CSET - subtest I (World History portion)

What was the approximate population of the world in 1 AD? 1992 AD?

When was writing invented?

What is the name of the justice codes formulated in ancient Mesopotamia?

Approximately when were the pyramids built? which is what period of Egyptian history?

Who fought in the Peloponnesian Wars?

Name the three greatest thinkers of the Greek Classic age:

What event marked the beginning of the Greek Hellenistic age?

What was the outcome of the Punic Wars?

Which leaders were defeated at the Battle of Action

Approximately when was Christianity declared the national religion of Rome?

Who was the original founder of Islam and when was he born?

What the original Japanese religion?

Why did the Samurai revolt in 1876? Were they successful?

Who was name emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in the late 700s AD?

What were the reason for the Crusades?

Joan of Arc fought for which country in what war?

The Bubonic Plague killed about what percent of Europeans?

Approximately when was Confucius born?

During what centuries did the Mongol Kahns rule China?

What was the cause of the Chinese-British Opium War?

What name was given to the earliest inhabitants of the Indus Valley in India?

What ideal did Buddha preach?

What was the beginning of Muslim and Hindu strife in India?

Where did the first towns in Africa appear?

During what century did Northern Africa become predominately Islamic?

What role did African kingdoms play in the slave trade?

What was the dominant civilization of the Yucatan peninsula until about 900AD?

The ideas of which ancient civilization were dominant during the Renaissance?

Which practice of the Catholic church was particularly repugnant of Protestants?

What was the significant difference b/w English Queens Mary I and Elizabeth I?

What major trade was begun during the Age of Exploration?

What major discovery to Copernicus make?

What was the average life expectancy in the early 1700s?

Who was the most famous Baroque painter?

Which Romanov leader began the modernization of Russia?

Which action began the French Revolution?

Which leader oversaw the reign of terror following the French Rev?

Where was Napoleon exiled? (2)

Which industries were the first to develop after the Industrial Revolution?

Which ideals were stressed by the Romantic Movement?(4)

With which country were Great Britain and France allied during the Crimean War?

What do anarchists believe?

What continent drew the most attention from European countries during the period of New Imperialism?

Where were the earliest recorded civilizations?

Who inhabited Mesopotamia and invented the first writing? What was the writing called?

What led to the dissolution of the Mesopotamia? Who was the King?

The Egyptians had writing called _______ and invented a ______ that we still use today.

Egyptians in horse-drawn chariots mark what period in Egyptian history's 7 periods?

What event marked the New Kingdom period in Egyptian history's 7 periods? Who was the king?

When did Egypt approximately come under the control of the Roman Empire?

The region south of the first cataract in Egypt was called?

Kush was the first what?

Where is the oldest settlement in Africa?

In 730 BC, what did the Kush Kingdom do?

What did the Assyrian and Persian attacks forced the Kush Kingdom to do what two things?

What was a striking and singular breakthrough about the Kush culture for the time? (2)

When were the Greek Dark Ages?

What war occurred during the Greek Dark Ages and was described by Homer in the Iliad?

In Sparta, every male citizens became a lifetime solder at the age of __

The Classic Age was a time for the development of what(2)? When did it begin?

The Hellenistic Age began in what year? After what change?

What two great developments came out of the Hellenistic Age?

When was Caesar assassinated and who led the conspiracy (2)?

Who was the first "God-Emperor" and led the Pax Romana?

What was the Pax Romana? How long did it last?

When did Civil War rage in the Roman Empire?

Were Constantine's attempts to stop the empire's decline successful?

Where did most of the world's religions emerge? (2)

Which religion is a mixture of beliefs from invaders of India and native Indians? What system does it embrace?

Who do most Hindus worship? (3)

What religion believe that karma determines a person's ultimate fate?

How did judaism develop?

What two books are studied in Judaism?

Who do Hebrews trace their ancestry to?

Buddhism was founded by whom?

What book contains Buddha's teachings?

In the mid 300s ______ was decreed the state religion of ______

What do Muslims believe?

