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CSET World History
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1. Society was based on a strict class division: clergy and nobility were the privileged class - peasants and artisans were the work force - and serfs were tied to the land
Persian War
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: society
The Later Middle Ages
Napoleon and the First Empire
2. 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
Literature and Philosophy during the rennaisance
John Locke
The Age of Pericles
The Viking (Norse) invaders
3. Influenced its history - Japanese culture reflects a reverence for nature - Mountains - forests - and coastal areas determined cultural growth
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4. Lineage was the basis of tribal organization - Religion - politics - and law became the focus of African culture - Art and sculpture were emphasized
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5. Urban culture - Planned cities (i.e. citywide sanitation systems) - Metallurgy (gold - copper - bronze - tin) - Measurement (weight - time - length - mass)
Athens and Sparta
India: developments
The accomplishments of the early Japanese
The Lydians
6. Wrote the 'Wealth of Nations' (1776) and advocated manufacturing as the true source of a nation's wealth (the laws of the market place and not government regulations dictate national economies); considered the father of modern economics
Absolutism
Spinning jenny
Adam Smith
Nicolaus Copernicus
7. The disintegration of traditional feudal loyalties - the rise of powerful monarchies - and the collapse of a single religious doctrine caused European intellectuals to think about new ways of unifying and governing nation - states - Their exploration
Historical interpretations of the Middle Ages
The Sumerians
Division of the Muslim Empire
The Age of Reason/Enlightenment
8. Rugged landscape of mountains and valleys - scattered islands led to the development of independent city - states (polis) rather than one unified empire - Scarcity of good agricultural land encouraged seafaring in eastern Greece - The southern mainla
Steamboat
Greece: geography
Spain and Portugal during the later Middle Ages
Key provisions of Magna Carta
9. 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 Olmec
India: developments
Mesopotamia
Famous empires that grew in the West African savanna
10. A.D. 960-1279 - The Chinese Empire lost much territory after the fall of the Tang rulers - Advances in education - art - and science contributed to an improved way of life
Charlemagne
Background to the French Revolution
Division of the Muslim Empire
Chinese civilization under the Sungs
11. The Muslim empire was ruled by Arab caliphs - Arabs conquered much of the Byzantine and Persian empires (including North Africa) and Spain - The Battle of Tours (A.D. 732) resulted in the Franks halting Muslim expansion in Europe - Muslim Spain laste
The East African Coast
Arabs
The Counter Reformation
Four key beliefs of Hindus
12. Conquered the Peloponnesus (peninsula of southern Greece) and ushered in a 'dark age' characterized by violence and instability
The Dorians
The French Revolution
The Roman Empire
The Chaldeans
13. Writing (cuneiform) - Organized government - Written law code (Hammurabi's Code) - Systematized religion (Zoroastrianism) - Astronomy; astrology
Mesopotamia: developments
Cleisthenes - Athens Leader
Results of the Industrial Revolution
John Locke
14. Muslims controlled India for centuries - Muslim invaders came into India in the 11th and 12th centuries and created kingdoms in the north - The Delhi Sultanate was the most powerful (1206-1526)
The Magna Carta
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: feudalism/manorialism
India under Muslim rule
The Franks
15. 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
Reasons for the decline of the Byzantine Empire
Sumeria
Spinning jenny
Impact of Spanish Exploration and Conquest on Indigenous People of the Americas
16. Based on the teachings of Mohammed - The spread of Islam started in the seventh century A.D. - The Koran became the center for Islamic moral and ethical conduct - Mohammed established a theocracy based on Islamic law
The topography of Africa
Islam
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: society
Mythology
17. 1760 - Improved production of iron
The Mayas
Martin Luther's beliefs
Coke smelting
Results of the Industrial Revolution
18. (A.D. 747-768) a Carolingian ruler appointed by the pope as king and established the Papal States on former Byzantine lands
Development of feudalism and a samurai warrior - class
North American Indians
Pepin the Short
Ancient Africans' advances in their societies and cultures
19. Christianity and church dogma were questioned
Constantinople
Mongul rule in China
Philosophy influenced by the Age of Reason
The French Revolution
20. Conquered Sumeria and established a new empire (2300-1750 B.C.) - The code of Hammurabi was the first universal written codification of laws in recorded history (c. 1750 B.C.) - Ahievements included a centralized government and advancements in algebr
The Fall of Rome
The Babylonians
Role of the Church in the Early Middle Ages
Reasons for the Byzantine Empire's success
21. Born around 6 B.C. in the Roman province of Judea - Became an influential rabbi - His death by crucifixion and resurrection as the Christ (Greek for messiah) were writings in the Gospels
Jesus of Nazareth
Spartan way of life
Greece: geography
Spain and Portugal during the later Middle Ages
22. The Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads
Division of the Muslim Empire
The ziggurat
Mesopotamia
The Kingdom of Zimbabwe
23. Profits linked to the manufacturing of products - Private ownership of land - Freedom of choice - A competitive free - market system - Limited government restraints
The Carolingians
Capitalism
The Punic Wars with Carthage
The Age of Reason/Enlightenment
24. (Islamic scholar - A.D. 1305-1368) spread Islamic culture by traveling widely
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
Myths
Ibn Battuta
The ancient Near East: geography
25. 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
The Incas
Mohammed
Myths
26. 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.)
