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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. Oliver Cromwell ruled as a dictator and abolished the monarchy and the House of Lords.
Islamic Government and Religion
The Protestant Reformation
The Commonwealth Period
The Restoration Era
2. Greek city - state that was ruled by an oligarchy - focused on military - used slaves for agriculture - discouraged the arts. Developed a totalitarian and militaristic state dependent on slave labor.
The House of Lords
Sparta
Scholasticism
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
3. ...The House of Lords mainly consist of the peers and the people that have inherited their money. This House of Parliament has slowly lost its power to influence the system of government over the years.
Benin
The Communist Manifesto
The House of Lords
Martin Luther
4. Conquered the Mycenaeans - illiterate - cause the Dark Age of violence and instability
The Hundred Years War
The Counter Reformation
Dorians
The Reconquista
5. Provided land in exchange for personal service to the King.
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
The Peace of Augsburg
Fuedal Contract
Kamakura Shogunate
6. 1822 ended the congress system & allowed European powers to be guided by self - interest.
The Roman Government
The Congress of Verona
Genghis Khan
Mohammad
7. Forceful seizure of governmental power
Egyptian Religion
Militant Socialism
The Reconquista
James I
8. A period in European history - between about 1000 AD and 1500 AD - when the power of kings - people of high rank and the Christian Church was strong
Mughuls
Contributions of the Greeks
The Middle Ages
Classical Art
9. The doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self - realization through reason
Humanism
Fuedal Contract
The Pelponnesian War
English Parliment
10. The collection of Papal states directly under the control of the Pope. Included lands in Italy - Germany - France - Spain - and England.
Agarian
Byzantine Empire Success
The Holy Roman Empire
English Common Law
11. This group from the east of Mali built up an army and extended their territory to the large bend in the Niger River near Gao whic became the capital of their empire.
Kush
The Anasazi Culture
Napoleon Bonepart
Songhai
12. 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.
Commercial Revival
Absolutionism
Byzantine Empire Success
The Congress of Verona
13. Concerning farms - farmers - or agriculture and the use of land.
The Palace of Versailles
Agarian
Effect of the Reformation
Norman Conquest
14. 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.
The Mongols
Napoleon Bonepart
The Congress of Vienna
Oliver Cromwell
15. These people united and ruled most of India. After Babur invaded India - Akbar became the main ruler of this kind. They were great builders Taj Mahal - but their empire declined quickly (by 1750).
Aegan
Ziggurat
Mughuls
Islamic Culture
16. Last of the mound - building cultures of North America; flourished between 800 and 1300 C.E.; featured large towns and ceremonial centers; lacked stone architecture of Central America.
Henry IV
Roman Contributions
Mississippian Culture
Islamic Government and Religion
17. First known kingdom in sub - Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E. Also the modern West African country once known as the Gold Coast.
Ghana
The Scientific Revolution
Seljiks
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
18. A center for civilizations which flourished in the 2nd and 3rd millenniums BC
Machiavelli
The War of the Roses
Aegan
Scholasticism
19. This was the 2nd law passed by Parliament for King Henry VIII. It said that King Henry VIII was the only supreme head of the Church of England - and this church was formed from this act.
The Act of Supremacy
Ashikaga Shogunate
The Age of Enlightenment
The Samurai
20. The revolution that began in 1789 - overthrew the absolute monarchy of the Bourbons and the system of aristocratic privileges - and ended with Napoleon's overthrow of the Directory and seizure of power in 1799.
French Revolution
Byzantine Empire Decline
The Roman Government
Causes of the French Revolution
21. 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.
Minoan Civilization
Mississippian Culture
Class Division
Confucianism
22. Athens vs Sparta - Sparta won but both were devastated unable to unite Greed city - states.
The Pelponnesian War
Benin
The Protestant Reformation
Mississippian Culture
23. 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
The Battle of Hastings
Greece
The Scientific Revolution
Louis XIV
24. King of England - Scotland - and Ireland (1625-1649). His power struggles with Parliament resulted in the English Civil War (1642-1648) in which Charles was defeated. He was tried for treason and beheaded in 1649
Islamic Culture
Elizabeth I
Classical Art
Charles I
25. Among the most vigorous of the medieval emperors. Clashed with the pope over the appointment of the clergy. Known as 'the red beard' (r. 1152-1190). He attempted to conquer Lombardy (n. Italy) and unite the German princes - but the popes did not appr
Frederick Barbarossa
The Dark Ages
The Near East
Elizabeth I
26. 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 Communist Manifesto
The Roman Government
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
Norman Conquest
27. Eastern Roman empire after the fall of Rome.
The Chaldeans
Byzantine Empire
The Restoration Era
The Early Middle Ages
28. A city established as the new eastern capital of the roman empire by the emperor constantine in a.d. 330 that is now called istanbul
Islamic Government and Religion
Ziggurat
James I
Constanople
29. 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
English Common Law
The Commonwealth Period
The War of the Roses
30. The battle that took place in 1066 - in which William the Conqueror and Harold Godwinson fought for control of Normandy?
