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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. A people of this name is mentioned as early as the records of the Tang Empire - living as nomads in northern Eurasia. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan - linking western and eastern Eurasia.
French Revolution
Mongols
St. Augustine
Islam
2. 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
The Fall of Rome
Umayyad
The Crusades
Seljiks
3. 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 Scientific Revolution
French Revolution
The Muslim Empire
Ming Dynasty
4. ...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 Ottoman Empire
Neoclassicism
The House of York
The House of Lords
5. 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 Crusades
The Lord of the Manor
The English Civil War
The French Religious Wars
6. Elected consul of rome in 59 bc. Genius with military strategy. Governed as an absolute ruler. Was assassinated in the senate chamber.
The Renaissance
Ceasar
Minoan Civilization
Henry IV
7. The invasion and settlement of England by the Normans following the Battle of Hastings (1066)
St. Augustine
Byzantine Empire Decline
Commercial Revival
Norman Conquest
8. The term for The Univeral Soul in Hinduism.
Contributions of the Greeks
Martin Luther
Islamic Civilization
Brahman
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
The Protestant Reformation
The French Religious Wars
The Persians
10. Englightenment - unequal tax system - bad harvests - debt - absolute monarchy - economic issues - inequitable class structure - disorganized legal system - no representation.
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
English Common Law
Causes of the French Revolution
Egyptian Religion
11. Oliver Cromwell ruled as a dictator and abolished the monarchy and the House of Lords.
Turks
The Lydians
African Rivers
The Commonwealth Period
12. French Protestants who suffered persecution. Many left Europe for America to find religious freedom
Egyptian Religion
The Huguenots
The House of Commons
The Chaldeans
13. 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
Mali
Voltaire
James I
The House of York
14. The collection of Papal states directly under the control of the Pope. Included lands in Italy - Germany - France - Spain - and England.
The Viking Invasions
The Holy Roman Empire
Arab Conquests
Realism (Plato)
15. Were skilled farmers & flourished in the Ohio & Mississippi Valleys (200BC to 400AD).
Industrial Revolution
Fuedal Contract
The Renaissance
The Hopewell People
16. This was the French law put in place by Napoleon. It promoted equality before the law - toleration of all religions - and outlawing serfdom and feudalism. It also took away women's rights and outlawed trade unions and strikes.
The Code of Napoleon
The Puritan Revolution
Athens
Paul the Apostle
17. The classical economists advanced the theory of laissez faire
The Battle of Hastings
The Peace of Westphalia
The Mongols
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
18. 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 Magna Carta
Ziggurat
Tokugawa Shogunate
The French Religious Wars
19. A war that occurred between 1618 and 1648; it was mainly a civil war in Germany and the Holy Roman Empire over religious and political issues; it also involved the countries of Spain - France - Denmark - and Sweden
Islamic Civilization
Voltaire
The Restoration Era
The Thirty Years War
20. A lesser used title for the English Civil War.
The Puritan Revolution
The Manchus
The Dark Ages
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
21. Continuous barbaric invasion. Internal factors included political instability - decreasing farm production - inflation - excessive taxation - and the decline of the military. The rise of Christianity divided the Empire.
The Fall of Rome
The Hundred Years War
The Code of Napoleon
The House of York
22. King of the Franks who conquered much of Western Europe - great patron of literature and learning
The Pelponnesian War
The French Religious Wars
Charlemagne
The Holy Roman Empire
23. The collapse of Rome and sweeping advances of Germanic and Viking raiders - Europe entered a time of chaotic political - economic - and urban decline A struggle back toward stability.
Mississippian Culture
Early Japanese Culture
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
The Early Middle Ages
24. Dynasty often referred to as China's Golden age that reigned during 618 - 907 AD; China expands from Vietnam to Manchuria
Bourgeoisie
The Shogun
The Franks
Tang Dynasty
25. English military - political - and religious figure who led the Parliamentarian victory in the English Civil War (1642-1649) and called for the execution of Charles I. As lord protector of England (1653-1658) he ruled as a virtual dictator.
Charles I
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
Decentralization of the Germanic States
Oliver Cromwell
26. The middle class - including merchants - industrialists - and professional people
The Communist Manifesto
The Protestant Reformation
Byzantine Empire
Bourgeoisie
27. 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.
