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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 social - economic and poltiical system with de - centralized power
Constantine
feudalism
Ferdinand Magellan
the Fertile Crescent
2. 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
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
Muslims
Ancient Egypt
Protestantism
3. Societies in which men started to hunt and women gathered readily available foods
The Crusades
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
hunter/gatherer societies
manoralism
4. Used what he learned in classic books and original insights to develop law of gravity and physics
Chaldeans
Isaac Newton
Babylonians
the Act of supremacy
5. Chinese philosophy with a focus on concept of respect to one's family - parents - government and rulers - supported tendency to respect authority
Confucianism
karma
Israelites
scholasticism
6. Ancient Asian civilization that developed own language and system of writing - literature and poetry - Shinto religion
The War of Roses
Age of Pericles
Feudal Japan
serfs
7. 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
mythology
Peace of Westphalia
Elizabeth I
8. A feudal lord in feudal Japan
daimyo
Economics
James I
serfs
9. Writing - mathematics - sicence - philosophy and arts
Age of Enlightenment
Hopewell people
Alexander the Great
the four characteristics of civilization
10. 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
Taoism
Kush
Babylonians
Hinduism
11. Early civililzation that developed the first lasting monotheism
capitalism
Israelites
Isaac Newton
mythology
12. Inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Israelites
the Ming Dynasty
the Act of supremacy
the Pueblo Indians
13. A period of peace for two centuries without a major war
The Dark Ages
Pax Romana
St. Augustine
the Peace of Augsburg
14. Enlightenment philosophers who questioned the proper function of government and their ideas led to the American and French Revolutions
Age of Pericles
Sumeria
Adam Smith
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
15. Early civilization that developed military techniques and iron weapons - also had postal service - extensive library and system of highways
the Pueblo Indians
Assyria
Rome
Genghis Khan
16. Leaders in Islammic civilizations that improved farming methods and crop yields
James I
Henry VII
caliphs
Taoism
17. Early civilization that occupied the western Asia minor and were responsible for the first coinage of money
Age of Pericles
the Act of supremacy
mercantilism
Lydians
18. After the fall of Rome - Europe lacked strong poltiical and economic center - transitioning into the Medieval Ages
realism
The Dark Ages
French Revolution
lords
19. 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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20. A growing interest in culture of learning and reading. Led to a questioning of Christianity and church dogma.
Elizabeth I
Age of Pericles
Age of Enlightenment
Adam Smith
21. English government consists of the House of Lords (for the wealthy) and House of Commons
Mississippian culture
Israelites
Byzantine Empire
English parliament
22. Christian disciple responsible for the spread of Christian theology
Paul the Apostle
The Reconquista
Israelites
Africa's four rivers
23. Proximity to arabs - Salvs - n and Turks - Constantinople sacked during the fourth Crusade
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24. Author of 'Wealth of Nations' which advocates that manufacturing is truly the soruce of the nation's wealth
Frederick Barbarosa
vassals
Confucius
Adam Smith
25. 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
Islam
French Revolution
Punic Wars
The Age of Exploration
26. Based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed in the holy book known as the Koran
Edict of Nantes
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
Islam
Babylonians
27. The zenith of Athenian society and the hight of its democracy
Hinduism
Age of Pericles
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
Battle of Hastings (1066)
28. Skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
fiefs
Lao - tzu
Hopewell people
Hammurabi's Code
29. Mongol leader who took over the Chinese
Congress of Verona (1822)
Frederick Barbarosa
Genghis Khan
Cardinal Richelieu
30. Settled in the Mississippi Valley developed in 880 AD and built large religious mound structures
Mississippian culture
Charlemagne
Elizabeth I
mercantilism
31. Following a battle with Carthage - Rome emerged as the dominant power in the mediterranean
The Renaissance
the Pueblo Indians
the four characteristics of civilization
Punic Wars
32. The church's holy war to recapture the Holy Land - the Pope called for holy warriors to liberate the holy land from the infidels
nominalism
The War of Roses
Peace of Westphalia
The Crusades
33. English pirate sailing for England became the second man to circumnavigate the globe
Taoism
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
the Pueblo Indians
Sir Francis Drake
34. Commercial trade routes - distance from tribes that sacked Rome
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35. Spanish explorer who sailed west from Spain and landed in the Carribbean - thinking it was India
Feudal Japan
Christopher Columbus
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
Zimbabwe
36. 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
Three famous African empires
absolutism
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
defeat of Spanish Armanda
37. Ends Spanish attempts to invade England
defeat of Spanish Armanda
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
daimyo
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
38. An African empire the developed out of an iron working stettlement and eswasbasd on gold trade
The Hundred Years War
Zimbabwe
English parliament
Louis XIV
39. The way that a product is produced - in capitalism - it is ownedby the individual
Martin Luther
Anasazi culture
means of productions
capitalism
40. Ended the Anglo - Saxon rule in England
Ferdinand Magellan
Feudal Japan
The Age of Exploration
Battle of Hastings (1066)
41. Officially recognizes Lutheranism but allowed Catholicis princes to support Catholicism
realism
Romanov dynasty -
The Renaissance
the Peace of Augsburg
42. Religious stories about gods and goddesses who had human - style weaknesses and disagreements
Frederick Barbarosa
Ferdinand Magellan
shogun
mythology
43. 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
Persians
reincarnation
Chaldeans
ancient Greek
44. Author of absolutist politics
Pax Romana
Cardinal Richelieu
Mughuls
samurai
45. What is gained by whom and what is lost or sacrified
Byzantine Empire
lords
cost - benefit analysis
English parliament
46. A feudal king in feudal Japan
Confucius
hunter/gatherer societies
Punic Wars
shogun
47. 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
Mississippian culture
Hinduism
James I
Edict of Nantes
48. Early civilization that attempt to unify the near East under zoroastrianism zoroastrianism - an ethical religion based on the concepts of good and evil
Persians
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
Taoism
Punic Wars
49. Chinese dynasty that ousted the Mongols and then limited contact with the West through isolationism
Feudal Japan
the Ming Dynasty
the Peace of Augsburg
Romanov dynasty -
50. Knights or military in feudal Europe
Cardinal Richelieu
Henry VII
Economics
vassals