SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
Start Test
Study First
Subject
:
cset
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Elected consul of rome in 59 bc. Genius with military strategy. Governed as an absolute ruler. Was assassinated in the senate chamber.
The Viking Invasions
Ceasar
Songhai
Marco Polo
2. A German monk who became one of the most famous critics of the Roman Catholic Chruch. In 1517 - he wrote 95 theses - or statements of belief attacking the church practices.
Swahili
The Communist Manifesto
Martin Luther
The Phoenicians
3. These people united and ruled most of India. After Babur invaded India - Akbar became the main ruler of this kind. They were great builders Taj Mahal - but their empire declined quickly (by 1750).
Mughuls
Augustus
Roman Military Strategy
Martin Luther
4. Several have inland as well as coastal deltas - Nile flows northward . Niger - Nile - Congo - Zambezi And were important to Africa's economic history.
African Rivers
Genghis Khan
The Lydians
The Anasazi Culture
5. Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa from the thirteenth to fifteenth century. It was famous for its role in the trans - Saharan gold trade.
The Roman Government
Mali
The French Religious Wars
Napoleon Bonepart
6. A series of military expeditions in the 11th - 12th - and 13th centuries by Western European Christians to reclaim control of the Holy Lands from the Muslims
Proletariats
The Puritan Revolution
The Crusades
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
7. King of the Franks who conquered much of Western Europe - great patron of literature and learning
The Congress of Verona
Commercial Revival
Nomadic
Charlemagne
8. The restoration of the monarchy began in 1660 when the English - Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the wars of the 3 kingdoms. Stuart rule was restored.
Gothic Revival
Norman Conquest
The House of Lancaster
The Restoration Era
9. Created during kamakura era - In theory: Emperor's military chief of staff - In reality: Actual ruler of Japan
Tokugawa Shogunate
Mississippian Culture
The Palace of Versailles
The Shogun
10. Political system in which a ruler holds total power. The ruler has total control and final say over their people.
The Roman Government
The Code of Hammurabi
Absolutionism
Bourgeoisie
11. Conquered the Mycenaeans - illiterate - cause the Dark Age of violence and instability
Dorians
The Hopewell People
Paul the Apostle
Tribal Organization
12. Following the death of Ivan the Terrible in 1584 - Russia experienced a period of weakness and disorder known as the Time of Troubles. Hoping to restore order - an assembly of nobles elected Michael Romanov to be the next czar. The Romanov Dynasty ru
Nomadic
The Romanov Dynasty
Roman Military Strategy
The Council of Trent
13. Flourishing trade - medical encyclopedia - library - Algebra - spices - silks - perfumes - porcelain - textile goods
Scholasticism
Islamic Culture
Bourgeoisie
The Congress of Verona
14. One of the largest military fleets in the history of warfare which was sent to attack England in 1588. The smaller English fleet was able to defeat the armada by using its ease of maneuverability and ended Spain's domination of the Atlantic Ocean and
Augustus
The Spanish Armada
The Communist Manifesto
Mali
15. The first religion of Japan - 'The way of the Gods.' Shinto celebrates the mysteries and unforeseen forces of nature. Animistic. According to Shinto beliefs - divine spirits called kami are associated with the awesome forces of nature - such as rushi
The Middle Ages
Machiavelli
Shinto Religion
Turks
16. Reality consists of ideas that exist in the mind - independant of sensory powers of perception.
Realism (Plato)
Charles I
Mycenaean Civilization
The Persians
17. French philosopher and writer whose works epitomize the Age of Enlightenment - often attacking injustice and intolerance
Voltaire
The Samurai
The Holy Roman Empire
Confucianism
18. The Heian Era commenced in 794 - and was a time when Japan gradually stopped imitating China - developing into a distinct new culture. The new culture mixed both Chinese and Japanese cultures - combining the faiths of China - Shintoism - and Buddhism
The Near East
The Reconquista
The Heian Era
Realism (Plato)
19. Roman laws - justice system - court system; language(Latin); Pax Roman a long period of peace that enabled free travel and trade Building Construction - engineering and road construction. architecture - literature - art - sculpture and the humanites.
Islamic Culture
Roman Contributions
Constanople
Ninety Theses
20. The economic and social system of medieval europe - lords recieved land from the King in exchane for loyalty and serfs worked the land for the lords in exchange for protection.
Karl Marx
Fuedal System
The Egyptians
The Communist Manifesto
21. A group of Germanic tribes. They became allies of the Romans and became Christian. In the 8th century they established the Carolingian rule. Perhaps the most famous leader was Charlemagne.
