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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. Was divided into the patricians (propertied class) - plebeians (main body of Roman citizens) - and slaves.
Roman Society
Augustus
The Pelponnesian War
Oliver Cromwell
2. The invasion and settlement of England by the Normans following the Battle of Hastings (1066)
The Thirty Years War
The Shogun
Norman Conquest
Arab Caliphs
3. A major dynasty that ruled China from the mid - fourteenth to the mid - seventeenth century.The ousted the Mongols. It was marked by a great expansion of Chinese commerce into East Africa - the Middle East - and Southeast Asia
Baroque Style
The Near East
Ming Dynasty
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
4. Establishe a civiliztion in the Nile Valley.
African Rivers
Effect of the Reformation
The Thirty Years War
The Egyptians
5. Area along the central west coast of Asia Minor colonized by settlers from mainland Greece from about 1000 BC. Ionian Greeks - including Homer - played a central role in the early development of Greek history and literature following the Dark Ages. B
Ionia
The Lord of the Manor
Ghana
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
6. The term for The Univeral Soul in Hinduism.
Greece
Genghis Khan
Brahman
Marco Polo
7. This war was between Aristocrats and Nobles. The Nobles wanted to control the throne so the first Tudor King - Henry VII took the throne in 1485. He abolished the Noble's private armies.
Egyptian Religion
The War of the Roses
Nomadic
Neoclassicism
8. European trade agreement with Africa dealing with slaves brought from Africa. Integral part of Triangle Trade between the Americas - Africa - and Europe.
Slave Trade
The Renaissance
The War of the Roses
Paul the Apostle
9. Large powerful kingdom in East/Central africa. Controlled and taxed trade between the interior and coastal regions - Organized the flow of gold - ivory - slaves - forged alliances w/ local rulers & profited immensely from these transactions.
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
The Code of Napoleon
Effect of the Reformation
The Congress of Verona
10. Established Capeatian rule in France - put to throne because of his weakness; made throne hereditary; Capetians had an unbroken succession for 300 years; effective beauracracy
Hugh Capet
The Hundred Years War
Decentralization of the Germanic States
Islamic Civilization
11. Political system in which a ruler holds total power. The ruler has total control and final say over their people.
Roman Contributions
Absolutionism
Islamic Culture
The Dark Ages
12. Overthrew the Umayyad but one escaped
Abbassides
Mughuls
Gothic Revival
Cardinal Richelieu
13. A flat - dry grassland with trees and bushes
African Savana
Tokugawa Shogunate
Arab Conquests
Ninety Theses
14. (1776-1834) Theorized that population growth would far outstrip food production
Absolutionism
The Heian Era
Thomas Malthus
Byzantine Empire
15. A lesser used title for the English Civil War.
The Peace of Westphalia
Baroque Style
The Puritan Revolution
Charlemagne
16. The English Parliament drove out an absolute monarch and replaced him with two constitutional monarch's William and Mary. 1688 - change of who is in power without bloodshed. Established the supremacy of Parliment.
The English Civil War
Martin Luther
The Glorious Revolution
The Age of Pericles(460 BC-429 BC)
17. Old Kingdom (massive pyramids) - Middle kingdom - New kingdom (gets agressive)
The Heian Era
Effect of the Reformation
Egyptian History
Ionia
18. A military dictatorship in Japan headed by the shoguns from 1185 to 133. It was based in Kamakura which was the capital of the shogunate.
The Hundred Years War
Mali
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
Kamakura Shogunate
19. French Protestants who suffered persecution. Many left Europe for America to find religious freedom
Ninety Theses
The Huguenots
Roman Contributions
The Muslim Empire
20. Gave all property to the eldest son. Led many younger sons of the gentry to seek their fortunes in exploration and colonization.
The law of Primogeniture
The Samurai
James I
Machiavelli
21. An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds
The Reconquista
Songhai
Hieroglyphics
Proletariats
22. The Vikings built fast ships where they would ship men and cargo from their land to charlemagnes empire to pilage and plunder.
The Roman Government
Effect of the Reformation
The Viking Invasions
Swahili
23. Forceful seizure of governmental power
Arab Caliphs
Militant Socialism
The Age of Enlightenment
Rift Valley
24. Revival of a classical style in art or literature or architecture or music but from a new perspective or with a new motivation
The Battle of Hastings
The Congress of Vienna
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
Neoclassicism
25. Mass production of goods and the rise of the factory system. From Rural to Urban centers. The division of society into defined calsses propertied and unpropertied. The development of modern Capitalism.
