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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. This queen of England chose a religion between the Puritans and Catholics and required her subjects to attend church or face a fine. She also required uniformity and conformity to the Church of England
Early Japanese Culture
Hieroglyphics
Elizabeth I
Byzantine Empire
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.
Mali
The Age of Enlightenment
Machiavelli
Scholasticism
3. French philosopher and writer whose works epitomize the Age of Enlightenment - often attacking injustice and intolerance
Militant Socialism
The Reconquista
Voltaire
The Thirty Years War
4. Concerning farms - farmers - or agriculture and the use of land.
Islamic Government and Religion
Agarian
The Fall of Rome
The Roman Empire
5. They were polytheistic worshiping over 2000 gods and goddesses. They believed in the afterlife and that they would be judged for their life. They had sacred burials. Ruled by Pharoahs.
Manorialism
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
Egyptian Religion
Rift Valley
6. 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.
The law of Primogeniture
The Shogun
Roman Contributions
Mongols
7. Dynasty often referred to as China's Golden age that reigned during 618 - 907 AD; China expands from Vietnam to Manchuria
Sparta
Tang Dynasty
Absolutionism
The Commonwealth Period
8. First emperor of the Roman Empire. Julius Caesar's grand - nephew.
Augustus
Class Division
Hugh Capet
The Lydians
9. Several have inland as well as coastal deltas - Nile flows northward . Niger - Nile - Congo - Zambezi And were important to Africa's economic history.
The Holy Roman Empire
African Rivers
The Persians
Mali
10. The idea that the government should not play an active role in regulating the economy.
Fuedal System
Laisssez Faire
Agarian
The Nile
11. Attempted to unify the entire Near East under one rule (500s B.C.) - Established an international government - Zoroastrianism - an ethical religion based on concepts of good and evil - Failed to conquer the Greeks; Persia was eventually conquered by
The Manchus
The Persians
Constanople
Roman Contributions
12. 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
Scholasticism
Bourgeoisie
The English Civil War
Confucius
13. An economic system based on the manor and lands including a village and surrounding acreage which were administered by a lord. It developed during the Middle Ages to increase agricultural production.
Mississippian Culture
The Roman Empire
Manorialism
Roman Society
14. 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.
Effect of the Reformation
The Early Middle Ages
Charlemagne
Mohammad
15. Created during kamakura era - In theory: Emperor's military chief of staff - In reality: Actual ruler of Japan
Ionia
The Shogun
The Huguenots
The Hopewell People
16. 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
Tokugawa Shogunate
Turks
Frederick Barbarossa
The Code of Hammurabi
17. 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 Romanov Dynasty
Bourgeoisie
Louis XIV
Napoleon Bonepart
18. 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 Romanov Dynasty
Brahman
Ashikaga Shogunate
The Lord of the Manor
19. Athens vs Sparta - Sparta won but both were devastated unable to unite Greed city - states.
Scholasticism
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
The Pelponnesian War
The Ottoman Empire
20. The classical economists advanced the theory of laissez faire
Romanesque
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
Class Division
Swahili
21. Constituted of a mixed government including consuls - a senate - tribune - assembly of the tribes - ...
The Viking Invasions
Islamic Culture
The Roman Government
The Mongols
22. 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
The Communist Manifesto
Charles I
English Parliment
The Act of Supremacy
23. 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 Code of Napoleon
Kublai Khan
Causes of the French Revolution
The Samurai
24. 2000-1200 B.C. conquered much of Asia Minor & northern Mesopotamia; a major contribution included the invention of iron smelting - which revolutionized warfare.
Oligarthy
Roman Society
The Phoenicians
The Hittites
25. Englightenment - unequal tax system - bad harvests - debt - absolute monarchy - economic issues - inequitable class structure - disorganized legal system - no representation.
The Rise of Christianity
Byzantine Empire
Cardinal Richelieu
Causes of the French Revolution
26. 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
The Egyptians
The Huguenots
The Ottoman Empire
African Savana
27. 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.
Slave Trade
Commercial Revival
Paul the Apostle
The House of Commons
28. 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
Laisssez Faire
Byzantine Empire Decline
Ziggurat
Benin
29. A Bantu language with Arabic words spoken along the East African coast
Tribal Organization
The Scientific Revolution
Frederick Barbarossa
Swahili
30. African Civilization developed here
The Egyptians
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
Rift Valley
The Babalonians
31. European trade agreement with Africa dealing with slaves brought from Africa. Integral part of Triangle Trade between the Americas - Africa - and Europe.
Tribal Organization
The Code of Napoleon
Slave Trade
The Early Middle Ages
32. King of the Franks who conquered much of Western Europe - great patron of literature and learning
Charlemagne
Egyptian History
Kamakura Shogunate
Mongols
33. 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:
Rift Valley
Marco Polo
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
The Age of Pericles(460 BC-429 BC)
34. The English Parliament drove out an absolute monarch and replaced him with two constitutional monarch's William and Mary. 1688 - change of who is in power without bloodshed. Established the supremacy of Parliment.
Neoplatonism
Greece
The Glorious Revolution
The Peace of Augsburg
35. Occupied western Asia Minor (500s B.C.) - Their culture reached its zenith under King Croesus (Golden King) - Were responsible for the first coinage of money
The Lydians
Tribal Organization
The Holy Roman Empire
The Rise of Christianity
36. 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.
Charles I
The Hundred Years War
The Franks
Roman Contributions
37. The 'Theatre of politics.' The nobility were required to live there by Louis XIV - beautiful architecture and gardens. Symbol of French state and power
Confucianism
The Palace of Versailles
The Romanov Dynasty
Neoplatonism
38. Old Kingdom (massive pyramids) - Middle kingdom - New kingdom (gets agressive)
The Renaissance
Egyptian History
The War of the Roses
The Age of Pericles(460 BC-429 BC)
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 Romanov Dynasty
The Israelites
The Early Middle Ages
40. The collection of Papal states directly under the control of the Pope. Included lands in Italy - Germany - France - Spain - and England.
Mississippian Culture
The Peace of Augsburg
The Rise of Christianity
The Holy Roman Empire
41. 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.
Umayyad
The English Civil War
The Anasazi Culture
French Revolution
42. The invasion and settlement of England by the Normans following the Battle of Hastings (1066)
The Code of Hammurabi
Agarian
Hieroglyphics
Norman Conquest
43. The term for The Univeral Soul in Hinduism.
Louis XIV
Brahman
The House of Lords
African Desert
44. 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
The Thirty Years War
French Revolution
The House of Lords
Hugh Capet
45. 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.
Marco Polo
Paul the Apostle
Ming Dynasty
The Ottoman Empire
46. This was the peak of the strength of the cultural and military power of Athens. During this time period there are many philosophers - including Socrates and Plato. This is also the time of the drama and many new advances in science - including Pythag
The Age of Pericles(460 BC-429 BC)
The Commonwealth Period
The Hundred Years War
Agarian
47. A fundamental transformation in scientific ideas in physics - astronomy - and biology - in institutions supporting scientific investigation - and in the more widely held picture of the universe
Hugh Capet
Songhai
The Scientific Revolution
The Congress of Verona
48. 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
The Code of Hammurabi
Augustus
Charles I
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
49. 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
The Protestant Reformation
Slave Trade
The Continental System
The Heian Era
50. Characterized by moving about from place to place as nomads
Nomadic
Elizabeth I
Sung Dynasty
Hugh Capet