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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. War between most European powers and led to the devestation of Germany
The War of Roses
Louis XIV
Thirty Years War
mercantilism
2. 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
Alexander the Great
Byzantine Empire
Oliver Cromwell
3. Spanish explorer who sailed west from Spain and landed in the Carribbean - thinking it was India
feudalism
Martin Luther
Babylonians
Christopher Columbus
4. Christian disciple responsible for the spread of Christian theology
Paul the Apostle
Isaac Newton
Africa's four rivers
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
5. Buddhist idea of re - birth after death
modern capitalism
reincarnation
realism
Feudal Japan
6. Started absolutism in Russia started with Ivan the Terrible
Sir Francis Drake
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
Romanov dynasty -
French religious wars (1562-1598)
7. The state controls the means of production and distributes the profits for the beneficiary of the people
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8. Early civilization established as a new Babylonian empire under king Nebuchadnezzar - develop astronomy - astrology - advanced government bureaucracy and architectural achievements such as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
the Pueblo Indians
Islam
Edict of Nantes
Chaldeans
9. A religion against pre - destination - in which people are destined to go to heaven and hell no matter how they act
Lydians
Confucius
Protestantism
St. Augustine
10. A feudal lord in feudal Japan
daimyo
Causes of Rome's fall
manoralism
karma
11. Portuguese explorer who was the first man to circumnavigate the globe
Ferdinand Magellan
The Reconquista
The Crusades
French religious wars (1562-1598)
12. Gave Hugenots political and religious freedom
caliphs
Edict of Nantes
Adam Smith
Congress of Verona (1822)
13. Knights or military in feudal Europe
vassals
Muslims
Romanov dynasty -
The Dark Ages
14. Chinese philosophy with a focus on concept of respect to one's family - parents - government and rulers - supported tendency to respect authority
serfs
Rome
Confucianism
Christopher Columbus
15. Battle between Charles Martel and the Muslims prevented Islam from entering Europe
Mughuls
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
Persians
feudalism
16. The first great Christian philosopher
Society of Jesus
St. Augustine
The Reconquista
Paul the Apostle
17. The practice of worshipping one god
nominalism
Europe's Industrial Revolution
monotheism
the Act of supremacy
18. 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
Constantine
Anasazi culture
The Age of Exploration
Sumeria
19. Group that took over the Byzantine and Persian Empires and worked on medicine - a stronomy - mathematics - architecture and literature
fiefs
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
Muslims
Confucianism
20. Skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
the Pueblo Indians
Hopewell people
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
Islam
21. War that re - established Christian control over Muslim Spain in 1492
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
The Reconquista
Persians
reasons for Byzantine's successs
22. English moarch to begin colonization of North America
Thirty Years War
James I
The Dark Ages
Age of Pericles
23. An economy in which people leave the funding alone
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24. Italian religious leader that established the independency of the papacy through the Vatican
Pope Leo IX
Lydians
James I
the Act of supremacy
25. 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
Charlemagne
Christopher Columbus
hunter/gatherer societies
Battle of Hastings (1066)
26. The practice of state regulation and control fo the economy in an attempt to insure prosperity
The War of Roses
Sir Francis Drake
mercantilism
Hammurabi's Code
27. Chinese philosopher who developed the idea of Confucianism
Confucius
Pope Leo IX
Rome
'The Grand Experiment'
28. Enlightenment aritsts who emphasized the classical era's symphonies - rhythms and melodies
caliphs
the Fertile Crescent
Paul the Apostle
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
29. The river valleys near the Tigres and Euphrates and Nile Rivers - which were the cradle of civlization
defeat of Spanish Armanda
Causes of Rome's fall
the Fertile Crescent
vassals
30. Author of absolutist politics
means of productions
lords
Assyria
Cardinal Richelieu
31. Early civililzation that developed the first lasting monotheism
Frederick Barbarosa
Israelites
hunter/gatherer societies
serfs
32. Emperor of the Byzantine empire that esetablished a new Rome in Constantinople
Babylonians
Constantine
Sumeria
Assyria
33. Nile - Congo - Niger - and Zambizi
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34. 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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35. Indian culture that developed in Southwest and were skilled builders
Anasazi culture
Three famous African empires
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
manoralism
36. Concept in scholasticism in which reality consists of ideas (universals) that exist in the mind - independent of sensory powersof perception
realism
the Iron Age
Europe's Industrial Revolution
'The Grand Experiment'
37. Led to the destruction of early civilizations like the Egyptians - Assyrians and Babylonians through the development of iron weapons
the Iron Age
Thirty Years War
Peace of Westphalia
Israelites
38. caused by inequitable class structure - bankruptcy of the French treasury - disorganized legal system - led to the Reign of Terror in which many of the aristocrats were beheaded
the Peace of Augsburg
Babylonians
French Revolution
Oliver Cromwell
39. Land owned by the lords of feudal Europe
The Crusades
fiefs
Adam Smith
Martin Luther
40. Religious stories about gods and goddesses who had human - style weaknesses and disagreements
mythology
Ancient Egypt
Economics
Guatama Buddha
41. Buddhist idea that fate is earned
Economics
karma
Feudal Japan
daimyo
42. Following a battle with Carthage - Rome emerged as the dominant power in the mediterranean
Napoleon -
Punic Wars
capitalism
feudalism
43. The basic of justice systems used throughout the western world
Adam Smith
Congress of Verona (1822)
The Justinian Code
lords
44. 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
Pax Romana
St. Augustine
Magna Carta
mythology
45. Mongol leader who took over the Chinese
Genghis Khan
Christopher Columbus
nominalism
ancient Greek
46. Mongol ruler that first opened China to the West through explorer Marco Polo
Chaldeans
Kublai Khan
The Dark Ages
the four characteristics of civilization
47. Enlightenment philosophers who questioned the proper function of government and their ideas led to the American and French Revolutions
daimyo
Christopher Columbus
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
The Age of Exploration
48. Emperor that called for the union of Germany and Italy under the Holy Empire
Punic Wars
Babylonians
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
Frederick Barbarosa
49. 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
The War of Roses
Sir Francis Drake
The Renaissance
Hinduism
50. The church's holy war to recapture the Holy Land - the Pope called for holy warriors to liberate the holy land from the infidels
Phonecians
romanticism
The Crusades
the Iron Age