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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. Conquered the Mycenaeans - illiterate - cause the Dark Age of violence and instability
French Revolution
Charlemagne
Fuedal System
Dorians
2. River that provided for the needs of Ancient Egyptians and made their great civilization possible. Agriculture was the bases of the Egyptian Society.
The Nile
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
Effect of the Reformation
Gothic Revival
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
Fuedal Contract
Classical Art
The Persians
4. Members of the Society of Jesus which became most well known for their work in education of Catholics in Europe. They were devoted to preaching - educating the young - fighting against heresy - serving the Pope - and caring for the needy.
Confucianism
The Anasazi Culture
The Jesuits
Constanople
5. 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
Tribal Organization
The Hittites
The House of Commons
Gothic Revival
6. 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
Agarian
The Communist Manifesto
Akbar
Roman Military Strategy
7. DominateTurkish group control caliphate
Sparta
The Early Middle Ages
Seljiks
Swahili
8. A kingdom of the West African rain forest
Benin
The Thirty Years War
The House of Lords
The French Religious Wars
9. A more militaristic civilization then Minoans - they traded and raided - turning on their Minoan teachers - helping to destroy Crete.
African Savana
The Restoration Era
Mycenaean Civilization
The Hittites
10. A collection of laws covering crimes - farming - business activities - and marriage and family. Many of the punishments were cruel - but the code was an important step in the development of a justice system
The Peace of Westphalia
Paul the Apostle
The Code of Hammurabi
The Persians
11. 800-1300 developed in the Southwest & the Anasazis were skilled builders & sophisticated farmers. Example Mesa Verde Cliff houses
The Anasazi Culture
The Nile
The House of York
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
12. Occupied western Asia Minor (500s B.C.) - Their culture reached its zenith under King Croesus (Golden King) - Were responsible for the first coinage of money
Mycenaean Civilization
Islamic Government and Religion
The French Religious Wars
The Lydians
13. An advanced civilization that developed on the island of Crete around 2500 BCE based its prosperity
Minoan Civilization
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
The Franks
Napoleon Bonepart
14. The conqueror who united the peoples of Greece - Egypt - Persia and Indus River Valley into an empire by conquering them.
Neoclassicism
Alexandar the Great
The Rise of Christianity
The French Religious Wars
15. 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 Franks
Voltaire
The Glorious Revolution
The House of Lords
16. Constituted of a mixed government including consuls - a senate - tribune - assembly of the tribes - ...
Gothic Revival
The Roman Government
The Commonwealth Period
Kush
17. 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.'
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
The Scientific Revolution
Machiavelli
Charles I
18. First emperor of the Roman Empire. Julius Caesar's grand - nephew.
Augustus
Marco Polo
Brahman
Louis XIV
19. The French version of the American Declaration
Byzantine Empire
The Reconquista
Seljiks
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
20. Englightenment - unequal tax system - bad harvests - debt - absolute monarchy - economic issues - inequitable class structure - disorganized legal system - no representation.
Hugh Capet
Augustus
The Act of Supremacy
Causes of the French Revolution
21. The battle that took place in 1066 - in which William the Conqueror and Harold Godwinson fought for control of Normandy?
Voltaire
The Battle of Hastings
The Israelites
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
22. 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
Abbassides
The Samurai
The Viking Invasions
23. Reality consists of ideas that exist in the mind - independant of sensory powers of perception.
Greece
Realism (Plato)
Hieroglyphics
Slave Trade
24. Eastern Roman empire after the fall of Rome.
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
Byzantine Empire
The Congress of Vienna
The Age of Enlightenment
25. 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 French Religious Wars
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
Minoan Civilization
Bourgeoisie
26. Concerning farms - farmers - or agriculture and the use of land.
The Congress of Vienna
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
Sparta
Agarian
27. The Vikings built fast ships where they would ship men and cargo from their land to charlemagnes empire to pilage and plunder.
Charlemagne
Laisssez Faire
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
The Viking Invasions
28. 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.
The Peace of Westphalia
Militant Socialism
Mohammad
Roman Contributions
29. Athens vs Sparta - Sparta won but both were devastated unable to unite Greed city - states.
The Pelponnesian War
Gothic Revival
The Reconquista
Ghana
30. 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
Fuedal Contract
Frederick Barbarossa
Effect of the Reformation
Tokugawa Shogunate
31. 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
The Dark Ages
Agarian
Elizabeth I
The Code of Napoleon
32. 17th century Europe - elaborate and detailed artwork - drama - tension - exuberance - and grandeur in sculpture - painting - literature - and music
Baroque Style
Kush
The Summarians
The Battle of Hastings
33. 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
Islam
The Crusades
Byzantine Empire Decline
Effect of the Reformation
34. 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.
English Common Law
Brahman
Militant Socialism
Mississippian Culture
35. Russian tsar. He enthusiastically introduced Western languages - culture - and technologies to the Russian elite - moving the capital from Moscow to the new city of St. Petersburg. (p. 552)
Peter the Great
The Thirty Years War
Mycenaean Civilization
The Age of Enlightenment
36. 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.
The Romanov Dynasty
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
The Age of Enlightenment
The law of Primogeniture
37. 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 Holy Roman Empire
The Hittites
Egyptian Religion
38. 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.
The Muslim Empire
Manorialism
Islamic Government and Religion
Neoplatonism
39. Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China
The French Republic
The Samurai
Kublai Khan
The Middle Ages
40. 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
Arab Conquests
The Chaldeans
Ashikaga Shogunate
The Magna Carta
41. Began with the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It emphasized the Holy Bible as the word of God.
The Rise of Christianity
The Samurai
Scholasticism
Charlemagne
42. Were United by Genghis Khan to capture all of asia - which they did except for India. Asia under Mongolian ruler till grandson of Gings (Kublai) died and there was an overturning.
The English Civil War
The Mongols
Tribal Organization
Thomas Malthus
43. The most of the power lies on the shoulders of the House of the Commons. The Commons is elected by the people. The commons grant money - and is the law- making body in the british government.The commons pick the Prime Minister.
Tokugawa Shogunate
The House of Commons
Roman Contributions
The Palace of Versailles
44. 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 Dark Ages
Akbar
Shinto Religion
Hieroglyphics
45. Domination of the commercial trade routes controlled by Constintanople and a monopoly on the silk trade. Excellant use of diplonmacy to avoid invasions. Geographically distant from the tribes who sacked Rome. Codification of Roman Law. A forstress ci
The Assyrians
Tokugawa Shogunate
The Battle of Hastings
Byzantine Empire Success
46. 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 -
Causes of the French Revolution
The French Republic
The Chaldeans
Early Japanese Culture
47. A lesser used title for the English Civil War.
The Peace of Westphalia
Slave Trade
The Puritan Revolution
Roman Contributions
48. 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 Age of Enlightenment
The Near East
Neoclassicism
The Heian Era
49. 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
Sung Dynasty
Alexandar the Great
Songhai
50. Developed their own language - a sophisticated systemof writing - literature and poetry - with great emphasis on a love of nature - beauty - and good manners.
Ceasar
Early Japanese Culture
Fuedal System
African Savana