The Franks
Sung Dynasty
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
Benin
22. The class of modern wage laborers who having no means of production of their own - are reducing to selling their labor power in order to live
Romanesque
Proletariats
Charlemagne
Effect of the Reformation
23. Napoleon cut off all trade with Great Britain to try and make Europe more self - sufficient - an economic blockade of Britain. The Foreign Policy of Napoleon - essentially an effort to thwart English advancement by nationally prohibiting British trad
The Restoration Era
The Viking Invasions
Martin Luther
The Continental System
24. The seven - and - a - half century long process by which Christians reconquered the Iberian peninsula modern Portugal and Spain from the Muslim and Moorish states of Al -
The French Republic
The Reconquista
Baroque Style
Arab Caliphs
25. Religious movement founded by John Calvin - based on the doctrine of predestination.
The Communist Manifesto
Calvinism
Sung Dynasty
Greece
26. A period in European history - between about 1000 AD and 1500 AD - when the power of kings - people of high rank and the Christian Church was strong
The Middle Ages
The Ottoman Empire
The Counter Reformation
Karl Marx
27. Attempted to unify the entire Near East under one rule (500s B.C.) - Established an international government - Zoroastrianism - an ethical religion based on concepts of good and evil - Failed to conquer the Greeks; Persia was eventually conquered by
Rift Valley
The Persians
Ashikaga Shogunate
The Age of Enlightenment
28. This queen of England chose a religion between the Puritans and Catholics and required her subjects to attend church or face a fine. She also required uniformity and conformity to the Church of England
Elizabeth I
The Phoenicians
The Fall of Rome
Ionia
29. Were skilled farmers & flourished in the Ohio & Mississippi Valleys (200BC to 400AD).
The Hopewell People
Thomas Malthus
Abbassides
Militant Socialism
30. Creators of the Mesopotamia civiliztion. Large scale irrigation projects - advanced system of mathematics and the invention of the wheel.
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
The Summarians
The Age of Pericles(460 BC-429 BC)
French Revolution
31. The term for The Univeral Soul in Hinduism.
Brahman
The Viking Invasions
Umayyad
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
32. Among the most vigorous of the medieval emperors. Clashed with the pope over the appointment of the clergy. Known as 'the red beard' (r. 1152-1190). He attempted to conquer Lombardy (n. Italy) and unite the German princes - but the popes did not appr
Manorialism
Thomas Malthus
Byzantine Empire Decline
Frederick Barbarossa
33. 1830s movement in architecture when buildings in the Gothic (high medieval) style became popular. It was in this period that the British Parliament building was built. This was the architectural manifestation of Romanticism. Where the Enlightenment h
Gothic Revival
The Middle Ages
St. Augustine
Greece
34. DominateTurkish group control caliphate
Ziggurat
The Anasazi Culture
Ninety Theses
Seljiks
35. They were polytheistic worshiping over 2000 gods and goddesses. They believed in the afterlife and that they would be judged for their life. They had sacred burials. Ruled by Pharoahs.
Charles I
The Renaissance
The Act of Supremacy
Egyptian Religion
36. First Bourbon king - most important kings in French history - rise to power ended French Civil Wars - gradual course to absolutism - politique - converted to Catholicism to gain loyalty of Paris
The French Republic
The Israelites
Henry IV
Paul the Apostle
37. The middle class - including merchants - industrialists - and professional people
Charles I
The Lydians
Bourgeoisie
African Rivers
38. An extremely dry area with little water and few plants
African Desert
The Dark Ages
The Lord of the Manor
Commercial Revival
39. Was divided into the patricians (propertied class) - plebeians (main body of Roman citizens) - and slaves.
Roman Society
The Roman Empire
Ionia
The Peace of Westphalia
40. A war that occurred between 1618 and 1648; it was mainly a civil war in Germany and the Holy Roman Empire over religious and political issues; it also involved the countries of Spain - France - Denmark - and Sweden
The Roman Empire
The Hundred Years War
The Thirty Years War
The Heian Era
41. A more militaristic civilization then Minoans - they traded and raided - turning on their Minoan teachers - helping to destroy Crete.
Thomas Malthus
The Puritan Revolution
Mycenaean Civilization
Seljiks
42. A Mongolian general and emperor of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries - known for his military leadership and great cruelty. He conquered vast portions of northern China and southwestern Asia.
The Restoration Era
Genghis Khan
Tokugawa Shogunate
The Chaldeans
43. Individual conviction of ones belief - The effeciency and organization of the the early church - Doctrines that stressed equality and immorality. The establishment of the Pope.
The Continental System
Roman Contributions
The Assyrians
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
44. Western Europe no longer united by religion - Weakens power and influence of the Catholic Church The power of states was strenthened as was the middle class. Encourages education - people encouraged to read the bible and interpret it individually
Effect of the Reformation
The Persians
The Age of Enlightenment
The Jesuits
45. 800-1300 developed in the Southwest & the Anasazis were skilled builders & sophisticated farmers. Example Mesa Verde Cliff houses
Turks
Causes of the French Revolution
Ceasar
The Anasazi Culture
46. The English Parliament drove out an absolute monarch and replaced him with two constitutional monarch's William and Mary. 1688 - change of who is in power without bloodshed. Established the supremacy of Parliment.
The Glorious Revolution
The Ottoman Empire
Napoleon Bonepart
Neoclassicism
47. A philosophical and theological system - associated with Thomas Aquinas - devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century. (p. 408)
Gothic Revival
The Roman Government
The War of the Roses
Scholasticism
48. The doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self - realization through reason
Marco Polo
Humanism
The Spanish Armada
The War of the Roses
49. French Protestants who suffered persecution. Many left Europe for America to find religious freedom
Machiavelli
Absolutionism
The Huguenots
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
50. Oliver Cromwell ruled as a dictator and abolished the monarchy and the House of Lords.
Egyptian Religion
The Commonwealth Period
The Act of Supremacy
The House of Lords