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CSET Subtest 1: History 4
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
2. Battle over the succession of thet hrone in England. The House of Lancaster crushes the House of York and Henry VII establishes the infamous Tudor dynasty
The War of Roses
the four characteristics of civilization
lords
The Crusades
3. Enlightenment philosophers who questioned the proper function of government and their ideas led to the American and French Revolutions
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
modern capitalism
lords
defeat of Spanish Armanda
4. 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
Rome
Guatama Buddha
The Hundred Years War
Assyria
5. Indian culture that developed in Southwest and were skilled builders
the Peace of Augsburg
Charlemagne
fiefs
Anasazi culture
6. A feudal king in feudal Japan
shogun
Sumeria
serfs
the Iron Age
7. Buddhist idea of re - birth after death
reincarnation
Genghis Khan
'laissez faire' economy
Mississippian culture
8. Mongol ruler that first opened China to the West through explorer Marco Polo
Alexander the Great
Kublai Khan
the Fertile Crescent
scholasticism
9. 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
the Peace of Augsburg
church
Africa's four rivers
Byzantine Empire
10. Early civilizaion that was the first explorers - traders and colonizers of the anfcient world and develop the first alphabet
scholasticism
Phonecians
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
The Age of Exploration
11. Nullified the Congress of Vienna and allowed the european powers to be guided by their own interests
Congress of Verona (1822)
Alexander the Great
The Age of Exploration
Pope Leo IX
12. 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
Isaac Newton
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
Congress of Verona (1822)
Confucianism
13. Early civilization that occupied the western Asia minor and were responsible for the first coinage of money
Lydians
Peace of Westphalia
Paul the Apostle
Three famous African empires
14. 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 Age of Exploration
Age of Pericles
scholasticism
Chaldeans
15. An African empire the developed out of an iron working stettlement and eswasbasd on gold trade
Zimbabwe
monotheism
the Peace of Augsburg
Byzantine Empire
16. Early civilization that attempt to unify the near East under zoroastrianism zoroastrianism - an ethical religion based on the concepts of good and evil
Persians
Age of Enlightenment
Alexander the Great
Kublai Khan
17. Equal to a vassal or knight in feudal Japan
samurai
Charlemagne
fiefs
Magna Carta
18. Fought between Catholics and Huguenots for control of france
French religious wars (1562-1598)
mythology
Charlemagne
Romanov dynasty -
19. 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
Illiad and Odyssey
Rome
Chaldeans
the Act of supremacy
20. French King who evoked absolutism with the palace of Versailles and lavishness
Louis XIV
'The Grand Experiment'
Charlemagne
Causes of Rome's fall
21. Based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed in the holy book known as the Koran
Islam
Hinduism
the Peace of Augsburg
Edict of Nantes
22. Officially recognizes Lutheranism but allowed Catholicis princes to support Catholicism
mercantilism
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
the Peace of Augsburg
Frederick Barbarosa
23. The river valleys near the Tigres and Euphrates and Nile Rivers - which were the cradle of civlization
Age of Pericles
Punic Wars
French religious wars (1562-1598)
the Fertile Crescent
24. 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)
nominalism
The Crusades
French Revolution
25. Used what he learned in classic books and original insights to develop law of gravity and physics
Isaac Newton
Illiad and Odyssey
Congress of Verona (1822)
Romanov dynasty -
26. Land owned by the lords of feudal Europe
fiefs
cost - benefit analysis
Sumeria
Phonecians
27. Nile - Congo - Niger - and Zambizi
28. English ruler who helped England emerge as a major European power
The Age of Exploration
Elizabeth I
monotheism
English parliament
29. Early civilization that developed military techniques and iron weapons - also had postal service - extensive library and system of highways
Age of Enlightenment
Assyria
Martin Luther
the Iron Age
30. Concept in scholasticism in which reality consists of ideas (universals) that exist in the mind - independent of sensory powersof perception
samurai
realism
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
Hinduism
31. Early civililzation that developed the first lasting monotheism
Zimbabwe
Israelites
'The Grand Experiment'
mythology
32. The concept of United States history as the mass migration of one group (Europeans) overwhelmed and put another group to extinction (Indians)
33. Ruled as dictator and abolished the moarchy - after his death - the monarchy was restored
caliphs
Frederick Barbarosa
Confucius
Oliver Cromwell
34. English moarch to begin colonization of North America
caliphs
mythology
James I
Hopewell people
35. Led to the destruction of early civilizations like the Egyptians - Assyrians and Babylonians through the development of iron weapons
Holy bible
Anasazi culture
absolutism
the Iron Age
36. War between England and France that led to France rising as a nation
The Hundred Years War
Assyria
mercantilism
Paul the Apostle
37. The first great Christian philosopher
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
French religious wars (1562-1598)
St. Augustine
reincarnation
38. The state controls the means of production and distributes the profits for the beneficiary of the people
39. 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
French Revolution
Frederick Barbarosa
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
ancient Greek
40. 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
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
English parliament
hunter/gatherer societies
41. 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
Assyria
Louis XIV
Pope Leo IX
Babylonians
42. Encourages the accumulation of wealth and property by individuals but is regulated by the state
hiearchy of needs
capitalism
Battle of Hastings (1066)
Protestantism
43. Portuguese explorer who was the first man to circumnavigate the globe
lords
Constantine
Muslims
Ferdinand Magellan
44. Ancient civilization that we owe our literary heritage - science - mathematics and democratic forms of governments
Hopewell people
the Pueblo Indians
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
ancient Greek
45. Knights or military in feudal Europe
vassals
Magna Carta
nominalism
Causes of Rome's fall
46. Settled in the Mississippi Valley developed in 880 AD and built large religious mound structures
Illiad and Odyssey
Rome
Anasazi culture
Mississippian culture
47. Group that took over the Byzantine and Persian Empires and worked on medicine - a stronomy - mathematics - architecture and literature
Muslims
Guatama Buddha
Illiad and Odyssey
samurai
48. After the fall of Rome - Europe lacked strong poltiical and economic center - transitioning into the Medieval Ages
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
Mughuls
The Dark Ages
Confucius
49. Emperor that called for the union of Germany and Italy under the Holy Empire
Frederick Barbarosa
The Dark Ages
Islam
Africa's four rivers
50. Following a battle with Carthage - Rome emerged as the dominant power in the mediterranean
Congress of Verona (1822)
Punic Wars
feudalism
reincarnation