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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. Concerning farms - farmers - or agriculture and the use of land.
Martin Luther
The French Republic
Humanism
Agarian
2. A period in European history - between about 1000 AD and 1500 AD - when the power of kings - people of high rank and the Christian Church was strong
The Middle Ages
Arab Conquests
Benin
The Heian Era
3. First Bourbon king - most important kings in French history - rise to power ended French Civil Wars - gradual course to absolutism - politique - converted to Catholicism to gain loyalty of Paris
The Dark Ages
Constanople
Tokugawa Shogunate
Henry IV
4. Venetian merchant and traveler. His accounts of his travels to China offered Europeans a firsthand view of Asian lands and stimulated interest in Asian trade.
Kush
Kamakura Shogunate
Slave Trade
Marco Polo
5. Established the first lasting monotheism - Saul established the first kingdom in Palestine (c. 1030-1010 B.C.) - After the death of Solomon (922 B.C.) - the Hebrews were divided into two kingdoms (Israel and Judah) - Disunity and conquest resulted in
The Franks
Commercial Revival
Calvinism
The Israelites
6. Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China
The Israelites
Egyptian Religion
Kublai Khan
Ashikaga Shogunate
7. A war that occurred between 1618 and 1648; it was mainly a civil war in Germany and the Holy Roman Empire over religious and political issues; it also involved the countries of Spain - France - Denmark - and Sweden
Militant Socialism
The Middle Ages
Marco Polo
The Thirty Years War
8. Prompted by Louis Philippe giving up his throne - this was a new era of liberalism in France. Measures enacted included freeing slaves - granting all males the right to vote - abolishing capital punishment - the establishment of national workshops -
Songhai
The French Republic
Mycenaean Civilization
Swahili
9. 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.
Roman Military Strategy
Genghis Khan
Bourgeoisie
Arab Caliphs
10. A broad intellectual movement in 18th - century Europe that advocated the use of reason in the re - evaluation of accepted ideas. Also known as the Age of Reason.
Fuedal System
The Age of Enlightenment
The Peace of Westphalia
The Hopewell People
11. A system of philosophical and religious doctrines composed of elements of Platonism and Aristotelianism and oriental mysticism
Neoplatonism
Kush
Roman Military Strategy
Athens
12. A style of architecture developed in Italy and western Europe between the Roman and the Gothic styles after 1000 AD
Akbar
The Viking Invasions
Romanesque
The Palace of Versailles
13. The seven - and - a - half century long process by which Christians reconquered the Iberian peninsula modern Portugal and Spain from the Muslim and Moorish states of Al -
Slave Trade
The Chaldeans
The Reconquista
The Egyptians
14. Last of the mound - building cultures of North America; flourished between 800 and 1300 C.E.; featured large towns and ceremonial centers; lacked stone architecture of Central America.
The Peace of Augsburg
Mississippian Culture
St. Augustine
English Common Law
15. The class of modern wage laborers who having no means of production of their own - are reducing to selling their labor power in order to live
The House of Commons
The Persians
Proletariats
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
16. A city established as the new eastern capital of the roman empire by the emperor constantine in a.d. 330 that is now called istanbul
Constanople
Oliver Cromwell
Greek Individualism
Abbassides
17. Reality consists of ideas that exist in the mind - independant of sensory powers of perception.
Commercial Revival
Realism (Plato)
English Common Law
The Code of Hammurabi
18. A center for civilizations which flourished in the 2nd and 3rd millenniums BC
Abbassides
The Early Middle Ages
Aegan
Mississippian Culture
19. 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
Proletariats
The Hittites
The Magna Carta
The Continental System
20. Made up of art and culture - music/dance - storytelling and very Religious
Militant Socialism
Henry IV
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
African Culture
21. First known kingdom in sub - Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E. Also the modern West African country once known as the Gold Coast.
The Scientific Revolution
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
The Dark Ages
Ghana
22. Took over Turkey from the Byzantine Empire and strived to expand its borders into Eastern Europe - mainly fighting the Holy Roman Empire and its various princes throughout the Middle Ages. Constanople the center. Over time it started to shrink and gr
The Ottoman Empire
The Lord of the Manor
The Council of Trent
Ziggurat
23. The Vikings built fast ships where they would ship men and cargo from their land to charlemagnes empire to pilage and plunder.
The Hittites
The Viking Invasions
Henry IV
Tang Dynasty
24. A book written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that describes the new political system of scientific socialism - which becomes the basis for communism. The book states that all of human history is based on the conflict between the bourgeoisie (thos
The Communist Manifesto
The House of Lords
The Code of Hammurabi
Slave Trade
25. Provided land in exchange for personal service to the King.
Louis XIV
Fuedal Contract
Neoplatonism
Islamic Civilization
26. An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds
Aegan
Constantine
Romanesque
Hieroglyphics
27. Organization with midsize societies ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand people - with somewhat more power available to leaders.