The Nile
English Parliment
The Battle of Hastings
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
31. This was the letter Martin Luther wrote to Archbishop Albert which explained that indulgences undermined the seriousness of the sacrament of penance.
Ashikaga Shogunate
Manorialism
The Code of Napoleon
Ninety Theses
32. Ruled the manor. Had bailiffs to take care of day - to - day affairs.
Umayyad
Napoleon Bonepart
The Lord of the Manor
Mycenaean Civilization
33. They were polytheistic worshiping over 2000 gods and goddesses. They believed in the afterlife and that they would be judged for their life. They had sacred burials. Ruled by Pharoahs.
Mali
Industrial Revolution
Constanople
Egyptian Religion
34. Venetian merchant and traveler. His accounts of his travels to China offered Europeans a firsthand view of Asian lands and stimulated interest in Asian trade.
Marco Polo
African Rivers
The Renaissance
Effect of the Reformation
35. An assembly of high church officials summoned by the Catholic Church to clarify doctrine and address reform in response to the challenges raised by the Protestant Reformation.
The Council of Trent
The Ottoman Empire
Fuedal Contract
The Code of Napoleon
36. The rise of Islam
Henry IV
The Muslim Empire
African Rivers
Mongols
37. A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula
Absolutionism
The French Republic
Causes of the French Revolution
Greece
38. Organization with midsize societies ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand people - with somewhat more power available to leaders.
Tribal Organization
The Summarians
The Nile
The Code of Hammurabi
39. A war that occurred between 1618 and 1648; it was mainly a civil war in Germany and the Holy Roman Empire over religious and political issues; it also involved the countries of Spain - France - Denmark - and Sweden
African Rivers
The Congress of Verona
The Thirty Years War
African Desert
40. Western name for the Chinese philosopher Kongzi (551-479 B.C.E.). His doctrine of duty and public service had a great influence on subsequent Chinese thought and served as a code of conduct for government officials.
The Council of Trent
Confucius
Islam
The Hopewell People
41. An extremely dry area with little water and few plants
African Desert
Islamic Culture
Neoclassicism
Ghana
42. The collapse of Rome and sweeping advances of Germanic and Viking raiders - Europe entered a time of chaotic political - economic - and urban decline A struggle back toward stability.
The Fall of Rome
The Crusades
The Early Middle Ages
Elizabeth I
43. 1830s movement in architecture when buildings in the Gothic (high medieval) style became popular. It was in this period that the British Parliament building was built. This was the architectural manifestation of Romanticism. Where the Enlightenment h
Greece
Byzantine Empire Success
Gothic Revival
Umayyad
44. Flourishing trade - medical encyclopedia - library - Algebra - spices - silks - perfumes - porcelain - textile goods
Fuedal System
The Thirty Years War
Roman Contributions
Islamic Culture
45. The first religion of Japan - 'The way of the Gods.' Shinto celebrates the mysteries and unforeseen forces of nature. Animistic. According to Shinto beliefs - divine spirits called kami are associated with the awesome forces of nature - such as rushi
English Common Law
The Thirty Years War
Shinto Religion
Neoclassicism
46. This war was between Aristocrats and Nobles. The Nobles wanted to control the throne so the first Tudor King - Henry VII took the throne in 1485. He abolished the Noble's private armies.
The Counter Reformation
Dorians
The Nile
The War of the Roses
47. 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
The Renaissance
Byzantine Empire
Ninety Theses
Islam
48. 800-1300 developed in the Southwest & the Anasazis were skilled builders & sophisticated farmers. Example Mesa Verde Cliff houses
The Anasazi Culture
The Roman Government
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
The Act of Supremacy
49. The name given to Medieval Europe due to its lack of cultural - societal - intellectual - political and economic progress
Tokugawa Shogunate
Islamic Civilization
The Palace of Versailles
The Dark Ages
50. A new group of nomads that drove the tang armies out of central Asia and took control of the silk roads. because of this chinas economy was damaged
The Palace of Versailles
Classical Art
Elizabeth I
Turks
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