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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. Ghana - Mali and Songhai
defeat of Spanish Armanda
Three famous African empires
karma
Oliver Cromwell
2. War that re - established Christian control over Muslim Spain in 1492
Edict of Nantes
The Reconquista
Constantine
the Pueblo Indians
3. A feudal king in feudal Japan
church
shogun
Three famous African empires
Paul the Apostle
4. Spanish explorer who sailed west from Spain and landed in the Carribbean - thinking it was India
Europe's Industrial Revolution
Christopher Columbus
Confucianism
Society of Jesus
5. Caused by dis - satisfaction with church ritual and Latin overtones
Africa's four rivers
The Reformation
Age of Enlightenment
Protestantism
6. A way of thinking that inspired the nationalistic philosophy and the idea of self - determination
Martin Luther
Thirty Years War
romanticism
The Reformation
7. Mongol leader who took over the Chinese
The Justinian Code
Edict of Nantes
Genghis Khan
The War of Roses
8. Emperor of the Byzantine empire that esetablished a new Rome in Constantinople
Europe's Industrial Revolution
Constantine
ancient Greek
Edict of Nantes
9. Gave Hugenots political and religious freedom
Edict of Nantes
monotheism
the Peace of Augsburg
Confucianism
10. The way that a product is produced - in capitalism - it is ownedby the individual
hunter/gatherer societies
mercantilism
means of productions
absolutism
11. A family that united and ruled most of India and built The Taj Mahal
Chaldeans
Age of Pericles
Sumeria
Mughuls
12. Leaders in Islammic civilizations that improved farming methods and crop yields
Christopher Columbus
Islam
Three famous African empires
caliphs
13. Group that took over the Byzantine and Persian Empires and worked on medicine - a stronomy - mathematics - architecture and literature
Cardinal Richelieu
manoralism
Louis XIV
Muslims
14. Chinese dynasty that ousted the Mongols and then limited contact with the West through isolationism
the Ming Dynasty
the Act of supremacy
Isaac Newton
Rome
15. Enlightenment philosophers who questioned the proper function of government and their ideas led to the American and French Revolutions
Confucius
Alexander the Great
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
Byzantine Empire
16. 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
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
Ancient Egypt
Assyria
The Age of Exploration
17. Battle over the succession of thet hrone in England. The House of Lancaster crushes the House of York and Henry VII establishes the infamous Tudor dynasty
The War of Roses
Kublai Khan
Assyria
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
18. Author of 'Wealth of Nations' which advocates that manufacturing is truly the soruce of the nation's wealth
Peace of Westphalia
Illiad and Odyssey
The Reconquista
Adam Smith
19. Primarily agricultural economy dependent upon the lord of the manor and control over the serfs
manoralism
nominalism
Causes of Rome's fall
Cardinal Richelieu
20. Concept in scholasticism in which reality consists of ideas (universals) that exist in the mind - independent of sensory powersof perception
law of supply and demand
means of productions
Feudal Japan
realism
21. Landowners in feudal Europe
lords
feudalism
absolutism
serfs
22. Officially recognizes Lutheranism but allowed Catholicis princes to support Catholicism
Mughuls
The Dark Ages
the Peace of Augsburg
Charlemagne
23. War between England and France that led to France rising as a nation
the Iron Age
Battle of Hastings (1066)
Magna Carta
The Hundred Years War
24. Chinese philosophy with a focus on concept of respect to one's family - parents - government and rulers - supported tendency to respect authority
Confucianism
modern capitalism
manoralism
reasons for Byzantine's successs
25. Promotes concept of balanced Europe as England gains power
Chaldeans
Society of Jesus
Henry VII
lords
26. After the fall of Rome - Europe lacked strong poltiical and economic center - transitioning into the Medieval Ages
The Hundred Years War
Confucianism
karma
The Dark Ages
27. Inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
Africa's four rivers
the Pueblo Indians
caliphs
Edict of Nantes
28. Chinese philospher who built up concept of yin and yang to form Taoism
Holy bible
Lao - tzu
The Age of Exploration
the Fertile Crescent
29. English moarch to begin colonization of North America
James I
mercantilism
karma
Byzantine Empire
30. English government consists of the House of Lords (for the wealthy) and House of Commons
English parliament
mercantilism
Age of Pericles
Society of Jesus
31. Early civilization that encouraged material progress - including large - scale irrigation projects - an advancced system of mathematics and invention of the wheel
fiefs
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
Mughuls
Sumeria
32. 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
Europe's Industrial Revolution
caliphs
Magna Carta
Frederick Barbarosa
33. Early civililzation that developed the first lasting monotheism
The Crusades
the Peace of Augsburg
vassals
Israelites
34. The practice of worshipping one god
Kush
French Revolution
realism
monotheism
35. Jesuits were the official Catholic response to the reformation
fiefs
Society of Jesus
The Renaissance
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
36. Enlightenment aritsts who emphasized the classical era's symphonies - rhythms and melodies
samurai
Adam Smith
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
Isaac Newton
37. 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
Assyria
Rome
Battle of Hastings (1066)
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
38. Religious stories about gods and goddesses who had human - style weaknesses and disagreements
French religious wars (1562-1598)
monotheism
Lydians
mythology
39. 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
Henry VII
The Renaissance
'The Grand Experiment'
Ancient Egypt
40. An African empire the developed out of an iron working stettlement and eswasbasd on gold trade
Zimbabwe
Confucianism
Congress of Verona (1822)
Age of Pericles
41. French King who evoked absolutism with the palace of Versailles and lavishness
The Reconquista
daimyo
nominalism
Louis XIV
42. 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
Mughuls
manoralism
scholasticism
Hinduism
43. The first great Christian philosopher
St. Augustine
the four characteristics of civilization
Punic Wars
Sir Francis Drake
44. Skilled farmers who flourished in Ohio and Mississippi
Romanov dynasty -
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
caliphs
Hopewell people
45. Proximity to arabs - Salvs - n and Turks - Constantinople sacked during the fourth Crusade
46. Italian religious leader that established the independency of the papacy through the Vatican
Pope Leo IX
Ferdinand Magellan
Charlemagne
The Hundred Years War
47. Knights or military in feudal Europe
modern capitalism
vassals
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
The Reformation
48. Ended the Anglo - Saxon rule in England
Pax Romana
Babylonians
Alexander the Great
Battle of Hastings (1066)
49. Greek leader who conquered Persia - Asia Minor - and egypt to establish a world empire
Thirty Years War
Israelites
caliphs
Alexander the Great
50. A growing interest in culture of learning and reading. Led to a questioning of Christianity and church dogma.
Babylonians
Magna Carta
Age of Pericles
Age of Enlightenment