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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. 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.
The Roman Empire
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
Manorialism
Norman Conquest
2. Created during kamakura era - In theory: Emperor's military chief of staff - In reality: Actual ruler of Japan
Mohammad
The Shogun
Kamakura Shogunate
The Continental System
3. 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.
The Age of Enlightenment
Roman Society
The Roman Empire
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
4. 1822 ended the congress system & allowed European powers to be guided by self - interest.
Byzantine Empire Decline
The Ottoman Empire
The Congress of Verona
Constantine
5. Several have inland as well as coastal deltas - Nile flows northward . Niger - Nile - Congo - Zambezi And were important to Africa's economic history.
African Rivers
The Council of Trent
Realism (Plato)
The Phoenicians
6. Overthrew the Umayyad but one escaped
Abbassides
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
Byzantine Empire Decline
The House of York
7. The system of ethics - education - and statesmanship taught by Confucius and his disciples - stressing love for humanity - ancestor worship - reverence for parents - and harmony in thought and conduct.
Scholasticism
The Peace of Augsburg
Confucianism
Paul the Apostle
8. A system of philosophical and religious doctrines composed of elements of Platonism and Aristotelianism and oriental mysticism
Kamakura Shogunate
The Puritan Revolution
Elizabeth I
Neoplatonism
9. King of the Franks who conquered much of Western Europe - great patron of literature and learning
The Council of Trent
The War of the Roses
Charlemagne
Oligarthy
10. 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.
Turks
The Early Middle Ages
Neoplatonism
Tribal Organization
11. The battle that took place in 1066 - in which William the Conqueror and Harold Godwinson fought for control of Normandy?
The Congress of Verona
Mississippian Culture
Class Division
The Battle of Hastings
12. Eastern Roman empire after the fall of Rome.
The Puritan Revolution
Byzantine Empire
Realism (Plato)
Scholasticism
13. 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 Palace of Versailles
The Ottoman Empire
Gothic Revival
Islamic Government and Religion
14. The first religion of Japan - 'The way of the Gods.' Shinto celebrates the mysteries and unforeseen forces of nature. Animistic. According to Shinto beliefs - divine spirits called kami are associated with the awesome forces of nature - such as rushi
The Romanov Dynasty
Shinto Religion
The House of York
The Dark Ages
15. The French version of the American Declaration
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Sung Dynasty
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
African Culture
16. 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.
Songhai
Ghana
The Near East
Oligarthy
17. A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula
Greece
The Early Middle Ages
The Lydians
Industrial Revolution
18. 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.
Karl Marx
Mississippian Culture
Kush
The Middle Ages
19. The revolution that began in 1789 - overthrew the absolute monarchy of the Bourbons and the system of aristocratic privileges - and ended with Napoleon's overthrow of the Directory and seizure of power in 1799.
French Revolution
Arab Conquests
St. Augustine
Kublai Khan
20. Establishe a civiliztion in the Nile Valley.
Byzantine Empire Decline
The House of Commons
Greece
The Egyptians
21. It's geographic proximity to the Arabs - Slave - and Turks all of whom were becoming more powerful. The loss of commercial dominace over the Italians. Reliogious contraversy with west and a split with the Roman Catholic Church. The sack of the fourth
Roman Military Strategy
Baroque Style
Islamic Culture
Byzantine Empire Decline
22. The first great Christian philosopher. He was a sinner and did not believe but eventually was converted and he wrote CIty of God as well as Confession - he is also responsible for the doctrine of Original Sin
Classical Art
St. Augustine
Turks
Ceasar
23. A philosophical and theological system - associated with Thomas Aquinas - devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century. (p. 408)
Manorialism
The Restoration Era
Scholasticism
Roman Military Strategy
24. A people of this name is mentioned as early as the records of the Tang Empire - living as nomads in northern Eurasia. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan - linking western and eastern Eurasia.
Rift Valley
Byzantine Empire Decline
The law of Primogeniture
Mongols
25. Creators of the Mesopotamia civiliztion. Large scale irrigation projects - advanced system of mathematics and the invention of the wheel.
