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CSET World History
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1. An English philosopher - Believed that people made a contract with their government to protect natural writes - Wrote about the inalienable writes to life - liberty - and the pursuit of happiness - His political ideas had a dramatic impact on the dev
Zoroastrianism
John Locke
The (Protestant) Reformation
The Roman Republic: decline
2. 20000-30000 years ago - during the last Ice Age - the first humans crossed over the Bering Sea land bridge into the Americas - As they migrated southward - they inhabited the hemisphere from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego - Their widespread dispersion le
American Indian culture
Martin Luther
Origins of people in America
Roman contributions to the western world (greatest contribution)
3. The commercial revival led to the rise of towns. - A true middle class emerged - Economic activities in the towns were supervised by the guild system (merchant and craft guilds) - The Crusades led to the revival of international trade
Galileo Galilei
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: commercial revival
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: philosophy
The Israelites
4. Law - rule of law/equality before the law - civil and contract law codes
Roman contributions to the western world (greatest contribution)
Arabs
The Dorians
Key provisions of Magna Carta
5. Originated in India (1500 B.C.) as part of the teachings of Hinduism - Divided people into four distinct and inflexible social groups: priests and teachers; rulers and warriors; merchants and artisans; and peasants and servants (the lowest caste) - P
China: developments
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: education
The caste system
Laissez faire
6. 'Liberty - Equality and Fraternity'
Nicolaus Copernicus
The forest states
Rallying cry of the French Revolution
Alfred the Great
7. (A.D. 871-99) established the English kingdom after stemming the Danish invasions
The Incas
Ancient Africans' advances in their societies and cultures
Alfred the Great
Africa's geological diversity
8. 500 BC to the conquest of Greece by the Macedonian king Philip II in 338 BC; highpoint of greek civ - Sophic emphasis on the individual - revol of philosophy by Socrates - Plato's emphasis on ethics - Aristotle emphasis on observable reality - Herodo
Alexander the Great
The Fall of Rome
Classical Greece
Galileo Galilei
9. Established the first kingdom in Palestine (c. 1030-1010 B.C.)
Napoleon and the First Empire
The Assyrians
Feudalism: economic
Saul
10. Also known as the Catholic Reformation - Attempted to halt the spread of Protestantism - The Jesuits (Society of Jesus) became the first official Catholic response to the Reformation; Jesuits also initiated missionary and educational endeavors - The
Roman contributions to the western world (greatest contribution)
Power loom
Africa's geological diversity
The Counter Reformation
11. Science: methodology - theory and experimentation - astrolabe (astronomical instrument used to locate and predict the positions of the sun - moon - planet and stars) - alchemy - Technology: mechanical clocks - pointed arch - stained glass - windmill
Roman contributions to the western world Engineering and architecture
Reasons for the spread of Christianity (the Roman period)
Muslim contributions - Science and technology
Constantine
12. Developed in the interior of the continent - Grew from an iron - working settlement - Huge stone structures were constructed - Economy was based on the gold trade
Rallying cry of the French Revolution
The Kingdom of Zimbabwe
Impact of Spanish Exploration and Conquest on Indigenous People of the Americas
The Hittites
13. A.D. 1325-1521 - Central Mexico - Conquered much of central Mexico - The Toltecs preceded them - built a great city (Tenochtitlan) and ruled an empire - Religion and war dominated life - Rich mythological and religious traditions - Architecturally ac
Alexander the Great
The Age of Reason/Enlightenment
Mongul rule in China
The Aztecs
14. Military and political leader during the later stages of the French Revolution - Emperor of the French from 1804-1815 - His legal reform - the Napoleonic Code - has been a major influence on many civil law jurisdictions worldwide - Best remembered fo
Origins of people in America
Napoleon and the First Empire
Absolutism
Roman contributions to the western world (greatest contribution)
15. Attempted to unify the entire Near East under one rule (500s B.C.) - Established an international government - - Failed to conquer the Greeks; Persia was eventually conquered by Alexander the Great (334-331 B.C.)
