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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. 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 Restoration Era
Swahili
African Savana
The Phoenicians
2. Constituted of a mixed government including consuls - a senate - tribune - assembly of the tribes - ...
Classical Art
The Age of Enlightenment
Napoleon Bonepart
The Roman Government
3. Most illustrious sultan of the Mughal Empire in India (r. 1556-1605). He expanded the empire and pursued a policy of conciliation with Hindus. (p. 536)
Kublai Khan
Roman Military Strategy
Akbar
Shinto Religion
4. Were skilled farmers & flourished in the Ohio & Mississippi Valleys (200BC to 400AD).
The Hopewell People
The Code of Napoleon
The Ottoman Empire
Romanesque
5. French Protestants who suffered persecution. Many left Europe for America to find religious freedom
The Huguenots
The English Civil War
The Peace of Augsburg
African Savana
6. Provided land in exchange for personal service to the King.
The Commonwealth Period
The Summarians
Fuedal Contract
Dorians
7. Napoleon cut off all trade with Great Britain to try and make Europe more self - sufficient - an economic blockade of Britain. The Foreign Policy of Napoleon - essentially an effort to thwart English advancement by nationally prohibiting British trad
The Continental System
Islam
The Scientific Revolution
The Lydians
8. Several have inland as well as coastal deltas - Nile flows northward . Niger - Nile - Congo - Zambezi And were important to Africa's economic history.
African Rivers
Roman Society
The Lydians
Cardinal Richelieu
9. 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
The Congress of Vienna
Martin Luther
Early Japanese Culture
Decentralization of the Germanic States
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.
Athens
The House of Lancaster
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
The Code of Napoleon
11. 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.
Mohammad
Aegan
Karl Marx
The War of the Roses
12. The first great Christian philosopher. He was a sinner and did not believe but eventually was converted and he wrote CIty of God as well as Confession - he is also responsible for the doctrine of Original Sin
Islamic Culture
St. Augustine
The Mongols
The Act of Supremacy
13. An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds
The Scientific Revolution
Egyptian History
African Savana
Hieroglyphics
14. 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
The Glorious Revolution
Elizabeth I
Akbar
The Hundred Years War
15. 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.
Napoleon Bonepart
Voltaire
The Hittites
Aegan
16. Forceful seizure of governmental power
The Jesuits
James I
Militant Socialism
Tang Dynasty
17. One of the largest military fleets in the history of warfare which was sent to attack England in 1588. The smaller English fleet was able to defeat the armada by using its ease of maneuverability and ended Spain's domination of the Atlantic Ocean and
Turks
The Spanish Armada
Roman Contributions
Arab Caliphs
18. 17th century Europe - elaborate and detailed artwork - drama - tension - exuberance - and grandeur in sculpture - painting - literature - and music
Manorialism
Baroque Style
Turks
The Jesuits
19. 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.
Kush
Sparta
Thomas Malthus
Kamakura Shogunate
20. 1822 ended the congress system & allowed European powers to be guided by self - interest.
English Parliment
The Congress of Verona
Agarian
Mongols
21. First emperor of the Roman Empire. Julius Caesar's grand - nephew.
The Lord of the Manor
Elizabeth I
Augustus
Ziggurat
22. 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 -
Shinto Religion
The Ottoman Empire
The French Republic
The Thirty Years War
23. Reality consists of ideas that exist in the mind - independant of sensory powers of perception.
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
Tokugawa Shogunate
Realism (Plato)
The Fall of Rome
24. 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 Persians
Mali
Mycenaean Civilization
The Israelites
25. (1776-1834) Theorized that population growth would far outstrip food production
Thomas Malthus
Benin
The Mongols
Frederick Barbarossa
26. 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 Mongols
Byzantine Empire Decline
The Manchus
Realism (Plato)
27. The imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279
Byzantine Empire Success
The Act of Supremacy
Machiavelli
Sung Dynasty
28. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians and was the center of community life.
Ziggurat
Dorians
Ionia
The Heian Era
29. 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.
Manorialism
Commercial Revival
The Franks
The Phoenicians
30. 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.
Ghana
The Jesuits
Egyptian Religion
The Peace of Westphalia
31. The conqueror who united the peoples of Greece - Egypt - Persia and Indus River Valley into an empire by conquering them.
The House of Lancaster
The Battle of Hastings
Alexandar the Great
Mycenaean Civilization
32. 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.
St. Augustine
The Roman Government
The Council of Trent
The Spanish Armada
33. 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
Contributions of the Greeks
The Palace of Versailles
Constanople
Abbassides
34. 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.
Constanople
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
The Commonwealth Period
The Early Middle Ages
35. 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
Norman Conquest
African Culture
The Hittites
Proletariats
36. Began with the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It emphasized the Holy Bible as the word of God.
Baroque Style
Effect of the Reformation
Roman Contributions
The Rise of Christianity
37. 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.
Oligarthy
The Roman Empire
Roman Contributions
The Counter Reformation
38. A flat - dry grassland with trees and bushes
Scholasticism
The Chaldeans
The Fall of Rome
African Savana
39. The term for The Univeral Soul in Hinduism.
Roman Society
Brahman
English Parliment
African Desert
40. 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.
Thomas Malthus
English Common Law
Arab Conquests
Voltaire
41. The revolutionary socialism of ____________ advocated a violent overthrow of the present economic system - History was seen as a class struggle between the exploiters (bourgeoisie) and the exploited (proletariat)
Commercial Revival
Karl Marx
Arab Conquests
The Muslim Empire
42. 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
Confucianism
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Charles I
The Summarians
43. A more militaristic civilization then Minoans - they traded and raided - turning on their Minoan teachers - helping to destroy Crete.
Byzantine Empire Decline
Mycenaean Civilization
The French Republic
Slave Trade
44. The name given to Medieval Europe due to its lack of cultural - societal - intellectual - political and economic progress
Baroque Style
The Dark Ages
Confucianism
The Roman Empire
45. 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
The Palace of Versailles
Early Japanese Culture
Akbar
The Romanov Dynasty
46. Established Capeatian rule in France - put to throne because of his weakness; made throne hereditary; Capetians had an unbroken succession for 300 years; effective beauracracy
Hugh Capet
The Middle Ages
The Israelites
The Age of Pericles(460 BC-429 BC)
47. An extremely dry area with little water and few plants
Dorians
Shinto Religion
African Desert
The Shogun
48. Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China
The Chaldeans
Kublai Khan
African Rivers
The Egyptians
49. 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
The Lord of the Manor
Scholasticism
Gothic Revival
Absolutionism
50. Flourishing trade - medical encyclopedia - library - Algebra - spices - silks - perfumes - porcelain - textile goods
Islamic Culture
The Near East
Genghis Khan
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
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