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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. A philosophical and theological system - associated with Thomas Aquinas - devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century. (p. 408)
The English Civil War
St. Augustine
The Anasazi Culture
Scholasticism
2. First emperor of the Roman Empire. Julius Caesar's grand - nephew.
Islamic Government and Religion
Augustus
The Summarians
The Chaldeans
3. 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 Holy Roman Empire
Akbar
Seljiks
The Romanov Dynasty
4. 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
Manorialism
The Crusades
African Culture
Athens
5. 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.
Ghana
The Rise of Christianity
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
Nomadic
6. 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
Effect of the Reformation
The Ottoman Empire
The Hundred Years War
French Revolution
7. 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.
Songhai
The Roman Empire
The Chaldeans
Islam
8. 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.
Machiavelli
Commercial Revival
Umayyad
Humanism
9. 16th century religious movement led by Martin Luther that sought to reform the Roman Catholic Church and led to the formation of Protestantism
The Age of Enlightenment
Karl Marx
The Protestant Reformation
Proletariats
10. The art of ancient Greece and Rome - in which harmony - order - and proportion were emphasized
The Ottoman Empire
Classical Art
Umayyad
Commercial Revival
11. 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.
Realism (Plato)
The Act of Supremacy
Bourgeoisie
Mississippian Culture
12. Forceful seizure of governmental power
Constanople
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
Militant Socialism
Bourgeoisie
13. Created during kamakura era - In theory: Emperor's military chief of staff - In reality: Actual ruler of Japan
The Shogun
The French Religious Wars
Mycenaean Civilization
Henry IV
14. The Vikings built fast ships where they would ship men and cargo from their land to charlemagnes empire to pilage and plunder.
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
The French Republic
The Chaldeans
The Viking Invasions
15. Made up of art and culture - music/dance - storytelling and very Religious
Greece
African Culture
The Hopewell People
Early Japanese Culture
16. 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 French Republic
Dorians
The Romanov Dynasty
Hieroglyphics
17. A German monk who became one of the most famous critics of the Roman Catholic Chruch. In 1517 - he wrote 95 theses - or statements of belief attacking the church practices.
Seljiks
Martin Luther
Napoleon Bonepart
English Parliment
18. Developed their own language - a sophisticated systemof writing - literature and poetry - with great emphasis on a love of nature - beauty - and good manners.
Baroque Style
Genghis Khan
Realism (Plato)
Early Japanese Culture
19. A kingdom of the West African rain forest
Benin
The Protestant Reformation
Absolutionism
Proletariats
20. This was the letter Martin Luther wrote to Archbishop Albert which explained that indulgences undermined the seriousness of the sacrament of penance.
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
Class Division
Ninety Theses
Confucius
21. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians and was the center of community life.
Early Japanese Culture
Ziggurat
Romanesque
Cardinal Richelieu
22. African Civilization developed here
Kublai Khan
The French Republic
Rift Valley
The Jesuits
23. DominateTurkish group control caliphate
Mughuls
Industrial Revolution
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
Seljiks
24. Conquered the Mycenaeans - illiterate - cause the Dark Age of violence and instability
The Protestant Reformation
Ceasar
The Code of Hammurabi
Dorians
25. Eastern Roman empire after the fall of Rome.
Byzantine Empire
Islamic Culture
Romanesque
The Phoenicians
26. 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 law of Primogeniture
Marco Polo
Calvinism
27. A more militaristic civilization then Minoans - they traded and raided - turning on their Minoan teachers - helping to destroy Crete.
Proletariats
Mycenaean Civilization
The Romanov Dynasty
Ziggurat
28. 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.
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
The Mongols
Tokugawa Shogunate
The Battle of Hastings
29. ...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.
The House of Lords
Confucianism
Constanople
Rift Valley
30. The invasion and settlement of England by the Normans following the Battle of Hastings (1066)
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
African Desert
Norman Conquest
Hieroglyphics
31. Englightenment - unequal tax system - bad harvests - debt - absolute monarchy - economic issues - inequitable class structure - disorganized legal system - no representation.
Sparta
Causes of the French Revolution
Paul the Apostle
Frederick Barbarossa
32. An advanced civilization that developed on the island of Crete around 2500 BCE based its prosperity
Minoan Civilization
Genghis Khan
Kublai Khan
The Spanish Armada
33. River that provided for the needs of Ancient Egyptians and made their great civilization possible. Agriculture was the bases of the Egyptian Society.
The Romanov Dynasty
The Nile
Brahman
Tokugawa Shogunate
34. An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds
Egyptian History
The Peace of Augsburg
Hieroglyphics
Karl Marx
35. The legaslative body of england (lawmaking) - two houses: house of lords and house of commons
English Parliment
Egyptian History
Classical Art
The Protestant Reformation
36. French Protestants who suffered persecution. Many left Europe for America to find religious freedom
Oliver Cromwell
Cardinal Richelieu
The Lord of the Manor
The Huguenots
37. 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
Proletariats
The Franks
Byzantine Empire Decline
Oliver Cromwell
38. Officially recognized Lutherism but allowed Catholic Priests to support Catholicism.
The Peace of Augsburg
The French Religious Wars
Industrial Revolution
Oligarthy
39. 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.
Greece
The Scientific Revolution
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Confucianism
40. 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.
Minoan Civilization
The Hopewell People
English Common Law
Dorians
41. Greek language and cultural accomplishments preserved. Center for world trade and exchange of culture. It spread civilization to all of eastern Europe. It preserved the Eastern Church which converted Slavic people to Christianity. Its economic streng
Peter the Great
Kamakura Shogunate
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
St. Augustine
42. 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 House of Lancaster
Mississippian Culture
Sparta
Hugh Capet
43. The 'Theatre of politics.' The nobility were required to live there by Louis XIV - beautiful architecture and gardens. Symbol of French state and power
Mughuls
The Palace of Versailles
Humanism
Absolutionism
44. One of the largest military fleets in the history of warfare which was sent to attack England in 1588. The smaller English fleet was able to defeat the armada by using its ease of maneuverability and ended Spain's domination of the Atlantic Ocean and
The Thirty Years War
The Spanish Armada
Ziggurat
Umayyad
45. 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
Shinto Religion
Machiavelli
Gothic Revival
46. A lesser used title for the English Civil War.
The Puritan Revolution
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
Scholasticism
Songhai
47. A group of Germanic tribes. They became allies of the Romans and became Christian. In the 8th century they established the Carolingian rule. Perhaps the most famous leader was Charlemagne.
The Reconquista
Tang Dynasty
The Franks
Cardinal Richelieu
48. Political leaders after the death of Muhammad
Charles I
Arab Caliphs
African Savana
Oligarthy
49. 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:
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
The Summarians
Mongols
50. 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 -
The Commonwealth Period
The Reconquista
The French Republic
Byzantine Empire Decline
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