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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. 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 Reconquista
Mohammad
Frederick Barbarossa
2. A major dynasty that ruled China from the mid - fourteenth to the mid - seventeenth century.The ousted the Mongols. It was marked by a great expansion of Chinese commerce into East Africa - the Middle East - and Southeast Asia
Mongols
Aegan
Ming Dynasty
Mississippian Culture
3. This was a war between France and England between 1346 and 1453. It was fought over land in France that each wanted to control. The British began strongly - but with the help of Joan of Arc - the French rallied and eventually beat England. Two famous
Dorians
The Hundred Years War
The Chaldeans
Agarian
4. The Roman Catholic Church responding to the protestantism by starting their own movement -- they stopped selling indulgences and started 'Society of Jesus' or Jesuit missionaries to spread Catholic ideas.
Romanesque
Islam
The Babalonians
The Counter Reformation
5. 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
Gothic Revival
Class Division
Turks
Laisssez Faire
6. 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 House of Lords
The Jesuits
The French Republic
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
7. 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 Commonwealth Period
The Phoenicians
Songhai
Louis XIV
8. 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
Sparta
English Parliment
Henry IV
Class Division
9. 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
Agarian
The Communist Manifesto
Manorialism
Neoclassicism
10. 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:
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
The Holy Roman Empire
Laisssez Faire
French Revolution
11. 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
Louis XIV
Elizabeth I
The Pelponnesian War
The Lydians
12. 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
Mohammad
The Shogun
Dorians
13. 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.
The Manchus
Mohammad
Absolutionism
Aegan
14. 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.
Shinto Religion
Mississippian Culture
Roman Contributions
Arab Conquests
15. 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
Greece
Islamic Government and Religion
Byzantine Empire Success
16. The rise of Islam
Romanesque
Roman Military Strategy
Greece
The Muslim Empire
17. 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 Peace of Augsburg
Aegan
The Renaissance
African Rivers
18. Were skilled farmers & flourished in the Ohio & Mississippi Valleys (200BC to 400AD).
The Anasazi Culture
The French Republic
The Magna Carta
The Hopewell People
19. King of France from 1643 to 1715; his long reign was marked by the expansion of French influence in Europe and by the magnificence of his court and the Palace of Versailles (1638-1715)
Shinto Religion
Louis XIV
Ziggurat
African Desert
20. Ruled the manor. Had bailiffs to take care of day - to - day affairs.
Confucius
The Muslim Empire
The War of the Roses
The Lord of the Manor
21. The classical economists advanced the theory of laissez faire
Militant Socialism
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
Alexandar the Great
The House of York
22. 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
James I
Ashikaga Shogunate
Swahili
23. 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 -
Industrial Revolution
The French Republic
Athens
Umayyad
24. 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.
Peter the Great
The Roman Government
The Phoenicians
Commercial Revival
25. An advanced civilization that developed on the island of Crete around 2500 BCE based its prosperity
Charlemagne
Karl Marx
Umayyad
Minoan Civilization
26. Several have inland as well as coastal deltas - Nile flows northward . Niger - Nile - Congo - Zambezi And were important to Africa's economic history.
The Viking Invasions
African Rivers
Genghis Khan
Ionia
27. European trade agreement with Africa dealing with slaves brought from Africa. Integral part of Triangle Trade between the Americas - Africa - and Europe.
Fuedal Contract
Martin Luther
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
Slave Trade
28. 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.
Athens
The Roman Empire
Marco Polo
Gothic Revival
29. A style of architecture developed in Italy and western Europe between the Roman and the Gothic styles after 1000 AD
Oligarthy
Fuedal System
Romanesque
Constantine
30. 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
Ghana
Byzantine Empire Success
Proletariats
The Assyrians
31. 16th century religious movement led by Martin Luther that sought to reform the Roman Catholic Church and led to the formation of Protestantism
The Manchus
The Mongols
The Restoration Era
The Protestant Reformation
32. 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
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
The Middle Ages
The Council of Trent
Shinto Religion
33. A series of military expeditions in the 11th - 12th - and 13th centuries by Western European Christians to reclaim control of the Holy Lands from the Muslims
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
The Crusades
Constanople
Fuedal System
34. The collection of Papal states directly under the control of the Pope. Included lands in Italy - Germany - France - Spain - and England.
The Holy Roman Empire
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
Augustus
Byzantine Empire
35. Officially recognized Lutherism but allowed Catholic Priests to support Catholicism.
Marco Polo
Mali
The Manchus
The Peace of Augsburg
36. The Hitties - the Assyrians - Chaldeans - and the Phoenicians. Centralized Government and advancements in algebra and geometry.
Minoan Civilization
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
Kush
The Babalonians
37. 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.
Paul the Apostle
The Ottoman Empire
Ghana
The War of the Roses
38. Creators of the Mesopotamia civiliztion. Large scale irrigation projects - advanced system of mathematics and the invention of the wheel.
The Summarians
Turks
French Revolution
Akbar
39. The first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625 and king of Scotland from 1567 to 1625; he was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and he succeeded Elizabeth I; he alienated the British Parliament by claiming the divine right of kings
Calvinism
James I
The House of York
Industrial Revolution
40. Began with the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It emphasized the Holy Bible as the word of God.
The Rise of Christianity
Tribal Organization
The Near East
The Peace of Westphalia
41. First emperor of the Roman Empire. Julius Caesar's grand - nephew.
Paul the Apostle
Augustus
Hugh Capet
The Age of Enlightenment
42. A group of Germanic tribes. They became allies of the Romans and became Christian. In the 8th century they established the Carolingian rule. Perhaps the most famous leader was Charlemagne.
The Pelponnesian War
The Franks
Genghis Khan
Songhai
43. Dynasty often referred to as China's Golden age that reigned during 618 - 907 AD; China expands from Vietnam to Manchuria
The Magna Carta
The Franks
Tang Dynasty
Early Japanese Culture
44. The imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279
The Thirty Years War
The Jesuits
Sung Dynasty
Fuedal Contract
45. 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
The House of Lords
The Persians
Class Division
Commercial Revival
46. French philosopher and writer whose works epitomize the Age of Enlightenment - often attacking injustice and intolerance
Humanism
The Fall of Rome
Voltaire
Slave Trade
47. 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
Neoclassicism
Swahili
The Congress of Vienna
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
48. A center for civilizations which flourished in the 2nd and 3rd millenniums BC
The Act of Supremacy
Dorians
The Lydians
Aegan
49. Was divided into the patricians (propertied class) - plebeians (main body of Roman citizens) - and slaves.
Roman Society
The Muslim Empire
The House of Commons
Laisssez Faire
50. 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 Council of Trent
Charles I
Manorialism
The Lord of the Manor
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