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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. Concept in scholasticism in which symbols or names for objects. Only perceived objects are real
reincarnation
nominalism
fiefs
Kublai Khan
2. Skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
ancient Greek
Charlemagne
capitalism
Hopewell people
3. Leaders in Islammic civilizations that improved farming methods and crop yields
caliphs
the Ming Dynasty
Kush
Punic Wars
4. Italian religious leader that established the independency of the papacy through the Vatican
Pope Leo IX
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
capitalism
serfs
5. A social - economic and poltiical system with de - centralized power
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
Thirty Years War
Age of Enlightenment
feudalism
6. Proximity to arabs - Salvs - n and Turks - Constantinople sacked during the fourth Crusade
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7. 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
nominalism
Hinduism
Peace of Westphalia
8. Spanish explorer who sailed west from Spain and landed in the Carribbean - thinking it was India
Genghis Khan
Christopher Columbus
Assyria
hunter/gatherer societies
9. War that re - established Christian control over Muslim Spain in 1492
Elizabeth I
Causes of Rome's fall
The Reconquista
Ancient Egypt
10. 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
Rome
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
Taoism
Age of Enlightenment
11. French King who evoked absolutism with the palace of Versailles and lavishness
Louis XIV
Europe's Industrial Revolution
Confucianism
the Iron Age
12. Ends Spanish attempts to invade England
law of supply and demand
defeat of Spanish Armanda
Confucianism
Adam Smith
13. 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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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
Louis XIV
reincarnation
Sir Francis Drake
The Age of Exploration
15. What is gained by whom and what is lost or sacrified
Lydians
cost - benefit analysis
Illiad and Odyssey
'The Grand Experiment'
16. A growing interest in culture of learning and reading. Led to a questioning of Christianity and church dogma.
reasons for Byzantine's successs
Battle of Hastings (1066)
capitalism
Age of Enlightenment
17. Knights or military in feudal Europe
the Pueblo Indians
Elizabeth I
vassals
Martin Luther
18. Primarily agricultural economy dependent upon the lord of the manor and control over the serfs
Europe's Industrial Revolution
manoralism
Pax Romana
Assyria
19. 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
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
the Act of supremacy
Peace of Westphalia
20. Used what he learned in classic books and original insights to develop law of gravity and physics
law of supply and demand
Causes of Rome's fall
the Ming Dynasty
Isaac Newton
21. Led to the destruction of early civilizations like the Egyptians - Assyrians and Babylonians through the development of iron weapons
Genghis Khan
hiearchy of needs
modern capitalism
the Iron Age
22. Ended the Anglo - Saxon rule in England
The Reformation
church
Battle of Hastings (1066)
Feudal Japan
23. 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
Zimbabwe
serfs
Protestantism
Ancient Egypt
24. Nile - Congo - Niger - and Zambizi
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25. An economy in which people leave the funding alone
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26. War between England and France that led to France rising as a nation
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
fiefs
The War of Roses
The Hundred Years War
27. Before human can turn their attention to finer things in life - humans need to focus on their primary needs - physiological - they must have enough to eat or drink and a warm place to sleep - security and safety - river settlements were the easiest t
Three famous African empires
Feudal Japan
hiearchy of needs
Chaldeans
28. A way of thinking that inspired the nationalistic philosophy and the idea of self - determination
Frederick Barbarosa
Persians
Holy bible
romanticism
29. English moarch to begin colonization of North America
Elizabeth I
James I
Edict of Nantes
Henry VII
30. English government consists of the House of Lords (for the wealthy) and House of Commons
capitalism
The Age of Exploration
Holy bible
English parliament
31. Group that took over the Byzantine and Persian Empires and worked on medicine - a stronomy - mathematics - architecture and literature
shogun
Muslims
Congress of Verona (1822)
Confucius
32. Philosophy that deals with theconsistency of faith and reason
Edict of Nantes
Pax Romana
realism
scholasticism
33. Early civilization that attempt to unify the near East under zoroastrianism zoroastrianism - an ethical religion based on the concepts of good and evil
Kublai Khan
Causes of Rome's fall
Hinduism
Persians
34. 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
church
serfs
Assyria
Napoleon -
35. The Christian Word of God
Holy bible
reincarnation
the four characteristics of civilization
Congress of Verona (1822)
36. The state controls the means of production and distributes the profits for the beneficiary of the people
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37. Commercial trade routes - distance from tribes that sacked Rome
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38. 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
absolutism
Guatama Buddha
hunter/gatherer societies
Europe's Industrial Revolution
39. 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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40. Early civilization that occupied the western Asia minor and were responsible for the first coinage of money
Lydians
reincarnation
Israelites
Economics
41. Provided new political boundaries and established Calvinism - Germany divided into Protestant and Catholic areas
Guatama Buddha
capitalism
Peace of Westphalia
the Act of supremacy
42. 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
Magna Carta
James I
Babylonians
reincarnation
43. 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
Causes of Rome's fall
the Act of supremacy
Magna Carta
Martin Luther
44. Battle between Charles Martel and the Muslims prevented Islam from entering Europe
Age of Pericles
scholasticism
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
feudalism
45. The river valleys near the Tigres and Euphrates and Nile Rivers - which were the cradle of civlization
Martin Luther
Europe's Industrial Revolution
Napoleon -
the Fertile Crescent
46. Societies in which men started to hunt and women gathered readily available foods
hunter/gatherer societies
French Revolution
Lydians
Hopewell people
47. English ruler who helped England emerge as a major European power
samurai
Africa's four rivers
Muslims
Elizabeth I
48. 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
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
means of productions
Hinduism
49. Landowners in feudal Europe
manoralism
lords
Peace of Westphalia
Edict of Nantes
50. 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
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
Martin Luther
fiefs
vassals