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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. Powerful city in Ancient Greece that was a leader in arts - sciences - philosophy - democracy and architecture.
Classical Art
Athens
Neoclassicism
Confucianism
2. Created during kamakura era - In theory: Emperor's military chief of staff - In reality: Actual ruler of Japan
Nomadic
Charles I
The Shogun
Ghana
3. 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
Marco Polo
Ashikaga Shogunate
The Spanish Armada
Mughuls
4. King of the Franks who conquered much of Western Europe - great patron of literature and learning
Charlemagne
The Peace of Augsburg
The Battle of Hastings
Arab Conquests
5. Crused by the House of Lancaster
Commercial Revival
The Romanov Dynasty
The Assyrians
The House of York
6. Constituted of a mixed government including consuls - a senate - tribune - assembly of the tribes - ...
Sparta
The Roman Government
Humanism
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
7. 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
Baroque Style
St. Augustine
Ionia
The Protestant Reformation
8. The Vikings built fast ships where they would ship men and cargo from their land to charlemagnes empire to pilage and plunder.
Islam
Tribal Organization
Slave Trade
The Viking Invasions
9. The battle that took place in 1066 - in which William the Conqueror and Harold Godwinson fought for control of Normandy?
Scholasticism
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
The Near East
The Battle of Hastings
10. Renaissance writer; formerly a politician - wrote The Prince - a work on ethics and government - describing how rulers maintain power by methods that ignore right or wrong; accepted the philosophy that 'the end justifies the means.'
Machiavelli
The French Republic
Abbassides
Decentralization of the Germanic States
11. The rise of Islam
The Muslim Empire
Seljiks
Tokugawa Shogunate
The French Republic
12. 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.
The Glorious Revolution
Scholasticism
The Crusades
The Restoration Era
13. 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.
Songhai
Martin Luther
Humanism
The Nile
14. 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.
Roman Contributions
Genghis Khan
The Egyptians
Islamic Government and Religion
15. 800-1300 developed in the Southwest & the Anasazis were skilled builders & sophisticated farmers. Example Mesa Verde Cliff houses
The French Religious Wars
The French Republic
The Anasazi Culture
Industrial Revolution
16. Were United by Genghis Khan to capture all of asia - which they did except for India. Asia under Mongolian ruler till grandson of Gings (Kublai) died and there was an overturning.
The Council of Trent
The Mongols
Laisssez Faire
Charlemagne
17. Creators of the Mesopotamia civiliztion. Large scale irrigation projects - advanced system of mathematics and the invention of the wheel.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
The Summarians
Louis XIV
The Reconquista
18. Became the first explorers - traders - and colonizers of the ancient world; their civilization reached its peak in 1000 B.C. - Greatest seafaring civilization in the ancient world - Developed extensive trade networks throughout the Mediterranean and
The Franks
The Code of Napoleon
The Rise of Christianity
The Phoenicians
19. 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
Bourgeoisie
Cardinal Richelieu
English Parliment
20. The class of modern wage laborers who having no means of production of their own - are reducing to selling their labor power in order to live
The Romanov Dynasty
Proletariats
James I
Slave Trade
21. Reality consists of ideas that exist in the mind - independant of sensory powers of perception.
Islam
Realism (Plato)
Hugh Capet
Islamic Civilization
22. (1776-1834) Theorized that population growth would far outstrip food production
Thomas Malthus
Effect of the Reformation
Scholasticism
Paul the Apostle
23. Were skilled farmers & flourished in the Ohio & Mississippi Valleys (200BC to 400AD).
Confucius
Kush
Islamic Government and Religion
The Hopewell People
24. Old Kingdom (massive pyramids) - Middle kingdom - New kingdom (gets agressive)
Mississippian Culture
The Congress of Vienna
Rift Valley
Egyptian History
25. 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
Norman Conquest
The French Republic
Militant Socialism
26. 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.
Roman Society
Mongols
The Hittites
Tribal Organization
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.
Paul the Apostle
Sung Dynasty
The Crusades
Roman Contributions
28. 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
Rift Valley
The Assyrians
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
Fuedal Contract
29. 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 -
Romanesque
The French Religious Wars
The Reconquista
Benin
30. 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.
Minoan Civilization
The Dark Ages
Shinto Religion
Fuedal System
31. 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.
English Parliment
Brahman
The Age of Pericles(460 BC-429 BC)
The War of the Roses
32. 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
Norman Conquest
The Romanov Dynasty
The House of Lancaster
The Thirty Years War
33. 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 Congress of Vienna
The Act of Supremacy
Islamic Culture
The Jesuits
34. 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
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
Kublai Khan
Athens
The Crusades
35. 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 Israelites
The Peace of Westphalia
The House of Commons
Humanism
36. Ruled the manor. Had bailiffs to take care of day - to - day affairs.
Martin Luther
The Franks
The Lord of the Manor
Egyptian History
37. The invasion and settlement of England by the Normans following the Battle of Hastings (1066)
Norman Conquest
The Act of Supremacy
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
Islamic Government and Religion
38. Religious movement founded by John Calvin - based on the doctrine of predestination.
The Lydians
Islamic Culture
The Jesuits
Calvinism
39. A center for civilizations which flourished in the 2nd and 3rd millenniums BC
Islamic Culture
St. Augustine
Aegan
The Restoration Era
40. 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
Norman Conquest
The Renaissance
Roman Contributions
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
41. Establishe a civiliztion in the Nile Valley.
African Culture
Commercial Revival
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
The Egyptians
42. Established the new Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar (605-538 B.C.)- Conquered Mesopotamia - Syria - and Palestine Developed astrology - astronomy - advanced government bureaucracy - and architectural achievements such as the Hanging Gardens of
Calvinism
Shinto Religion
The Chaldeans
The House of Commons
43. Revival of a classical style in art or literature or architecture or music but from a new perspective or with a new motivation
Norman Conquest
Neoclassicism
African Savana
The House of York
44. 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.
Commercial Revival
African Savana
Confucius
The Act of Supremacy
45. Divide and conquer - attack one enemy at a time - always ally with the weak power against the strong - then conquer both afterwards. Give conquered people a stake/citizenship in the empire - respect local religions and traditions. Demand loyalty and
The Lord of the Manor
Charlemagne
Peter the Great
Roman Military Strategy
46. An advanced civilization that developed on the island of Crete around 2500 BCE based its prosperity
Ninety Theses
Augustus
Minoan Civilization
Realism (Plato)
47. European trade agreement with Africa dealing with slaves brought from Africa. Integral part of Triangle Trade between the Americas - Africa - and Europe.
The House of York
The Rise of Christianity
Slave Trade
Karl Marx
48. Emperor of Rome who adopted the Christian faith and stopped the persecution of Christians (280-337)
Romanesque
Mughuls
The Age of Enlightenment
Constantine
49. An assembly of high church officials summoned by the Catholic Church to clarify doctrine and address reform in response to the challenges raised by the Protestant Reformation.
The Council of Trent
The Thirty Years War
The Age of Pericles(460 BC-429 BC)
The Peace of Augsburg
50. 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
Mali
Cardinal Richelieu
Causes of the French Revolution
The Assyrians