Spinning mule
General characteristics of the Renaissance
The Persians
The Aztecs
16. The Ming (native Chinese) ousted the Mongols - Ming (1368-1644) rulers limited contact with the West - The Manchus (1644-1911) overran China and followed a policy of isolationism - weakening China
The Ming and Manchu Dynasties
Iona
Napoleon and the First Empire: international relations
John Calvin
17. In 'On the Origin of Species' (1859) - theorized that evolution is a continuous process in which successful species adapt to their environment in order to survive
Martin Luther
Darwin
Nicolaus Copernicus
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: society
18. Region of great cities (e.g Ur and Babylon) located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; chronologically the first urban hearth - dating to 3500 BCE - and which as founded in the Fertile Crescent.
The conquest of Indigenous People of the Americas
Mesopotamia
Ottoman Empire
Africa's geological diversity
19. 1783 - Allowed iron - makers to roll out iron into different shapes
Literature and Philosophy during the rennaisance
The Lydians
Grooved rollers
Galileo Galilei
20. King Darius of Persia wanted to conquer all of the Greek city - states but Athens and Sparta resisted. Greek city - states vs. Persia - Greek city - states won. Athens emerged as most powerful city state in Greece.
The (Protestant) Reformation
Isaac Newton
'The Communist Manifesto'
Persian War
21. Geneva - Switzerland - The Doctrine of Predestination (God willed eternal damnation for some people and salvation for others) was central to Calvinistic belief - Rejection of all forms of worship and practice not traced to Biblical tradition
The Age of Reason/Enlightenment
John Calvin
Roman contributions to the western world Culture: history - literature
The Israelites
22. A failed French attempt to close the continent to British trade in hopes of destroying the British economy
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23. Became the dominant Germanic tribe - Clovis - king of the Franks (A.D. 481-511) - was converted to Christianity - Domestic feuds and civil war broke out among the Merovingians (A.D. 561) - Political power shifted away from the monarchy
Martin Luther's beliefs
The Franks
John Locke
Sumeria
24. His teachings influenced Chinese culture - Wanted to improve society - Taught that certain virtues are guidelines to happy life
Roman contributions to the western world Engineering and architecture
Pepin the Short
The Franks
Confucius
25. 1764 - Introduced the first power - driven machine to manufacture cloth
Persian War
Laissez faire
Water frame
Egypt
26. There were three periods of feudal government
Alexander the Great
Cleisthenes - Athens Leader
Development of feudalism and a samurai warrior - class
Role of the Church in the Early Middle Ages
27. Saw the development of city - states - East African civilization was based on international trade and seaport cities - Swahili culture developed its own language and thrived in the city - states - The Portuguese destroyed much of the East African tra
The East African Coast
Smaller civilizations of the Near East
Reasons for the Byzantine Empire's success
Dissolution of the Frankish Empire
28. 1807 - Built by American inventor Robert Fulton - The steam engine was used to build it
Enlightened despotism
Steamboat
The feudal system
The Kingdom of Zimbabwe
29. Institutions: hospitals - medical schools - libraries - universities - Agriculture: cash crops - crop rotation - Mathematics: algebra - algorithms - Arabic numerals - decimal point - Globalization: exploration - work of scholars - trade (Atlantic - M
Alfred the Great
Ganges River
Mohammed
Muslim contributions
30. Became the birthplace for the Hellenic civilization
The Carolingians
Hinduism
Roman contributions to the western world Engineering and architecture
Iona
31. 1200-400 B.C. - South - central Mexico - Developed one of the first civilizations in Mesoamerica - Developed an agricultural community - Developed the first calendar in America - Noted artwork in many media (jade - clay - basalt - and greenstone) - M
Isaac Newton
Napoleon and the First Empire
The Olmec
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: education
32. c. 1000-1500
Reasons for the decline of the Byzantine Empire
Nicolaus Copernicus
The Fall of Rome
The Later Middle Ages
33. Complex religion of gods - rituals - and governance (pharaoh)- Writing (hieroglyphics) - Engineering and building (pyramids) - Mathematics
The Roman Republic: decline
Egypt: developments
Reasons for the decline of the Byzantine Empire
Cleisthenes - Athens Leader
34. A totalitarian and militaristic state dependent on slave labor to sustain its agricultural system; state owned most of the land - Warrior state - dependent on a superior military (result of constant threat of rebellion) - Spartan citizens were outnum
