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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. 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.
Mongols
The Protestant Reformation
The Rise of Christianity
Roman Military Strategy
2. 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
The House of York
The Near East
The French Religious Wars
Scholasticism
3. A lesser used title for the English Civil War.
The Continental System
The War of the Roses
The Puritan Revolution
Athens
4. 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.
Confucianism
Henry IV
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
Egyptian Religion
5. Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China
Early Japanese Culture
Augustus
Kublai Khan
Islamic Culture
6. Political leaders after the death of Muhammad
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
Genghis Khan
Arab Caliphs
Ionia
7. 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.
Sparta
Turks
Mughuls
Benin
8. A style of architecture developed in Italy and western Europe between the Roman and the Gothic styles after 1000 AD
French Revolution
Realism (Plato)
Romanesque
Gothic Revival
9. The battle that took place in 1066 - in which William the Conqueror and Harold Godwinson fought for control of Normandy?
Brahman
The Battle of Hastings
African Desert
The Protestant Reformation
10. Creators of the Mesopotamia civiliztion. Large scale irrigation projects - advanced system of mathematics and the invention of the wheel.
The Puritan Revolution
Arab Caliphs
The Summarians
Hieroglyphics
11. Was divided into the patricians (propertied class) - plebeians (main body of Roman citizens) - and slaves.
Humanism
The Roman Empire
The Thirty Years War
Roman Society
12. Roman expansion resulted in a world republic. Emerged as the dominant power in the Mediterranian.
The Roman Empire
Hieroglyphics
Romanesque
Mali
13. This was the letter Martin Luther wrote to Archbishop Albert which explained that indulgences undermined the seriousness of the sacrament of penance.
Dorians
The Manchus
Ninety Theses
Arab Conquests
14. 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.
Romanesque
The Lord of the Manor
Brahman
The Act of Supremacy
15. It's geographic proximity to the Arabs - Slave - and Turks all of whom were becoming more powerful. The loss of commercial dominace over the Italians. Reliogious contraversy with west and a split with the Roman Catholic Church. The sack of the fourth
James I
Byzantine Empire Decline
The Phoenicians
Ninety Theses
16. 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 Hopewell People
The Early Middle Ages
The Summarians
The House of Lords
17. (1776-1834) Theorized that population growth would far outstrip food production
The Communist Manifesto
Thomas Malthus
Kush
Islamic Government and Religion
18. 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)
Louis XIV
James I
Absolutionism
The Franks
19. Constituted of a mixed government including consuls - a senate - tribune - assembly of the tribes - ...
The Roman Government
The Counter Reformation
Causes of the French Revolution
Athens
20. The doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self - realization through reason
The Puritan Revolution
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
Ionia
Humanism
21. The restoration of the monarchy began in 1660 when the English - Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the wars of the 3 kingdoms. Stuart rule was restored.
The Council of Trent
African Savana
Neoclassicism
The Restoration Era
22. 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 French Republic
Islam
The House of York
The Roman Government
23. Political system in which a ruler holds total power. The ruler has total control and final say over their people.
African Culture
The Samurai
Absolutionism
Slave Trade
24. 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 House of Lancaster
The Fall of Rome
The Middle Ages
The Communist Manifesto
25. Elected consul of rome in 59 bc. Genius with military strategy. Governed as an absolute ruler. Was assassinated in the senate chamber.
St. Augustine
The Hopewell People
The Crusades
Ceasar
26. 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 -
Dorians
African Rivers
The Magna Carta
The French Republic
27. The classical economists advanced the theory of laissez faire
Class Division
The Dark Ages
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
The Reconquista
28. Reality consists of ideas that exist in the mind - independant of sensory powers of perception.
Turks
The Ottoman Empire
Realism (Plato)
Byzantine Empire Decline
29. Crused by the House of Lancaster
The House of York
Greek Individualism
The Roman Empire
The Mongols
30. 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.
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
Hugh Capet
Byzantine Empire Success
The Viking Invasions
31. 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.
Sung Dynasty
The Congress of Vienna
Genghis Khan
Songhai
32. Were skilled farmers & flourished in the Ohio & Mississippi Valleys (200BC to 400AD).
The Middle Ages
The Palace of Versailles
Roman Military Strategy
The Hopewell People
33. 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.
The Age of Pericles(460 BC-429 BC)
The Peace of Westphalia
The Code of Hammurabi
Constanople
34. Began with the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It emphasized the Holy Bible as the word of God.
The Rise of Christianity
Islamic Culture
The Act of Supremacy
Abbassides
35. 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 -
The Reconquista
Effect of the Reformation
Oliver Cromwell
The Hittites
36. 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 Culture
Class Division
The Middle Ages
Arab Conquests
37. The Heian Era commenced in 794 - and was a time when Japan gradually stopped imitating China - developing into a distinct new culture. The new culture mixed both Chinese and Japanese cultures - combining the faiths of China - Shintoism - and Buddhism
The Heian Era
Commercial Revival
Ming Dynasty
Confucianism
38. 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 Battle of Hastings
Ceasar
Charles I
Marco Polo
39. Created during kamakura era - In theory: Emperor's military chief of staff - In reality: Actual ruler of Japan
Thomas Malthus
The Shogun
The Middle Ages
Ghana
40. 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 Battle of Hastings
Hugh Capet
The Magna Carta
Arab Caliphs
41. 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.
Nomadic
The Phoenicians
The Peace of Augsburg
The Glorious Revolution
42. A collection of laws covering crimes - farming - business activities - and marriage and family. Many of the punishments were cruel - but the code was an important step in the development of a justice system
Ninety Theses
The Age of Enlightenment
Confucianism
The Code of Hammurabi
43. Renaissance writer; formerly a politician - wrote The Prince - a work on ethics and government - describing how rulers maintain power by methods that ignore right or wrong; accepted the philosophy that 'the end justifies the means.'
Machiavelli
Absolutionism
The Renaissance
Nomadic
44. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians and was the center of community life.
The Chaldeans
Ziggurat
Manorialism
Arab Conquests
45. 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.
Machiavelli
Charles I
The Commonwealth Period
The Code of Napoleon
46. 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
English Common Law
The Age of Enlightenment
Ashikaga Shogunate
Voltaire
47. 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
Absolutionism
Class Division
Proletariats
Realism (Plato)
48. River that provided for the needs of Ancient Egyptians and made their great civilization possible. Agriculture was the bases of the Egyptian Society.
The Act of Supremacy
The Nile
Mughuls
The Restoration Era
49. The system of ethics - education - and statesmanship taught by Confucius and his disciples - stressing love for humanity - ancestor worship - reverence for parents - and harmony in thought and conduct.
Confucianism
Decentralization of the Germanic States
The War of the Roses
Umayyad
50. Emperor of Rome who adopted the Christian faith and stopped the persecution of Christians (280-337)
Islamic Government and Religion
Tang Dynasty
Bourgeoisie
Constantine