The Counter Reformation
Egyptian History
Peter the Great
The Restoration Era
28. Established the first lasting monotheism - Saul established the first kingdom in Palestine (c. 1030-1010 B.C.) - After the death of Solomon (922 B.C.) - the Hebrews were divided into two kingdoms (Israel and Judah) - Disunity and conquest resulted in
The Hopewell People
Ming Dynasty
The Israelites
The Pelponnesian War
29. Most illustrious sultan of the Mughal Empire in India (r. 1556-1605). He expanded the empire and pursued a policy of conciliation with Hindus. (p. 536)
The Congress of Verona
Akbar
African Savana
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
30. Constituted of a mixed government including consuls - a senate - tribune - assembly of the tribes - ...
Baroque Style
Sung Dynasty
The Roman Government
Karl Marx
31. Caused by a continuing power struggle with the Pope.
Turks
Decentralization of the Germanic States
Tang Dynasty
The Holy Roman Empire
32. Known as knights of feudal Japan and retainers of the daimyo. This aristocratic warrior class arose during the 12th - century wars between the Taira and Minamoto clans and was consolidated in the Tokugawa period. They were privileged to wear two swor
The Samurai
Kamakura Shogunate
Songhai
The Babalonians
33. King of France from 1643 to 1715; his long reign was marked by the expansion of French influence in Europe and by the magnificence of his court and the Palace of Versailles (1638-1715)
Ionia
Louis XIV
Realism (Plato)
The Persians
34. 17th century Europe - elaborate and detailed artwork - drama - tension - exuberance - and grandeur in sculpture - painting - literature - and music
Turks
Norman Conquest
Baroque Style
The Franks
35. (1776-1834) Theorized that population growth would far outstrip food production
Oligarthy
Thomas Malthus
Islamic Civilization
Realism (Plato)
36. 2000-1200 B.C. conquered much of Asia Minor & northern Mesopotamia; a major contribution included the invention of iron smelting - which revolutionized warfare.
Umayyad
The Commonwealth Period
The Holy Roman Empire
The Hittites
37. The revolution that began in 1789 - overthrew the absolute monarchy of the Bourbons and the system of aristocratic privileges - and ended with Napoleon's overthrow of the Directory and seizure of power in 1799.
The Muslim Empire
French Revolution
The House of Lancaster
The Middle Ages
38. A kingdom of the West African rain forest
Benin
The Shogun
English Parliment
Umayyad
39. 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
The English Civil War
The House of Commons
Tang Dynasty
40. 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.
The Israelites
Sparta
The Age of Enlightenment
Laisssez Faire
41. The economic and social system of medieval europe - lords recieved land from the King in exchane for loyalty and serfs worked the land for the lords in exchange for protection.
Militant Socialism
Akbar
Fuedal System
Early Japanese Culture
42. Established Capeatian rule in France - put to throne because of his weakness; made throne hereditary; Capetians had an unbroken succession for 300 years; effective beauracracy
Hugh Capet
Mississippian Culture
Ceasar
The Palace of Versailles
43. 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 Romanov Dynasty
The Heian Era
Elizabeth I
Brahman
44. A center for civilizations which flourished in the 2nd and 3rd millenniums BC
Aegan
The House of Lords
The Fall of Rome
Egyptian Religion
45. Crused by the House of Lancaster
The Hundred Years War
The Magna Carta
The House of York
Egyptian History
46. The rise of Islam
Slave Trade
French Revolution
The Shogun
The Muslim Empire
47. The meeting of representatives from each of the nations in the Quadruple Alliance. Its purpose was to draft a peace settlement by redrawing Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoleonic France. It succeeded in constructing a settlement that w
The Romanov Dynasty
The House of Lancaster
The Congress of Vienna
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
48. A style of architecture developed in Italy and western Europe between the Roman and the Gothic styles after 1000 AD
Class Division
Seljiks
Romanesque
The Shogun
49. Organization with midsize societies ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand people - with somewhat more power available to leaders.
Tribal Organization
The Pelponnesian War
Egyptian Religion
The Hundred Years War
50. 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.
Tokugawa Shogunate
The Code of Napoleon
Songhai
Classical Art