Neoclassicism
India: developments
Constantine
Spartan way of life
35. (460-429 B.C.) Represented the zenith of Athenian society and the height of its democracy
Nicolaus Copernicus
The Age of Pericles
Feudalism: outcomes
The Early Middle Ages
36. 1733 - Increased the speed of weavers
Water frame
American Indian culture
Flying shuttle
Myths
37. Class division of society - The decline of feudalism and manorialism - The commercial revival - Education - Philosophy - Architecture
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages
Japan's geography
India under Muslim rule
Modern influence of Magna Carta
38. The oldest known civilization on earth - established in the Tigris - Euphrates Valley in the 4th millennium BC. Sumerian civilization took the form of a cluster of city - states - the best known of which is Ur. Sumerians were the first to use the pot
Greece: geography
The Viking (Norse) invaders
Sumeria
The Israelites
39. Disease devastated native populations - Smallpox - measles - typhus - From Mexico - spread into the American southwest and southward toward the Andes - From 1520-1620 - 20 million dead - Conquest aided by weakening of native forces - Mass transfer of
Role of the Church in the Early Middle Ages
India under Muslim rule
Impact of Spanish Exploration and Conquest on Indigenous People of the Americas
The Napoleonic Code
40. (Virgil's Aeneid - Ovid's Metamorphoses) - rhetoric (the art and study of the use of language with persuasive effect) - Continued the Greek tradition in literature - art - sculpture - and the humanities
Roman contributions to the western world Culture: history - literature
The ziggurat
Ottoman Empire
Turk Dominance
41. Borrowed from China - Archaeology has revealed Japan's ancient past - Japanese culture developed during the Heian Era (794-1156) - Poetic form such as the Haiku developed - and literature spread
Alfred the Great
Literature and Philosophy during the rennaisance
The Aztecs
Early Japanese civilization
42. (Islamic scholar - A.D. 1305-1368) spread Islamic culture by traveling widely
France during the later Middle Ages
Minoan civilization
Ibn Battuta
Africa's geological diversity
43. Attempted to stem the tide - The empire split into the Western and Eastern Roman Empires - Barbarian invasions by Germanic and Asiatic tribes (the Goths - Vandals - and Huns) devastated Rome - and it fell in A.D. 476 - The Eastern Roman Empire at Con
North American Indians
The Aztecs
Results of the Industrial Revolution
Constantine
44. The emphasis was on man rather than God - There was a reawakening or rebirth of classical models - The ideal of the 'universal man' was widely held
Philosophy influenced by the Age of Reason
The Babylonians
Alfred the Great
General characteristics of the Renaissance
45. Constitutionalism/importance of a written constitution - individual rights - due process of the law - concept of a representative government - taxation with representation - trial by jury - Would later be a significant influence on the American Const
The 'continental system'
Social Darwinism and Capitalism
Modern influence of Magna Carta
Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
46. Mathematician - physicist - and astronomer - The most influential scientist of the Enlightenment - Described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion - which dominated the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centurie
Confucius
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: commercial revival
Isaac Newton
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
47. A.D. 570-632 - Emerged from the deserts of Arabia; appeared as a messenger of God (Allah) and a prophet of Allah's monotheistic faith - According to Islamic traditions - Mohammed was last in a line of prophets that traced back to Abraham and included
The (Protestant) Reformation
Chinese civilization under the Sungs
Mohammed
Napoleon and the First Empire: international relations
48. The Turkish empire - By the middle of the 16th century - the Ottomans controlled not only Turkey but most of southeastern Europe - the Crimea - Iran - and a majority of the Middle East
Africa's geological diversity
Ottoman Empire
Chinese civilization under the Sungs
The Israelites
49. A traditional or legendary story - usually concerning some being or hero or event - with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation - especially one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice - rite -
Key provisions of Magna Carta
Myths
Napoleon and the First Empire: international relations
Classical Greece
50. International relations placed France against Europe. Napoleon won territory from the Holy Roman Empire and forced Spain to cede the Louisiana territory to France
The topography of Africa
The Mayas
Napoleon and the First Empire: international relations
Steam locomotive