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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. 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
The Scientific Revolution
Elizabeth I
The Battle of Hastings
Henry IV
2. 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
Contributions of the Greeks
The Huguenots
African Savana
St. Augustine
3. 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
Scholasticism
The Persians
Brahman
The Battle of Hastings
4. The conqueror who united the peoples of Greece - Egypt - Persia and Indus River Valley into an empire by conquering them.
The Hopewell People
The Crusades
Alexandar the Great
Kublai Khan
5. 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.
Islamic Government and Religion
The Summarians
St. Augustine
Roman Contributions
6. Crused by the House of Lancaster
The House of York
Arab Conquests
African Culture
Louis XIV
7. 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
Gothic Revival
Greece
Neoclassicism
Mughuls
8. 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
The Franks
Egyptian History
Akbar
Byzantine Empire Decline
9. 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)
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
African Desert
The Anasazi Culture
Peter the Great
10. 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
The Romanov Dynasty
Mycenaean Civilization
Shinto Religion
The Congress of Vienna
11. The change from an agricultural to an industrial society and from home manufacturing to factory production - especially the one that took place in England from about 1750 to about 1850.
Genghis Khan
The Congress of Vienna
Industrial Revolution
Shinto Religion
12. The name given to Medieval Europe due to its lack of cultural - societal - intellectual - political and economic progress
The Dark Ages
Islam
The Muslim Empire
Augustus
13. Revival of a classical style in art or literature or architecture or music but from a new perspective or with a new motivation
Neoclassicism
The Mongols
Byzantine Empire Success
Neoplatonism
14. 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.
The Protestant Reformation
The Babalonians
Kush
The Council of Trent
15. A style of architecture developed in Italy and western Europe between the Roman and the Gothic styles after 1000 AD
Romanesque
Frederick Barbarossa
The Babalonians
Commercial Revival
16. The idea that the government should not play an active role in regulating the economy.
Laisssez Faire
Benin
The Hundred Years War
The Continental System
17. 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
Class Division
The Hittites
Charlemagne
18. Creators of the Mesopotamia civiliztion. Large scale irrigation projects - advanced system of mathematics and the invention of the wheel.
Islam
Elizabeth I
The Summarians
The French Republic
19. Athens vs Sparta - Sparta won but both were devastated unable to unite Greed city - states.
Byzantine Empire Decline
Egyptian Religion
The Pelponnesian War
The Battle of Hastings
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.
Sparta
The Mongols
English Common Law
The Ottoman Empire
21. A system of philosophical and religious doctrines composed of elements of Platonism and Aristotelianism and oriental mysticism
The Communist Manifesto
Neoplatonism
Fuedal System
Louis XIV
22. 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.
Genghis Khan
The House of Lords
Neoclassicism
The Mongols
23. River that provided for the needs of Ancient Egyptians and made their great civilization possible. Agriculture was the bases of the Egyptian Society.
The Puritan Revolution
Arab Conquests
The Nile
The Romanov Dynasty
24. Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China
Mughuls
Kublai Khan
The Egyptians
The Muslim Empire
25. Reality consists of ideas that exist in the mind - independant of sensory powers of perception.
Realism (Plato)
Classical Art
Oliver Cromwell
The Glorious Revolution
26. A new group of nomads that drove the tang armies out of central Asia and took control of the silk roads. because of this chinas economy was damaged
The Code of Hammurabi
Egyptian History
Turks
Frederick Barbarossa
27. 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 Huguenots
Laisssez Faire
Mississippian Culture
Sung Dynasty
28. 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
Islam
James I
The Spanish Armada
29. 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
Arab Caliphs
Martin Luther
The Franks
James I
30. The collection of Papal states directly under the control of the Pope. Included lands in Italy - Germany - France - Spain - and England.
Songhai
The Holy Roman Empire
Akbar
African Rivers
31. Democracy - Drama - Art - Architecture - Philosophy - Sculpting - Performing Arts - Philosphical Schools - Scientific Method.
The Age of Enlightenment
The Scientific Revolution
Contributions of the Greeks
Kamakura Shogunate
32. 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 -
The House of Lords
French Revolution
Cardinal Richelieu
The French Republic
33. 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.
Greece
The Glorious Revolution
Decentralization of the Germanic States
Manorialism
34. 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
Agarian
Napoleon Bonepart
Constanople
Ionia
35. 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 Hopewell People
Ceasar
Cardinal Richelieu
Proletariats
36. The Christian name for Saul who had been a persecutor of Christians before conversion. - Was responsible for the spread of Christian theology & the resulting response from the Roman Empire.
Paul the Apostle
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
Turks
Minoan Civilization
37. 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.
Confucianism
The Samurai
Minoan Civilization
The Battle of Hastings
38. A philosophical and theological system - associated with Thomas Aquinas - devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century. (p. 408)
Benin
Mali
Ziggurat
Scholasticism
39. Religious movement founded by John Calvin - based on the doctrine of predestination.
Brahman
Calvinism
The Franks
The Hundred Years War
40. Political system in which a ruler holds total power. The ruler has total control and final say over their people.
The Rise of Christianity
Absolutionism
The Chaldeans
Shinto Religion
41. Caused by a continuing power struggle with the Pope.
Islamic Government and Religion
Decentralization of the Germanic States
Humanism
The Glorious Revolution
42. Conquered the Mycenaeans - illiterate - cause the Dark Age of violence and instability
Dorians
Sparta
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Tokugawa Shogunate
43. 800-1300 developed in the Southwest & the Anasazis were skilled builders & sophisticated farmers. Example Mesa Verde Cliff houses
Realism (Plato)
The Anasazi Culture
English Parliment
The Early Middle Ages
44. The doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self - realization through reason
Humanism
The Protestant Reformation
Sung Dynasty
English Parliment
45. Clan of Quraysh that dominated politics and commercial economy of Mecca; clan later able to establish dynasty as rulers of Islam
English Common Law
Shinto Religion
Umayyad
The Lydians
46. The art of ancient Greece and Rome - in which harmony - order - and proportion were emphasized
African Rivers
Classical Art
The Glorious Revolution
Charles I
47. 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.
Ceasar
The House of Commons
The Israelites
Tribal Organization
48. 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
Ionia
Mohammad
The House of Lancaster
Absolutionism
49. 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
The Israelites
Minoan Civilization
The Age of Pericles(460 BC-429 BC)
50. These people united and ruled most of India. After Babur invaded India - Akbar became the main ruler of this kind. They were great builders Taj Mahal - but their empire declined quickly (by 1750).
The Near East
Swahili
Mughuls
The Mongols