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CSET World History
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1. Dominated the culture of the 18th century - There was an attempt to revive the classic style and form of ancient Greece and Rome - In literature - the novel was the outcome; in architecture - the Rococo style was dominant - In music - Haydn and Mozar
Roman contributions to the western world Engineering and architecture
Neoclassicism
Famous empires that grew in the West African savanna
Development of the Renaissance
2. 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
Isaac Newton
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages
Paul of Tarsus (Paul the Apostle)
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: society
3. An early Jewish convert to Christianity - was responsible for the spread of Christian theology and the resulting response from the Roman empire (opposition/resistance; Christianity firmly rooted in the collapsing world of Roman rule)
Chinese civilization under the Sungs
Impact of Spanish Exploration and Conquest on Indigenous People of the Americas
The East African Coast
Paul of Tarsus (Paul the Apostle)
4. 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 Carolingians
The ancient Near East: cultural contributions
The Phoenicians
Social Darwinism and Capitalism
5. (A.D. 768-814) A Carolingian ruler - dominated the political structure of the early Middle Ages - crowned 'Emperor of the Romans' by Pope Leo in A.D. 800 and had a major impact on the history of Europe - revived the concept of the Holy Roman Empire a
Charlemagne
Reasons for the decline of the Byzantine Empire
Cotton gin
Spinning jenny
6. A dramatic increase in productivity and the rise of the factory system - Demographic changes (from rural to urban centers) - The division of society into defined classes (propertied and nonpropertied) - The development of modern capitalism
Reasons for the decline of the Byzantine Empire
Results of the Industrial Revolution
The topography of Africa
Feudalism: economic
7. 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
Napoleon and the First Empire
The feudal system
Mycenaean civilization
The topography of Africa
8. 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
Martin Luther's beliefs
The Israelites
The topography of Africa
The East African Coast
9. Influenced its history - Japanese culture reflects a reverence for nature - Mountains - forests - and coastal areas determined cultural growth
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10. Genghis Khan united nomadic peoples and conquered China - Kublai Khan became emperor of China - Marco Polo - the Italian explorer - opened the door to trade with China and described the Mongol Empire.
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
Mycenaean civilization
The intellectual response to the Industrial Revolution
Mongul rule in China
11. A failed French attempt to close the continent to British trade in hopes of destroying the British economy
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12. 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 Roman Empire
The Incas
Confucius
Muslim contributions - Science and technology
13. The Hopewell people were skilled farmers and flourished in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys (200 B.C.- A.D. 400) - Mississippian culture developed in A.D. 800 and built large religious mound structures - The Anasazi culture (A.D. 800-1300) developed
River Valley Civilizations
The conquest of Indigenous People of the Americas
Rome's economic problems
North American Indians
14. 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.
Grooved rollers
Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
Mesopotamia
Reasons for the decline of the Byzantine Empire
15. 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
The Chaldeans
General characteristics of the Renaissance
Social Darwinism and Capitalism
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: education
16. 1764 - Increased the speed and output of yarn spinners
Background to the French Revolution
Egypt
Spinning jenny
The Mayas
17. (A.D. 747-768) a Carolingian ruler appointed by the pope as king and established the Papal States on former Byzantine lands
The Hittites
Pepin the Short
Adam Smith
India under Muslim rule
18. The Reconquista reestablished Christian control over Muslim Spain in 1492 - Portugal in 1250 - The Spanish state was marked by strong - absolutist rule - The monarch instituted inquisitions and also expelled the Jews
Spain and Portugal during the later Middle Ages
Hindus
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: education
Napoleon and the First Empire: international relations
19. Profits linked to the manufacturing of products - Private ownership of land - Freedom of choice - A competitive free - market system - Limited government restraints
Capitalism
Social Darwinism and Capitalism
Ibn Battuta
England during the later Middle Ages
20. The Renaissance of northern Europe emphasized the teachings of Christianity and placed less reliance on humanism - The French Renaissance reflected a democratic realism - The English Renaissance did not flower until the Elizabethan Age
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Smaller civilizations of the Near East
The spread of the Renaissance throughout Europe
The Franks
21. The period of human culture that began around 10000 years ago in the Middle East and 4000 years ago later in other parts of the world. It is characterized by the beginning of farming - the domestication of animals - the development of crafts such as
Watt steam engine
Neolithic or New Stone Age
Isaac Newton
The East African Coast
22. An Aegean civilization - Minoan civilization of Crete (c. 4000-1400 B.C.) based its prosperity on extensive commerce
The Roman Republic
Water frame
Minoan civilization
Adam Smith
23. (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
Enlightened despotism
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
Martin Luther's beliefs
Roman contributions to the western world Culture: history - literature
24. 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 Assyrians
Sumeria
Social Darwinism and Capitalism
The conquest of Indigenous People of the Americas
