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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. River that provided for the needs of Ancient Egyptians and made their great civilization possible. Agriculture was the bases of the Egyptian Society.
The Shogun
The Nile
The House of Lancaster
Mohammad
2. A flat - dry grassland with trees and bushes
African Savana
Mali
The Muslim Empire
Shinto Religion
3. 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.
Martin Luther
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
The Scientific Revolution
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
4. 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.
Romanesque
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Commercial Revival
Swahili
5. Creators of the Mesopotamia civiliztion. Large scale irrigation projects - advanced system of mathematics and the invention of the wheel.
Henry IV
The Summarians
The French Republic
Akbar
6. A war that broke out between the parliament supporters (roundheads) and the king's supporters (cavaliers). It ended with the execution of the king - Charles I
The English Civil War
Nomadic
The Renaissance
Islam
7. Crused by the House of Lancaster
The Battle of Hastings
Shinto Religion
Slave Trade
The House of York
8. The invasion and settlement of England by the Normans following the Battle of Hastings (1066)
The Manchus
The Puritan Revolution
Norman Conquest
Greek Individualism
9. Forceful seizure of governmental power
Effect of the Reformation
Manorialism
Kamakura Shogunate
Militant Socialism
10. Emperor of Rome who adopted the Christian faith and stopped the persecution of Christians (280-337)
Constantine
The Age of Enlightenment
Islamic Government and Religion
Islamic Culture
11. 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 -
Peter the Great
Akbar
English Parliment
The Reconquista
12. The Vikings built fast ships where they would ship men and cargo from their land to charlemagnes empire to pilage and plunder.
Machiavelli
The Crusades
The Viking Invasions
Cardinal Richelieu
13. 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 Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
Sung Dynasty
The Jesuits
The House of Lancaster
14. 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
The Chaldeans
The Magna Carta
Akbar
Constanople
15. Gave all property to the eldest son. Led many younger sons of the gentry to seek their fortunes in exploration and colonization.
The law of Primogeniture
Manorialism
Islamic Civilization
Charlemagne
16. Was divided into the patricians (propertied class) - plebeians (main body of Roman citizens) - and slaves.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Baroque Style
Islamic Government and Religion
Roman Society
17. Religious pilgramages Improved farming methods - trade and commerce led to a high standard of living - Military expansion.
The Romanov Dynasty
Islamic Government and Religion
African Desert
Augustus
18. Made up of art and culture - music/dance - storytelling and very Religious
The House of York
African Culture
The Lord of the Manor
The French Religious Wars
19. 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.
Sparta
The Reconquista
The Peace of Augsburg
The Code of Napoleon
20. The classical economists advanced the theory of laissez faire
The Mongols
Brahman
Nomadic
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
21. 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.
Charles I
Kush
Oliver Cromwell
Ming Dynasty
22. Japanese ruling dynasty that strove to isolate it from foreign influences. shogunate started by Tokugawa Leyasu; 4 class system - warriors - farmers - artisans - merchants; Japan's ports were closed off; wanted to create their own culture; illegal to
Laisssez Faire
Tokugawa Shogunate
The French Republic
Shinto Religion
23. King of England - Scotland - and Ireland (1625-1649). His power struggles with Parliament resulted in the English Civil War (1642-1648) in which Charles was defeated. He was tried for treason and beheaded in 1649
Charles I
The Continental System
The Fall of Rome
Akbar
24. The middle class - including merchants - industrialists - and professional people
The House of Lords
Bourgeoisie
The Shogun
The Congress of Verona
25. A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula
Marco Polo
Greece
The Congress of Vienna
Sung Dynasty
26. 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 English Civil War
The Anasazi Culture
Peter the Great
The law of Primogeniture
27. 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
Ionia
Industrial Revolution
The Manchus
French Revolution
28. The collection of Papal states directly under the control of the Pope. Included lands in Italy - Germany - France - Spain - and England.
The Magna Carta
The Renaissance
The Holy Roman Empire
Hieroglyphics
29. Powerful city in Ancient Greece that was a leader in arts - sciences - philosophy - democracy and architecture.
Egyptian Religion
Industrial Revolution
The Congress of Verona
Athens
30. 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
Islamic Civilization
The Rise of Christianity
Humanism
31. 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
Fuedal Contract
The Lord of the Manor
Umayyad
Ionia
32. This was a war between France and England between 1346 and 1453. It was fought over land in France that each wanted to control. The British began strongly - but with the help of Joan of Arc - the French rallied and eventually beat England. Two famous
African Desert
Alexandar the Great
The Hundred Years War
The Communist Manifesto
33. 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 Magna Carta
The Phoenicians
The French Republic
Voltaire
34. A kingdom of the West African rain forest
The Huguenots
Karl Marx
The Age of Enlightenment
Benin
35. Roman expansion resulted in a world republic. Emerged as the dominant power in the Mediterranian.
The Roman Empire
The Rise of Christianity
The Reconquista
Sung Dynasty
36. Revival of a classical style in art or literature or architecture or music but from a new perspective or with a new motivation
Gothic Revival
Mississippian Culture
Romanesque
Neoclassicism
37. The legaslative body of england (lawmaking) - two houses: house of lords and house of commons
Arab Conquests
The Magna Carta
English Parliment
Ashikaga Shogunate
38. Dynasty often referred to as China's Golden age that reigned during 618 - 907 AD; China expands from Vietnam to Manchuria
The Babalonians
Sparta
Tang Dynasty
The Lydians
39. 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
The Fall of Rome
St. Augustine
African Savana
The Commonwealth Period
40. Characterized by moving about from place to place as nomads
Nomadic
Fuedal Contract
The Code of Napoleon
Ionia
41. Eastern Roman empire after the fall of Rome.
The Phoenicians
Ghana
Byzantine Empire
The Battle of Hastings
42. Conquered the Mycenaeans - illiterate - cause the Dark Age of violence and instability
Mycenaean Civilization
African Savana
Dorians
Napoleon Bonepart
43. Were skilled farmers & flourished in the Ohio & Mississippi Valleys (200BC to 400AD).
Athens
The Hopewell People
Songhai
Baroque Style
44. The conqueror who united the peoples of Greece - Egypt - Persia and Indus River Valley into an empire by conquering them.
Alexandar the Great
The Puritan Revolution
The Congress of Vienna
The Pelponnesian War
45. An advanced civilization that developed on the island of Crete around 2500 BCE based its prosperity
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
Cardinal Richelieu
Minoan Civilization
The Franks
46. Political leaders after the death of Muhammad
Martin Luther
The Jesuits
Arab Caliphs
The Heian Era
47. 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
Aegan
Kamakura Shogunate
Turks
Kublai Khan
48. 16th century religious movement led by Martin Luther that sought to reform the Roman Catholic Church and led to the formation of Protestantism
The Protestant Reformation
Effect of the Reformation
Classical Art
Commercial Revival
49. The idea that the government should not play an active role in regulating the economy.
The Rise of Christianity
Laisssez Faire
The Shogun
Mali
50. 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.
The War of the Roses
The Restoration Era
Fuedal Contract
Kamakura Shogunate
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