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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. The revolutionary socialism of ____________ advocated a violent overthrow of the present economic system - History was seen as a class struggle between the exploiters (bourgeoisie) and the exploited (proletariat)
Karl Marx
The Romanov Dynasty
Rift Valley
Scholasticism
2. European trade agreement with Africa dealing with slaves brought from Africa. Integral part of Triangle Trade between the Americas - Africa - and Europe.
Akbar
Benin
Byzantine Empire Decline
Slave Trade
3. A fundamental transformation in scientific ideas in physics - astronomy - and biology - in institutions supporting scientific investigation - and in the more widely held picture of the universe
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
The Scientific Revolution
African Savana
Arab Caliphs
4. Attempted to unify the entire Near East under one rule (500s B.C.) - Established an international government - Zoroastrianism - an ethical religion based on concepts of good and evil - Failed to conquer the Greeks; Persia was eventually conquered by
Gothic Revival
The Persians
Henry IV
Manorialism
5. French Protestants who suffered persecution. Many left Europe for America to find religious freedom
The Huguenots
The Code of Napoleon
Minoan Civilization
The Chaldeans
6. Caused by a continuing power struggle with the Pope.
Decentralization of the Germanic States
The Heian Era
Roman Contributions
Contributions of the Greeks
7. This was the peak of the strength of the cultural and military power of Athens. During this time period there are many philosophers - including Socrates and Plato. This is also the time of the drama and many new advances in science - including Pythag
Agarian
The Puritan Revolution
The Shogun
The Age of Pericles(460 BC-429 BC)
8. The term for The Univeral Soul in Hinduism.
Turks
Kamakura Shogunate
Seljiks
Brahman
9. The meeting of representatives from each of the nations in the Quadruple Alliance. Its purpose was to draft a peace settlement by redrawing Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoleonic France. It succeeded in constructing a settlement that w
African Desert
Voltaire
The Congress of Vienna
The Renaissance
10. Occupied western Asia Minor (500s B.C.) - Their culture reached its zenith under King Croesus (Golden King) - Were responsible for the first coinage of money
The Early Middle Ages
The Peace of Augsburg
The Lydians
Roman Contributions
11. The great rebirth of acrt - literature - and learning in the 14th - 15th - and 16th centuries which marked the transition from the medieval to modern periods of European history. - A new way of thinking. Which laed to future reforms for the catholic
Hieroglyphics
The Renaissance
Neoplatonism
The Act of Supremacy
12. The Christian name for Saul who had been a persecutor of Christians before conversion. - Was responsible for the spread of Christian theology & the resulting response from the Roman Empire.
Genghis Khan
Paul the Apostle
Decentralization of the Germanic States
The Act of Supremacy
13. Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China
Confucianism
Kublai Khan
The Romanov Dynasty
Abbassides
14. This queen of England chose a religion between the Puritans and Catholics and required her subjects to attend church or face a fine. She also required uniformity and conformity to the Church of England
Roman Military Strategy
Ghana
Elizabeth I
The Heian Era
15. Established the new Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar (605-538 B.C.)- Conquered Mesopotamia - Syria - and Palestine Developed astrology - astronomy - advanced government bureaucracy - and architectural achievements such as the Hanging Gardens of
Humanism
The Hopewell People
The Chaldeans
Marco Polo
16. Individual conviction of ones belief - The effeciency and organization of the the early church - Doctrines that stressed equality and immorality. The establishment of the Pope.
Akbar
Arab Caliphs
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
Neoclassicism
17. Took over Turkey from the Byzantine Empire and strived to expand its borders into Eastern Europe - mainly fighting the Holy Roman Empire and its various princes throughout the Middle Ages. Constanople the center. Over time it started to shrink and gr
Voltaire
The Ottoman Empire
Byzantine Empire Decline
Kamakura Shogunate
18. Creators of the Mesopotamia civiliztion. Large scale irrigation projects - advanced system of mathematics and the invention of the wheel.
Bourgeoisie
The Summarians
The Persians
The Crusades
19. A kingdom of the West African rain forest
Aegan
The Scientific Revolution
Benin
Seljiks
20. An extremely dry area with little water and few plants
African Desert
The Muslim Empire
Martin Luther
Egyptian Religion
21. Athens vs Sparta - Sparta won but both were devastated unable to unite Greed city - states.
The Reconquista
Islam
The Pelponnesian War
The Jesuits
22. The English Parliament drove out an absolute monarch and replaced him with two constitutional monarch's William and Mary. 1688 - change of who is in power without bloodshed. Established the supremacy of Parliment.
Martin Luther
The Glorious Revolution
Kamakura Shogunate
Tribal Organization
23. Crused by the House of Lancaster
The House of York
The War of the Roses
The Lydians
Frederick Barbarossa
24. The change from an agricultural to an industrial society and from home manufacturing to factory production - especially the one that took place in England from about 1750 to about 1850.
Sparta
Industrial Revolution
French Revolution
African Savana
25. The Hitties - the Assyrians - Chaldeans - and the Phoenicians. Centralized Government and advancements in algebra and geometry.
