a product is produced - in capitalism - it is ownedby the individual
means of productions
Muslims
daimyo
The Age of Exploration
48. 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
the Ming Dynasty
Muslims
hiearchy of needs
49. Emperor of the Byzantine empire that esetablished a new Rome in Constantinople
Constantine
French Revolution
Kush
lords
50. Italian religious leader that established the independency of the papacy through the Vatican
Confucianism
Confucius
Pope Leo IX
Edict of Nantes