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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. A catalyst in the collapse of the Greek city - state alliance.
The Viking Invasions
Arab Conquests
Greek Individualism
Calvinism
2. This was the letter Martin Luther wrote to Archbishop Albert which explained that indulgences undermined the seriousness of the sacrament of penance.
Islamic Government and Religion
The Continental System
Ninety Theses
Songhai
3. 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.
The Peace of Augsburg
Turks
English Common Law
Bourgeoisie
4. 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.
Shinto Religion
The Age of Enlightenment
The Jesuits
African Savana
5. A warlike monotheistic civilization that spread rapidly throughout the Middle East and were constantly at war. They are known for their brilliant arabesques and gorgeous craftsmanship
Kublai Khan
Islamic Civilization
The Code of Hammurabi
Ming Dynasty
6. The revolutionary socialism of ____________ advocated a violent overthrow of the present economic system - History was seen as a class struggle between the exploiters (bourgeoisie) and the exploited (proletariat)
The Crusades
Charlemagne
Karl Marx
Slave Trade
7. Old Kingdom (massive pyramids) - Middle kingdom - New kingdom (gets agressive)
Mississippian Culture
Egyptian Religion
Swahili
Egyptian History
8. The restoration of the monarchy began in 1660 when the English - Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the wars of the 3 kingdoms. Stuart rule was restored.
The Samurai
The Hopewell People
The Restoration Era
The Chaldeans
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 Near East
Egyptian History
The Protestant Reformation
Athens
10. Political system in which a ruler holds total power. The ruler has total control and final say over their people.
The Samurai
Absolutionism
The Roman Government
The Hittites
11. 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.
Byzantine Empire Success
The Reconquista
Roman Contributions
Akbar
12. Military Genius of France - who later became a dictator and eventually overthrown. He sold the west land (Louisiana) to the United States for a very cheap price doubling the land of America.
Constantine
Napoleon Bonepart
The Babalonians
Kublai Khan
13. 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).
Kush
Roman Military Strategy
Mughuls
The Chaldeans
14. Mass production of goods and the rise of the factory system. From Rural to Urban centers. The division of society into defined calsses propertied and unpropertied. The development of modern Capitalism.
Genghis Khan
Tokugawa Shogunate
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
Shinto Religion
15. Characterized by moving about from place to place as nomads
Class Division
Nomadic
Aegan
English Parliment
16. Conquered the Mycenaeans - illiterate - cause the Dark Age of violence and instability
Dorians
The English Civil War
The Near East
The Communist Manifesto
17. 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.
Athens
The Counter Reformation
Mali
The Israelites
18. Establishe a civiliztion in the Nile Valley.
The Egyptians
Byzantine Empire Decline
The Crusades
The Near East
19. 1822 ended the congress system & allowed European powers to be guided by self - interest.
Roman Contributions
The Congress of Verona
Augustus
Rift Valley
20. Dynasty often referred to as China's Golden age that reigned during 618 - 907 AD; China expands from Vietnam to Manchuria
Ashikaga Shogunate
The Summarians
African Culture
Tang Dynasty
21. 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
Manorialism
English Parliment
Neoclassicism
22. 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
Oligarthy
The Ottoman Empire
Charles I
Arab Caliphs
23. The art of ancient Greece and Rome - in which harmony - order - and proportion were emphasized
The Palace of Versailles
Napoleon Bonepart
James I
Classical Art
24. Document written in 1215 which limited the power of the King and established the principle of limited government and the fundamental rights of English citizens. The document also introduced such fundamental rights as trial by jury and due process of
The Magna Carta
St. Augustine
Brahman
Songhai
25. 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
Cardinal Richelieu
The Middle Ages
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
The Renaissance
26. 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
The Early Middle Ages
Oliver Cromwell
The Fall of Rome
27. 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.
Aegan
Tang Dynasty
French Revolution
The Holy Roman Empire
28. A more militaristic civilization then Minoans - they traded and raided - turning on their Minoan teachers - helping to destroy Crete.
Abbassides
Mycenaean Civilization
Byzantine Empire Success
Umayyad
29. 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
Baroque Style
The Peace of Augsburg
The Continental System
Effect of the Reformation
30. King Louis XIII was a weak ruler and Richelieu filled the void - more or less running the empire via his advice to the king. A clever politician and strategist - Richelieu expanded royal power - punished dissent harshly - and built France into a grea
The Continental System
Mali
The Romanov Dynasty
Cardinal Richelieu
31. The classical economists advanced the theory of laissez faire
Humanism
The Hopewell People
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
Early Japanese Culture
32. 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
African Culture
Tokugawa Shogunate
Egyptian History
Effect of the Reformation
33. A lesser used title for the English Civil War.
Confucius
Byzantine Empire Success
The Puritan Revolution
The House of Lords
34. 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.
The Hopewell People
Constanople
Romanesque
Paul the Apostle
35. Several have inland as well as coastal deltas - Nile flows northward . Niger - Nile - Congo - Zambezi And were important to Africa's economic history.
The Roman Government
African Rivers
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
Effect of the Reformation
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
The House of Lancaster
Frederick Barbarossa
Humanism
Hugh Capet
37. Venetian merchant and traveler. His accounts of his travels to China offered Europeans a firsthand view of Asian lands and stimulated interest in Asian trade.
The Scientific Revolution
Marco Polo
The Age of Pericles(460 BC-429 BC)
Frederick Barbarossa
38. A collection of laws covering crimes - farming - business activities - and marriage and family. Many of the punishments were cruel - but the code was an important step in the development of a justice system
Songhai
The Act of Supremacy
The Jesuits
The Code of Hammurabi
39. This was the 2nd law passed by Parliament for King Henry VIII. It said that King Henry VIII was the only supreme head of the Church of England - and this church was formed from this act.
Tokugawa Shogunate
Contributions of the Greeks
The Act of Supremacy
Henry IV
40. 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.
Islam
The Glorious Revolution
The Viking Invasions
Mongols
41. Domination of the commercial trade routes controlled by Constintanople and a monopoly on the silk trade. Excellant use of diplonmacy to avoid invasions. Geographically distant from the tribes who sacked Rome. Codification of Roman Law. A forstress ci
Hieroglyphics
James I
Byzantine Empire Success
The Battle of Hastings
42. The Hitties - the Assyrians - Chaldeans - and the Phoenicians. Centralized Government and advancements in algebra and geometry.
Elizabeth I
Neoplatonism
The Babalonians
The Renaissance
43. 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
St. Augustine
The Lord of the Manor
African Desert
44. Wars which - in the century after the death of Muhammed in 632 - created an empire stretching from Spain to the Indus Valley.
Islam
Arab Conquests
Genghis Khan
The House of Lancaster
45. 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
Rift Valley
Humanism
Hugh Capet
The Act of Supremacy
46. 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
Byzantine Empire Decline
The Hopewell People
The Samurai
Sung Dynasty
47. A style of architecture developed in Italy and western Europe between the Roman and the Gothic styles after 1000 AD
The Thirty Years War
Egyptian Religion
Byzantine Empire Success
Romanesque
48. Emperor of Rome who adopted the Christian faith and stopped the persecution of Christians (280-337)
Constantine
The Rise of Christianity
James I
Dorians
49. The Founder of Islam. Muslims believe that Mohammad was God's last Prophet and that he received the word of God from the angel Gabriel.
Mohammad
The Communist Manifesto
The House of Lancaster
Songhai
50. The 'Theatre of politics.' The nobility were required to live there by Louis XIV - beautiful architecture and gardens. Symbol of French state and power
The Restoration Era
Benin
The Palace of Versailles
Athens