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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. Chinese dynasty that ousted the Mongols and then limited contact with the West through isolationism
the Ming Dynasty
French religious wars (1562-1598)
Assyria
manoralism
2. Used what he learned in classic books and original insights to develop law of gravity and physics
Isaac Newton
the Pueblo Indians
cost - benefit analysis
Illiad and Odyssey
3. 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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4. 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
Rome
Thirty Years War
Alexander the Great
vassals
5. Settled in the Mississippi Valley developed in 880 AD and built large religious mound structures
Mississippian culture
reincarnation
karma
Guatama Buddha
6. Writing - mathematics - sicence - philosophy and arts
the four characteristics of civilization
the Peace of Augsburg
Battle of Hastings (1066)
Illiad and Odyssey
7. Officially recognizes Lutheranism but allowed Catholicis princes to support Catholicism
Age of Enlightenment
the Peace of Augsburg
Hammurabi's Code
Battle of Hastings (1066)
8. Early civilization that attempt to unify the near East under zoroastrianism zoroastrianism - an ethical religion based on the concepts of good and evil
Persians
Oliver Cromwell
church
the Fertile Crescent
9. 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
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10. 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
Christopher Columbus
the Fertile Crescent
the Act of supremacy
nominalism
11. War between most European powers and led to the devestation of Germany
Lao - tzu
Persians
reincarnation
Thirty Years War
12. A religion against pre - destination - in which people are destined to go to heaven and hell no matter how they act
Protestantism
James I
capitalism
realism
13. The idea of total obedience to the sovereign because of their 'divine right'
Europe's Industrial Revolution
the Pueblo Indians
Alexander the Great
absolutism
14. Early civilization that developed military techniques and iron weapons - also had postal service - extensive library and system of highways
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
Chaldeans
Assyria
Islam
15. Author of absolutist politics
Constantine
The Reconquista
Cardinal Richelieu
Persians
16. Primarily agricultural economy dependent upon the lord of the manor and control over the serfs
defeat of Spanish Armanda
The Reformation
manoralism
The Justinian Code
17. 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
Martin Luther
vassals
Adam Smith
The Crusades
18. Ruled as dictator and abolished the moarchy - after his death - the monarchy was restored
Oliver Cromwell
Genghis Khan
Congress of Verona (1822)
Chaldeans
19. What is gained by whom and what is lost or sacrified
Africa's four rivers
cost - benefit analysis
the Ming Dynasty
Anasazi culture
20. 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
Louis XIV
The Reformation
Charlemagne
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
21. Ghana - Mali and Songhai
Cardinal Richelieu
The Crusades
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
Three famous African empires
22. Led to the destruction of early civilizations like the Egyptians - Assyrians and Babylonians through the development of iron weapons
Romanov dynasty -
Lydians
the Iron Age
Causes of Rome's fall
23. Buddhist idea that fate is earned
Persians
Battle of Hastings (1066)
karma
Adam Smith
24. English pirate sailing for England became the second man to circumnavigate the globe
Guatama Buddha
The Renaissance
Zimbabwe
Sir Francis Drake
25. Jesuits were the official Catholic response to the reformation
Peace of Westphalia
Lao - tzu
Society of Jesus
Guatama Buddha
26. 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
Africa's four rivers
Guatama Buddha
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
nominalism
27. The river valleys near the Tigres and Euphrates and Nile Rivers - which were the cradle of civlization
lords
Congress of Verona (1822)
Louis XIV
the Fertile Crescent
28. Portuguese explorer who was the first man to circumnavigate the globe
Hinduism
'The Grand Experiment'
absolutism
Ferdinand Magellan
29. Early civilization that encouraged material progress - including large - scale irrigation projects - an advancced system of mathematics and invention of the wheel
Sumeria
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
Martin Luther
defeat of Spanish Armanda
30. An economy in which people leave the funding alone
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31. A feudal lord in feudal Japan
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
Congress of Verona (1822)
daimyo
Mississippian culture
32. 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
Confucianism
The Renaissance
James I
Punic Wars
33. Greek leader who conquered Persia - Asia Minor - and egypt to establish a world empire
Confucianism
Causes of Rome's fall
Alexander the Great
the Pueblo Indians
34. Buddhist idea of re - birth after death
Hopewell people
Babylonians
reincarnation
Zimbabwe
35. Important iron working center for African civilization
Oliver Cromwell
The Hundred Years War
cost - benefit analysis
Kush
36. 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
the Iron Age
Magna Carta
The War of Roses
Martin Luther
37. French King who evoked absolutism with the palace of Versailles and lavishness
Louis XIV
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
Age of Enlightenment
Punic Wars
38. Chinese philosopher who developed the idea of Confucianism
vassals
serfs
Sir Francis Drake
Confucius
39. 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
Society of Jesus
reasons for Byzantine's successs
James I
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
40. Promotes concept of balanced Europe as England gains power
Islam
Confucianism
Henry VII
lords
41. Leaders in Islammic civilizations that improved farming methods and crop yields
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
caliphs
Zimbabwe
Anasazi culture
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
Elizabeth I
modern capitalism
reasons for Byzantine's successs
43. English moarch to begin colonization of North America
Edict of Nantes
Alexander the Great
James I
Christopher Columbus
44. Landowners in feudal Europe
lords
feudalism
Europe's Industrial Revolution
Edict of Nantes
45. 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
Paul the Apostle
the Ming Dynasty
Babylonians
Frederick Barbarosa
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
hiearchy of needs
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
Punic Wars
The Hundred Years War
47. Emperor that called for the union of Germany and Italy under the Holy Empire
Frederick Barbarosa
Mississippian culture
Magna Carta
lords
48. 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 Justinian Code
nominalism
Lao - tzu
The Age of Exploration
49. Based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed in the holy book known as the Koran
Israelites
ancient Greek
Islam
the Peace of Augsburg
50. Ancient Asian civilization that developed own language and system of writing - literature and poetry - Shinto religion
Feudal Japan
hunter/gatherer societies
Zimbabwe
Lao - tzu