The Summarians
Roman Military Strategy
French Revolution
The French Republic
26. A catalyst in the collapse of the Greek city - state alliance.
Augustus
Islam
Greek Individualism
Confucius
27. The imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279
Songhai
English Common Law
Sung Dynasty
Tribal Organization
28. Attempted to unify the entire Near East under one rule (500s B.C.) - Established an international government - Zoroastrianism - an ethical religion based on concepts of good and evil - Failed to conquer the Greeks; Persia was eventually conquered by
The Persians
The Spanish Armada
The House of York
Genghis Khan
29. 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.
French Revolution
The Peace of Westphalia
Elizabeth I
Kublai Khan
30. The separation of people into different social groups like lower class - upper class. Clergy & nobility were the privileged class - peasants and artisans wer the work force and serfs were tied to the land.
Class Division
The Fall of Rome
The Near East
Elizabeth I
31. The conqueror who united the peoples of Greece - Egypt - Persia and Indus River Valley into an empire by conquering them.
The Persians
The Early Middle Ages
Alexandar the Great
Shinto Religion
32. 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
Militant Socialism
Mohammad
The French Religious Wars
The Muslim Empire
33. This group from the east of Mali built up an army and extended their territory to the large bend in the Niger River near Gao whic became the capital of their empire.
The Heian Era
Voltaire
Songhai
The Spanish Armada
34. Athens vs Sparta - Sparta won but both were devastated unable to unite Greed city - states.
African Rivers
The Counter Reformation
The Pelponnesian War
Oligarthy
35. Officially recognized Lutherism but allowed Catholic Priests to support Catholicism.
The Heian Era
Ninety Theses
The Peace of Augsburg
Class Division
36. 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:
The Hundred Years War
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
Islam
Arab Conquests
37. 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
Karl Marx
English Common Law
Militant Socialism
The Romanov Dynasty
38. Greek city - state that was ruled by an oligarchy - focused on military - used slaves for agriculture - discouraged the arts. Developed a totalitarian and militaristic state dependent on slave labor.
Frederick Barbarossa
The Egyptians
Sparta
Islam
39. 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
Athens
The law of Primogeniture
The Puritan Revolution
The Scientific Revolution
40. Entered China and easily changed the Ming dynasty into the Qing dynasty since they were sinicized before - Established a Confucian government with six ministries - a censorate - and other Chinese institutions - Were segregated from the Chinese - Forb
Neoplatonism
The Manchus
The Muslim Empire
The Age of Enlightenment
41. Old Kingdom (massive pyramids) - Middle kingdom - New kingdom (gets agressive)
Class Division
Egyptian History
Romanesque
Louis XIV
42. Constituted of a mixed government including consuls - a senate - tribune - assembly of the tribes - ...
Manorialism
The Peace of Westphalia
The Roman Government
Ninety Theses
43. River that provided for the needs of Ancient Egyptians and made their great civilization possible. Agriculture was the bases of the Egyptian Society.
Minoan Civilization
The Nile
Seljiks
The Thirty Years War
44. 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 Viking Invasions
Mississippian Culture
Constanople
45. English military - political - and religious figure who led the Parliamentarian victory in the English Civil War (1642-1649) and called for the execution of Charles I. As lord protector of England (1653-1658) he ruled as a virtual dictator.
The House of Commons
The Viking Invasions
Mississippian Culture
Oliver Cromwell
46. Reality consists of ideas that exist in the mind - independant of sensory powers of perception.
The Chaldeans
Arab Caliphs
Tokugawa Shogunate
Realism (Plato)
47. 1830s movement in architecture when buildings in the Gothic (high medieval) style became popular. It was in this period that the British Parliament building was built. This was the architectural manifestation of Romanticism. Where the Enlightenment h
Bourgeoisie
Gothic Revival
Mongols
Tang Dynasty
48. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians and was the center of community life.
Islamic Government and Religion
The Babalonians
Ziggurat
Benin
49. 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
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
The Age of Enlightenment
The English Civil War
The Glorious Revolution
50. Powerful city in Ancient Greece that was a leader in arts - sciences - philosophy - democracy and architecture.
The House of Commons
English Parliment
Tribal Organization
Athens