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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. 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
Confucianism
hunter/gatherer societies
Taoism
Ancient Egypt
2. Landowners in feudal Europe
Edict of Nantes
absolutism
French religious wars (1562-1598)
lords
3. A feudal king in feudal Japan
Hinduism
absolutism
Protestantism
shogun
4. Nile - Congo - Niger - and Zambizi
5. The river valleys near the Tigres and Euphrates and Nile Rivers - which were the cradle of civlization
Cardinal Richelieu
the Peace of Augsburg
the Fertile Crescent
Kush
6. Italian religious leader that established the independency of the papacy through the Vatican
The Renaissance
Sir Francis Drake
Pope Leo IX
Mughuls
7. Early civilization that attempt to unify the near East under zoroastrianism zoroastrianism - an ethical religion based on the concepts of good and evil
Persians
mercantilism
Europe's Industrial Revolution
Kublai Khan
8. Used what he learned in classic books and original insights to develop law of gravity and physics
Lao - tzu
Isaac Newton
scholasticism
Persians
9. Mongol ruler that first opened China to the West through explorer Marco Polo
Kublai Khan
Punic Wars
The Crusades
Hammurabi's Code
10. Buddhist idea that fate is earned
Peace of Westphalia
Christopher Columbus
Genghis Khan
karma
11. The Christian Word of God
Society of Jesus
Holy bible
karma
Isaac Newton
12. Started absolutism in Russia started with Ivan the Terrible
Romanov dynasty -
Hinduism
defeat of Spanish Armanda
Martin Luther
13. Chinese philosophy with a focus on concept of respect to one's family - parents - government and rulers - supported tendency to respect authority
Confucianism
manoralism
the Iron Age
Age of Pericles
14. A social - economic and poltiical system with de - centralized power
Confucius
Mughuls
the Ming Dynasty
feudalism
15. Philosophy that deals with theconsistency of faith and reason
church
Causes of Rome's fall
mythology
scholasticism
16. Ancient civilization that we owe our literary heritage - science - mathematics and democratic forms of governments
reincarnation
ancient Greek
Byzantine Empire
Oliver Cromwell
17. A religion against pre - destination - in which people are destined to go to heaven and hell no matter how they act
The Reformation
Protestantism
caliphs
Lao - tzu
18. Chinese dynasty that ousted the Mongols and then limited contact with the West through isolationism
the Ming Dynasty
Ferdinand Magellan
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
Frederick Barbarosa
19. Officially recognizes Lutheranism but allowed Catholicis princes to support Catholicism
Oliver Cromwell
Assyria
serfs
the Peace of Augsburg
20. English government consists of the House of Lords (for the wealthy) and House of Commons
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
church
nominalism
English parliament
21. The basic of justice systems used throughout the western world
Napoleon -
The Justinian Code
serfs
nominalism
22. The first ruler of the French Republic. Established a Code of Napoleon that modernized French law- was ultimately defeated in The Battle of Waterloo
serfs
cost - benefit analysis
Napoleon -
capitalism
23. 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 Congress of Vienna (1815)
Hopewell people
James I
24. 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
Frederick Barbarosa
Oliver Cromwell
'laissez faire' economy
Martin Luther
25. 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
Sir Francis Drake
Guatama Buddha
Babylonians
Protestantism
26. Portuguese explorer who was the first man to circumnavigate the globe
Genghis Khan
Louis XIV
Kublai Khan
Ferdinand Magellan
27. English ruler who helped England emerge as a major European power
capitalism
Ferdinand Magellan
Elizabeth I
means of productions
28. War between England and France that led to France rising as a nation
Punic Wars
Chaldeans
The Hundred Years War
Lydians
29. Spanish explorer who sailed west from Spain and landed in the Carribbean - thinking it was India
samurai
Christopher Columbus
realism
The Justinian Code
30. Ancient Asian civilization that developed own language and system of writing - literature and poetry - Shinto religion
Feudal Japan
mercantilism
The Age of Exploration
Age of Pericles
31. Battle between Charles Martel and the Muslims prevented Islam from entering Europe
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
Israelites
Confucianism
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
32. Societies in which men started to hunt and women gathered readily available foods
Zimbabwe
The Crusades
hunter/gatherer societies
French religious wars (1562-1598)
33. Writing - mathematics - sicence - philosophy and arts
fiefs
the four characteristics of civilization
Congress of Verona (1822)
Confucianism
34. The first great Christian philosopher
St. Augustine
French religious wars (1562-1598)
Confucius
vassals
35. Greek leader who conquered Persia - Asia Minor - and egypt to establish a world empire
Lydians
Louis XIV
Napoleon -
Alexander the Great
36. Jesuits were the official Catholic response to the reformation
scholasticism
Society of Jesus
Napoleon -
Isaac Newton
37. Equal to a vassal or knight in feudal Japan
Chaldeans
Oliver Cromwell
The Age of Exploration
samurai
38. Religious stories about gods and goddesses who had human - style weaknesses and disagreements
French religious wars (1562-1598)
mythology
The War of Roses
Paul the Apostle
39. French King who evoked absolutism with the palace of Versailles and lavishness
the Act of supremacy
ancient Greek
Louis XIV
the Peace of Augsburg
40. Christian disciple responsible for the spread of Christian theology
fiefs
Paul the Apostle
manoralism
The Justinian Code
41. English pirate sailing for England became the second man to circumnavigate the globe
Sir Francis Drake
Louis XIV
Europe's Industrial Revolution
'The Grand Experiment'
42. Ends Spanish attempts to invade England
shogun
ancient Greek
Chaldeans
defeat of Spanish Armanda
43. 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
Economics
hunter/gatherer societies
serfs
Christopher Columbus
44. 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
the four characteristics of civilization
Anasazi culture
The Justinian Code
45. A feudal lord in feudal Japan
Phonecians
'The Grand Experiment'
daimyo
'laissez faire' economy
46. 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
Punic Wars
lords
Byzantine Empire
samurai
47. 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
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
the Act of supremacy
Sumeria
'The Grand Experiment'
48. Early civililzation that developed the first lasting monotheism
Israelites
The War of Roses
Edict of Nantes
Causes of Rome's fall
49. A period of peace for two centuries without a major war
Sumeria
feudalism
Pax Romana
Henry VII
50. Settled in the Mississippi Valley developed in 880 AD and built large religious mound structures
Islam
the Peace of Augsburg
reasons for Byzantine's successs
Mississippian culture