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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. 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
Contributions of the Greeks
Greek Individualism
The Code of Napoleon
Roman Military Strategy
2. 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
Genghis Khan
Turks
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
The Early Middle Ages
3. 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
Byzantine Empire
The English Civil War
The Samurai
Ceasar
4. The battle that took place in 1066 - in which William the Conqueror and Harold Godwinson fought for control of Normandy?
Neoplatonism
The Battle of Hastings
The Congress of Verona
The Heian Era
5. Political leaders after the death of Muhammad
Arab Caliphs
The Persians
The Restoration Era
Industrial Revolution
6. Creators of the Mesopotamia civiliztion. Large scale irrigation projects - advanced system of mathematics and the invention of the wheel.
The Phoenicians
Louis XIV
The Summarians
The Reconquista
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
Commercial Revival
Ionia
Byzantine Empire Decline
Bourgeoisie
8. 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 Pelponnesian War
English Common Law
Realism (Plato)
The Holy Roman Empire
9. 1822 ended the congress system & allowed European powers to be guided by self - interest.
Martin Luther
Humanism
The Persians
The Congress of Verona
10. Political system in which a ruler holds total power. The ruler has total control and final say over their people.
Absolutionism
The Ottoman Empire
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
Paul the Apostle
11. A center for civilizations which flourished in the 2nd and 3rd millenniums BC
Swahili
Turks
Aegan
Decentralization of the Germanic States
12. Members of the Society of Jesus which became most well known for their work in education of Catholics in Europe. They were devoted to preaching - educating the young - fighting against heresy - serving the Pope - and caring for the needy.
English Parliment
Augustus
The Jesuits
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
13. Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa from the thirteenth to fifteenth century. It was famous for its role in the trans - Saharan gold trade.
Mali
Thomas Malthus
The Muslim Empire
Byzantine Empire
14. 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
Arab Caliphs
Charles I
The Middle Ages
African Culture
15. A philosophical and theological system - associated with Thomas Aquinas - devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century. (p. 408)
Calvinism
The Fall of Rome
Scholasticism
Brahman
16. 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)
Karl Marx
The Phoenicians
Fuedal Contract
Rift Valley
17. The art of ancient Greece and Rome - in which harmony - order - and proportion were emphasized
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Proletariats
Roman Military Strategy
Classical Art
18. Religious movement founded by John Calvin - based on the doctrine of predestination.
Cardinal Richelieu
The Middle Ages
Calvinism
Industrial Revolution
19. Oliver Cromwell ruled as a dictator and abolished the monarchy and the House of Lords.
The Commonwealth Period
Minoan Civilization
The French Republic
Tribal Organization
20. Revival of a classical style in art or literature or architecture or music but from a new perspective or with a new motivation
The House of York
Neoclassicism
Mongols
Agarian
21. Forceful seizure of governmental power
Roman Military Strategy
Fuedal Contract
Militant Socialism
Islamic Culture
22. A catalyst in the collapse of the Greek city - state alliance.
Greek Individualism
Napoleon Bonepart
The Roman Empire
Brahman
23. Characterized by moving about from place to place as nomads
Nomadic
Paul the Apostle
Martin Luther
The War of the Roses
24. 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.
Tang Dynasty
Ziggurat
The Scientific Revolution
Kush
25. Concerning farms - farmers - or agriculture and the use of land.
Greece
Tang Dynasty
Agarian
Absolutionism
26. 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
James I
Agarian
The Egyptians
The Early Middle Ages
27. The legaslative body of england (lawmaking) - two houses: house of lords and house of commons
The House of York
English Parliment
Alexandar the Great
Thomas Malthus
28. 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
The Magna Carta
The Shogun
Hugh Capet
29. 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.
Kush
Hieroglyphics
The Romanov Dynasty
Marco Polo
30. DominateTurkish group control caliphate
The Assyrians
Seljiks
Bourgeoisie
The French Republic
31. 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 Glorious Revolution
The Phoenicians
The Huguenots
African Culture
32. 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 Council of Trent
The Protestant Reformation
Proletariats
African Rivers
33. 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.
The Counter Reformation
The War of the Roses
Contributions of the Greeks
Shinto Religion
34. A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians and was the center of community life.
Effect of the Reformation
The Renaissance
Charlemagne
Ziggurat
35. 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)
Akbar
The Thirty Years War
The Franks
Swahili
36. 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.
Laisssez Faire
Ionia
The Reconquista
Kamakura Shogunate
37. 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 House of Lancaster
The Babalonians
Turks
Shinto Religion
38. This was the letter Martin Luther wrote to Archbishop Albert which explained that indulgences undermined the seriousness of the sacrament of penance.
The Muslim Empire
Egyptian Religion
Ninety Theses
Hugh Capet
39. Ruled the manor. Had bailiffs to take care of day - to - day affairs.
Islamic Civilization
Romanesque
The Lord of the Manor
Augustus
40. 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
The Counter Reformation
Romanesque
Elizabeth I
Rift Valley
41. The rise of Islam
The Muslim Empire
The Israelites
Byzantine Empire Success
The Council of Trent
42. Reality consists of ideas that exist in the mind - independant of sensory powers of perception.
The Romanov Dynasty
Realism (Plato)
Laisssez Faire
The Lord of the Manor
43. ...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 Viking Invasions
Ashikaga Shogunate
The House of Lords
The Palace of Versailles
44. 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.
Charles I
Greece
Commercial Revival
Rift Valley
45. 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
The Commonwealth Period
The Thirty Years War
Mongols
Byzantine Empire Success
46. 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.
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
The House of Lords
The Protestant Reformation
The Mongols
47. The imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279
The Congress of Vienna
Sung Dynasty
The Babalonians
The War of the Roses
48. 1830s movement in architecture when buildings in the Gothic (high medieval) style became popular. It was in this period that the British Parliament building was built. This was the architectural manifestation of Romanticism. Where the Enlightenment h
The Battle of Hastings
Gothic Revival
Abbassides
Arab Caliphs
49. A Bantu language with Arabic words spoken along the East African coast
Ziggurat
Mycenaean Civilization
Swahili
Constanople
50. Flourishing trade - medical encyclopedia - library - Algebra - spices - silks - perfumes - porcelain - textile goods
The Magna Carta
Norman Conquest
Islamic Culture
The Lydians
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