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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. The conqueror who united the peoples of Greece - Egypt - Persia and Indus River Valley into an empire by conquering them.
Alexandar the Great
Byzantine Empire Decline
Arab Caliphs
James I
2. 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.
Arab Conquests
The Age of Enlightenment
Peter the Great
The Lord of the Manor
3. A philosophical and theological system - associated with Thomas Aquinas - devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century. (p. 408)
African Rivers
Paul the Apostle
Scholasticism
Neoclassicism
4. Characterized by moving about from place to place as nomads
Nomadic
The Anasazi Culture
Constanople
Byzantine Empire Success
5. The legaslative body of england (lawmaking) - two houses: house of lords and house of commons
The Magna Carta
Louis XIV
The Peace of Augsburg
English Parliment
6. 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.
Confucius
The Hundred Years War
Fuedal System
The Congress of Vienna
7. Organization with midsize societies ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand people - with somewhat more power available to leaders.
African Culture
The Age of Pericles(460 BC-429 BC)
Tribal Organization
The Egyptians
8. Began with the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It emphasized the Holy Bible as the word of God.
Seljiks
The Holy Roman Empire
The War of the Roses
The Rise of Christianity
9. 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
Arab Conquests
The Continental System
The Holy Roman Empire
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
10. 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.
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
Kublai Khan
Mali
The Counter Reformation
11. Were skilled farmers & flourished in the Ohio & Mississippi Valleys (200BC to 400AD).
The law of Primogeniture
Oligarthy
The Hopewell People
Proletariats
12. 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 Spanish Armada
The Franks
The French Republic
Byzantine Empire Decline
13. 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
The Age of Enlightenment
Ashikaga Shogunate
The Renaissance
Class Division
14. 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 -
Augustus
The Congress of Verona
The Reconquista
Karl Marx
15. 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
Calvinism
The Manchus
Islamic Civilization
African Savana
16. The French version of the American Declaration
The Scientific Revolution
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Paul the Apostle
Voltaire
17. Greek city - state that was ruled by an oligarchy - focused on military - used slaves for agriculture - discouraged the arts. Developed a totalitarian and militaristic state dependent on slave labor.
Alexandar the Great
Sparta
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
The Communist Manifesto
18. This war was between Aristocrats and Nobles. The Nobles wanted to control the throne so the first Tudor King - Henry VII took the throne in 1485. He abolished the Noble's private armies.
The War of the Roses
Charlemagne
Abbassides
The Egyptians
19. Political system in which a ruler holds total power. The ruler has total control and final say over their people.
Absolutionism
Fuedal System
Egyptian History
Kamakura Shogunate
20. Conquered the Mycenaeans - illiterate - cause the Dark Age of violence and instability
Dorians
Constanople
Roman Military Strategy
The Code of Hammurabi
21. Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China
The Reconquista
The War of the Roses
Kublai Khan
Gothic Revival
22. 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
The Council of Trent
The Pelponnesian War
Dorians
Ming Dynasty
23. The great rebirth of acrt - literature - and learning in the 14th - 15th - and 16th centuries which marked the transition from the medieval to modern periods of European history. - A new way of thinking. Which laed to future reforms for the catholic
Causes of the French Revolution
The Renaissance
Islamic Civilization
The Council of Trent
24. The doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self - realization through reason
The Hopewell People
Humanism
The Babalonians
Ashikaga Shogunate
25. French Protestants who suffered persecution. Many left Europe for America to find religious freedom
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
The Huguenots
The Congress of Vienna
English Parliment
26. The art of ancient Greece and Rome - in which harmony - order - and proportion were emphasized
The Communist Manifesto
The French Religious Wars
The Franks
Classical Art
27. 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.
The Crusades
Kush
Martin Luther
Humanism
28. Officially recognized Lutherism but allowed Catholic Priests to support Catholicism.
Swahili
The Peace of Augsburg
Norman Conquest
The Congress of Verona
29. 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
Mycenaean Civilization
The French Religious Wars
The Commonwealth Period
The Crusades
30. River that provided for the needs of Ancient Egyptians and made their great civilization possible. Agriculture was the bases of the Egyptian Society.
Tang Dynasty
Greek Individualism
The Nile
Humanism
31. 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.
Napoleon Bonepart
The Jesuits
Kush
African Desert
32. Dynasty often referred to as China's Golden age that reigned during 618 - 907 AD; China expands from Vietnam to Manchuria
Tang Dynasty
The Ottoman Empire
Confucianism
The War of the Roses
33. 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.
Kamakura Shogunate
African Rivers
Mississippian Culture
English Common Law
34. A period in European history - between about 1000 AD and 1500 AD - when the power of kings - people of high rank and the Christian Church was strong
Class Division
The Middle Ages
Slave Trade
Ghana
35. 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.
The Counter Reformation
The Congress of Verona
The House of Commons
Umayyad
36. Among the most vigorous of the medieval emperors. Clashed with the pope over the appointment of the clergy. Known as 'the red beard' (r. 1152-1190). He attempted to conquer Lombardy (n. Italy) and unite the German princes - but the popes did not appr
Martin Luther
Frederick Barbarossa
Greece
Mali
37. The Roman Catholic Church responding to the protestantism by starting their own movement -- they stopped selling indulgences and started 'Society of Jesus' or Jesuit missionaries to spread Catholic ideas.
Kamakura Shogunate
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
The Counter Reformation
The Phoenicians
38. 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 Spanish Armada
The Thirty Years War
The Hopewell People
Rift Valley
39. Flourishing trade - medical encyclopedia - library - Algebra - spices - silks - perfumes - porcelain - textile goods
Islamic Culture
The Congress of Verona
The Council of Trent
Umayyad
40. 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 Roman Empire
The Scientific Revolution
The Peace of Westphalia
The House of Lords
41. Several have inland as well as coastal deltas - Nile flows northward . Niger - Nile - Congo - Zambezi And were important to Africa's economic history.
African Rivers
Laisssez Faire
Causes of the French Revolution
Thomas Malthus
42. 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
The Age of Enlightenment
Ceasar
Henry IV
Early Japanese Culture
43. 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.
Fuedal Contract
Scholasticism
Napoleon Bonepart
English Common Law
44. 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.
African Culture
Songhai
Byzantine Empire
The Palace of Versailles
45. 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
The House of York
Voltaire
Arab Caliphs
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
46. Establishe a civiliztion in the Nile Valley.
Scholasticism
The Egyptians
The Congress of Vienna
Martin Luther
47. 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).
Songhai
The Hundred Years War
Mughuls
Effect of the Reformation
48. Wars which - in the century after the death of Muhammed in 632 - created an empire stretching from Spain to the Indus Valley.
The Lord of the Manor
Agarian
Humanism
Arab Conquests
49. Ruled the manor. Had bailiffs to take care of day - to - day affairs.
Calvinism
English Common Law
Bourgeoisie
The Lord of the Manor
50. A system of philosophical and religious doctrines composed of elements of Platonism and Aristotelianism and oriental mysticism
The Roman Government
Akbar
Neoplatonism
Martin Luther