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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. Russian tsar. He enthusiastically introduced Western languages - culture - and technologies to the Russian elite - moving the capital from Moscow to the new city of St. Petersburg. (p. 552)
Contributions of the Greeks
The Hittites
Athens
Peter the Great
2. 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)
Roman Military Strategy
Ashikaga Shogunate
Karl Marx
African Savana
3. Began with the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It emphasized the Holy Bible as the word of God.
The Continental System
Greek Individualism
The Rise of Christianity
Romanesque
4. Prompted by Louis Philippe giving up his throne - this was a new era of liberalism in France. Measures enacted included freeing slaves - granting all males the right to vote - abolishing capital punishment - the establishment of national workshops -
The French Republic
The Peace of Augsburg
The Lord of the Manor
The Babalonians
5. An extremely dry area with little water and few plants
Ninety Theses
Ceasar
African Desert
The Reconquista
6. The term for The Univeral Soul in Hinduism.
Brahman
The Code of Napoleon
African Desert
Voltaire
7. Large powerful kingdom in East/Central africa. Controlled and taxed trade between the interior and coastal regions - Organized the flow of gold - ivory - slaves - forged alliances w/ local rulers & profited immensely from these transactions.
Ninety Theses
The House of Lords
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
The Continental System
8. 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 French Religious Wars
The Mongols
Seljiks
The Reconquista
9. 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.
The Ottoman Empire
African Culture
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
The Dark Ages
10. Political leaders after the death of Muhammad
Arab Caliphs
Sparta
The Communist Manifesto
Oliver Cromwell
11. Made up of art and culture - music/dance - storytelling and very Religious
The Dark Ages
The House of Lancaster
African Culture
Ninety Theses
12. Democracy - Drama - Art - Architecture - Philosophy - Sculpting - Performing Arts - Philosphical Schools - Scientific Method.
The Anasazi Culture
Contributions of the Greeks
English Common Law
Songhai
13. 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 Babalonians
Islamic Government and Religion
The French Religious Wars
Realism (Plato)
14. Developed their own language - a sophisticated systemof writing - literature and poetry - with great emphasis on a love of nature - beauty - and good manners.
Militant Socialism
Early Japanese Culture
The Holy Roman Empire
The Battle of Hastings
15. 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 Huguenots
The Counter Reformation
Swahili
Henry IV
16. Constituted of a mixed government including consuls - a senate - tribune - assembly of the tribes - ...
Arab Caliphs
The Roman Government
The Continental System
Agarian
17. An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds
Peter the Great
The Congress of Verona
Constanople
Hieroglyphics
18. The conqueror who united the peoples of Greece - Egypt - Persia and Indus River Valley into an empire by conquering them.
The Code of Napoleon
Seljiks
Alexandar the Great
English Parliment
19. The Hitties - the Assyrians - Chaldeans - and the Phoenicians. Centralized Government and advancements in algebra and geometry.
The English Civil War
The Congress of Vienna
African Savana
The Babalonians
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 Communist Manifesto
Neoclassicism
Louis XIV
Militant Socialism
21. The French version of the American Declaration
St. Augustine
Absolutionism
Calvinism
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
22. The name given to Medieval Europe due to its lack of cultural - societal - intellectual - political and economic progress
The Dark Ages
Ashikaga Shogunate
The Scientific Revolution
The Holy Roman Empire
23. A kingdom of the West African rain forest
Benin
Calvinism
The Glorious Revolution
English Parliment
24. 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
James I
The Israelites
Roman Military Strategy
Constantine
25. A catalyst in the collapse of the Greek city - state alliance.
Abbassides
Norman Conquest
Greek Individualism
The Franks
26. A center for civilizations which flourished in the 2nd and 3rd millenniums BC
Aegan
Decentralization of the Germanic States
The Chaldeans
The Israelites
27. The rise of Islam
The law of Primogeniture
The Muslim Empire
Class Division
The Franks
28. 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
Dorians
The Chaldeans
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Umayyad
29. 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
Norman Conquest
Islamic Government and Religion
The Summarians
The Ottoman Empire
30. 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.
Henry IV
The Manchus
Paul the Apostle
Mississippian Culture
31. Last of the mound - building cultures of North America; flourished between 800 and 1300 C.E.; featured large towns and ceremonial centers; lacked stone architecture of Central America.
The Palace of Versailles
Mississippian Culture
Elizabeth I
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
32. 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
Peter the Great
Oliver Cromwell
The Rise of Christianity
The English Civil War
33. 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 Middle Ages
The House of Lancaster
The Muslim Empire
Proletariats
34. Individual conviction of ones belief - The effeciency and organization of the the early church - Doctrines that stressed equality and immorality. The establishment of the Pope.
Mississippian Culture
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
African Rivers
The Lydians
35. Comprised the Tigris & Euphrates Valley - the Fertile Crescent - and The Nile Valley. They had the first system of independent states and writing. Architectural achievements are the ziggurat & pyramid. the first codification of law. the first lasting
Marco Polo
The Near East
Islamic Civilization
The Romanov Dynasty
36. 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
Calvinism
Ming Dynasty
The Peace of Augsburg
The Scientific Revolution
37. A flat - dry grassland with trees and bushes
Paul the Apostle
Karl Marx
African Savana
Commercial Revival
38. 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
Islamic Civilization
The Peace of Westphalia
Hugh Capet
Hieroglyphics
39. Was divided into the patricians (propertied class) - plebeians (main body of Roman citizens) - and slaves.
Roman Society
Martin Luther
Mughuls
Machiavelli
40. First Bourbon king - most important kings in French history - rise to power ended French Civil Wars - gradual course to absolutism - politique - converted to Catholicism to gain loyalty of Paris
Henry IV
The Muslim Empire
The Commonwealth Period
Islamic Government and Religion
41. 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.
Commercial Revival
Contributions of the Greeks
English Parliment
Shinto Religion
42. River that provided for the needs of Ancient Egyptians and made their great civilization possible. Agriculture was the bases of the Egyptian Society.
Martin Luther
The Nile
The English Civil War
Islamic Civilization
43. 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
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
Byzantine Empire
Charles I
Shinto Religion
44. 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 Persians
The Continental System
Bourgeoisie
Egyptian History
45. The imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279
Sung Dynasty
The House of Lancaster
The Muslim Empire
Greece
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
The Romanov Dynasty
Byzantine Empire Decline
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
The Puritan Revolution
47. Flourishing trade - medical encyclopedia - library - Algebra - spices - silks - perfumes - porcelain - textile goods
Byzantine Empire Decline
Baroque Style
Islamic Culture
The French Religious Wars
48. 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 law of Primogeniture
The Crusades
Seljiks
49. Gave all property to the eldest son. Led many younger sons of the gentry to seek their fortunes in exploration and colonization.
The Early Middle Ages
The Roman Government
The Act of Supremacy
The law of Primogeniture
50. Created during kamakura era - In theory: Emperor's military chief of staff - In reality: Actual ruler of Japan
The Shogun
Islamic Culture
The Act of Supremacy
The Holy Roman Empire
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