Aegan
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
Athens
The Romanov Dynasty
26. 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.
Romanesque
The Commonwealth Period
The Summarians
Genghis Khan
27. The Heian Era commenced in 794 - and was a time when Japan gradually stopped imitating China - developing into a distinct new culture. The new culture mixed both Chinese and Japanese cultures - combining the faiths of China - Shintoism - and Buddhism
The Persians
The Heian Era
Akbar
The Spanish Armada
28. King of England - Scotland - and Ireland (1625-1649). His power struggles with Parliament resulted in the English Civil War (1642-1648) in which Charles was defeated. He was tried for treason and beheaded in 1649
Classical Art
Charles I
Paul the Apostle
The Israelites
29. The economic and social system of medieval europe - lords recieved land from the King in exchane for loyalty and serfs worked the land for the lords in exchange for protection.
Fuedal System
Augustus
The House of Lancaster
Norman Conquest
30. The Hitties - the Assyrians - Chaldeans - and the Phoenicians. Centralized Government and advancements in algebra and geometry.
The Palace of Versailles
Ninety Theses
The Babalonians
Mughuls
31. First emperor of the Roman Empire. Julius Caesar's grand - nephew.
The House of Lancaster
Decentralization of the Germanic States
Augustus
Frederick Barbarossa
32. Renaissance writer; formerly a politician - wrote The Prince - a work on ethics and government - describing how rulers maintain power by methods that ignore right or wrong; accepted the philosophy that 'the end justifies the means.'
Brahman
Machiavelli
Dorians
The Scientific Revolution
33. The Roman Catholic Church responding to the protestantism by starting their own movement -- they stopped selling indulgences and started 'Society of Jesus' or Jesuit missionaries to spread Catholic ideas.
The Nile
Songhai
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
The Counter Reformation
34. Reality consists of ideas that exist in the mind - independant of sensory powers of perception.
The Magna Carta
The Assyrians
Realism (Plato)
The Jesuits
35. River that provided for the needs of Ancient Egyptians and made their great civilization possible. Agriculture was the bases of the Egyptian Society.
The Heian Era
The Scientific Revolution
The Hundred Years War
The Nile
36. Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China
Kublai Khan
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
The Holy Roman Empire
English Common Law
37. A fundamental transformation in scientific ideas in physics - astronomy - and biology - in institutions supporting scientific investigation - and in the more widely held picture of the universe
Sung Dynasty
The Scientific Revolution
Mughuls
Egyptian History
38. A center for civilizations which flourished in the 2nd and 3rd millenniums BC
African Rivers
The Mongols
Aegan
The Egyptians
39. 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
Nomadic
The Viking Invasions
The Roman Government
The Romanov Dynasty
40. 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.
Fuedal Contract
Oliver Cromwell
The Peace of Westphalia
Alexandar the Great
41. The imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279
The Jesuits
Sung Dynasty
Tang Dynasty
The Holy Roman Empire
42. 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.
The Muslim Empire
Paul the Apostle
The Act of Supremacy
Early Japanese Culture
43. This queen of England chose a religion between the Puritans and Catholics and required her subjects to attend church or face a fine. She also required uniformity and conformity to the Church of England
Elizabeth I
Peter the Great
Nomadic
The Renaissance
44. Caused by a continuing power struggle with the Pope.
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
Proletariats
Tokugawa Shogunate
Decentralization of the Germanic States
45. 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.
Nomadic
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
Byzantine Empire
Kublai Khan
46. Constituted of a mixed government including consuls - a senate - tribune - assembly of the tribes - ...
The Summarians
The Roman Government
Fuedal System
The Council of Trent
47. Developed their own language - a sophisticated systemof writing - literature and poetry - with great emphasis on a love of nature - beauty - and good manners.
Early Japanese Culture
Tribal Organization
Arab Caliphs
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
48. 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
Marco Polo
Neoplatonism
Ninety Theses
The English Civil War
49. Napoleon cut off all trade with Great Britain to try and make Europe more self - sufficient - an economic blockade of Britain. The Foreign Policy of Napoleon - essentially an effort to thwart English advancement by nationally prohibiting British trad
The Puritan Revolution
The Continental System
Athens
Roman Contributions
50. The scientific revolution brought about new mechanical inventions - The availability of investment capital and the rise of the middle class provided an economic base - Geographic and social conditions in England favored industrialization:
Ghana
Charlemagne
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
Humanism