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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. An African empire the developed out of an iron working stettlement and eswasbasd on gold trade
Zimbabwe
Society of Jesus
French religious wars (1562-1598)
Romanov dynasty -
2. Enlightenment philosophers who questioned the proper function of government and their ideas led to the American and French Revolutions
Ferdinand Magellan
feudalism
samurai
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
3. Commercial trade routes - distance from tribes that sacked Rome
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4. Ends Spanish attempts to invade England
Economics
Causes of Rome's fall
mythology
defeat of Spanish Armanda
5. Ended the Anglo - Saxon rule in England
Battle of Hastings (1066)
shogun
'The Grand Experiment'
romanticism
6. Chinese dynasty that ousted the Mongols and then limited contact with the West through isolationism
Peace of Westphalia
hunter/gatherer societies
the Ming Dynasty
The Hundred Years War
7. Chinese philospher who built up concept of yin and yang to form Taoism
The Renaissance
cost - benefit analysis
Ferdinand Magellan
Lao - tzu
8. Enlightenment aritsts who emphasized the classical era's symphonies - rhythms and melodies
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
scholasticism
reincarnation
Assyria
9. Indian culture that developed in Southwest and were skilled builders
The Crusades
Anasazi culture
lords
Martin Luther
10. Started absolutism in Russia started with Ivan the Terrible
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
serfs
Romanov dynasty -
11. Jesuits were the official Catholic response to the reformation
defeat of Spanish Armanda
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
Society of Jesus
Charlemagne
12. The basic of justice systems used throughout the western world
The Justinian Code
The Reconquista
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
modern capitalism
13. Author of absolutist politics
Punic Wars
Cardinal Richelieu
Taoism
shogun
14. 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
manoralism
hunter/gatherer societies
Martin Luther
Three famous African empires
15. Based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed in the holy book known as the Koran
Thirty Years War
Islam
Punic Wars
Three famous African empires
16. 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
church
The Reconquista
scholasticism
French religious wars (1562-1598)
17. Mongol ruler that first opened China to the West through explorer Marco Polo
Kublai Khan
Guatama Buddha
'The Grand Experiment'
cost - benefit analysis
18. Gave Hugenots political and religious freedom
monotheism
Edict of Nantes
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
Genghis Khan
19. The river valleys near the Tigres and Euphrates and Nile Rivers - which were the cradle of civlization
the Fertile Crescent
Illiad and Odyssey
vassals
French Revolution
20. Portuguese explorer who was the first man to circumnavigate the globe
Lao - tzu
Three famous African empires
Ferdinand Magellan
Phonecians
21. English pirate sailing for England became the second man to circumnavigate the globe
church
Henry VII
Sumeria
Sir Francis Drake
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
French religious wars (1562-1598)
Punic Wars
Napoleon -
The Renaissance
23. Early civililzation that developed the first lasting monotheism
Zimbabwe
Israelites
Romanov dynasty -
romanticism
24. 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
Battle of Hastings (1066)
Henry VII
The Age of Exploration
Punic Wars
25. The zenith of Athenian society and the hight of its democracy
Persians
Age of Pericles
shogun
Byzantine Empire
26. Early civilization that attempt to unify the near East under zoroastrianism zoroastrianism - an ethical religion based on the concepts of good and evil
Holy bible
Persians
Babylonians
Sir Francis Drake
27. Religious stories about gods and goddesses who had human - style weaknesses and disagreements
mythology
Romanov dynasty -
Rome
Elizabeth I
28. One of the most important developments in Europoean history in which the king consented to the rule of law as opposed to 'divine right.' It is considered the foundation for the English Common Law system and the American Constitution
Holy bible
Kublai Khan
Three famous African empires
Magna Carta
29. Italian religious leader that established the independency of the papacy through the Vatican
Society of Jesus
Pope Leo IX
hiearchy of needs
Age of Pericles
30. Spanish explorer who sailed west from Spain and landed in the Carribbean - thinking it was India
Mississippian culture
Christopher Columbus
Economics
Hopewell people
31. Promotes concept of balanced Europe as England gains power
Sumeria
Henry VII
fiefs
Adam Smith
32. Nile - Congo - Niger - and Zambizi
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33. Mongol leader who took over the Chinese
Kublai Khan
Protestantism
Mississippian culture
Genghis Khan
34. Group that took over the Byzantine and Persian Empires and worked on medicine - a stronomy - mathematics - architecture and literature
shogun
Lydians
French religious wars (1562-1598)
Muslims
35. A growing interest in culture of learning and reading. Led to a questioning of Christianity and church dogma.
Paul the Apostle
Age of Enlightenment
Hammurabi's Code
English parliament
36. What is gained by whom and what is lost or sacrified
cost - benefit analysis
Sumeria
Elizabeth I
The War of Roses
37. 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
Three famous African empires
Ancient Egypt
Kush
Hinduism
38. War between most European powers and led to the devestation of Germany
Ferdinand Magellan
the Act of supremacy
Thirty Years War
fiefs
39. The first great Christian philosopher
Hinduism
Age of Pericles
St. Augustine
The Crusades
40. The first written form of law and came from the Babylonian times
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41. 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 Reformation
modern capitalism
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
Hinduism
42. Knights or military in feudal Europe
reasons for Byzantine's successs
vassals
manoralism
scholasticism
43. The Christian Word of God
cost - benefit analysis
Napoleon -
Magna Carta
Holy bible
44. 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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45. An economy in which people leave the funding alone
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46. Ruled as dictator and abolished the moarchy - after his death - the monarchy was restored
Punic Wars
Charlemagne
Oliver Cromwell
Illiad and Odyssey
47. Concept in scholasticism in which reality consists of ideas (universals) that exist in the mind - independent of sensory powersof perception
Ferdinand Magellan
French Revolution
realism
Romanov dynasty -
48. 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
Chaldeans
Confucianism
Taoism
Anasazi culture
49. A feudal king in feudal Japan
Taoism
defeat of Spanish Armanda
shogun
Edict of Nantes
50. Buddhist idea that fate is earned
Magna Carta
church
karma
Genghis Khan