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CSET Subtest 1: History 4
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Napoleon -
Martin Luther
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
Isaac Newton
2. 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
Hammurabi's Code
Hinduism
hiearchy of needs
Alexander the Great
3. What is gained by whom and what is lost or sacrified
cost - benefit analysis
serfs
The Age of Exploration
Age of Enlightenment
4. 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
samurai
Elizabeth I
Charlemagne
'The Grand Experiment'
5. Early civilization that encouraged material progress - including large - scale irrigation projects - an advancced system of mathematics and invention of the wheel
the Ming Dynasty
Society of Jesus
Genghis Khan
Sumeria
6. Knights or military in feudal Europe
vassals
mercantilism
St. Augustine
Rome
7. 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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8. Gave Hugenots political and religious freedom
Society of Jesus
Congress of Verona (1822)
romanticism
Edict of Nantes
9. Works by the Greek writer Homer
the four characteristics of civilization
Edict of Nantes
Illiad and Odyssey
Europe's Industrial Revolution
10. Portuguese explorer who was the first man to circumnavigate the globe
Illiad and Odyssey
Ferdinand Magellan
The Renaissance
means of productions
11. Started absolutism in Russia started with Ivan the Terrible
Romanov dynasty -
fiefs
serfs
Sumeria
12. Used what he learned in classic books and original insights to develop law of gravity and physics
Hopewell people
Isaac Newton
realism
Romanov dynasty -
13. English government consists of the House of Lords (for the wealthy) and House of Commons
the Act of supremacy
English parliament
the Iron Age
The Dark Ages
14. Settled in the Mississippi Valley developed in 880 AD and built large religious mound structures
Louis XIV
Mississippian culture
Feudal Japan
Persians
15. Chinese philosopher who developed the idea of Confucianism
Frederick Barbarosa
Confucius
Adam Smith
Thirty Years War
16. 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
English parliament
Punic Wars
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
defeat of Spanish Armanda
17. Author of absolutist politics
feudalism
Cardinal Richelieu
the Peace of Augsburg
Paul the Apostle
18. A religion against pre - destination - in which people are destined to go to heaven and hell no matter how they act
capitalism
Constantine
Protestantism
Society of Jesus
19. Skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
Genghis Khan
Hopewell people
Taoism
Ferdinand Magellan
20. Primarily agricultural economy dependent upon the lord of the manor and control over the serfs
Isaac Newton
Africa's four rivers
manoralism
The Crusades
21. An African empire the developed out of an iron working stettlement and eswasbasd on gold trade
lords
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
Zimbabwe
Confucius
22. Led to the destruction of early civilizations like the Egyptians - Assyrians and Babylonians through the development of iron weapons
Genghis Khan
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
the Iron Age
hiearchy of needs
23. Fought between Catholics and Huguenots for control of france
Mughuls
French religious wars (1562-1598)
Thirty Years War
reincarnation
24. 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
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
Peace of Westphalia
law of supply and demand
Islam
25. 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
French religious wars (1562-1598)
Rome
absolutism
monotheism
26. Concept in scholasticism in which reality consists of ideas (universals) that exist in the mind - independent of sensory powersof perception
nominalism
means of productions
Age of Enlightenment
realism
27. Caused by availability of investment capital and rise of the middle class - established cotton textile industry - Britain's great miaritime power - availability of coal - iron and cheap labor was available
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28. Ended the Anglo - Saxon rule in England
scholasticism
mythology
Lydians
Battle of Hastings (1066)
29. Deals with the production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services
The Reconquista
Israelites
the Iron Age
Economics
30. Italian religious leader that established the independency of the papacy through the Vatican
Pope Leo IX
Kublai Khan
Phonecians
Sir Francis Drake
31. Early civilization that occupied the western Asia minor and were responsible for the first coinage of money
fiefs
Genghis Khan
Lydians
law of supply and demand
32. 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
scholasticism
Constantine
Mughuls
Chaldeans
33. Author of 'Wealth of Nations' which advocates that manufacturing is truly the soruce of the nation's wealth
reasons for Byzantine's successs
Frederick Barbarosa
Adam Smith
Lydians
34. 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
the Peace of Augsburg
caliphs
lords
church
35. Enlightenment philosophers who questioned the proper function of government and their ideas led to the American and French Revolutions
Chaldeans
the Pueblo Indians
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
Kush
36. Early civililzation that developed the first lasting monotheism
mythology
Israelites
Isaac Newton
Holy bible
37. A way of thinking that inspired the nationalistic philosophy and the idea of self - determination
Adam Smith
Kublai Khan
cost - benefit analysis
romanticism
38. Land owned by the lords of feudal Europe
fiefs
Anasazi culture
Muslims
caliphs
39. Religious stories about gods and goddesses who had human - style weaknesses and disagreements
The Reformation
The Reconquista
Hopewell people
mythology
40. English ruler who helped England emerge as a major European power
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
Elizabeth I
The War of Roses
The Age of Exploration
41. Equal to a vassal or knight in feudal Japan
Adam Smith
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
samurai
42. Provided new political boundaries and established Calvinism - Germany divided into Protestant and Catholic areas
Congress of Verona (1822)
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
Peace of Westphalia
scholasticism
43. 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
The Dark Ages
Napoleon -
Illiad and Odyssey
French Revolution
44. Emperor of the Byzantine empire that esetablished a new Rome in Constantinople
Constantine
Adam Smith
shogun
Henry VII
45. War between most European powers and led to the devestation of Germany
reincarnation
karma
Thirty Years War
Anasazi culture
46. Battle between Charles Martel and the Muslims prevented Islam from entering Europe
lords
Romanov dynasty -
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
absolutism
47. Mongol ruler that first opened China to the West through explorer Marco Polo
The Hundred Years War
Anasazi culture
Kublai Khan
Napoleon -
48. A period of peace for two centuries without a major war
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
the Act of supremacy
nominalism
Pax Romana
49. A family that united and ruled most of India and built The Taj Mahal
Zimbabwe
Confucianism
Ancient Egypt
Mughuls
50. Ghana - Mali and Songhai
Taoism
Three famous African empires
romanticism
the Ming Dynasty