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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. Gave all property to the eldest son. Led many younger sons of the gentry to seek their fortunes in exploration and colonization.
Charles I
The law of Primogeniture
The Samurai
The Israelites
2. 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.'
Ashikaga Shogunate
Machiavelli
The Manchus
Greek Individualism
3. Began with the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It emphasized the Holy Bible as the word of God.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
The English Civil War
Cardinal Richelieu
The Rise of Christianity
4. The imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279
The Puritan Revolution
Napoleon Bonepart
The Pelponnesian War
Sung Dynasty
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.
Frederick Barbarossa
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
Brahman
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
6. Organization with midsize societies ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand people - with somewhat more power available to leaders.
The Samurai
The Age of Enlightenment
The Reconquista
Tribal Organization
7. Continuous barbaric invasion. Internal factors included political instability - decreasing farm production - inflation - excessive taxation - and the decline of the military. The rise of Christianity divided the Empire.
The Restoration Era
Absolutionism
Mongols
The Fall of Rome
8. 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 Viking Invasions
The Roman Empire
Minoan Civilization
The Persians
9. 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.
St. Augustine
Mohammad
Machiavelli
Louis XIV
10. Religious movement founded by John Calvin - based on the doctrine of predestination.
The Israelites
Paul the Apostle
Calvinism
The Communist Manifesto
11. An advanced civilization that developed on the island of Crete around 2500 BCE based its prosperity
Martin Luther
The Shogun
Minoan Civilization
Ceasar
12. The legaslative body of england (lawmaking) - two houses: house of lords and house of commons
The Hopewell People
Constantine
English Parliment
Athens
13. 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
Militant Socialism
Henry IV
The Early Middle Ages
Athens
14. 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
African Rivers
Mughuls
The Holy Roman Empire
15. A German monk who became one of the most famous critics of the Roman Catholic Chruch. In 1517 - he wrote 95 theses - or statements of belief attacking the church practices.
The Fall of Rome
Martin Luther
Byzantine Empire
The Babalonians
16. 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
The Palace of Versailles
The Reconquista
Kublai Khan
17. Democracy - Drama - Art - Architecture - Philosophy - Sculpting - Performing Arts - Philosphical Schools - Scientific Method.
Paul the Apostle
Contributions of the Greeks
Roman Military Strategy
The Lydians
18. 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.
The Holy Roman Empire
The House of Commons
Genghis Khan
Class Division
19. Political system in which a ruler holds total power. The ruler has total control and final say over their people.
Absolutionism
African Desert
Byzantine Empire Decline
Calvinism
20. 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.
James I
Roman Contributions
French Revolution
The Age of Enlightenment
21. 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.
Proletariats
The Counter Reformation
Agarian
James I
22. 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
Arab Conquests
Sparta
Shinto Religion
Kamakura Shogunate
23. French philosopher and writer whose works epitomize the Age of Enlightenment - often attacking injustice and intolerance
Peter the Great
Voltaire
Nomadic
Minoan Civilization
24. 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
The Nile
The Jesuits
Charlemagne
25. The term for The Univeral Soul in Hinduism.
Cardinal Richelieu
Brahman
Tokugawa Shogunate
The Franks
26. The art of ancient Greece and Rome - in which harmony - order - and proportion were emphasized
Classical Art
Dorians
Charles I
Turks
27. A philosophical and theological system - associated with Thomas Aquinas - devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century. (p. 408)
Paul the Apostle
Mongols
Scholasticism
The Huguenots
28. Establishe a civiliztion in the Nile Valley.
Ashikaga Shogunate
Decentralization of the Germanic States
The Egyptians
The Peace of Westphalia
29. The invasion and settlement of England by the Normans following the Battle of Hastings (1066)
Laisssez Faire
The Dark Ages
Mali
Norman Conquest
30. (1776-1834) Theorized that population growth would far outstrip food production
English Common Law
Thomas Malthus
Seljiks
Ninety Theses
31. The Hitties - the Assyrians - Chaldeans - and the Phoenicians. Centralized Government and advancements in algebra and geometry.
The Babalonians
The Palace of Versailles
The Summarians
Frederick Barbarossa
32. 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
Benin
Class Division
The Muslim Empire
33. Flourishing trade - medical encyclopedia - library - Algebra - spices - silks - perfumes - porcelain - textile goods
Sparta
Islamic Culture
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
34. 2000-1200 B.C. conquered much of Asia Minor & northern Mesopotamia; a major contribution included the invention of iron smelting - which revolutionized warfare.
The Battle of Hastings
Industrial Revolution
The Hittites
Fuedal Contract
35. Took over Turkey from the Byzantine Empire and strived to expand its borders into Eastern Europe - mainly fighting the Holy Roman Empire and its various princes throughout the Middle Ages. Constanople the center. Over time it started to shrink and gr
The Romanov Dynasty
The Ottoman Empire
Manorialism
Constantine
36. 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
The Pelponnesian War
Byzantine Empire Success
Fuedal Contract
Confucius
37. Roman expansion resulted in a world republic. Emerged as the dominant power in the Mediterranian.
The Peace of Westphalia
The Roman Empire
Confucianism
The law of Primogeniture
38. Overthrew the Umayyad but one escaped
Abbassides
Cardinal Richelieu
Henry IV
Hugh Capet
39. Following the death of Ivan the Terrible in 1584 - Russia experienced a period of weakness and disorder known as the Time of Troubles. Hoping to restore order - an assembly of nobles elected Michael Romanov to be the next czar. The Romanov Dynasty ru
Neoplatonism
Manorialism
The Congress of Vienna
The Romanov Dynasty
40. Provided land in exchange for personal service to the King.
Fuedal Contract
Umayyad
The Viking Invasions
Constantine
41. 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
Akbar
Arab Caliphs
The Renaissance
42. 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
The Code of Hammurabi
Byzantine Empire Decline
The Huguenots
Kamakura Shogunate
43. The idea that the government should not play an active role in regulating the economy.
The Roman Government
Laisssez Faire
The Rise of Christianity
The English Civil War
44. Officially recognized Lutherism but allowed Catholic Priests to support Catholicism.
Commercial Revival
Mycenaean Civilization
Mughuls
The Peace of Augsburg
45. 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
Genghis Khan
The War of the Roses
Constanople
The Code of Napoleon
46. The Christian name for Saul who had been a persecutor of Christians before conversion. - Was responsible for the spread of Christian theology & the resulting response from the Roman Empire.
The French Religious Wars
The Age of Enlightenment
The Hittites
Paul the Apostle
47. Created an empire based on military superiority - conquest - and terrorism (911-550 B.C.) - Military techniques included siege warfare - intimidation - and the use of iron weapons. Created a centralized government - a postal service - an extensive li
African Culture
The Assyrians
Ninety Theses
The Israelites
48. 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.
Ashikaga Shogunate
English Common Law
Neoplatonism
The Glorious Revolution
49. 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 Roman Government
Mississippian Culture
Roman Contributions
The Franks
50. The name given to Medieval Europe due to its lack of cultural - societal - intellectual - political and economic progress
African Rivers
The Dark Ages
Napoleon Bonepart
Romanesque