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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 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
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
Age of Enlightenment
Hammurabi's Code
2. 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
Guatama Buddha
Mississippian culture
karma
realism
3. Ancient Asian civilization that developed own language and system of writing - literature and poetry - Shinto religion
Martin Luther
Feudal Japan
church
Elizabeth I
4. Ghana - Mali and Songhai
Guatama Buddha
French Revolution
Three famous African empires
mythology
5. The state controls the means of production and distributes the profits for the beneficiary of the people
6. Officially recognizes Lutheranism but allowed Catholicis princes to support Catholicism
Alexander the Great
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
the Peace of Augsburg
nominalism
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
Louis XIV
The Renaissance
Romanov dynasty -
Islam
8. Societies in which men started to hunt and women gathered readily available foods
Islam
nominalism
hunter/gatherer societies
French religious wars (1562-1598)
9. Ancient civilization that we owe our literary heritage - science - mathematics and democratic forms of governments
hiearchy of needs
ancient Greek
manoralism
Babylonians
10. A way of thinking that inspired the nationalistic philosophy and the idea of self - determination
defeat of Spanish Armanda
romanticism
Louis XIV
hunter/gatherer societies
11. The river valleys near the Tigres and Euphrates and Nile Rivers - which were the cradle of civlization
the Fertile Crescent
hunter/gatherer societies
vassals
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
12. Concept in scholasticism in which symbols or names for objects. Only perceived objects are real
Peace of Westphalia
reasons for Byzantine's successs
nominalism
samurai
13. If supply is greater tahn demand - the value of a product is lower; if demand is greater than supply - the value of a product is higher
feudalism
law of supply and demand
Alexander the Great
nominalism
14. A growing interest in culture of learning and reading. Led to a questioning of Christianity and church dogma.
Age of Enlightenment
Adam Smith
Genghis Khan
law of supply and demand
15. 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
16. 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
samurai
James I
manoralism
17. Author of 'Wealth of Nations' which advocates that manufacturing is truly the soruce of the nation's wealth
law of supply and demand
Adam Smith
Punic Wars
Isaac Newton
18. Portuguese explorer who was the first man to circumnavigate the globe
reincarnation
Anasazi culture
Ferdinand Magellan
Feudal Japan
19. Based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed in the holy book known as the Koran
law of supply and demand
Islam
hiearchy of needs
French religious wars (1562-1598)
20. The concept of United States history as the mass migration of one group (Europeans) overwhelmed and put another group to extinction (Indians)
21. Battle between Charles Martel and the Muslims prevented Islam from entering Europe
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
defeat of Spanish Armanda
'laissez faire' economy
Thirty Years War
22. Proximity to arabs - Salvs - n and Turks - Constantinople sacked during the fourth Crusade
23. War between most European powers and led to the devestation of Germany
Sumeria
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
Ferdinand Magellan
Thirty Years War
24. 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
25. Mongol ruler that first opened China to the West through explorer Marco Polo
scholasticism
Kublai Khan
Louis XIV
Genghis Khan
26. A period of peace for two centuries without a major war
cost - benefit analysis
Pax Romana
means of productions
reincarnation
27. Early civilization that attempt to unify the near East under zoroastrianism zoroastrianism - an ethical religion based on the concepts of good and evil
Persians
serfs
hiearchy of needs
Edict of Nantes
28. Chinese philosopher who developed the idea of Confucianism
the Pueblo Indians
Israelites
Confucius
lords
29. Caused by dis - satisfaction with church ritual and Latin overtones
scholasticism
Punic Wars
Islam
The Reformation
30. The practice of worshipping one god
reincarnation
Mississippian culture
monotheism
mythology
31. Chinese philosophy with a focus on concept of respect to one's family - parents - government and rulers - supported tendency to respect authority
Confucianism
cost - benefit analysis
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
The Crusades
32. The way that a product is produced - in capitalism - it is ownedby the individual
fiefs
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
means of productions
Mughuls
33. Fought between Catholics and Huguenots for control of france
Muslims
mythology
French religious wars (1562-1598)
Guatama Buddha
34. A social - economic and poltiical system with de - centralized power
means of productions
French religious wars (1562-1598)
The Justinian Code
feudalism
35. Early civilization that encouraged material progress - including large - scale irrigation projects - an advancced system of mathematics and invention of the wheel
Sumeria
monotheism
absolutism
Illiad and Odyssey
36. 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
Sumeria
Hammurabi's Code
Ferdinand Magellan
37. Philosophy that deals with theconsistency of faith and reason
The Crusades
scholasticism
Europe's Industrial Revolution
absolutism
38. Provided new political boundaries and established Calvinism - Germany divided into Protestant and Catholic areas
Napoleon -
karma
The Crusades
Peace of Westphalia
39. Jesuits were the official Catholic response to the reformation
Society of Jesus
Feudal Japan
Israelites
Kush
40. Settled in the Mississippi Valley developed in 880 AD and built large religious mound structures
Mississippian culture
the Fertile Crescent
Charlemagne
Cardinal Richelieu
41. Writing - mathematics - sicence - philosophy and arts
Holy bible
the four characteristics of civilization
Congress of Verona (1822)
Age of Pericles
42. A feudal lord in feudal Japan
daimyo
Constantine
Phonecians
Christopher Columbus
43. Group that took over the Byzantine and Persian Empires and worked on medicine - a stronomy - mathematics - architecture and literature
Muslims
Pope Leo IX
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
The Crusades
44. The practice of state regulation and control fo the economy in an attempt to insure prosperity
Cardinal Richelieu
Feudal Japan
Israelites
mercantilism
45. French King who evoked absolutism with the palace of Versailles and lavishness
Louis XIV
Magna Carta
fiefs
caliphs
46. Chinese dynasty that ousted the Mongols and then limited contact with the West through isolationism
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
Guatama Buddha
fiefs
the Ming Dynasty
47. Religious stories about gods and goddesses who had human - style weaknesses and disagreements
Europe's Industrial Revolution
the Ming Dynasty
nominalism
mythology
48. 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
Ancient Egypt
the Fertile Crescent
monotheism
Henry VII
49. A family that united and ruled most of India and built The Taj Mahal
Edict of Nantes
Assyria
Mughuls
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
50. Early civilization that developed military techniques and iron weapons - also had postal service - extensive library and system of highways
Edict of Nantes
means of productions
Assyria
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven