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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. The collection of Papal states directly under the control of the Pope. Included lands in Italy - Germany - France - Spain - and England.
Paul the Apostle
The Holy Roman Empire
Contributions of the Greeks
Aegan
2. Mass production of goods and the rise of the factory system. From Rural to Urban centers. The division of society into defined calsses propertied and unpropertied. The development of modern Capitalism.
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
Ashikaga Shogunate
Byzantine Empire Decline
Constantine
3. River that provided for the needs of Ancient Egyptians and made their great civilization possible. Agriculture was the bases of the Egyptian Society.
The Egyptians
Roman Contributions
The Nile
Mali
4. Elected consul of rome in 59 bc. Genius with military strategy. Governed as an absolute ruler. Was assassinated in the senate chamber.
Turks
Ceasar
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
Minoan Civilization
5. Large powerful kingdom in East/Central africa. Controlled and taxed trade between the interior and coastal regions - Organized the flow of gold - ivory - slaves - forged alliances w/ local rulers & profited immensely from these transactions.
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
The Puritan Revolution
The Peace of Augsburg
Roman Military Strategy
6. 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
The War of the Roses
Proletariats
The Lord of the Manor
7. Old Kingdom (massive pyramids) - Middle kingdom - New kingdom (gets agressive)
Egyptian History
Manorialism
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
8. French philosopher and writer whose works epitomize the Age of Enlightenment - often attacking injustice and intolerance
The Counter Reformation
The Lydians
Decentralization of the Germanic States
Voltaire
9. 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
Hugh Capet
Mali
Marco Polo
10. This was the French law put in place by Napoleon. It promoted equality before the law - toleration of all religions - and outlawing serfdom and feudalism. It also took away women's rights and outlawed trade unions and strikes.
The House of York
African Rivers
The Code of Napoleon
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
11. Domination of the commercial trade routes controlled by Constintanople and a monopoly on the silk trade. Excellant use of diplonmacy to avoid invasions. Geographically distant from the tribes who sacked Rome. Codification of Roman Law. A forstress ci
Byzantine Empire
The Holy Roman Empire
Humanism
Byzantine Empire Success
12. Establishe a civiliztion in the Nile Valley.
The Egyptians
Ming Dynasty
The House of Commons
The Hittites
13. 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.
African Rivers
Seljiks
Industrial Revolution
Gothic Revival
14. Known as knights of feudal Japan and retainers of the daimyo. This aristocratic warrior class arose during the 12th - century wars between the Taira and Minamoto clans and was consolidated in the Tokugawa period. They were privileged to wear two swor
The Samurai
The Renaissance
Dorians
French Revolution
15. 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 Assyrians
The Council of Trent
The law of Primogeniture
The Romanov Dynasty
16. 2000-1200 B.C. conquered much of Asia Minor & northern Mesopotamia; a major contribution included the invention of iron smelting - which revolutionized warfare.
The Hittites
Ionia
African Culture
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
17. Entered China and easily changed the Ming dynasty into the Qing dynasty since they were sinicized before - Established a Confucian government with six ministries - a censorate - and other Chinese institutions - Were segregated from the Chinese - Forb
Songhai
Sparta
The Manchus
Tokugawa Shogunate
18. First Bourbon king - most important kings in French history - rise to power ended French Civil Wars - gradual course to absolutism - politique - converted to Catholicism to gain loyalty of Paris
English Common Law
Class Division
Dorians
Henry IV
19. 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.
The Peace of Augsburg
Oliver Cromwell
Swahili
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
20. 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.
Henry IV
The Glorious Revolution
The Heian Era
Charlemagne
21. This was the letter Martin Luther wrote to Archbishop Albert which explained that indulgences undermined the seriousness of the sacrament of penance.
The War of the Roses
Charlemagne
Ninety Theses
The Roman Government
22. A kingdom of the West African rain forest
Benin
Mohammad
Napoleon Bonepart
The Holy Roman Empire
23. An extremely dry area with little water and few plants
The Assyrians
African Desert
Cardinal Richelieu
St. Augustine
24. Became the first explorers - traders - and colonizers of the ancient world; their civilization reached its peak in 1000 B.C. - Greatest seafaring civilization in the ancient world - Developed extensive trade networks throughout the Mediterranean and
The Phoenicians
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
English Common Law
Tang Dynasty
25. The Vikings built fast ships where they would ship men and cargo from their land to charlemagnes empire to pilage and plunder.
