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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. A warlike monotheistic civilization that spread rapidly throughout the Middle East and were constantly at war. They are known for their brilliant arabesques and gorgeous craftsmanship
The Manchus
The Huguenots
The Scientific Revolution
Islamic Civilization
2. 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
Swahili
Humanism
Mali
Ashikaga Shogunate
3. Were skilled farmers & flourished in the Ohio & Mississippi Valleys (200BC to 400AD).
The Hopewell People
Norman Conquest
The Magna Carta
The Congress of Verona
4. 17th century Europe - elaborate and detailed artwork - drama - tension - exuberance - and grandeur in sculpture - painting - literature - and music
Umayyad
Baroque Style
Frederick Barbarossa
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
5. 1822 ended the congress system & allowed European powers to be guided by self - interest.
The Congress of Verona
Confucius
Akbar
The Heian Era
6. 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:
Louis XIV
The Shogun
Ghana
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
7. 800-1300 developed in the Southwest & the Anasazis were skilled builders & sophisticated farmers. Example Mesa Verde Cliff houses
The Anasazi Culture
Confucianism
The Roman Government
Oligarthy
8. 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.
Mali
The House of York
French Revolution
The French Republic
9. Political system in which a ruler holds total power. The ruler has total control and final say over their people.
Mali
Sung Dynasty
The House of Lancaster
Absolutionism
10. The name given to Medieval Europe due to its lack of cultural - societal - intellectual - political and economic progress
The Roman Government
The Franks
Mughuls
The Dark Ages
11. The restoration of the monarchy began in 1660 when the English - Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the wars of the 3 kingdoms. Stuart rule was restored.
The House of Lords
St. Augustine
Proletariats
The Restoration Era
12. 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 War of the Roses
The Battle of Hastings
Oliver Cromwell
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
13. Japanese ruling dynasty that strove to isolate it from foreign influences. shogunate started by Tokugawa Leyasu; 4 class system - warriors - farmers - artisans - merchants; Japan's ports were closed off; wanted to create their own culture; illegal to
The Muslim Empire
The Renaissance
Tokugawa Shogunate
The Act of Supremacy
14. Powerful city in Ancient Greece that was a leader in arts - sciences - philosophy - democracy and architecture.
Dorians
Charlemagne
Calvinism
Athens
15. The Founder of Islam. Muslims believe that Mohammad was God's last Prophet and that he received the word of God from the angel Gabriel.
The Lord of the Manor
The Nile
Mohammad
Henry IV
16. 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 Heian Era
Baroque Style
The Crusades
The Peace of Augsburg
17. The classical economists advanced the theory of laissez faire
Confucius
Louis XIV
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
The Roman Empire
18. Oliver Cromwell ruled as a dictator and abolished the monarchy and the House of Lords.
Ceasar
The Commonwealth Period
Umayyad
Ghana
19. Democracy - Drama - Art - Architecture - Philosophy - Sculpting - Performing Arts - Philosphical Schools - Scientific Method.
Abbassides
Machiavelli
Contributions of the Greeks
The Chaldeans
20. Constituted of a mixed government including consuls - a senate - tribune - assembly of the tribes - ...
The Roman Government
Roman Military Strategy
Agarian
The Crusades
21. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians and was the center of community life.
Byzantine Empire Decline
Ziggurat
African Savana
The Chaldeans
22. Caused by a continuing power struggle with the Pope.
Decentralization of the Germanic States
Voltaire
The House of Commons
Alexandar the Great
23. 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.
Fuedal Contract
The Glorious Revolution
Causes of the French Revolution
Frederick Barbarossa
24. Englightenment - unequal tax system - bad harvests - debt - absolute monarchy - economic issues - inequitable class structure - disorganized legal system - no representation.
The Act of Supremacy
African Desert
The Commonwealth Period
Causes of the French Revolution
25. Establishe a civiliztion in the Nile Valley.
African Culture
The Egyptians
The Shogun
The Age of Pericles(460 BC-429 BC)
26. An extremely dry area with little water and few plants
African Desert
Abbassides
The Crusades
Kush
27. Crused by the House of Lancaster
Byzantine Empire
The House of York
The Peace of Augsburg
Tribal Organization
28. The legaslative body of england (lawmaking) - two houses: house of lords and house of commons
Kamakura Shogunate
English Parliment
The Renaissance
The Roman Empire
29. The conqueror who united the peoples of Greece - Egypt - Persia and Indus River Valley into an empire by conquering them.
Ming Dynasty
Alexandar the Great
The Roman Government
The Heian Era
30. 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
The Roman Government
The English Civil War
Voltaire
The Mongols
31. ...The House of Lords mainly consist of the peers and the people that have inherited their money. This House of Parliament has slowly lost its power to influence the system of government over the years.
Commercial Revival
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
The House of Lords
Mycenaean Civilization
32. This was the French law put in place by Napoleon. It promoted equality before the law - toleration of all religions - and outlawing serfdom and feudalism. It also took away women's rights and outlawed trade unions and strikes.
Aegan
Dorians
The Code of Napoleon
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
33. 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.
The Magna Carta
Decentralization of the Germanic States
The law of Primogeniture
Fuedal System
34. 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
The Puritan Revolution
Marco Polo
Ionia
James I
35. Athens vs Sparta - Sparta won but both were devastated unable to unite Greed city - states.
Confucius
The Pelponnesian War
The Peace of Augsburg
Islamic Civilization
36. A kingdom of the West African rain forest
Greek Individualism
Cardinal Richelieu
James I
Benin
37. 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 Fall of Rome
The Communist Manifesto
The Protestant Reformation
Voltaire
38. DominateTurkish group control caliphate
The Hundred Years War
The Manchus
Seljiks
The Peace of Westphalia
39. Reality consists of ideas that exist in the mind - independant of sensory powers of perception.
Realism (Plato)
Abbassides
The Act of Supremacy
The Congress of Verona
40. 16th century religious movement led by Martin Luther that sought to reform the Roman Catholic Church and led to the formation of Protestantism
African Savana
Realism (Plato)
The Protestant Reformation
Slave Trade
41. 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 -
Henry IV
The Lord of the Manor
The Peace of Augsburg
The Reconquista
42. 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
Early Japanese Culture
The House of Lords
Norman Conquest
43. Became the first explorers - traders - and colonizers of the ancient world; their civilization reached its peak in 1000 B.C. - Greatest seafaring civilization in the ancient world - Developed extensive trade networks throughout the Mediterranean and
Manorialism
Commercial Revival
The Phoenicians
Byzantine Empire Decline
44. King Louis XIII was a weak ruler and Richelieu filled the void - more or less running the empire via his advice to the king. A clever politician and strategist - Richelieu expanded royal power - punished dissent harshly - and built France into a grea
African Rivers
Oliver Cromwell
Cardinal Richelieu
Effect of the Reformation
45. King of the Franks who conquered much of Western Europe - great patron of literature and learning
The House of Commons
Baroque Style
Charlemagne
The Puritan Revolution
46. 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
Egyptian History
Elizabeth I
The Counter Reformation
47. Old Kingdom (massive pyramids) - Middle kingdom - New kingdom (gets agressive)
Effect of the Reformation
Egyptian History
Romanesque
Norman Conquest
48. Was divided into the patricians (propertied class) - plebeians (main body of Roman citizens) - and slaves.
Classical Art
St. Augustine
Roman Society
The Babalonians
49. 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.
St. Augustine
The Anasazi Culture
Commercial Revival
The Renaissance
50. 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.
The Holy Roman Empire
Kamakura Shogunate
Mohammad
Result Of the Industrial Revolution