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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. Caused by dis - satisfaction with church ritual and Latin overtones
French Revolution
nominalism
law of supply and demand
The Reformation
2. An economy in which people leave the funding alone
3. 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 Battle of Tours (732 AD)
hiearchy of needs
The Crusades
Persians
4. English ruler who helped England emerge as a major European power
Africa's four rivers
Elizabeth I
Punic Wars
scholasticism
5. A period of peace for two centuries without a major war
Christopher Columbus
Hinduism
Alexander the Great
Pax Romana
6. A social - economic and poltiical system with de - centralized power
feudalism
English parliament
Hopewell people
French Revolution
7. The Christian Word of God
Kush
Holy bible
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
The Renaissance
8. 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
fiefs
reasons for Byzantine's successs
Africa's four rivers
Hinduism
9. 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
Society of Jesus
Elizabeth I
manoralism
church
10. Chinese philosophy with a focus on concept of respect to one's family - parents - government and rulers - supported tendency to respect authority
Confucianism
Pope Leo IX
Napoleon -
church
11. Battle between Charles Martel and the Muslims prevented Islam from entering Europe
the Pueblo Indians
'laissez faire' economy
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
mythology
12. Mongol ruler that first opened China to the West through explorer Marco Polo
Illiad and Odyssey
Kublai Khan
Napoleon -
Edict of Nantes
13. Chinese philospher who built up concept of yin and yang to form Taoism
Lao - tzu
nominalism
the four characteristics of civilization
feudalism
14. Spanish explorer who sailed west from Spain and landed in the Carribbean - thinking it was India
Mughuls
Christopher Columbus
Paul the Apostle
Europe's Industrial Revolution
15. 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
French Revolution
The Crusades
Adam Smith
Martin Luther
16. Nile - Congo - Niger - and Zambizi
17. A feudal king in feudal Japan
ancient Greek
The War of Roses
Anasazi culture
shogun
18. After the fall of Rome - Europe lacked strong poltiical and economic center - transitioning into the Medieval Ages
The Dark Ages
Guatama Buddha
The Hundred Years War
Chaldeans
19. Following a battle with Carthage - Rome emerged as the dominant power in the mediterranean
Punic Wars
The Age of Exploration
Elizabeth I
the Peace of Augsburg
20. Emperor of the Byzantine empire that esetablished a new Rome in Constantinople
Kush
Constantine
the Ming Dynasty
Anasazi culture
21. Buddhist idea that fate is earned
nominalism
Mughuls
Chaldeans
karma
22. 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
mercantilism
vassals
Guatama Buddha
English parliament
23. 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 Act of supremacy
Zimbabwe
The Age of Exploration
Cardinal Richelieu
24. Societies in which men started to hunt and women gathered readily available foods
Peace of Westphalia
reincarnation
hunter/gatherer societies
Napoleon -
25. The practice of state regulation and control fo the economy in an attempt to insure prosperity
Henry VII
Feudal Japan
Guatama Buddha
mercantilism
26. 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
Three famous African empires
Europe's Industrial Revolution
French religious wars (1562-1598)
27. Mongol leader who took over the Chinese
The Hundred Years War
English parliament
the Iron Age
Genghis Khan
28. Group that took over the Byzantine and Persian Empires and worked on medicine - a stronomy - mathematics - architecture and literature
means of productions
Europe's Industrial Revolution
Muslims
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
29. Jesuits were the official Catholic response to the reformation
Kush
Society of Jesus
capitalism
modern capitalism
30. Provided new political boundaries and established Calvinism - Germany divided into Protestant and Catholic areas
Europe's Industrial Revolution
Peace of Westphalia
Muslims
English parliament
31. 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
defeat of Spanish Armanda
the Iron Age
French Revolution
Ferdinand Magellan
32. The zenith of Athenian society and the hight of its democracy
Pax Romana
The Age of Exploration
Age of Pericles
Holy bible
33. The first written form of law and came from the Babylonian times
34. 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
serfs
reasons for Byzantine's successs
Chaldeans
Isaac Newton
35. 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
serfs
Lydians
Hinduism
Napoleon -
36. Inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
ancient Greek
Babylonians
the Pueblo Indians
The War of Roses
37. Leaders in Islammic civilizations that improved farming methods and crop yields
The Hundred Years War
Illiad and Odyssey
caliphs
Age of Pericles
38. 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
Three famous African empires
feudalism
Taoism
Confucius
39. Buddhist idea of re - birth after death
Holy bible
reincarnation
Hinduism
The Age of Exploration
40. A family that united and ruled most of India and built The Taj Mahal
Mughuls
Muslims
Zimbabwe
St. Augustine
41. The idea of total obedience to the sovereign because of their 'divine right'
Oliver Cromwell
absolutism
modern capitalism
The Hundred Years War
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
ancient Greek
Sumeria
Napoleon -
Mississippian culture
43. 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
Rome
Babylonians
French Revolution
the four characteristics of civilization
44. Emperor that called for the union of Germany and Italy under the Holy Empire
Israelites
Sir Francis Drake
the four characteristics of civilization
Frederick Barbarosa
45. Ruled as dictator and abolished the moarchy - after his death - the monarchy was restored
The Dark Ages
Oliver Cromwell
Mississippian culture
Illiad and Odyssey
46. 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
The Renaissance
Kublai Khan
the Fertile Crescent
Illiad and Odyssey
47. Philosophy that deals with theconsistency of faith and reason
Mississippian culture
scholasticism
Holy bible
the Fertile Crescent
48. Equal to a vassal or knight in feudal Japan
samurai
English parliament
serfs
Hopewell people
49. Enlightenment philosophers who questioned the proper function of government and their ideas led to the American and French Revolutions
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
The Reformation
Causes of Rome's fall
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
50. What is gained by whom and what is lost or sacrified
Hopewell people
caliphs
cost - benefit analysis
Oliver Cromwell