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CSET World History
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1. Conquered the Peloponnesus (peninsula of southern Greece) and ushered in a 'dark age' characterized by violence and instability
The Dorians
The Persians
Origins of people in America
The Kingdom of Zimbabwe
2. Assumed leadership of the Muslim world - The Seljuks fought with the crusaders and regained lost land - Mongols invaded the eastern Muslim Empire - The Ottoman Empire expanded territory and lasted for many centuries - Constantinople was the center of
Constantine
Spinning jenny
Charles Martel
Turk Dominance
3. Four rivers (Nile - Congo - Niger - and Zambezi) were important to Africa's economic history - Egyptian civilization developed in the Nile Valley - Africa above the Sahara (Northern Africa) is often associated with Arab influence - The irregular coas
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4. 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
Enlightened despotism
Napoleon and the First Empire
Mohammed
Sumeria
5. His teachings influenced Chinese culture - Wanted to improve society - Taught that certain virtues are guidelines to happy life
Alfred the Great
The Hellenistic Age
Development of the Renaissance
Confucius
6. 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
The 'continental system'
The importance of city life in the Sung Empire
The caste system
Africa's geological diversity
7. 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
Smaller civilizations of the Near East
Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
John Calvin
Development of the Renaissance
8. 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
The Dorians
The spread of the Renaissance throughout Europe
Nicolaus Copernicus
Chinese civilization under the Sungs
9. A.D. 250-900 - Yucatan peninsula - Achieved a complex civilization - cities were trade and religious centers - excelled in many fields - including mathematics - science - astronomy - and engineering (pyramid building) - Only known written language of
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: philosophy
Spartan way of life
Renaissance
The Mayas
10. The Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads
Ottoman Empire
Division of the Muslim Empire
Dissolution of the Frankish Empire
Muslim contributions - Science and technology
11. 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
Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
Alexander the Great
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: society
Napoleon and the First Empire: international relations
12. Hierarchical and interdependent - Church - Lords/nobles - Vassals/lesser lords - Knights - Peasants (free and serfs) - Grants of land given by lords in exchange for oaths of loyalty - Private armies of vassals and their knights protected lords and th
Feudalism: political
The Napoleonic Code
Ibn Battuta
Reasons for the spread of Christianity (the Roman period)
13. Foreign trade enabled populations to grow in cities and to become sophisticated - The family was the focus of Chinese life - Women had lower status than men
The Phoenicians
Flying shuttle
The importance of city life in the Sung Empire
Reasons for the Reformation
14. 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
Social Darwinism and Capitalism
Alfred the Great
England during the later Middle Ages
The spread of the Renaissance throughout Europe
15. 1785 - Led to faster production of cloth
Mesoamerica
John Calvin
The Age of Reason/Enlightenment
Power loom
16. Firmly established by the 14th century - Gained power at the expense of the king - Composed of the House of Lords (titled nobility) and the House of Commons (gentry and middle classes)
The Carolingians
English Parliament
The spread of the Renaissance throughout Europe
Division of the Muslim Empire
17. Writing - Commerce - Government
The Aztecs
Paleolithic or Old Stone Age
China: developments
The ancient Near East: cultural contributions
18. 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
Africa's geological diversity
Muslim contributions
Charles Martel
Egyptian civilization: significant aspects
19. Began in Italy during the 14th century - The Crusades focused attention eastward (on Greece and the Near East) - By the 14th century - the move toward secularization was predominant - Conflicts between the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire in the 13th
Development of the Renaissance
Islam in Africa
Mohammed
Feudalism: political
20. 1760 - Improved production of iron
Alexander the Great
'The Communist Manifesto'
Paul of Tarsus (Paul the Apostle)
Coke smelting
21. Dissatisfaction with church ritual and Latin overtones - Humanism emphasized man's needs and concerns - The printing press allowed mass communication (Luther's 95 Theses were translated - widely copied - distributed throughout Europe) - Luther's exco
Reasons for the Reformation
The ziggurat
The English Reformation
Ancient Africans' advances in their societies and cultures
22. Renaissance secularism created tension between princely kingdoms and the authority of the Church - There also emerged within the Church questions about its worldly rather than spiritual interest in acquiring power and wealth - This internal struggle
Rome's political problems
The Age of Pericles
The (Protestant) Reformation
Ancient Africans' advances in their societies and cultures
23. 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
Alexander the Great
Mongul rule in China
Reasons for the decline of the Byzantine Empire
Egyptian civilization: significant aspects
24. Warrior nation; created an empire based on military superiority - conquest - and terrorism (911-550 B.C.) - Empire origniated in the highland region of the upper Tigris River but grew to encompass the entire area of the Fertile Crescent - Military te
'The Communist Manifesto'
John Calvin
The Assyrians
Jesus of Nazareth
25. Economic prosperity - domination of the commercial trade routes controlled by Constantinople - monopoly of the silk trade - The Byzantines made excellent use of diplomacy to avoid invasions - and they were geographically distant from the tribes who s
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26. Philosophy (Scholasticism) dealt with the consistency of faith and reason
The Persians
