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CSET Subtest 1: History 4
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cset
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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. Nile - Congo - Niger - and Zambizi
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2. Indian culture that developed in Southwest and were skilled builders
The Renaissance
The Dark Ages
Anasazi culture
Adam Smith
3. Early civilization that attempt to unify the near East under zoroastrianism zoroastrianism - an ethical religion based on the concepts of good and evil
Frederick Barbarosa
modern capitalism
Persians
Romanov dynasty -
4. French King who evoked absolutism with the palace of Versailles and lavishness
Zimbabwe
The Reconquista
The Dark Ages
Louis XIV
5. 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
Society of Jesus
The Renaissance
Battle of Hastings (1066)
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
6. The first written form of law and came from the Babylonian times
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7. Jesuits were the official Catholic response to the reformation
Economics
Society of Jesus
English parliament
Peace of Westphalia
8. Buddhist idea of re - birth after death
Age of Pericles
Hinduism
The Crusades
reincarnation
9. The river valleys near the Tigres and Euphrates and Nile Rivers - which were the cradle of civlization
the Fertile Crescent
Three famous African empires
Christopher Columbus
shogun
10. Author of 'Wealth of Nations' which advocates that manufacturing is truly the soruce of the nation's wealth
Congress of Verona (1822)
Chaldeans
Napoleon -
Adam Smith
11. 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
Christopher Columbus
Adam Smith
shogun
12. Greek leader who conquered Persia - Asia Minor - and egypt to establish a world empire
Louis XIV
Mughuls
manoralism
Alexander the Great
13. The practice of worshipping one god
the Fertile Crescent
Napoleon -
Constantine
monotheism
14. Ancient civilization that we owe our literary heritage - science - mathematics and democratic forms of governments
ancient Greek
Three famous African empires
Louis XIV
Adam Smith
15. The first ruler of the French Republic. Established a Code of Napoleon that modernized French law- was ultimately defeated in The Battle of Waterloo
feudalism
Napoleon -
Henry VII
Byzantine Empire
16. The Christian Word of God
Isaac Newton
Congress of Verona (1822)
Napoleon -
Holy bible
17. The state controls the means of production and distributes the profits for the beneficiary of the people
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18. The zenith of Athenian society and the hight of its democracy
The Justinian Code
Phonecians
the Act of supremacy
Age of Pericles
19. 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
The Age of Exploration
scholasticism
Ancient Egypt
the Pueblo Indians
20. Ended the Anglo - Saxon rule in England
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
Genghis Khan
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
Battle of Hastings (1066)
21. Concept in scholasticism in which reality consists of ideas (universals) that exist in the mind - independent of sensory powersof perception
Pope Leo IX
French Revolution
realism
St. Augustine
22. English ruler who helped England emerge as a major European power
Congress of Verona (1822)
Lydians
Guatama Buddha
Elizabeth I
23. A growing interest in culture of learning and reading. Led to a questioning of Christianity and church dogma.
absolutism
Age of Enlightenment
law of supply and demand
Alexander the Great
24. 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
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
serfs
Frederick Barbarosa
Punic Wars
25. Early civilization that encouraged material progress - including large - scale irrigation projects - an advancced system of mathematics and invention of the wheel
daimyo
Sumeria
means of productions
law of supply and demand
26. Author of absolutist politics
The Reconquista
church
Cardinal Richelieu
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
27. Early civilization that occupied the western Asia minor and were responsible for the first coinage of money
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
vassals
Anasazi culture
Lydians
28. Religious stories about gods and goddesses who had human - style weaknesses and disagreements
law of supply and demand
Ancient Egypt
mythology
Lydians
29. After the fall of Rome - Europe lacked strong poltiical and economic center - transitioning into the Medieval Ages
English parliament
hiearchy of needs
Chaldeans
The Dark Ages
30. Promotes concept of balanced Europe as England gains power
Society of Jesus
church
Henry VII
Guatama Buddha
31. What is gained by whom and what is lost or sacrified
the Ming Dynasty
Age of Enlightenment
Napoleon -
cost - benefit analysis
32. A religion against pre - destination - in which people are destined to go to heaven and hell no matter how they act
Anasazi culture
Ancient Egypt
Protestantism
hunter/gatherer societies
33. 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
Zimbabwe
'The Grand Experiment'
Persians
the Act of supremacy
34. Societies in which men started to hunt and women gathered readily available foods
Rome
hunter/gatherer societies
Muslims
lords
35. Chinese philospher who built up concept of yin and yang to form Taoism
Byzantine Empire
Lao - tzu
Protestantism
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
36. War between most European powers and led to the devestation of Germany
Thirty Years War
reasons for Byzantine's successs
Napoleon -
Hinduism
37. 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
Isaac Newton
Illiad and Odyssey
Paul the Apostle
38. The basic of justice systems used throughout the western world
the Fertile Crescent
The Renaissance
'laissez faire' economy
The Justinian Code
39. Deals with the production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services
Economics
serfs
Muslims
Anasazi culture
40. Ruled as dictator and abolished the moarchy - after his death - the monarchy was restored
Sir Francis Drake
Peace of Westphalia
Oliver Cromwell
Frederick Barbarosa
41. Primarily agricultural economy dependent upon the lord of the manor and control over the serfs
French religious wars (1562-1598)
Elizabeth I
caliphs
manoralism
42. Gave Hugenots political and religious freedom
Edict of Nantes
Charlemagne
The Dark Ages
Age of Enlightenment
43. English moarch to begin colonization of North America
The Reconquista
church
Hammurabi's Code
James I
44. Ends Spanish attempts to invade England
defeat of Spanish Armanda
means of productions
Mississippian culture
Elizabeth I
45. Profits are linked to the manufacturing of products
modern capitalism
nominalism
Confucianism
Ancient Egypt
46. 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 Hundred Years War
Phonecians
Age of Pericles
47. Mongol ruler that first opened China to the West through explorer Marco Polo
Society of Jesus
Christopher Columbus
Kublai Khan
Thirty Years War
48. Early civililzation that developed the first lasting monotheism
serfs
Israelites
law of supply and demand
The War of Roses
49. English pirate sailing for England became the second man to circumnavigate the globe
Romanov dynasty -
'laissez faire' economy
The Age of Exploration
Sir Francis Drake
50. English government consists of the House of Lords (for the wealthy) and House of Commons
Lao - tzu
reincarnation
English parliament
The Hundred Years War