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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. 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.
The Holy Roman Empire
The Lydians
Songhai
The War of the Roses
2. Characterized by moving about from place to place as nomads
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
The Battle of Hastings
Nomadic
Humanism
3. 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 Hopewell People
Elizabeth I
The Protestant Reformation
4. 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 Muslim Empire
Mississippian Culture
The Phoenicians
The War of the Roses
5. 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
The Heian Era
English Common Law
The Act of Supremacy
Charles I
6. 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
Brahman
Militant Socialism
Turks
The Egyptians
7. 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.
The Muslim Empire
Arab Caliphs
Commercial Revival
Benin
8. Ruled the manor. Had bailiffs to take care of day - to - day affairs.
The Israelites
The Huguenots
The Lord of the Manor
Mali
9. The basis of a court system for justice. The essence of English common law is that it is made by judges sitting in courts - applying their common sense and knowledge of legal precedent to the facts before them.
The Heian Era
English Common Law
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
Mughuls
10. A military dictatorship in Japan headed by the shoguns from 1185 to 133. It was based in Kamakura which was the capital of the shogunate.
The War of the Roses
The Age of Enlightenment
Kamakura Shogunate
The Lord of the Manor
11. African Civilization developed here
Rift Valley
The Congress of Vienna
Abbassides
The Continental System
12. Document written in 1215 which limited the power of the King and established the principle of limited government and the fundamental rights of English citizens. The document also introduced such fundamental rights as trial by jury and due process of
The Magna Carta
The Lydians
Laisssez Faire
Commercial Revival
13. The invasion and settlement of England by the Normans following the Battle of Hastings (1066)
Slave Trade
Kamakura Shogunate
Norman Conquest
The Fall of Rome
14. Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China
Kublai Khan
Laisssez Faire
The Hopewell People
Ashikaga Shogunate
15. The collection of Papal states directly under the control of the Pope. Included lands in Italy - Germany - France - Spain - and England.
Realism (Plato)
James I
Augustus
The Holy Roman Empire
16. 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
Laisssez Faire
Islamic Civilization
Byzantine Empire Success
Byzantine Empire Decline
17. 800-1300 developed in the Southwest & the Anasazis were skilled builders & sophisticated farmers. Example Mesa Verde Cliff houses
The Shogun
The Palace of Versailles
The Anasazi Culture
Mughuls
18. Was divided into the patricians (propertied class) - plebeians (main body of Roman citizens) - and slaves.
The Persians
Fuedal System
Roman Society
The Shogun
19. (1776-1834) Theorized that population growth would far outstrip food production
Thomas Malthus
Kamakura Shogunate
The Babalonians
Effect of the Reformation
20. Created during kamakura era - In theory: Emperor's military chief of staff - In reality: Actual ruler of Japan
Mali
Henry IV
The Shogun
The Israelites
21. Flourishing trade - medical encyclopedia - library - Algebra - spices - silks - perfumes - porcelain - textile goods
Martin Luther
The Dark Ages
Islamic Culture
Kublai Khan
22. Members of the Society of Jesus which became most well known for their work in education of Catholics in Europe. They were devoted to preaching - educating the young - fighting against heresy - serving the Pope - and caring for the needy.
The Magna Carta
Tokugawa Shogunate
The Jesuits
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
23. Were skilled farmers & flourished in the Ohio & Mississippi Valleys (200BC to 400AD).
The French Religious Wars
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
The Hopewell People
The Middle Ages
24. The middle class - including merchants - industrialists - and professional people
Baroque Style
The Holy Roman Empire
The Summarians
Bourgeoisie
25. The class of modern wage laborers who having no means of production of their own - are reducing to selling their labor power in order to live
Mississippian Culture
Laisssez Faire
Proletariats
The Commonwealth Period
26. An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds
Mughuls
Hieroglyphics
The Council of Trent
Manorialism
27. 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.
Scholasticism
The Glorious Revolution
Alexandar the Great
Paul the Apostle
28. The seven - and - a - half century long process by which Christians reconquered the Iberian peninsula modern Portugal and Spain from the Muslim and Moorish states of Al -
Fuedal Contract
Absolutionism
The English Civil War
The Reconquista
29. Creators of the Mesopotamia civiliztion. Large scale irrigation projects - advanced system of mathematics and the invention of the wheel.
Rift Valley
The Summarians
The Pelponnesian War
The Fall of Rome
30. The Founder of Islam. Muslims believe that Mohammad was God's last Prophet and that he received the word of God from the angel Gabriel.
Calvinism
The Anasazi Culture
Mohammad
Causes of the French Revolution
31. Establishe a civiliztion in the Nile Valley.
The Rise of Christianity
The Scientific Revolution
Rift Valley
The Egyptians
32. 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 Puritan Revolution
Gothic Revival
The Restoration Era
Napoleon Bonepart
33. Provided land in exchange for personal service to the King.
The French Religious Wars
The Peace of Augsburg
Fuedal Contract
The Roman Empire
34. A center for civilizations which flourished in the 2nd and 3rd millenniums BC
Baroque Style
The Nile
Tang Dynasty
Aegan
35. 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.
Ming Dynasty
Bourgeoisie
The House of Lancaster
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
36. French Protestants who suffered persecution. Many left Europe for America to find religious freedom
Gothic Revival
Decentralization of the Germanic States
The Huguenots
The Jesuits
37. Crused by the House of Lancaster
The House of York
African Desert
Sparta
The Samurai
38. 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 -
African Desert
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
The French Republic
39. Clan of Quraysh that dominated politics and commercial economy of Mecca; clan later able to establish dynasty as rulers of Islam
Oliver Cromwell
The Mongols
Cardinal Richelieu
Umayyad
40. A Mongolian general and emperor of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries - known for his military leadership and great cruelty. He conquered vast portions of northern China and southwestern Asia.
Genghis Khan
Laisssez Faire
Cardinal Richelieu
Contributions of the Greeks
41. Eastern Roman empire after the fall of Rome.
Swahili
Tokugawa Shogunate
Byzantine Empire
The Palace of Versailles
42. 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.
Ming Dynasty
Agarian
Louis XIV
The Code of Napoleon
43. 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 Rise of Christianity
The Near East
The House of Commons
The Communist Manifesto
44. Area along the central west coast of Asia Minor colonized by settlers from mainland Greece from about 1000 BC. Ionian Greeks - including Homer - played a central role in the early development of Greek history and literature following the Dark Ages. B
The Summarians
The House of York
Ionia
The Phoenicians
45. Roman laws - justice system - court system; language(Latin); Pax Roman a long period of peace that enabled free travel and trade Building Construction - engineering and road construction. architecture - literature - art - sculpture and the humanites.
Roman Contributions
The Anasazi Culture
Causes of the French Revolution
The House of York
46. Roman expansion resulted in a world republic. Emerged as the dominant power in the Mediterranian.
The Roman Empire
Kublai Khan
The Lydians
Athens
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
Proletariats
Byzantine Empire Decline
The Renaissance
The Phoenicians
48. The Vikings built fast ships where they would ship men and cargo from their land to charlemagnes empire to pilage and plunder.
The Spanish Armada
The Glorious Revolution
Genghis Khan
The Viking Invasions
49. The French version of the American Declaration
The Persians
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Constantine
African Rivers
50. Russian tsar. He enthusiastically introduced Western languages - culture - and technologies to the Russian elite - moving the capital from Moscow to the new city of St. Petersburg. (p. 552)
Fuedal System
The Congress of Verona
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
Peter the Great