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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. 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
Islam
Swahili
Augustus
The House of Lords
2. Western Europe no longer united by religion - Weakens power and influence of the Catholic Church The power of states was strenthened as was the middle class. Encourages education - people encouraged to read the bible and interpret it individually
The Romanov Dynasty
Effect of the Reformation
The Congress of Vienna
The Peace of Augsburg
3. First emperor of the Roman Empire. Julius Caesar's grand - nephew.
Mongols
Augustus
The Rise of Christianity
The House of Lancaster
4. 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
The Rise of Christianity
Machiavelli
Laisssez Faire
James I
5. An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds
Scholasticism
The Hopewell People
Hieroglyphics
Swahili
6. A kingdom of the West African rain forest
The Age of Enlightenment
Constanople
Benin
Ghana
7. A style of architecture developed in Italy and western Europe between the Roman and the Gothic styles after 1000 AD
Romanesque
Tokugawa Shogunate
Islam
English Common Law
8. 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 -
Arab Conquests
The Code of Hammurabi
The Mongols
The Reconquista
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.
English Common Law
Brahman
The Roman Government
Martin Luther
10. 1822 ended the congress system & allowed European powers to be guided by self - interest.
Arab Conquests
The Congress of Verona
The Reconquista
Oliver Cromwell
11. 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)
Akbar
Humanism
Roman Contributions
The Roman Empire
12. Forceful seizure of governmental power
Egyptian Religion
The Hundred Years War
Militant Socialism
The Near East
13. Several have inland as well as coastal deltas - Nile flows northward . Niger - Nile - Congo - Zambezi And were important to Africa's economic history.
The Jesuits
Sparta
The Palace of Versailles
African Rivers
14. 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.
The Peace of Augsburg
The Lydians
Mongols
Industrial Revolution
15. Were skilled farmers & flourished in the Ohio & Mississippi Valleys (200BC to 400AD).
The Code of Napoleon
Byzantine Empire
Militant Socialism
The Hopewell People
16. 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 Pelponnesian War
The Restoration Era
Abbassides
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
17. 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)
The Lydians
Decentralization of the Germanic States
Peter the Great
Humanism
18. Provided land in exchange for personal service to the King.
Fuedal Contract
Umayyad
African Desert
Fuedal System
19. Reality consists of ideas that exist in the mind - independant of sensory powers of perception.
Realism (Plato)
The Romanov Dynasty
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Fuedal Contract
20. 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 Romanov Dynasty
Swahili
African Rivers
Humanism
21. Japanese ruling dynasty that strove to isolate it from foreign influences. shogunate started by Tokugawa Leyasu; 4 class system - warriors - farmers - artisans - merchants; Japan's ports were closed off; wanted to create their own culture; illegal to
Tokugawa Shogunate
Mohammad
Humanism
The French Religious Wars
22. 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
The Congress of Vienna
Aegan
The Crusades
23. 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
Slave Trade
The Hundred Years War
Scholasticism
Commercial Revival
24. 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
Minoan Civilization
Oliver Cromwell
Kush
Byzantine Empire Decline
25. King Louis XIII was a weak ruler and Richelieu filled the void - more or less running the empire via his advice to the king. A clever politician and strategist - Richelieu expanded royal power - punished dissent harshly - and built France into a grea
Fuedal Contract
Decentralization of the Germanic States
The Manchus
Cardinal Richelieu
26. 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.
Laisssez Faire
Cardinal Richelieu
The Fall of Rome
English Parliment
27. 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.
The Franks
Confucianism
Roman Military Strategy
The Counter Reformation
28. Eastern Roman empire after the fall of Rome.
Fuedal Contract
The Thirty Years War
Decentralization of the Germanic States
Byzantine Empire
29. Revival of a classical style in art or literature or architecture or music but from a new perspective or with a new motivation
The Dark Ages
Oligarthy
Henry IV
Neoclassicism
30. Constituted of a mixed government including consuls - a senate - tribune - assembly of the tribes - ...
The Roman Government
Contributions of the Greeks
The Israelites
The Anasazi Culture
31. The rise of Islam
The House of Lancaster
Sung Dynasty
The Muslim Empire
Mycenaean Civilization
32. Made up of art and culture - music/dance - storytelling and very Religious
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
African Culture
Thomas Malthus
Songhai
33. 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
Mohammad
Cardinal Richelieu
The Lydians
34. A philosophical and theological system - associated with Thomas Aquinas - devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century. (p. 408)
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
Scholasticism
The Babalonians
Umayyad
35. 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 Peace of Westphalia
The Puritan Revolution
Paul the Apostle
Roman Contributions
36. The conqueror who united the peoples of Greece - Egypt - Persia and Indus River Valley into an empire by conquering them.
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
The Continental System
Sung Dynasty
Alexandar the Great
37. 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.
Umayyad
Athens
The Huguenots
Genghis Khan
38. 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.
Constantine
The Act of Supremacy
Neoclassicism
Fuedal System
39. 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
Neoclassicism
The Code of Napoleon
Umayyad
40. Oliver Cromwell ruled as a dictator and abolished the monarchy and the House of Lords.
The Commonwealth Period
The Peace of Westphalia
The English Civil War
Slave Trade
41. 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 Ottoman Empire
Ashikaga Shogunate
Umayyad
Baroque Style
42. A war that broke out between the parliament supporters (roundheads) and the king's supporters (cavaliers). It ended with the execution of the king - Charles I
Byzantine Empire Decline
Decentralization of the Germanic States
Seljiks
The English Civil War
43. A flat - dry grassland with trees and bushes
The Lord of the Manor
Peter the Great
Dorians
African Savana
44. Old Kingdom (massive pyramids) - Middle kingdom - New kingdom (gets agressive)
The Lord of the Manor
Egyptian History
French Revolution
The Heian Era
45. Dynasty often referred to as China's Golden age that reigned during 618 - 907 AD; China expands from Vietnam to Manchuria
Peter the Great
Ming Dynasty
Tang Dynasty
Agarian
46. French Protestants who suffered persecution. Many left Europe for America to find religious freedom
Agarian
The Huguenots
The Near East
Islamic Civilization
47. 2000-1200 B.C. conquered much of Asia Minor & northern Mesopotamia; a major contribution included the invention of iron smelting - which revolutionized warfare.
The Persians
Roman Society
The Hittites
The Peace of Westphalia
48. 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
Scholasticism
The Crusades
The Jesuits
The Middle Ages
49. The legaslative body of england (lawmaking) - two houses: house of lords and house of commons
Fuedal System
Frederick Barbarossa
English Parliment
Proletariats
50. The middle class - including merchants - industrialists - and professional people
Causes of the French Revolution
Bourgeoisie
The Congress of Verona
Swahili