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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. Concept in scholasticism in which symbols or names for objects. Only perceived objects are real
monotheism
nominalism
Age of Enlightenment
Henry VII
2. A family that united and ruled most of India and built The Taj Mahal
Mughuls
Martin Luther
the Iron Age
Guatama Buddha
3. Encourages the accumulation of wealth and property by individuals but is regulated by the state
Kublai Khan
Hinduism
capitalism
the four characteristics of civilization
4. Early civilization that conquered Sumeria and established the Code of Hammurabi was the first written code to regulate society - achieved central government and advancements in algebra and geomoetry
Babylonians
Taoism
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
the Pueblo Indians
5. Ended the Anglo - Saxon rule in England
Battle of Hastings (1066)
romanticism
English parliament
caliphs
6. Early civilization that encouraged material progress - including large - scale irrigation projects - an advancced system of mathematics and invention of the wheel
Alexander the Great
Sumeria
Edict of Nantes
mercantilism
7. A period of peace for two centuries without a major war
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
Pax Romana
Hammurabi's Code
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
8. The idea of total obedience to the sovereign because of their 'divine right'
absolutism
Confucianism
'The Grand Experiment'
Louis XIV
9. The first written form of law and came from the Babylonian times
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10. The practice of state regulation and control fo the economy in an attempt to insure prosperity
The Renaissance
capitalism
realism
mercantilism
11. Greek leader who conquered Persia - Asia Minor - and egypt to establish a world empire
Punic Wars
Thirty Years War
Alexander the Great
Zimbabwe
12. Spanish explorer who sailed west from Spain and landed in the Carribbean - thinking it was India
Christopher Columbus
Charlemagne
manoralism
reasosn for Byzantine's decline decline
13. 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
Cardinal Richelieu
Guatama Buddha
English parliament
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
14. English ruler who helped England emerge as a major European power
Assyria
Constantine
Elizabeth I
Martin Luther
15. 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
Cardinal Richelieu
Hinduism
the Act of supremacy
scholasticism
16. 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
fiefs
Pax Romana
St. Augustine
17. Buddhist idea that fate is earned
Persians
Phonecians
karma
Edict of Nantes
18. After the fall of Rome - Europe lacked strong poltiical and economic center - transitioning into the Medieval Ages
Pax Romana
The Dark Ages
Christopher Columbus
realism
19. Important iron working center for African civilization
Paul the Apostle
Christopher Columbus
Kush
feudalism
20. Caused by dis - satisfaction with church ritual and Latin overtones
The Reformation
Christopher Columbus
the Iron Age
Illiad and Odyssey
21. Philosophy that deals with theconsistency of faith and reason
Chaldeans
scholasticism
Zimbabwe
Magna Carta
22. Led to the destruction of early civilizations like the Egyptians - Assyrians and Babylonians through the development of iron weapons
Henry VII
Hammurabi's Code
the Iron Age
The Renaissance
23. Knights or military in feudal Europe
The Dark Ages
Genghis Khan
capitalism
vassals
24. Officially recognizes Lutheranism but allowed Catholicis princes to support Catholicism
nominalism
Taoism
Sumeria
the Peace of Augsburg
25. Chinese philospher who built up concept of yin and yang to form Taoism
Alexander the Great
The Hundred Years War
vassals
Lao - tzu
26. Works by the Greek writer Homer
Illiad and Odyssey
the Peace of Augsburg
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
Confucianism
27. French King who evoked absolutism with the palace of Versailles and lavishness
law of supply and demand
Society of Jesus
The Hundred Years War
Louis XIV
28. Early civilization that attempt to unify the near East under zoroastrianism zoroastrianism - an ethical religion based on the concepts of good and evil
Persians
St. Augustine
fiefs
Christopher Columbus
29. Religious stories about gods and goddesses who had human - style weaknesses and disagreements
Peace of Westphalia
mythology
reincarnation
Anasazi culture
30. Emperor that called for the union of Germany and Italy under the Holy Empire
The Hundred Years War
Frederick Barbarosa
Elizabeth I
Taoism
31. Early civilization that occupied the western Asia minor and were responsible for the first coinage of money
The Age of Exploration
Lao - tzu
realism
Lydians
32. Christian disciple responsible for the spread of Christian theology
Islam
Paul the Apostle
caliphs
Louis XIV
33. Based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed in the holy book known as the Koran
monotheism
Islam
Constantine
defeat of Spanish Armanda
34. Inhabited the Southwest after the Anasazi people and built extensive adobe cities
the Pueblo Indians
St. Augustine
the Iron Age
Isaac Newton
35. 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
Thirty Years War
Persians
mythology
The Congress of Vienna (1815)
36. Started absolutism in Russia started with Ivan the Terrible
Economics
defeat of Spanish Armanda
law of supply and demand
Romanov dynasty -
37. War between most European powers and led to the devestation of Germany
Thirty Years War
nominalism
Byzantine Empire
Taoism
38. Enlightenment aritsts who emphasized the classical era's symphonies - rhythms and melodies
Illiad and Odyssey
fiefs
Martin Luther
Hadyn - Mozart and Beethoven
39. Mongol leader who took over the Chinese
Economics
Adam Smith
Chaldeans
Genghis Khan
40. Battle between Charles Martel and the Muslims prevented Islam from entering Europe
The Battle of Tours (732 AD)
scholasticism
Persians
ancient Greek
41. Ancient civilization that we owe our literary heritage - science - mathematics and democratic forms of governments
Cardinal Richelieu
ancient Greek
Edict of Nantes
nominalism
42. Buddhist idea of re - birth after death
The Crusades
reincarnation
Christopher Columbus
hunter/gatherer societies
43. Ancient Asian civilization that developed own language and system of writing - literature and poetry - Shinto religion
Feudal Japan
The Dark Ages
Africa's four rivers
Holy bible
44. Fought between Catholics and Huguenots for control of france
French religious wars (1562-1598)
James I
Elizabeth I
the four characteristics of civilization
45. Enlightenment philosophers who questioned the proper function of government and their ideas led to the American and French Revolutions
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
Henry VII
Congress of Verona (1822)
'The Grand Experiment'
46. The church's holy war to recapture the Holy Land - the Pope called for holy warriors to liberate the holy land from the infidels
shogun
The Crusades
caliphs
the Peace of Augsburg
47. Chinese philosopher who developed the idea of Confucianism
Assyria
monotheism
Henry VII
Confucius
48. 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
Guatama Buddha
Alexander the Great
lords
49. Land owned by the lords of feudal Europe
fiefs
Romanov dynasty -
Cardinal Richelieu
The Justinian Code
50. The zenith of Athenian society and the hight of its democracy
Louis XIV
realism
Anasazi culture
Age of Pericles