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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. Early civilizaion that was the first explorers - traders and colonizers of the anfcient world and develop the first alphabet
Phonecians
James I
Paul the Apostle
The Age of Exploration
2. Works by the Greek writer Homer
Illiad and Odyssey
Zimbabwe
French religious wars (1562-1598)
Elizabeth I
3. A feudal lord in feudal Japan
Chaldeans
daimyo
the Act of supremacy
Kublai Khan
4. Ancient civilization that we owe our literary heritage - science - mathematics and democratic forms of governments
ancient Greek
mercantilism
the Pueblo Indians
means of productions
5. A way of thinking that inspired the nationalistic philosophy and the idea of self - determination
hunter/gatherer societies
romanticism
monotheism
mythology
6. The river valleys near the Tigres and Euphrates and Nile Rivers - which were the cradle of civlization
Mississippian culture
Peace of Westphalia
Constantine
the Fertile Crescent
7. Writing - mathematics - sicence - philosophy and arts
Mississippian culture
The Age of Exploration
the four characteristics of civilization
nominalism
8. Inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
The Age of Exploration
the Pueblo Indians
Byzantine Empire
Age of Pericles
9. The first written form of law and came from the Babylonian times
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10. Gave Hugenots political and religious freedom
Islam
Hinduism
manoralism
Edict of Nantes
11. Early civilization that encouraged material progress - including large - scale irrigation projects - an advancced system of mathematics and invention of the wheel
Mississippian culture
Pope Leo IX
Sumeria
monotheism
12. 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
Guatama Buddha
Martin Luther
Ferdinand Magellan
The War of Roses
13. Greek leader who conquered Persia - Asia Minor - and egypt to establish a world empire
Mughuls
Frederick Barbarosa
Alexander the Great
Isaac Newton
14. Author of 'Wealth of Nations' which advocates that manufacturing is truly the soruce of the nation's wealth
Adam Smith
Kush
Three famous African empires
serfs
15. Nile - Congo - Niger - and Zambizi
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16. Led to the destruction of early civilizations like the Egyptians - Assyrians and Babylonians through the development of iron weapons
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
Oliver Cromwell
reasons for Byzantine's successs
the Iron Age
17. The first great Christian philosopher
Lao - tzu
The War of Roses
St. Augustine
Sir Francis Drake
18. Leaders in Islammic civilizations that improved farming methods and crop yields
caliphs
hiearchy of needs
the Pueblo Indians
The Age of Exploration
19. Chinese philosophy with a focus on concept of respect to one's family - parents - government and rulers - supported tendency to respect authority
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
Edict of Nantes
Confucianism
Romanov dynasty -
20. 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
Genghis Khan
The Renaissance
Lydians
French Revolution
21. Ended the Anglo - Saxon rule in England
Martin Luther
The Renaissance
Society of Jesus
Battle of Hastings (1066)
22. 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
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
hiearchy of needs
Ferdinand Magellan
23. Ghana - Mali and Songhai
Three famous African empires
St. Augustine
James I
Confucius
24. Portuguese explorer who was the first man to circumnavigate the globe
Kush
Charlemagne
Ferdinand Magellan
feudalism
25. Ends Spanish attempts to invade England
Paul the Apostle
defeat of Spanish Armanda
mythology
Mughuls
26. 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
law of supply and demand
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
hiearchy of needs
French Revolution
27. Jesuits were the official Catholic response to the reformation
mythology
serfs
Society of Jesus
Edict of Nantes
28. The basic of justice systems used throughout the western world
Ferdinand Magellan
Age of Pericles
The Justinian Code
fiefs
29. 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
Guatama Buddha
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
Byzantine Empire
Sir Francis Drake
30. Early civilization that occupied the western Asia minor and were responsible for the first coinage of money
The Hundred Years War
the four characteristics of civilization
romanticism
Lydians
31. 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
St. Augustine
Magna Carta
English parliament
lords
32. 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
Lydians
lords
The Age of Exploration
Holy bible
33. Caused by dis - satisfaction with church ritual and Latin overtones
Anasazi culture
Chaldeans
Genghis Khan
The Reformation
34. 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
Edict of Nantes
Rome
the Act of supremacy
samurai
35. What is gained by whom and what is lost or sacrified
cost - benefit analysis
reincarnation
samurai
lords
36. Emperor that called for the union of Germany and Italy under the Holy Empire
French religious wars (1562-1598)
Phonecians
Battle of Hastings (1066)
Frederick Barbarosa
37. Author of absolutist politics
Guatama Buddha
Cardinal Richelieu
Mughuls
law of supply and demand
38. The zenith of Athenian society and the hight of its democracy
Rome
Protestantism
caliphs
Age of Pericles
39. An economy in which people leave the funding alone
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40. Promotes concept of balanced Europe as England gains power
The War of Roses
monotheism
Henry VII
Kush
41. Land owned by the lords of feudal Europe
fiefs
reasons for Byzantine's successs
Karl Marx - who saw capitalism as 'feudal serfdom' develops the idea of communism
Adam Smith
42. Following a battle with Carthage - Rome emerged as the dominant power in the mediterranean
Illiad and Odyssey
Assyria
Punic Wars
The Justinian Code
43. Fought between Catholics and Huguenots for control of france
Ferdinand Magellan
fiefs
French religious wars (1562-1598)
Causes of Rome's fall
44. War between England and France that led to France rising as a nation
French religious wars (1562-1598)
The Age of Exploration
nominalism
The Hundred Years War
45. 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 Peace of Augsburg
Ancient Egypt
Age of Enlightenment
Persians
46. The first ruler of the French Republic. Established a Code of Napoleon that modernized French law- was ultimately defeated in The Battle of Waterloo
Martin Luther
Napoleon -
The Reconquista
cost - benefit analysis
47. Emperor of the Byzantine empire that esetablished a new Rome in Constantinople
Constantine
Hinduism
St. Augustine
The Reformation
48. English ruler who helped England emerge as a major European power
Elizabeth I
shogun
Ferdinand Magellan
Holy bible
49. French King who evoked absolutism with the palace of Versailles and lavishness
modern capitalism
hiearchy of needs
Hammurabi's Code
Louis XIV
50. 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
Taoism
Lydians
Chaldeans
The War of Roses