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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. Clan of Quraysh that dominated politics and commercial economy of Mecca; clan later able to establish dynasty as rulers of Islam
Mughuls
Akbar
Umayyad
The Spanish Armada
2. Several have inland as well as coastal deltas - Nile flows northward . Niger - Nile - Congo - Zambezi And were important to Africa's economic history.
Constantine
The Protestant Reformation
African Rivers
The Peace of Westphalia
3. European trade agreement with Africa dealing with slaves brought from Africa. Integral part of Triangle Trade between the Americas - Africa - and Europe.
Sung Dynasty
Slave Trade
Ceasar
Mali
4. 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
Minoan Civilization
Islamic Civilization
The Franks
The Thirty Years War
5. The Hitties - the Assyrians - Chaldeans - and the Phoenicians. Centralized Government and advancements in algebra and geometry.
Islam
Oligarthy
Oliver Cromwell
The Babalonians
6. 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:
Classical Art
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
The Congress of Verona
The Summarians
7. Conquered the Mycenaeans - illiterate - cause the Dark Age of violence and instability
The Age of Pericles(460 BC-429 BC)
Dorians
The House of Commons
Paul the Apostle
8. 2000-1200 B.C. conquered much of Asia Minor & northern Mesopotamia; a major contribution included the invention of iron smelting - which revolutionized warfare.
The Hittites
African Desert
The Peace of Westphalia
The Glorious Revolution
9. Crused by the House of Lancaster
African Savana
Tokugawa Shogunate
The House of York
Islamic Civilization
10. 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
The Thirty Years War
The Lydians
The Scientific Revolution
Commercial Revival
11. Elected consul of rome in 59 bc. Genius with military strategy. Governed as an absolute ruler. Was assassinated in the senate chamber.
The Continental System
Brahman
Oligarthy
Ceasar
12. 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
Islam
The Act of Supremacy
Proletariats
The Hopewell People
13. 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 Commonwealth Period
Cardinal Richelieu
The Council of Trent
Marco Polo
14. 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
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
The Romanov Dynasty
The Scientific Revolution
Classical Art
15. Political leaders after the death of Muhammad
Mongols
Arab Caliphs
The Anasazi Culture
Alexandar the Great
16. 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.
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
The Summarians
The Congress of Verona
Egyptian Religion
17. 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 Continental System
Brahman
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Benin
18. Created during kamakura era - In theory: Emperor's military chief of staff - In reality: Actual ruler of Japan
Early Japanese Culture
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
The Shogun
Byzantine Empire Decline
19. King of France from 1643 to 1715; his long reign was marked by the expansion of French influence in Europe and by the magnificence of his court and the Palace of Versailles (1638-1715)
Louis XIV
English Parliment
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
Gothic Revival
20. Concerning farms - farmers - or agriculture and the use of land.
Realism (Plato)
Frederick Barbarossa
Agarian
Contributions of the Greeks
21. 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.
The Franks
The Counter Reformation
Mughuls
The French Religious Wars
22. The French version of the American Declaration
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
The Jesuits
The Thirty Years War
The Holy Roman Empire
23. 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
Nomadic
The Renaissance
The Heian Era
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
24. 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.
Class Division
The Phoenicians
Roman Contributions
The Roman Empire
25. Ruled the manor. Had bailiffs to take care of day - to - day affairs.
Commercial Revival
The Renaissance
The Lord of the Manor
Greek Individualism
26. The collapse of Rome and sweeping advances of Germanic and Viking raiders - Europe entered a time of chaotic political - economic - and urban decline A struggle back toward stability.
The Early Middle Ages
The Summarians
The Hundred Years War
Fuedal System
27. 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.
Arab Caliphs
Mycenaean Civilization
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
The Thirty Years War
28. 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
Byzantine Empire Success
Songhai
The French Religious Wars
The law of Primogeniture
29. 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.
The Act of Supremacy
Absolutionism
Tang Dynasty
Mongols
30. 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 Early Middle Ages
The Protestant Reformation
Mycenaean Civilization
31. The invasion and settlement of England by the Normans following the Battle of Hastings (1066)
Ziggurat
The Continental System
The law of Primogeniture
Norman Conquest
32. An extremely dry area with little water and few plants
The Franks
African Desert
The Anasazi Culture
Classical Art
33. 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
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
The English Civil War
Neoclassicism
The Counter Reformation
34. Western name for the Chinese philosopher Kongzi (551-479 B.C.E.). His doctrine of duty and public service had a great influence on subsequent Chinese thought and served as a code of conduct for government officials.
Mali
Confucius
The Scientific Revolution
Islamic Culture
35. The Heian Era commenced in 794 - and was a time when Japan gradually stopped imitating China - developing into a distinct new culture. The new culture mixed both Chinese and Japanese cultures - combining the faiths of China - Shintoism - and Buddhism
The Puritan Revolution
The Heian Era
Charlemagne
Machiavelli
36. The most of the power lies on the shoulders of the House of the Commons. The Commons is elected by the people. The commons grant money - and is the law- making body in the british government.The commons pick the Prime Minister.
Confucianism
The Anasazi Culture
The House of Commons
Dorians
37. A more militaristic civilization then Minoans - they traded and raided - turning on their Minoan teachers - helping to destroy Crete.
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
Roman Society
Causes of the French Revolution
Mycenaean Civilization
38. A government in which power is in the hands of a few people -- especially one in which rule is based upon wealth.
Causes of the French Revolution
The Act of Supremacy
The Hundred Years War
Oligarthy
39. Overthrew the Umayyad but one escaped
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
Ceasar
Abbassides
The Dark Ages
40. The change from an agricultural to an industrial society and from home manufacturing to factory production - especially the one that took place in England from about 1750 to about 1850.
The Ottoman Empire
Arab Conquests
Industrial Revolution
The Anasazi Culture
41. The collection of Papal states directly under the control of the Pope. Included lands in Italy - Germany - France - Spain - and England.
Agarian
Swahili
The Holy Roman Empire
Genghis Khan
42. A system of philosophical and religious doctrines composed of elements of Platonism and Aristotelianism and oriental mysticism
Neoplatonism
Ashikaga Shogunate
The Counter Reformation
The Anasazi Culture
43. 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 War of the Roses
Minoan Civilization
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
Ashikaga Shogunate
44. A kingdom of the West African rain forest
Arab Caliphs
Tang Dynasty
The Code of Hammurabi
Benin
45. 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
Commercial Revival
The Code of Napoleon
The Peace of Augsburg
Cardinal Richelieu
46. The first religion of Japan - 'The way of the Gods.' Shinto celebrates the mysteries and unforeseen forces of nature. Animistic. According to Shinto beliefs - divine spirits called kami are associated with the awesome forces of nature - such as rushi
The Chaldeans
The Peace of Westphalia
The Hittites
Shinto Religion
47. This was a war between France and England between 1346 and 1453. It was fought over land in France that each wanted to control. The British began strongly - but with the help of Joan of Arc - the French rallied and eventually beat England. Two famous
Voltaire
The Hundred Years War
Kublai Khan
The Egyptians
48. Dynasty often referred to as China's Golden age that reigned during 618 - 907 AD; China expands from Vietnam to Manchuria
Tang Dynasty
Machiavelli
Umayyad
Fuedal System
49. 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
Commercial Revival
Confucius
Mycenaean Civilization
50. 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.
The Jesuits
Romanesque
The War of the Roses
Arab Caliphs