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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. Ghana - Mali and Songhai
Three famous African empires
Age of Pericles
Sumeria
Mississippian culture
2. Greek leader who conquered Persia - Asia Minor - and egypt to establish a world empire
Taoism
Congress of Verona (1822)
Christopher Columbus
Alexander the Great
3. Commercial trade routes - distance from tribes that sacked Rome
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4. After the fall of Rome - Europe lacked strong poltiical and economic center - transitioning into the Medieval Ages
Age of Pericles
Genghis Khan
Isaac Newton
The Dark Ages
5. A feudal lord in feudal Japan
hunter/gatherer societies
daimyo
'laissez faire' economy
Holy bible
6. Early civilization that attempt to unify the near East under zoroastrianism zoroastrianism - an ethical religion based on the concepts of good and evil
church
Napoleon -
defeat of Spanish Armanda
Persians
7. Early civilization that encouraged material progress - including large - scale irrigation projects - an advancced system of mathematics and invention of the wheel
Christopher Columbus
Alexander the Great
Sumeria
Paul the Apostle
8. A period of peace for two centuries without a major war
caliphs
Africa's four rivers
Pax Romana
scholasticism
9. War between England and France that led to France rising as a nation
the Iron Age
Ancient Egypt
Christopher Columbus
The Hundred Years War
10. Christian disciple responsible for the spread of Christian theology
Punic Wars
Paul the Apostle
Three famous African empires
Israelites
11. Group that took over the Byzantine and Persian Empires and worked on medicine - a stronomy - mathematics - architecture and literature
Muslims
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
Protestantism
The Age of Exploration
12. What is gained by whom and what is lost or sacrified
cost - benefit analysis
Peace of Westphalia
The Renaissance
law of supply and demand
13. Writing - mathematics - sicence - philosophy and arts
the four characteristics of civilization
Genghis Khan
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
manoralism
14. Emperor of the Byzantine empire that esetablished a new Rome in Constantinople
manoralism
Persians
Constantine
vassals
15. Religious stories about gods and goddesses who had human - style weaknesses and disagreements
James I
mythology
Byzantine Empire
feudalism
16. The zenith of Athenian society and the hight of its democracy
scholasticism
Age of Pericles
fiefs
English parliament
17. The first great Christian philosopher
shogun
reincarnation
St. Augustine
Society of Jesus
18. Portuguese explorer who was the first man to circumnavigate the globe
Ferdinand Magellan
Henry VII
Kush
French Revolution
19. An African empire the developed out of an iron working stettlement and eswasbasd on gold trade
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
Zimbabwe
serfs
Sumeria
20. English moarch to begin colonization of North America
daimyo
Africa's four rivers
James I
Oliver Cromwell
21. 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
romanticism
Oliver Cromwell
Edict of Nantes
22. French King who evoked absolutism with the palace of Versailles and lavishness
Europe's Industrial Revolution
Louis XIV
Punic Wars
the Peace of Augsburg
23. 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
The War of Roses
the Act of supremacy
Paul the Apostle
samurai
24. Mongol leader who took over the Chinese
Guatama Buddha
the four characteristics of civilization
Genghis Khan
the Ming Dynasty
25. 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
samurai
Africa's four rivers
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
26. The practice of worshipping one god
Kush
monotheism
hunter/gatherer societies
Magna Carta
27. Landowners in feudal Europe
hunter/gatherer societies
Sumeria
lords
modern capitalism
28. Encourages the accumulation of wealth and property by individuals but is regulated by the state
mercantilism
Age of Pericles
capitalism
absolutism
29. Early civilization that developed military techniques and iron weapons - also had postal service - extensive library and system of highways
Causes of Rome's fall
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
Hinduism
Assyria
30. Chinese philosopher who developed the idea of Confucianism
karma
'laissez faire' economy
The Reconquista
Confucius
31. Inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Sumeria
the Pueblo Indians
Cardinal Richelieu
Constantine
32. English ruler who helped England emerge as a major European power
French Revolution
Cardinal Richelieu
Elizabeth I
Phonecians
33. Concept in scholasticism in which symbols or names for objects. Only perceived objects are real
Lydians
nominalism
Confucius
Age of Pericles
34. Italian religious leader that established the independency of the papacy through the Vatican
Pope Leo IX
monotheism
Age of Enlightenment
The Renaissance
35. A way of thinking that inspired the nationalistic philosophy and the idea of self - determination
Kublai Khan
romanticism
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
Christopher Columbus
36. The river valleys near the Tigres and Euphrates and Nile Rivers - which were the cradle of civlization
Isaac Newton
feudalism
Kush
the Fertile Crescent
37. Nullified the Congress of Vienna and allowed the european powers to be guided by their own interests
The Dark Ages
Congress of Verona (1822)
'The Grand Experiment'
Byzantine Empire
38. 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
Congress of Verona (1822)
church
The Renaissance
Constantine
39. Skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
samurai
scholasticism
Hopewell people
manoralism
40. Works by the Greek writer Homer
Ferdinand Magellan
Illiad and Odyssey
Pax Romana
Congress of Verona (1822)
41. The Christian Word of God
capitalism
French religious wars (1562-1598)
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
Holy bible
42. 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
law of supply and demand
Lao - tzu
Muslims
Confucianism
43. A family that united and ruled most of India and built The Taj Mahal
nominalism
Sir Francis Drake
Genghis Khan
Mughuls
44. Jesuits were the official Catholic response to the reformation
Napoleon -
Society of Jesus
Mughuls
defeat of Spanish Armanda
45. An economy in which people leave the funding alone
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46. Fought between Catholics and Huguenots for control of france
French religious wars (1562-1598)
Peace of Westphalia
cost - benefit analysis
Romanov dynasty -
47. Author of 'Wealth of Nations' which advocates that manufacturing is truly the soruce of the nation's wealth
Zimbabwe
shogun
Adam Smith
Edict of Nantes
48. A religion against pre - destination - in which people are destined to go to heaven and hell no matter how they act
Protestantism
absolutism
The Renaissance
reasons for Byzantine's successs
49. Deals with the production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services
Economics
Mughuls
Battle of Hastings (1066)
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
50. Equal to a vassal or knight in feudal Japan
mercantilism
the Ming Dynasty
Hammurabi's Code
samurai