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CSET Subtest 1: History 4
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cset
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The way that a product is produced - in capitalism - it is ownedby the individual
means of productions
Punic Wars
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
Genghis Khan
2. An economy in which people leave the funding alone
3. Started absolutism in Russia started with Ivan the Terrible
Romanov dynasty -
law of supply and demand
French Revolution
French religious wars (1562-1598)
4. 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
Peace of Westphalia
Romanov dynasty -
Assyria
Martin Luther
5. Emperor that called for the union of Germany and Italy under the Holy Empire
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
Frederick Barbarosa
the Fertile Crescent
Magna Carta
6. Ancient Asian civilization that developed own language and system of writing - literature and poetry - Shinto religion
Ferdinand Magellan
feudalism
Africa's four rivers
Feudal Japan
7. 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
Confucianism
Byzantine Empire
James I
lords
8. The practice of worshipping one god
monotheism
The War of Roses
Society of Jesus
the Iron Age
9. Ghana - Mali and Songhai
Three famous African empires
Punic Wars
the four characteristics of civilization
The Crusades
10. A feudal lord in feudal Japan
Adam Smith
lords
daimyo
Confucius
11. Early civilization that attempt to unify the near East under zoroastrianism zoroastrianism - an ethical religion based on the concepts of good and evil
Genghis Khan
Persians
the Ming Dynasty
Peace of Westphalia
12. Promotes concept of balanced Europe as England gains power
fiefs
'laissez faire' economy
Henry VII
the four characteristics of civilization
13. 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
Peace of Westphalia
Guatama Buddha
The Crusades
mythology
14. The river valleys near the Tigres and Euphrates and Nile Rivers - which were the cradle of civlization
the Fertile Crescent
Muslims
realism
Martin Luther
15. English moarch to begin colonization of North America
realism
hunter/gatherer societies
Islam
James I
16. Author of absolutist politics
Europe's Industrial Revolution
Protestantism
scholasticism
Cardinal Richelieu
17. The first ruler of the French Republic. Established a Code of Napoleon that modernized French law- was ultimately defeated in The Battle of Waterloo
Napoleon -
capitalism
Mughuls
The War of Roses
18. A Chinese philosophy based on the the idea of balance - one must strive to be aware of the order and harmony of all existence and live accordingly to it
Taoism
Lydians
Lao - tzu
reincarnation
19. War between most European powers and led to the devestation of Germany
Africa's four rivers
Paul the Apostle
Thirty Years War
ancient Greek
20. The first great Christian philosopher
The Crusades
caliphs
St. Augustine
Causes of Rome's fall
21. 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
Society of Jesus
Battle of Hastings (1066)
French Revolution
Hinduism
22. Buddhist idea of re - birth after death
Sumeria
Phonecians
reincarnation
St. Augustine
23. Profits are linked to the manufacturing of products
modern capitalism
manoralism
Punic Wars
Hinduism
24. After the fall of Rome - Europe lacked strong poltiical and economic center - transitioning into the Medieval Ages
ancient Greek
Phonecians
The Dark Ages
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
25. Skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
the Peace of Augsburg
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
shogun
Hopewell people
26. 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
feudalism
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
lords
27. Land owned by the lords of feudal Europe
feudalism
Mughuls
fiefs
monotheism
28. The practice of state regulation and control fo the economy in an attempt to insure prosperity
Adam Smith
absolutism
Romanov dynasty -
mercantilism
29. Religious stories about gods and goddesses who had human - style weaknesses and disagreements
serfs
Holy bible
the Fertile Crescent
mythology
30. Was the most popwerful position and had a major landholder in feudal Europe. The Roman Catholic Church is extremely wealthy and powerful - left behind glorious looking churches and Cathedrals - Bibles were the most produced document
Sir Francis Drake
church
Sumeria
Pax Romana
31. Works by the Greek writer Homer
Adam Smith
church
Illiad and Odyssey
Hammurabi's Code
32. Concept in scholasticism in which reality consists of ideas (universals) that exist in the mind - independent of sensory powersof perception
Christopher Columbus
realism
Islam
Adam Smith
33. 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
scholasticism
the Act of supremacy
Punic Wars
French religious wars (1562-1598)
34. Writing - mathematics - sicence - philosophy and arts
the four characteristics of civilization
Frederick Barbarosa
The Age of Exploration
Oliver Cromwell
35. Chinese dynasty that ousted the Mongols and then limited contact with the West through isolationism
the Act of supremacy
the Ming Dynasty
absolutism
Rome
36. Officially recognizes Lutheranism but allowed Catholicis princes to support Catholicism
The Reformation
Africa's four rivers
law of supply and demand
the Peace of Augsburg
37. Chinese philospher who built up concept of yin and yang to form Taoism
Louis XIV
Lao - tzu
serfs
capitalism
38. A feudal king in feudal Japan
Ancient Egypt
The Renaissance
shogun
law of supply and demand
39. Spanish explorer who sailed west from Spain and landed in the Carribbean - thinking it was India
Christopher Columbus
Assyria
The Dark Ages
Ancient Egypt
40. Concept in scholasticism in which symbols or names for objects. Only perceived objects are real
Martin Luther
nominalism
Persians
Economics
41. Philosophy that deals with theconsistency of faith and reason
Africa's four rivers
scholasticism
James I
Sir Francis Drake
42. Early civilizaion that was the first explorers - traders and colonizers of the anfcient world and develop the first alphabet
hiearchy of needs
English parliament
Phonecians
mercantilism
43. Enlightenment philosophers who questioned the proper function of government and their ideas led to the American and French Revolutions
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
cost - benefit analysis
Feudal Japan
Pax Romana
44. Early civililzation that developed the first lasting monotheism
'laissez faire' economy
The Reformation
Israelites
Alexander the Great
45. Fought between Catholics and Huguenots for control of france
Assyria
French religious wars (1562-1598)
Protestantism
samurai
46. Provided new political boundaries and established Calvinism - Germany divided into Protestant and Catholic areas
Adam Smith
daimyo
Assyria
Peace of Westphalia
47. 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
Alexander the Great
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
The Crusades
The Renaissance
48. Early civilization that developed military techniques and iron weapons - also had postal service - extensive library and system of highways
Assyria
Charlemagne
modern capitalism
fiefs
49. 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
Hinduism
cost - benefit analysis
Sir Francis Drake
shogun
50. 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
Causes of Rome's fall
French Revolution
The Age of Exploration
Byzantine Empire