What contains the 114 chapters of the Islamic religion and law?

The Quran is the holiest book of Islam and Muslims believe it contains .....

Japan remained a primitive society overrun by successive invasions of _____ and _____

Japan existed in the shadow of what county? Japan was considered a _______ country.

Who were installed as the permanent leaders of Japan, leaving the emperor with only ceremonial duties?

Around 1600 under the Shogunate, who were persecuted and what was forbidden?

How long did the Meiji period last?

What two countries were involved in and What caused the Sino-Japanese War? Who won?

Japan entered into war with Russia in what war? Who won?

The High MiddleAges lasted from ....?

When was the Magna Carta signed?

How many crusades were held from 1100-1300? Were the crusades successful? What was the outcome?

Define scholasticism

What two countries were involved in the Hundred Years war? Who won?

When was the Shang Dynasty? What was it known for?

When was the Chou Dynasty? What was it known for?

What happened under the Ch'in Rulers?

When was the Han Dynasty? Who was a revered figure?

What happened to China when it was invaded from the north?

When was the Sui Dynasty?

When was the T'ang Dynasty?

When was the Sung Dynasty? What was it known for? (2)

Who led the Chinese Mongols after Genghis Khan? Who did they attack? Who won?

What dynasty came after the Khan dynasty? What did it forbid?

Under what dynasty was the Opium war of 1839?

An early caste system in India establish Dravidians as what?

What verbal tradition described correct conduct and belief and described how the soul remains immortal through transmigration?

What is the order of the caste system..starting from the top?

Under what Empire did Buddhism become less popular in India?

What flourished during the Gupta Dynasty? What religion became dominant in india during this period?

By 1050 AD, most of northern _____ was an ____ land

What was the earliest state in West Africa? What kind of state was it?

Where in islam was a major center for trade and learning?

Where was there a lot of intermarriage between natives and settlers?

South Africa is best known for...

Who was the dominant civilization in MExico from 1700BC-900AD? What were they known for? (3)

Who was in power in northern Mexico about 900AD and referred to themselves as "Mexica?"

Who easily defeated the Aztecs and Emperor Montezuma in 1521?

Who existed in Peru about 500AD and were a dominant civilization?

What were the Incas known for? Who defeated them?

What does Renaissance mean? Where was it?

Explain Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572):

In England, what did Puritans object to that caused many to escape to the New World?

Where did 50% of African slaves get sent?

Who discovered the orbits of the planets during the Scientific Revolution?

Who invented the scientific method during the Scientific Revolution?

Who was a leader in mathematics and invented deductive, step-by-step method of proof?

The War of Devolution brought about what?

The Grand ALliance led to the formation of the Grand Coalition between what four countries?

What belief/emphasis became a leading force in Europe?

Who developed the steam engine?

Who said "I think; therefore, I am."

What established intellect as distinct from God and sought to establish a rational basis for life?

What type of art featured Grandeur?

Who believed in free trade and the law of supply and demand?

Who ruled Russia first? Second?

After two years of fighting in the French Revolution, the national assembly condemned and killed who? (2)

Who was a military genius who led France to an unsuccessful quest for an expanded empire?

What were two well-known inventions that came out of the Industrial Revolution?

What 5 philosophies came out of the Romanticism era?

Who established psychoanalytic psychology?

Who invented the theory of relativity?

What do physical anthropologists study?

What are the three primary determinants of culture?

What is the relationship of the legislative and executive branches in a Presidential gov't?

What is the relationship of the legislative and executive branches in a parliamentary gov't?

how often are US representatives elected?

government by the populace

government by a few

government by one

the power of the central gov't is limited by the rights of the states

the states are subordinate to the central gov't

Constitution can be amended by a ____ vote of ____ houses of Congress and _____ vote of the state legislatures

Congress consists of...

how long do the 100 senators (2 from each state) serve?

how many representatives in the HOR are there?

IF a bill is vetoed by the PResident, how can it still become a law?

Who only has power to declare war?

Who nominates Supreme Court justices?