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: philosophy
Martin Luther
Coke smelting
27. 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
Feudalism: outcomes
Adam Smith
The ziggurat
Neoclassicism
28. 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
Literature and Philosophy during the rennaisance
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
Mycenaean civilization
The Roman Empire
29. The Sumerians - The Babylonians - The Hittites - The Assyrians - The Chaldeans - The Persians
The intellectual response to the Industrial Revolution
Roman contributions to the western world Culture: history - literature
The Battle of Waterloo (1815)
Mesopotamian civilizations
30. 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
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: feudalism/manorialism
Adam Smith
Spinning mule
The Fall of Rome
31. 356-323 B.C. - Of Macedonia - Established the Hellenistic Age - Conquered Persia - Asia Minor - and Egypt; established a world empire - Bureaucracy replaced the city - state as the form of government - Following his death - dynasties were established
Famous empires that grew in the West African savanna
Islamic civilization: trade and cultural expansion
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages
Alexander the Great
32. The classical economists advanced the theory of laissez faire - Thomas Malthus (1776-1834) theorized that population growth would far outstrip food production - The revolutionary socialism of Karl Marx advocated a violent overthrow of the present eco
The intellectual response to the Industrial Revolution
Contributions of the Greek World
Cleisthenes - Athens Leader
Feudalism: economic
33. Aztecs conquered by Cortes in 1521 - Inca Empire conquered by Pizarro in 1513
Martin Luther
Key provisions of Magna Carta
The conquest of Indigenous People of the Americas
Islam
34. 1807 - Built by American inventor Robert Fulton - The steam engine was used to build it
Steamboat
Spinning mule
Islam
Capitalism
35. Established the first kingdom in Palestine (c. 1030-1010 B.C.)
England during the later Middle Ages
Chinese civilization under the Sungs
Saul
Egypt: developments
36. 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: philosophy
The feudal system
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages
The Roman Republic
37. 1483-1546 - Northern Germany - Rejection of hierarchical priesthood and papal authority - Questioned the right of the pope to grant indulgences (full or partial remission of temporal punishment due for sins which have already been forgiven)
The feudal system
The Babylonians
The French Revolution
Martin Luther
38. Mathematician - physicist - astronomer - With a telescope - provided the first observational evidence in support of Copernicus - Observed the phases of Venus; discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter; observed and analyzed sunspots - Was question
Galileo Galilei
Coke smelting
Mycenaean civilization
Steamboat
39. Pillaged the coasts of Europe in the 8th century - The Danes were responsible for the major invasions of England - In France - the Carolingian king was forced to cede Normandy to the Vikings
China: developments
Cotton gin
The Viking (Norse) invaders
The Age of Pericles
40. Concrete - arch - roads (200000 miles of roads) - aqueducts and cisterns - monumental buildings (the Colosseum)
France during the later Middle Ages
Roman contributions to the western world Engineering and architecture
The Incas
Rome's political problems
41. Emperors repeatedly raised taxes to support the ever - increasing needs of the army - Created tremendous burdens on the population - with the common people being most affected - Continual economic crises resulted in a rise in poverty and unemployment
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42. A period of transition between ancient and modern Europe - Unique with a distinctive culture; out of feudal customs and traditions that included Greek and Roman classical culture - influences from the Arab world and the East - and tenets of Judeo - C
Historical interpretations of the Middle Ages
The Israelites
English Parliament
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: commercial revival
43. 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.
Mesopotamia
The (Protestant) Reformation
Mongul rule in China
Rallying cry of the French Revolution
44. Refers to the absolute rule of monarchs with unlimited power - The theory of absolute monarchs and the divine right of kings (rule by God's will) - Evolved from the limited power of the ruling class during the Middle Ages to the Age of Absolutism in
Absolutism
Cotton gin
John Calvin
Grooved rollers
45. The cultural period of the Stone Age that began about 2.5 to 2 million years ago - marked by the earliest use of tools made of chipped stone. The Paleolithic Period ended at different times in different parts of the world - generally around 10000 yea
Myths
Paleolithic or Old Stone Age
Mongul rule in China
Water frame
46. Developed over many centuries - The first American Indians originated from Asia - Agriculture changed some Indian culture from a nomadic existence to farming communities
American Indian culture
The Israelites
Background to the French Revolution
Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
47. Profits linked to the manufacturing of products - Private ownership of land - Freedom of choice - A competitive free - market system - Limited government restraints
Renaissance
Turk Dominance
Capitalism
Impact of Spanish Exploration and Conquest on Indigenous People of the Americas
48. (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
Steamboat
Roman contributions to the western world Culture: history - literature
Egyptian civilization: significant aspects
Mohammed
49. Reflected the new secular trends - Humanism stressed the importance of the individual - Machiavelli's 'The Prince' stressed that 'the ends justify the means' as a political philosophy - The influence of the 'classical' arts was strong - and a new emp
The Lydians
Literature and Philosophy during the rennaisance
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: education
Flying shuttle
50. 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
Origins of people in America
The Peloponnesian War
The Franks
Muslim contributions - Science and technology