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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. Buddhist idea that fate is earned
The Hundred Years War
manoralism
nominalism
karma
2. Emperor that called for the union of Germany and Italy under the Holy Empire
Louis XIV
Lao - tzu
Society of Jesus
Frederick Barbarosa
3. Nile - Congo - Niger - and Zambizi
4. 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
5. Used what he learned in classic books and original insights to develop law of gravity and physics
Age of Enlightenment
Isaac Newton
Three famous African empires
French Revolution
6. The first great Christian philosopher
St. Augustine
the Peace of Augsburg
Pope Leo IX
Genghis Khan
7. A way of thinking that inspired the nationalistic philosophy and the idea of self - determination
modern capitalism
romanticism
Romanov dynasty -
karma
8. 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
James I
Napoleon -
Paul the Apostle
Babylonians
9. Religious stories about gods and goddesses who had human - style weaknesses and disagreements
Paul the Apostle
The Hundred Years War
mythology
Illiad and Odyssey
10. Chinese philospher who built up concept of yin and yang to form Taoism
The Age of Exploration
Lao - tzu
the Ming Dynasty
cost - benefit analysis
11. The zenith of Athenian society and the hight of its democracy
Islam
church
reasons for Byzantine's successs
Age of Pericles
12. The church's holy war to recapture the Holy Land - the Pope called for holy warriors to liberate the holy land from the infidels
Feudal Japan
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
Genghis Khan
The Crusades
13. Jesuits were the official Catholic response to the reformation
Assyria
Society of Jesus
cost - benefit analysis
Three famous African empires
14. The beginnin of the English Reformation when the pope refused to annul the marriage of Henry VII to Catherine of Aragon - led ultimately to England to establish Protestantism and the Anglican Church
Protestantism
mercantilism
the Act of supremacy
Louis XIV
15. Chinese philosophy with a focus on concept of respect to one's family - parents - government and rulers - supported tendency to respect authority
Confucianism
The Dark Ages
Lao - tzu
Economics
16. An African empire the developed out of an iron working stettlement and eswasbasd on gold trade
Islam
Age of Pericles
the Peace of Augsburg
Zimbabwe
17. Knights or military in feudal Europe
The Reformation
Causes of Rome's fall
vassals
Alexander the Great
18. The practice of worshipping one god
serfs
monotheism
the Ming Dynasty
mercantilism
19. Ends Spanish attempts to invade England
Sir Francis Drake
monotheism
Congress of Verona (1822)
defeat of Spanish Armanda
20. Settled in the Mississippi Valley developed in 880 AD and built large religious mound structures
Mississippian culture
the Iron Age
English parliament
Causes of Rome's fall
21. A feudal lord in feudal Japan
James I
daimyo
Frederick Barbarosa
Age of Enlightenment
22. Emperor of the Byzantine empire that esetablished a new Rome in Constantinople
romanticism
Mississippian culture
Ferdinand Magellan
Constantine
23. English government consists of the House of Lords (for the wealthy) and House of Commons
Mississippian culture
Sumeria
Frederick Barbarosa
English parliament
24. French King who evoked absolutism with the palace of Versailles and lavishness
Louis XIV
Guatama Buddha
Isaac Newton
Cardinal Richelieu
25. 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
romanticism
cost - benefit analysis
Guatama Buddha
The Renaissance
26. 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
scholasticism
the Peace of Augsburg
law of supply and demand
Zimbabwe
27. Ruled as dictator and abolished the moarchy - after his death - the monarchy was restored
Oliver Cromwell
the four characteristics of civilization
manoralism
modern capitalism
28. Ghana - Mali and Songhai
Economics
Three famous African empires
mythology
Protestantism
29. Encourages the accumulation of wealth and property by individuals but is regulated by the state
capitalism
serfs
English parliament
Romanov dynasty -
30. The concept of United States history as the mass migration of one group (Europeans) overwhelmed and put another group to extinction (Indians)
31. 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
ancient Greek
hunter/gatherer societies
Phonecians
French Revolution
32. 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
serfs
shogun
Holy bible
Congress of Verona (1822)
33. Leaders in Islammic civilizations that improved farming methods and crop yields
caliphs
Napoleon -
Frederick Barbarosa
the Peace of Augsburg
34. A religion against pre - destination - in which people are destined to go to heaven and hell no matter how they act
the Pueblo Indians
Peace of Westphalia
Age of Pericles
Protestantism
35. A feudal king in feudal Japan
shogun
the Pueblo Indians
vassals
The Dark Ages
36. Promotes concept of balanced Europe as England gains power
Henry VII
Peace of Westphalia
modern capitalism
Elizabeth I
37. Mongol ruler that first opened China to the West through explorer Marco Polo
Napoleon -
Kublai Khan
Pope Leo IX
karma
38. Ended the Anglo - Saxon rule in England
Protestantism
Peace of Westphalia
French religious wars (1562-1598)
Battle of Hastings (1066)
39. Indian culture that developed in Southwest and were skilled builders
Frederick Barbarosa
Anasazi culture
James I
Babylonians
40. English pirate sailing for England became the second man to circumnavigate the globe
caliphs
the Act of supremacy
Sir Francis Drake
Economics
41. Philosophy that deals with theconsistency of faith and reason
French Revolution
scholasticism
Phonecians
Constantine
42. 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
Ancient Egypt
Sumeria
Lao - tzu
absolutism
43. 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
Causes of Rome's fall
modern capitalism
English parliament
Magna Carta
44. War that re - established Christian control over Muslim Spain in 1492
Rome
The Reconquista
nominalism
Charlemagne
45. 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
Constantine
Rome
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
ancient Greek
46. 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
Elizabeth I
church
Pax Romana
hiearchy of needs
47. The river valleys near the Tigres and Euphrates and Nile Rivers - which were the cradle of civlization
defeat of Spanish Armanda
the Fertile Crescent
Anasazi culture
Three famous African empires
48. 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
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
Byzantine Empire
Hinduism
Thirty Years War
49. Nullified the Congress of Vienna and allowed the european powers to be guided by their own interests
cost - benefit analysis
Congress of Verona (1822)
The Reconquista
Adam Smith
50. Early civilization that occupied the western Asia minor and were responsible for the first coinage of money
Mughuls
Protestantism
Romanov dynasty -
Lydians