25. Works of Greeks and Romans reconnected Europeans with their ancient heritage
Renaissance
The Scientific Revolution
The Israelites
The Age of Pericles
26. Education stressed the liberal arts. - Theology influenced both religion and politics - Universities were created in Paris - Oxford - and Cambridge during the 11th and 12th centuries - Latin was the language of intellectual Europe; vernacular was use
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: education
Athens and Sparta
The Franks
Hinduism
27. The creators of Mesopotamian civilization (3500-3000 B.C.) - Used Tigris and Euphrates rivers for trade and commerce - as well as areas surrounding the Persian Gulf - Material progress included large - scale irrigation projects - an advanced system o
Athens and Sparta
The 'continental system'
The Incas
The Sumerians
28. An ethical religion - Of the Persians - based on concepts of good and evil
Neoclassicism
Indus River
Ancient Africans' advances in their societies and cultures
Zoroastrianism
29. c. A.D. 500-1000 - Dark Ages: A.D. 500-800 - 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
Cotton gin
Roman contributions to the western world Culture: history - literature
Darwin
The Early Middle Ages
30. 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
The Chaldeans
Steamboat
Napoleon and the First Empire
The Carolingians
31. The cultural period of the Stone Age that developed primarily in Europe between the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods - beginning around 10000 years ago and lasting in various places as late as 3000 bce. The Mesolithic is marked by the appearance of
The topography of Africa
The Persians
Zoroastrianism
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
32. As the Western Roman Empire was under relentless attack from barbarian tribes - people looked to the Church for salvation - The Church became the preserver of civilization and its unifying force in both political and religious life - Church entered i
Napoleon and the First Empire
The Kingdom of Zimbabwe
General characteristics of the Renaissance
Role of the Church in the Early Middle Ages
33. Replaced the Franks as legitimate rulers - The Carolingian Renaissance resulted in the establishment of a palace academy with a prescribed academic curriculum
The Carolingians
Grooved rollers
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: education
Mesopotamia: developments
34. Began with the death of Alexander the Great - 323-30 B.C. - Fusion of Greek and Eastern cultures - A time of great economic growth and expansion; an increase in international trade and commerce - Rise of cities; Rhodes - Alexandria - and Antioch repl
Rallying cry of the French Revolution
Renaissance
Paul of Tarsus (Paul the Apostle)
The Hellenistic Age
35. 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 Ming and Manchu Dynasties
The (Protestant) Reformation
The Persians
Hindus
36. 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
The Roman Republic: decline
'The Communist Manifesto'
Egypt: developments
Classical Greece
37. 1764 - Introduced the first power - driven machine to manufacture cloth
Steamboat
Water frame
Ibn Battuta
Alfred the Great
38. The Phoenicians - The Lydians - The Israelites
Zoroastrianism
The Sumerians
Smaller civilizations of the Near East
Spartan way of life
39. 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
Social Darwinism
The Kingdom of Zimbabwe
Roman contributions to the western world Engineering and architecture
Mesopotamia
40. No privileges/tax exemptions based on lineage - Government promotion was based on ability - Modernized French law (equality before the law)
'The Communist Manifesto'
Power loom
Rallying cry of the French Revolution
The Napoleonic Code
41. The earliest Indian civilization - the Harappa culture - developed around the Indus River Valley in 2500 B.C.
The Ming and Manchu Dynasties
Mohammed
Feudalism: outcomes
Indus River
42. 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
Ganges River
The French Revolution
John Locke
The Chaldeans
43. The government system and basis for society in the Middle Ages - The system was based on land ownership; person who was allowed by a lord to use his land was called a vassal and the land was called a fief
Alexander the Great
Spinning jenny
Constantine
The feudal system
44. Arabs preserved the cultures of the peoples they conquered - Religious pilgrimages led to the spread of new ideas - The caliphs improved farming methods and crop yields - Military expansion also served as a vehicle for cultural exchane between the Ar
Islamic civilization: government and religion
Classical Greece
The Phoenicians
Development of feudalism and a samurai warrior - class
45. c. 1000-1500
Japan's geography
The Roman Empire
The Later Middle Ages
Spinning mule
46. Also called enlightened absolutism - Grew out of the earlier absolutism of Louis XIV (France) and Peter the Great (Russia) - Advocated limited responsibility to God and church - A form of absolutism in which rulers were influenced by the Enlightenmen
Enlightened despotism
Muslim contributions
The conquest of Indigenous People of the Americas
Origins of people in America
47. The region that is now Mexico - Central America - and the western coast of South America
Feudalism: outcomes
Mesoamerica
Islam in Africa
Spinning mule
48. 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
Arabs
Islam in Africa
Constantinople
The intellectual response to the Industrial Revolution
49. The Norman Conquest (invasion of England by William the Conqueror - duke of Normandy) had a profound impact on the development of the culture - language - and judicial system of England - The Battle of Hastings (1066) ended Anglo - Saxon rule in Engl
England during the later Middle Ages
Roman contributions to the western world (greatest contribution)
The Holy Roman Empire during the late Middle Ages
Reasons for the Byzantine Empire's success
50. Began with the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth (compassion for the poor and downtrodden) - Emphasized the Holy Bible as the word of God - the sacraments as the instruments of God's grace - and the importance of a moral life for salvation
Arabs
Spartan way of life
Christianity: basic doctrines
Neoclassicism