Charlemagne
The French Religious Wars
Tribal Organization
African Savana
28. A religious wars in France that started because of the Concordat of Bologna. This war was not only a religious war but a class war. It was between the Huguenots - who were Upper - class intellectuals who were Calvinist vs. the average poor French Cat
The Romanov Dynasty
The French Religious Wars
Agarian
Islamic Civilization
29. A philosophical and theological system - associated with Thomas Aquinas - devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century. (p. 408)
Scholasticism
Constantine
The Babalonians
Aegan
30. Forceful seizure of governmental power
Militant Socialism
African Savana
The Romanov Dynasty
Peter the Great
31. This was a war between France and England between 1346 and 1453. It was fought over land in France that each wanted to control. The British began strongly - but with the help of Joan of Arc - the French rallied and eventually beat England. Two famous
The Hundred Years War
Egyptian Religion
Tang Dynasty
Fuedal Contract
32. A government in which power is in the hands of a few people -- especially one in which rule is based upon wealth.
Hieroglyphics
Absolutionism
Oligarthy
Arab Caliphs
33. Emperor of Rome who adopted the Christian faith and stopped the persecution of Christians (280-337)
The Communist Manifesto
Constantine
Hugh Capet
Nomadic
34. 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.
Kamakura Shogunate
Nomadic
Dorians
Byzantine Empire
35. The legaslative body of england (lawmaking) - two houses: house of lords and house of commons
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
English Parliment
The Code of Hammurabi
The Persians
36. African state that developed along the upper reaches of the Nile circa 1000 B.C.E.; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries. Important iron working center.
Kush
Baroque Style
The Code of Napoleon
The Israelites
37. A series of military expeditions in the 11th - 12th - and 13th centuries by Western European Christians to reclaim control of the Holy Lands from the Muslims
Baroque Style
Early Japanese Culture
Frederick Barbarossa
The Crusades
38. Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa from the thirteenth to fifteenth century. It was famous for its role in the trans - Saharan gold trade.
Minoan Civilization
The Early Middle Ages
Mali
Sung Dynasty
39. French philosopher and writer whose works epitomize the Age of Enlightenment - often attacking injustice and intolerance
Aegan
Voltaire
Mycenaean Civilization
The Israelites
40. The imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279
Swahili
The Palace of Versailles
The Nile
Sung Dynasty
41. An assembly of high church officials summoned by the Catholic Church to clarify doctrine and address reform in response to the challenges raised by the Protestant Reformation.
The law of Primogeniture
The Council of Trent
African Rivers
Kamakura Shogunate
42. Gave all property to the eldest son. Led many younger sons of the gentry to seek their fortunes in exploration and colonization.
The Fall of Rome
The law of Primogeniture
The Battle of Hastings
Kush
43. Englightenment - unequal tax system - bad harvests - debt - absolute monarchy - economic issues - inequitable class structure - disorganized legal system - no representation.
Napoleon Bonepart
Shinto Religion
The Early Middle Ages
Causes of the French Revolution
44. Renewal in trade/ growth in economy. No more manorialism. Expanded the social class and a true middle class emerged. Introduced banking and the Guild system.
Commercial Revival
The Mongols
Napoleon Bonepart
The Magna Carta
45. Western Europe no longer united by religion - Weakens power and influence of the Catholic Church The power of states was strenthened as was the middle class. Encourages education - people encouraged to read the bible and interpret it individually
Effect of the Reformation
The Viking Invasions
Sung Dynasty
The Heian Era
46. Elected consul of rome in 59 bc. Genius with military strategy. Governed as an absolute ruler. Was assassinated in the senate chamber.
Aegan
The Counter Reformation
The Act of Supremacy
Ceasar
47. The first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625 and king of Scotland from 1567 to 1625; he was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and he succeeded Elizabeth I; he alienated the British Parliament by claiming the divine right of kings
James I
Romanesque
The Code of Hammurabi
Tokugawa Shogunate
48. The Ashikaga Shogunate is the weakest of the three Japanese bakufu governments. Unlike its predecessor - the Kamakura Shogunate - or its successor - the - when Ashikaga Takauji established his bakufu he had little personal territories with which to
Ashikaga Shogunate
Commercial Revival
Machiavelli
Realism (Plato)
49. 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.
Akbar
Roman Contributions
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
Sung Dynasty
50. Roman laws - justice system - court system; language(Latin); Pax Roman a long period of peace that enabled free travel and trade Building Construction - engineering and road construction. architecture - literature - art - sculpture and the humanites.
The Manchus
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
The Near East
Roman Contributions