The Age of Pericles(460 BC-429 BC)
Minoan Civilization
The Babalonians
Nomadic
26. African Civilization developed here
English Parliment
Ming Dynasty
Rift Valley
Agarian
27. The scientific revolution brought about new mechanical inventions - The availability of investment capital and the rise of the middle class provided an economic base - Geographic and social conditions in England favored industrialization:
Athens
The Ottoman Empire
Hugh Capet
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
28. A more militaristic civilization then Minoans - they traded and raided - turning on their Minoan teachers - helping to destroy Crete.
The English Civil War
Mycenaean Civilization
Charlemagne
The Heian Era
29. Constituted of a mixed government including consuls - a senate - tribune - assembly of the tribes - ...
The Ottoman Empire
Tang Dynasty
The House of Lancaster
The Roman Government
30. 800-1300 developed in the Southwest & the Anasazis were skilled builders & sophisticated farmers. Example Mesa Verde Cliff houses
The Anasazi Culture
Agarian
The Scientific Revolution
The Manchus
31. A broad intellectual movement in 18th - century Europe that advocated the use of reason in the re - evaluation of accepted ideas. Also known as the Age of Reason.
Ming Dynasty
The Age of Enlightenment
Egyptian History
The House of York
32. The Ashikaga Shogunate is the weakest of the three Japanese bakufu governments. Unlike its predecessor - the Kamakura Shogunate - or its successor - the - when Ashikaga Takauji established his bakufu he had little personal territories with which to
Ashikaga Shogunate
The Magna Carta
The Commonwealth Period
Paul the Apostle
33. A book written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that describes the new political system of scientific socialism - which becomes the basis for communism. The book states that all of human history is based on the conflict between the bourgeoisie (thos
The Babalonians
Kublai Khan
The Communist Manifesto
The Summarians
34. Japanese ruling dynasty that strove to isolate it from foreign influences. shogunate started by Tokugawa Leyasu; 4 class system - warriors - farmers - artisans - merchants; Japan's ports were closed off; wanted to create their own culture; illegal to
The Franks
The Early Middle Ages
The law of Primogeniture
Tokugawa Shogunate
35. The battle that took place in 1066 - in which William the Conqueror and Harold Godwinson fought for control of Normandy?
Proletariats
The Battle of Hastings
The French Religious Wars
Hieroglyphics
36. A center for civilizations which flourished in the 2nd and 3rd millenniums BC
Seljiks
Aegan
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
Neoclassicism
37. Made up of art and culture - music/dance - storytelling and very Religious
The Persians
Gothic Revival
African Culture
Scholasticism
38. Renewal in trade/ growth in economy. No more manorialism. Expanded the social class and a true middle class emerged. Introduced banking and the Guild system.
Kamakura Shogunate
Ghana
Commercial Revival
Greece
39. Prompted by Louis Philippe giving up his throne - this was a new era of liberalism in France. Measures enacted included freeing slaves - granting all males the right to vote - abolishing capital punishment - the establishment of national workshops -
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
The French Republic
The Israelites
The House of Lancaster
40. Following the death of Ivan the Terrible in 1584 - Russia experienced a period of weakness and disorder known as the Time of Troubles. Hoping to restore order - an assembly of nobles elected Michael Romanov to be the next czar. The Romanov Dynasty ru
Charlemagne
The Romanov Dynasty
The Persians
The Rise of Christianity
41. Created during kamakura era - In theory: Emperor's military chief of staff - In reality: Actual ruler of Japan
The Mongols
The Shogun
Charles I
Mycenaean Civilization
42. Organization with midsize societies ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand people - with somewhat more power available to leaders.
Mycenaean Civilization
Tribal Organization
Abbassides
Islamic Civilization
43. The separation of people into different social groups like lower class - upper class. Clergy & nobility were the privileged class - peasants and artisans wer the work force and serfs were tied to the land.
African Rivers
Bourgeoisie
Calvinism
Class Division
44. Oliver Cromwell ruled as a dictator and abolished the monarchy and the House of Lords.
The Commonwealth Period
Brahman
The Assyrians
The Heian Era
45. Military Genius of France - who later became a dictator and eventually overthrown. He sold the west land (Louisiana) to the United States for a very cheap price doubling the land of America.
Charlemagne
Byzantine Empire Decline
The Jesuits
Napoleon Bonepart
46. Te monotheistic religion of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran
The Communist Manifesto
Shinto Religion
Commercial Revival
Islam
47. The idea that the government should not play an active role in regulating the economy.
Laisssez Faire
Sparta
The Crusades
The Hopewell People
48. An economic system based on the manor and lands including a village and surrounding acreage which were administered by a lord. It developed during the Middle Ages to increase agricultural production.
The Restoration Era
The Shogun
Manorialism
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
49. The doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self - realization through reason
The Pelponnesian War
Humanism
Absolutionism
Genghis Khan
50. Political system in which a ruler holds total power. The ruler has total control and final say over their people.
The Restoration Era
Byzantine Empire Decline
The Protestant Reformation
Absolutionism
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