The forest states
Effects of the Reformation
The Aztecs
The Persians
27. 1785 - Led to faster production of cloth
Power loom
The Scientific Revolution
Islam
Water frame
28. Mainly composed of three regions: desert - savanna - and tropical rainforest - The Sahara desert dominates the continent (covers most of northern Africa) - Trade and commerce were connected to the geographical potential of the area - Large population
Four key beliefs of Hindus
The conquest of Indigenous People of the Americas
The topography of Africa
Water frame
29. (Frankish military/political leader) Halted the Muslim advance into Europe at the Battle of Tours (A.D. 732); Martel's victory helped preserve western civilization
Turk Dominance
Ganges River
Mycenaean civilization
Charles Martel
30. 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
The Dorians
China: developments
General characteristics of the Renaissance
Sumeria
31. 1764 - Increased the speed and output of yarn spinners
Spinning jenny
Grooved rollers
Mythology
Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
32. Manufacturing: flying shuttle - Birth of the factory system: spinning jenny - water frame - spinning mule - watt steam engine - power loom - cotton gin - Iron - making: coke smelting - grooved rollers - Transportation: steam locomotive - steamboat
Islamic civilization: government and religion
The Viking (Norse) invaders
India under Muslim rule
Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
33. Greek language and cultural accomplishments preserved - Center for world trade and exchange of culture - It spread civilization to all of eastern Europe - Codification of Roman law ('Justinian Code') - It preserved the Eastern Church ('Greek Orthodox
Myths
Napoleon and the First Empire: international relations
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
34. 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
The Lydians
General characteristics of the Renaissance
Darwin
Muslim contributions - Science and technology
35. (1848) - Written by Marx and Friedrich Engels - advanced the theories of modern scientific socialism
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36. The Sumerians - The Babylonians - The Hittites - The Assyrians - The Chaldeans - The Persians
Four key beliefs of Hindus
Mesopotamian civilizations
Ibn Battuta
Reasons for the Byzantine Empire's success
37. Writing - Commerce - Government
Johannes Kepler
Sumeria
China: developments
The 'continental system'
38. Established at Byzantium by Emperor Constantine as a 'New Rome' in the East in A.D. 330 - Strategically located (where Europe and Asia meet) - had excellent defensible borders - and was a crossroads of world trade - With the fall of Rome/collapse of
The feudal system
Flying shuttle
Constantinople
Steamboat
39. Astronomer - Challenged the Church doctrine of a geocentric (earth - centered) theory of the universe (Ptolemy's theory; was the prevailing thought for more than 1000 years) - Believed that the sun was the center of the solar system - and the earth m
Nicolaus Copernicus
Mongul rule in China
The importance of city life in the Sung Empire
Islam in Africa
40. The first system of independent states - The first system of writing (cuneiform and hieroglyphics) - The first massive architectural achievements (ziggurat and pyramid) - The first lasting monotheism - The beginning of science - mathematics - and ast
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: commercial revival
India: developments
Key provisions of Magna Carta
The ancient Near East: cultural contributions
41. 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
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: commercial revival
The Aztecs
Steamboat
The Olmec
42. The center of Sumerian community life and served as a temple - storehouse - and treasury
Islam in Africa
Steamboat
The ancient Near East: cultural contributions
The ziggurat
43. (A.D. 871-99) established the English kingdom after stemming the Danish invasions
Renaissance
The Olmec
Background to the French Revolution
Alfred the Great
44. Capitalism was regarded as the 'natural environment' in which 'survival of the fittest' could be tested - belief that some races were superior to others - that poverty indicated unfitness - and that a class - structured society was desirable
The East African Coast
Social Darwinism and Capitalism
The Assyrians
The Hittites
45. A.D. 1200-1533 Northwest coastal region and inland region of South America (Peru) - Controlled a vast empire in South America - The Tiahuanaco culture developed in the Andes Mountains - unified an extensive empire - Developed a sophisticated record -
The Incas
Iona
Capitalism
John Calvin
46. Its geographic proximity to the Arabs - Slavs - and Seljuk Turks - all of whom were becoming more powerful - The loss of commercial dominance of the Italians - Religious controversy with the West and a subsequent split with the Roman Catholic Church
The Magna Carta
Reasons for the decline of the Byzantine Empire
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: architecture
Darwin
47. 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
Neoclassicism
The feudal system
Isaac Newton
Paul of Tarsus (Paul the Apostle)
48. Ghana - Mali and Songhai
Islam
The Later Middle Ages
Famous empires that grew in the West African savanna
Roman contributions to the western world (greatest contribution)
49. Stimulated new states of West Africa and spread Islamic culture and religion
Islam in Africa
Steamboat
Iona
Roman contributions to the western world Engineering and architecture
50. A failed French attempt to close the continent to British trade in hopes of destroying the British economy
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