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CSET Subtest 1: History 4
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Enlightenment aritsts who emphasized the classical era's symphonies - rhythms and melodies
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
Three famous African empires
Phonecians
Battle of Hastings (1066)
2. 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 Age of Exploration
The Dark Ages
manoralism
'laissez faire' economy
3. Important iron working center for African civilization
absolutism
capitalism
Kush
Rome
4. 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
the Ming Dynasty
reasons for Byzantine's successs
'laissez faire' economy
serfs
5. Early civilization established as a new Babylonian empire under king Nebuchadnezzar - develop astronomy - astrology - advanced government bureaucracy and architectural achievements such as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Age of Pericles
'laissez faire' economy
the Fertile Crescent
Chaldeans
6. The river valleys near the Tigres and Euphrates and Nile Rivers - which were the cradle of civlization
Peace of Westphalia
Romanov dynasty -
the Fertile Crescent
fiefs
7. Chinese philospher who built up concept of yin and yang to form Taoism
Pope Leo IX
Muslims
Lao - tzu
the Fertile Crescent
8. A religion against pre - destination - in which people are destined to go to heaven and hell no matter how they act
Alexander the Great
mythology
Pope Leo IX
Protestantism
9. Group that took over the Byzantine and Persian Empires and worked on medicine - a stronomy - mathematics - architecture and literature
capitalism
Peace of Westphalia
Muslims
Hammurabi's Code
10. 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
The Renaissance
Hinduism
Frederick Barbarosa
Ferdinand Magellan
11. 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
romanticism
Babylonians
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
Romanov dynasty -
12. The practice of state regulation and control fo the economy in an attempt to insure prosperity
Genghis Khan
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
hunter/gatherer societies
mercantilism
13. Ends Spanish attempts to invade England
The Reformation
Mississippian culture
Protestantism
defeat of Spanish Armanda
14. Early civilization that occupied the western Asia minor and were responsible for the first coinage of money
Lydians
lords
'laissez faire' economy
St. Augustine
15. Author of absolutist politics
Chaldeans
Cardinal Richelieu
Peace of Westphalia
Islam
16. Battle between Charles Martel and the Muslims prevented Islam from entering Europe
Three famous African empires
Age of Pericles
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
modern capitalism
17. A feudal king in feudal Japan
Constantine
Cardinal Richelieu
shogun
reincarnation
18. Profits are linked to the manufacturing of products
modern capitalism
romanticism
Pope Leo IX
mythology
19. Knights or military in feudal Europe
Confucianism
vassals
mercantilism
defeat of Spanish Armanda
20. A feudal lord in feudal Japan
Martin Luther
vassals
The War of Roses
daimyo
21. 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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22. A social - economic and poltiical system with de - centralized power
nominalism
feudalism
English parliament
Adam Smith
23. 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
the Peace of Augsburg
serfs
Chaldeans
Martin Luther
24. An African empire the developed out of an iron working stettlement and eswasbasd on gold trade
Zimbabwe
scholasticism
Persians
Sir Francis Drake
25. Started absolutism in Russia started with Ivan the Terrible
Ferdinand Magellan
Romanov dynasty -
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
Thirty Years War
26. Inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
the Pueblo Indians
Confucius
The Crusades
Paul the Apostle
27. Early civilization that attempt to unify the near East under zoroastrianism zoroastrianism - an ethical religion based on the concepts of good and evil
Paul the Apostle
vassals
capitalism
Persians
28. The Christian Word of God
Hinduism
Holy bible
feudalism
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
29. Equal to a vassal or knight in feudal Japan
Edict of Nantes
Chaldeans
samurai
Ancient Egypt
30. Italian religious leader that established the independency of the papacy through the Vatican
Louis XIV
Magna Carta
Pope Leo IX
Pax Romana
31. 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
Napoleon -
Charlemagne
karma
Europe's Industrial Revolution
32. Concept in scholasticism in which reality consists of ideas (universals) that exist in the mind - independent of sensory powersof perception
The Reconquista
realism
Napoleon -
James I
33. Concept in scholasticism in which symbols or names for objects. Only perceived objects are real
cost - benefit analysis
karma
The Hundred Years War
nominalism
34. War between most European powers and led to the devestation of Germany
Thirty Years War
manoralism
shogun
Henry VII
35. The practice of worshipping one god
Magna Carta
monotheism
shogun
Taoism
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
the Pueblo Indians
Rome
Islam
the Ming Dynasty
37. Provided new political boundaries and established Calvinism - Germany divided into Protestant and Catholic areas
samurai
Lydians
Holy bible
Peace of Westphalia
38. Deals with the production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services
Sumeria
the Act of supremacy
Guatama Buddha
Economics
39. Leaders in Islammic civilizations that improved farming methods and crop yields
Anasazi culture
Phonecians
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
caliphs
40. Mongol leader who took over the Chinese
scholasticism
Louis XIV
Three famous African empires
Genghis Khan
41. 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 Act of supremacy
Hammurabi's Code
Sir Francis Drake
the Ming Dynasty
42. The first ruler of the French Republic. Established a Code of Napoleon that modernized French law- was ultimately defeated in The Battle of Waterloo
mercantilism
The Age of Exploration
serfs
Napoleon -
43. The civilization that embodied the east half of the Roman empire survived for a thousand of yars as the Byzantine Empire and preserved the Eastern Orhthodox Church
Zimbabwe
Byzantine Empire
Rome
Chaldeans
44. English moarch to begin colonization of North America
James I
Confucius
samurai
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
45. Societies in which men started to hunt and women gathered readily available foods
Taoism
hunter/gatherer societies
Lao - tzu
The Hundred Years War
46. 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
Alexander the Great
The Age of Exploration
scholasticism
law of supply and demand
47. Ancient civilization that we owe our literary heritage - science - mathematics and democratic forms of governments
Napoleon -
ancient Greek
Martin Luther
Mughuls
48. 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
Martin Luther
Frederick Barbarosa
Ancient Egypt
defeat of Spanish Armanda
49. What is gained by whom and what is lost or sacrified
cost - benefit analysis
Frederick Barbarosa
reincarnation
Confucianism
50. Emperor that called for the union of Germany and Italy under the Holy Empire
Magna Carta
Frederick Barbarosa
Henry VII
Muslims