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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. 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
Ming Dynasty
The Rise of Christianity
Ziggurat
Classical Art
2. 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.
Mycenaean Civilization
Islamic Civilization
Mali
Sparta
3. An economic system based on the manor and lands including a village and surrounding acreage which were administered by a lord. It developed during the Middle Ages to increase agricultural production.
Martin Luther
Effect of the Reformation
Charlemagne
Manorialism
4. 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
Henry IV
Constantine
Genghis Khan
The Scientific Revolution
5. First emperor of the Roman Empire. Julius Caesar's grand - nephew.
Confucianism
Augustus
English Common Law
Henry IV
6. Created an empire based on military superiority - conquest - and terrorism (911-550 B.C.) - Military techniques included siege warfare - intimidation - and the use of iron weapons. Created a centralized government - a postal service - an extensive li
Commercial Revival
The Assyrians
Arab Conquests
The Peace of Westphalia
7. A flat - dry grassland with trees and bushes
African Savana
Constanople
Ceasar
The Nile
8. 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 House of Commons
St. Augustine
The Middle Ages
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
9. 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
Songhai
The Code of Napoleon
African Desert
Islamic Civilization
10. The Hitties - the Assyrians - Chaldeans - and the Phoenicians. Centralized Government and advancements in algebra and geometry.
The House of Lancaster
The Near East
The Babalonians
Mughuls
11. Establishe a civiliztion in the Nile Valley.
The Egyptians
Dorians
Tang Dynasty
Humanism
12. A style of architecture developed in Italy and western Europe between the Roman and the Gothic styles after 1000 AD
Akbar
Romanesque
Mycenaean Civilization
Martin Luther
13. The 'Theatre of politics.' The nobility were required to live there by Louis XIV - beautiful architecture and gardens. Symbol of French state and power
The Palace of Versailles
The House of Lancaster
James I
The Rise of Christianity
14. The classical economists advanced the theory of laissez faire
Elizabeth I
The Egyptians
Proletariats
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
15. Constituted of a mixed government including consuls - a senate - tribune - assembly of the tribes - ...
The Crusades
English Common Law
The Roman Government
Islamic Civilization
16. DominateTurkish group control caliphate
Baroque Style
Alexandar the Great
Calvinism
Seljiks
17. 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 Roman Government
The Act of Supremacy
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
English Common Law
18. 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
Frederick Barbarossa
The Peace of Westphalia
The Early Middle Ages
The Continental System
19. French Protestants who suffered persecution. Many left Europe for America to find religious freedom
Athens
Machiavelli
Byzantine Empire
The Huguenots
20. The basis of a court system for justice. The essence of English common law is that it is made by judges sitting in courts - applying their common sense and knowledge of legal precedent to the facts before them.
The Fall of Rome
English Common Law
Augustus
Marco Polo
21. The doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self - realization through reason
Roman Contributions
Ashikaga Shogunate
Humanism
The Summarians
22. 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.
The Early Middle Ages
Neoplatonism
Confucius
The Glorious Revolution
23. Western name for the Chinese philosopher Kongzi (551-479 B.C.E.). His doctrine of duty and public service had a great influence on subsequent Chinese thought and served as a code of conduct for government officials.
Egyptian Religion
Constanople
Ionia
Confucius
24. 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 -
Kublai Khan
The House of Lords
Nomadic
The French Republic
25. Organization with midsize societies ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand people - with somewhat more power available to leaders.
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
Slave Trade
Tribal Organization
The War of the Roses
26. King of the Franks who conquered much of Western Europe - great patron of literature and learning
The House of Lords
Ceasar
Charlemagne
The Hittites
27. Revival of a classical style in art or literature or architecture or music but from a new perspective or with a new motivation
The French Religious Wars
Islamic Civilization
Elizabeth I
Neoclassicism
28. Comprised the Tigris & Euphrates Valley - the Fertile Crescent - and The Nile Valley. They had the first system of independent states and writing. Architectural achievements are the ziggurat & pyramid. the first codification of law. the first lasting
The Near East
Karl Marx
The Peace of Westphalia
Causes of the French Revolution
29. Several have inland as well as coastal deltas - Nile flows northward . Niger - Nile - Congo - Zambezi And were important to Africa's economic history.
The Nile
Thomas Malthus
African Rivers
The Chaldeans
30. 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.
Oliver Cromwell
Class Division
Kublai Khan
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
31. 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.'
The Anasazi Culture
Machiavelli
The Ottoman Empire
Kamakura Shogunate
32. Ruled the manor. Had bailiffs to take care of day - to - day affairs.
The Code of Napoleon
Sparta
The Lord of the Manor
The Near East
33. Following the Hundred Years' war - civil war broke out between these two rival branches of the English royal Family - Lancaster claimed the throne of England when the Hundred Year finally ended
The Assyrians
The House of Lancaster
The Samurai
Marco Polo
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
The Assyrians
Effect of the Reformation
Romanesque
35. Continuous barbaric invasion. Internal factors included political instability - decreasing farm production - inflation - excessive taxation - and the decline of the military. The rise of Christianity divided the Empire.
Karl Marx
Confucianism
The Fall of Rome
Byzantine Empire Decline
36. 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 Code of Napoleon
Henry IV
French Revolution
The Israelites
37. 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
Tang Dynasty
Ashikaga Shogunate
Oligarthy
Marco Polo
38. 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 Restoration Era
Sparta
Songhai
Islamic Government and Religion
39. 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
Karl Marx
The Battle of Hastings
Class Division
Byzantine Empire Decline
40. Englightenment - unequal tax system - bad harvests - debt - absolute monarchy - economic issues - inequitable class structure - disorganized legal system - no representation.
The Rise of Christianity
Causes of the French Revolution
Kamakura Shogunate
Athens
41. The term for The Univeral Soul in Hinduism.
The Mongols
Ionia
Brahman
The Heian Era
42. An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds
Hieroglyphics
Militant Socialism
Effect of the Reformation
Islamic Government and Religion
43. 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
Mali
The Ottoman Empire
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
44. Forceful seizure of governmental power
Militant Socialism
Ghana
Class Division
The Roman Empire
45. (1776-1834) Theorized that population growth would far outstrip food production
The Crusades
Marco Polo
Thomas Malthus
The law of Primogeniture
46. Elected consul of rome in 59 bc. Genius with military strategy. Governed as an absolute ruler. Was assassinated in the senate chamber.
Calvinism
The Near East
Ceasar
Islamic Government and Religion
47. African Civilization developed here
Athens
Rift Valley
Islamic Government and Religion
Class Division
48. 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
The Manchus
The law of Primogeniture
Tribal Organization
Voltaire
49. Eastern Roman empire after the fall of Rome.
The law of Primogeniture
Scholasticism
Byzantine Empire
Abbassides
50. The collection of Papal states directly under the control of the Pope. Included lands in Italy - Germany - France - Spain - and England.
The Franks
The Holy Roman Empire
Confucius
Mississippian Culture