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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. 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
Martin Luther
samurai
karma
Magna Carta
2. Concept in scholasticism in which symbols or names for objects. Only perceived objects are real
Israelites
scholasticism
nominalism
law of supply and demand
3. The idea of total obedience to the sovereign because of their 'divine right'
Kublai Khan
absolutism
serfs
shogun
4. An economy in which people leave the funding alone
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5. 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
Feudal Japan
Islam
The Age of Exploration
means of productions
6. The Christian Word of God
Economics
'laissez faire' economy
nominalism
Holy bible
7. Early civilization that developed military techniques and iron weapons - also had postal service - extensive library and system of highways
fiefs
Assyria
Charlemagne
Punic Wars
8. Ruled as dictator and abolished the moarchy - after his death - the monarchy was restored
Edict of Nantes
Oliver Cromwell
Henry VII
The Crusades
9. Led to the destruction of early civilizations like the Egyptians - Assyrians and Babylonians through the development of iron weapons
Confucianism
the Iron Age
lords
Israelites
10. Following a battle with Carthage - Rome emerged as the dominant power in the mediterranean
church
The Reconquista
Mississippian culture
Punic Wars
11. Ancient Asian civilization that developed own language and system of writing - literature and poetry - Shinto religion
English parliament
James I
Ferdinand Magellan
Feudal Japan
12. The church's holy war to recapture the Holy Land - the Pope called for holy warriors to liberate the holy land from the infidels
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
The Dark Ages
Guatama Buddha
The Crusades
13. Buddhist idea that fate is earned
karma
realism
Henry VII
the Ming Dynasty
14. War between England and France that led to France rising as a nation
The Hundred Years War
church
Peace of Westphalia
St. Augustine
15. A family that united and ruled most of India and built The Taj Mahal
Mughuls
Christopher Columbus
The Hundred Years War
Elizabeth I
16. The practice of state regulation and control fo the economy in an attempt to insure prosperity
Napoleon -
Christopher Columbus
Battle of Hastings (1066)
mercantilism
17. Caused by dis - satisfaction with church ritual and Latin overtones
Islam
The Reformation
Thirty Years War
Causes of Rome's fall
18. A growing interest in culture of learning and reading. Led to a questioning of Christianity and church dogma.
Anasazi culture
Age of Enlightenment
samurai
Islam
19. Group that took over the Byzantine and Persian Empires and worked on medicine - a stronomy - mathematics - architecture and literature
The Age of Exploration
'laissez faire' economy
'The Grand Experiment'
Muslims
20. 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
Hopewell people
Byzantine Empire
Illiad and Odyssey
Frederick Barbarosa
21. Provided new political boundaries and established Calvinism - Germany divided into Protestant and Catholic areas
Peace of Westphalia
Confucianism
serfs
ancient Greek
22. Works by the Greek writer Homer
Illiad and Odyssey
The Crusades
the Act of supremacy
'laissez faire' economy
23. Author of 'Wealth of Nations' which advocates that manufacturing is truly the soruce of the nation's wealth
Illiad and Odyssey
Adam Smith
defeat of Spanish Armanda
Rome
24. 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
Society of Jesus
The Renaissance
Romanov dynasty -
Taoism
25. Portuguese explorer who was the first man to circumnavigate the globe
Chaldeans
Ferdinand Magellan
Hopewell people
the Iron Age
26. French King who evoked absolutism with the palace of Versailles and lavishness
reincarnation
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
Louis XIV
romanticism
27. A period of peace for two centuries without a major war
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
The Renaissance
Pax Romana
Europe's Industrial Revolution
28. Mongol ruler that first opened China to the West through explorer Marco Polo
Hammurabi's Code
Kublai Khan
Battle of Hastings (1066)
caliphs
29. 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
Kublai Khan
the Peace of Augsburg
defeat of Spanish Armanda
30. Primarily agricultural economy dependent upon the lord of the manor and control over the serfs
nominalism
feudalism
Zimbabwe
manoralism
31. War between most European powers and led to the devestation of Germany
monotheism
Isaac Newton
Thirty Years War
the Pueblo Indians
32. Early civilizaion that was the first explorers - traders and colonizers of the anfcient world and develop the first alphabet
Chaldeans
Phonecians
Israelites
Causes of Rome's fall
33. Greek leader who conquered Persia - Asia Minor - and egypt to establish a world empire
mythology
The Justinian Code
Alexander the Great
Oliver Cromwell
34. Religious stories about gods and goddesses who had human - style weaknesses and disagreements
Cardinal Richelieu
mythology
The Dark Ages
the Pueblo Indians
35. An African empire the developed out of an iron working stettlement and eswasbasd on gold trade
Christopher Columbus
the Act of supremacy
Zimbabwe
scholasticism
36. 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
defeat of Spanish Armanda
hiearchy of needs
Confucianism
vassals
37. Officially recognizes Lutheranism but allowed Catholicis princes to support Catholicism
the four characteristics of civilization
the Peace of Augsburg
Lao - tzu
feudalism
38. The practice of worshipping one god
Islam
monotheism
Pax Romana
The Crusades
39. English moarch to begin colonization of North America
James I
Africa's four rivers
mythology
Paul the Apostle
40. Emperor of the Byzantine empire that esetablished a new Rome in Constantinople
capitalism
Assyria
Pax Romana
Constantine
41. Commercial trade routes - distance from tribes that sacked Rome
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42. Land owned by the lords of feudal Europe
Pax Romana
fiefs
absolutism
Zimbabwe
43. The state controls the means of production and distributes the profits for the beneficiary of the people
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44. Buddhist idea of re - birth after death
Assyria
vassals
English parliament
reincarnation
45. Used what he learned in classic books and original insights to develop law of gravity and physics
Cardinal Richelieu
Isaac Newton
Causes of Rome's fall
the four characteristics of civilization
46. The concept of United States history as the mass migration of one group (Europeans) overwhelmed and put another group to extinction (Indians)
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47. Indian culture that developed in Southwest and were skilled builders
Congress of Verona (1822)
Society of Jesus
Assyria
Anasazi culture
48. Fought between Catholics and Huguenots for control of france
Mississippian culture
Constantine
capitalism
French religious wars (1562-1598)
49. Settled in the Mississippi Valley developed in 880 AD and built large religious mound structures
Mississippian culture
caliphs
fiefs
church
50. Chinese philospher who built up concept of yin and yang to form Taoism
Louis XIV
Taoism
Byzantine Empire
Lao - tzu