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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. Battle between Charles Martel and the Muslims prevented Islam from entering Europe
Cardinal Richelieu
Louis XIV
Economics
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
2. Chinese philosophy with a focus on concept of respect to one's family - parents - government and rulers - supported tendency to respect authority
Magna Carta
Confucianism
Battle of Hastings (1066)
Adam Smith
3. The basic of justice systems used throughout the western world
The Justinian Code
mercantilism
St. Augustine
Europe's Industrial Revolution
4. Early civilization that occupied the western Asia minor and were responsible for the first coinage of money
realism
Lydians
Mississippian culture
karma
5. 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
Israelites
the Fertile Crescent
Byzantine Empire
St. Augustine
6. Writing - mathematics - sicence - philosophy and arts
Charlemagne
reincarnation
the four characteristics of civilization
Elizabeth I
7. The state controls the means of production and distributes the profits for the beneficiary of the people
8. The idea of total obedience to the sovereign because of their 'divine right'
Illiad and Odyssey
shogun
absolutism
Taoism
9. 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
Hinduism
mercantilism
Ferdinand Magellan
Holy bible
10. Officially recognizes Lutheranism but allowed Catholicis princes to support Catholicism
samurai
the Peace of Augsburg
Battle of Hastings (1066)
The Reformation
11. Settled in the Mississippi Valley developed in 880 AD and built large religious mound structures
Mississippian culture
samurai
scholasticism
Henry VII
12. Ancient civilization that we owe our literary heritage - science - mathematics and democratic forms of governments
Martin Luther
Persians
ancient Greek
Ancient Egypt
13. Land owned by the lords of feudal Europe
Lao - tzu
fiefs
Christopher Columbus
Economics
14. Enlightenment aritsts who emphasized the classical era's symphonies - rhythms and melodies
Henry VII
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
mercantilism
15. 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
16. Indian culture that developed in Southwest and were skilled builders
Anasazi culture
'The Grand Experiment'
lords
Elizabeth I
17. Chinese dynasty that ousted the Mongols and then limited contact with the West through isolationism
the Ming Dynasty
Age of Pericles
Confucianism
Lydians
18. Chinese philosopher who developed the idea of Confucianism
The Justinian Code
Henry VII
Confucius
samurai
19. Portuguese explorer who was the first man to circumnavigate the globe
French religious wars (1562-1598)
Anasazi culture
Ferdinand Magellan
Romanov dynasty -
20. Ended the Anglo - Saxon rule in England
lords
Battle of Hastings (1066)
the Act of supremacy
the Ming Dynasty
21. Buddhist idea of re - birth after death
lords
Hammurabi's Code
reincarnation
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
22. An economy in which people leave the funding alone
23. Skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
Age of Enlightenment
Hopewell people
Anasazi culture
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
24. A social - economic and poltiical system with de - centralized power
Louis XIV
Kublai Khan
feudalism
Age of Pericles
25. Greek leader who conquered Persia - Asia Minor - and egypt to establish a world empire
ancient Greek
the Pueblo Indians
The Dark Ages
Alexander the Great
26. Ancient Asian civilization that developed own language and system of writing - literature and poetry - Shinto religion
Feudal Japan
The Crusades
hiearchy of needs
the Peace of Augsburg
27. Ruled as dictator and abolished the moarchy - after his death - the monarchy was restored
ancient Greek
Henry VII
Oliver Cromwell
realism
28. 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 Justinian Code
Ancient Egypt
Hammurabi's Code
James I
29. 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
Persians
Babylonians
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
Rome
30. The practice of state regulation and control fo the economy in an attempt to insure prosperity
Assyria
Hammurabi's Code
hiearchy of needs
mercantilism
31. Encourages the accumulation of wealth and property by individuals but is regulated by the state
karma
English parliament
capitalism
Economics
32. 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
serfs
The Renaissance
mercantilism
Lydians
33. 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
cost - benefit analysis
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
Charlemagne
Mississippian culture
34. Nullified the Congress of Vienna and allowed the european powers to be guided by their own interests
Africa's four rivers
Society of Jesus
the four characteristics of civilization
Congress of Verona (1822)
35. Deals with the production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services
ancient Greek
Peace of Westphalia
Battle of Hastings (1066)
Economics
36. The practice of worshipping one god
cost - benefit analysis
Assyria
monotheism
the Pueblo Indians
37. English moarch to begin colonization of North America
The Hundred Years War
Pope Leo IX
James I
Martin Luther
38. War that re - established Christian control over Muslim Spain in 1492
The Reconquista
Israelites
shogun
Rome
39. Spanish explorer who sailed west from Spain and landed in the Carribbean - thinking it was India
Elizabeth I
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
daimyo
Christopher Columbus
40. The river valleys near the Tigres and Euphrates and Nile Rivers - which were the cradle of civlization
Society of Jesus
the Fertile Crescent
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
manoralism
41. The first ruler of the French Republic. Established a Code of Napoleon that modernized French law- was ultimately defeated in The Battle of Waterloo
Economics
Napoleon -
Cardinal Richelieu
Taoism
42. 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
Sir Francis Drake
the Act of supremacy
French religious wars (1562-1598)
Three famous African empires
43. A Chinese philosophy based on the the idea of balance - one must strive to be aware of the order and harmony of all existence and live accordingly to it
Taoism
nominalism
French Revolution
the Ming Dynasty
44. The church's holy war to recapture the Holy Land - the Pope called for holy warriors to liberate the holy land from the infidels
Peace of Westphalia
The Crusades
Napoleon -
St. Augustine
45. Philosophy that deals with theconsistency of faith and reason
The Justinian Code
The War of Roses
caliphs
scholasticism
46. Commercial trade routes - distance from tribes that sacked Rome
47. English government consists of the House of Lords (for the wealthy) and House of Commons
English parliament
The Reconquista
Pax Romana
Battle of Hastings (1066)
48. The Christian Word of God
hiearchy of needs
Sir Francis Drake
Holy bible
The Hundred Years War
49. A feudal king in feudal Japan
vassals
caliphs
Peace of Westphalia
shogun
50. Early civilization that attempt to unify the near East under zoroastrianism zoroastrianism - an ethical religion based on the concepts of good and evil
Ancient Egypt
Persians
Sir Francis Drake
Assyria