The Viking Invasions
Byzantine Empire
The Roman Empire
Class Division
26. A warlike monotheistic civilization that spread rapidly throughout the Middle East and were constantly at war. They are known for their brilliant arabesques and gorgeous craftsmanship
Sparta
Industrial Revolution
Islamic Civilization
Byzantine Empire Success
27. A people of this name is mentioned as early as the records of the Tang Empire - living as nomads in northern Eurasia. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan - linking western and eastern Eurasia.
Peter the Great
Effect of the Reformation
Islamic Civilization
Mongols
28. Wars which - in the century after the death of Muhammed in 632 - created an empire stretching from Spain to the Indus Valley.
The Pelponnesian War
Umayyad
Ionia
Arab Conquests
29. Forceful seizure of governmental power
Militant Socialism
The French Religious Wars
The Scientific Revolution
Neoclassicism
30. DominateTurkish group control caliphate
Neoclassicism
Seljiks
Ghana
Islamic Civilization
31. Divide and conquer - attack one enemy at a time - always ally with the weak power against the strong - then conquer both afterwards. Give conquered people a stake/citizenship in the empire - respect local religions and traditions. Demand loyalty and
Roman Military Strategy
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
The War of the Roses
Alexandar the Great
32. Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa from the thirteenth to fifteenth century. It was famous for its role in the trans - Saharan gold trade.
Mali
African Desert
Neoclassicism
Henry IV
33. 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
Bourgeoisie
The Rise of Christianity
The Middle Ages
The Jesuits
34. 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
Constantine
Scholasticism
Elizabeth I
35. Comprised the Tigris & Euphrates Valley - the Fertile Crescent - and The Nile Valley. They had the first system of independent states and writing. Architectural achievements are the ziggurat & pyramid. the first codification of law. the first lasting
Roman Military Strategy
The Near East
English Common Law
Voltaire
36. 16th century religious movement led by Martin Luther that sought to reform the Roman Catholic Church and led to the formation of Protestantism
Alexandar the Great
Mycenaean Civilization
The Protestant Reformation
Augustus
37. English military - political - and religious figure who led the Parliamentarian victory in the English Civil War (1642-1649) and called for the execution of Charles I. As lord protector of England (1653-1658) he ruled as a virtual dictator.
Paul the Apostle
Oliver Cromwell
Mohammad
African Culture
38. 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 Age of Enlightenment
Roman Society
Confucius
Paul the Apostle
39. 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.
Louis XIV
Sparta
The Age of Enlightenment
Abbassides
40. The Hitties - the Assyrians - Chaldeans - and the Phoenicians. Centralized Government and advancements in algebra and geometry.
The Romanov Dynasty
The Hundred Years War
The Babalonians
Aegan
41. 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.
English Parliment
The Protestant Reformation
Napoleon Bonepart
The English Civil War
42. Dynasty often referred to as China's Golden age that reigned during 618 - 907 AD; China expands from Vietnam to Manchuria
Tang Dynasty
Ashikaga Shogunate
The Congress of Vienna
The Lord of the Manor
43. The term for The Univeral Soul in Hinduism.
Turks
Tribal Organization
Brahman
The Muslim Empire
44. 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.
Roman Military Strategy
Mississippian Culture
Norman Conquest
Henry IV
45. 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
Industrial Revolution
Gothic Revival
Ghana
The Act of Supremacy
46. A government in which power is in the hands of a few people -- especially one in which rule is based upon wealth.
Greece
Oligarthy
Machiavelli
Ghana
47. The economic and social system of medieval europe - lords recieved land from the King in exchane for loyalty and serfs worked the land for the lords in exchange for protection.
The Franks
Laisssez Faire
Manorialism
Fuedal System
48. Ended the Thirty Years War. 1. Recognized independent authority of German princes. 2. Allowed France to intervene in German affairs. 3. Pope couldn't participate in German religious affiars.
African Culture
The Peace of Westphalia
The Phoenicians
The Communist Manifesto
49. Organization with midsize societies ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand people - with somewhat more power available to leaders.
Humanism
The Thirty Years War
Tribal Organization
The Hittites
50. Powerful city in Ancient Greece that was a leader in arts - sciences - philosophy - democracy and architecture.
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
The French Republic
Athens
Effect of the Reformation