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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. 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
Ghana
Humanism
The Battle of Hastings
Tokugawa Shogunate
2. 16th century religious movement led by Martin Luther that sought to reform the Roman Catholic Church and led to the formation of Protestantism
Proletariats
Constanople
The Protestant Reformation
Songhai
3. 2000-1200 B.C. conquered much of Asia Minor & northern Mesopotamia; a major contribution included the invention of iron smelting - which revolutionized warfare.
Dorians
The French Religious Wars
The French Republic
The Hittites
4. Ruled the manor. Had bailiffs to take care of day - to - day affairs.
Laisssez Faire
The Lord of the Manor
Causes of the French Revolution
Dorians
5. Religious pilgramages Improved farming methods - trade and commerce led to a high standard of living - Military expansion.
The Franks
Baroque Style
Oligarthy
Islamic Government and Religion
6. Establishe a civiliztion in the Nile Valley.
The Egyptians
Arab Conquests
The Commonwealth Period
The Lydians
7. 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.
The Roman Government
Louis XIV
Fuedal System
Neoplatonism
8. 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
Ziggurat
African Savana
The French Religious Wars
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
9. 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
Machiavelli
African Desert
Ionia
Causes of the French Revolution
10. The collection of Papal states directly under the control of the Pope. Included lands in Italy - Germany - France - Spain - and England.
Industrial Revolution
The Heian Era
The Holy Roman Empire
Byzantine Empire Success
11. Continuous barbaric invasion. Internal factors included political instability - decreasing farm production - inflation - excessive taxation - and the decline of the military. The rise of Christianity divided the Empire.
The Fall of Rome
Napoleon Bonepart
Ziggurat
Byzantine Empire Success
12. The middle class - including merchants - industrialists - and professional people
Machiavelli
Ming Dynasty
Abbassides
Bourgeoisie
13. 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 Assyrians
Commercial Revival
The Egyptians
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
14. 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.
Oligarthy
The Scientific Revolution
Sung Dynasty
French Revolution
15. European trade agreement with Africa dealing with slaves brought from Africa. Integral part of Triangle Trade between the Americas - Africa - and Europe.
Slave Trade
Swahili
The Rise of Christianity
The House of Commons
16. Wars which - in the century after the death of Muhammed in 632 - created an empire stretching from Spain to the Indus Valley.
Oligarthy
Arab Conquests
The Magna Carta
The Fall of Rome
17. 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
Fuedal Contract
The Counter Reformation
Ninety Theses
The Ottoman Empire
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
Manorialism
Ashikaga Shogunate
The Middle Ages
The French Religious Wars
19. 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 Battle of Hastings
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Mycenaean Civilization
20. The Vikings built fast ships where they would ship men and cargo from their land to charlemagnes empire to pilage and plunder.
Realism (Plato)
The Viking Invasions
Greek Individualism
Akbar
21. The rise of Islam
The Muslim Empire
Norman Conquest
The Palace of Versailles
Byzantine Empire Decline
22. 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.
Norman Conquest
Sung Dynasty
The Early Middle Ages
Romanesque
23. 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.
Absolutionism
Hieroglyphics
The Peace of Westphalia
Mohammad
24. 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
Islamic Culture
Charlemagne
Decentralization of the Germanic States
Elizabeth I
25. Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China
The Fall of Rome
Paul the Apostle
Genghis Khan
Kublai Khan
26. Several have inland as well as coastal deltas - Nile flows northward . Niger - Nile - Congo - Zambezi And were important to Africa's economic history.
Martin Luther
The Viking Invasions
African Rivers
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
27. Created an empire based on military superiority - conquest - and terrorism (911-550 B.C.) - Military techniques included siege warfare - intimidation - and the use of iron weapons. Created a centralized government - a postal service - an extensive li
Kamakura Shogunate
The Assyrians
The Phoenicians
Shinto Religion
28. Characterized by moving about from place to place as nomads
The Counter Reformation
Nomadic
Ionia
Slave Trade
29. 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
Constanople
Slave Trade
The Thirty Years War
Norman Conquest
30. 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
Roman Contributions
The Muslim Empire
Frederick Barbarossa
31. An extremely dry area with little water and few plants
The Protestant Reformation
African Desert
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
Martin Luther
32. 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 Viking Invasions
The Congress of Vienna
Peter the Great
Commercial Revival
33. The doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self - realization through reason
Machiavelli
The Near East
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Humanism
34. (1776-1834) Theorized that population growth would far outstrip food production
James I
Thomas Malthus
Neoclassicism
The Ottoman Empire
35. 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 Scientific Revolution
Peter the Great
African Desert
The Fall of Rome
36. 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
The Middle Ages
Arab Conquests
Charles I
The War of the Roses
37. Greek city - state that was ruled by an oligarchy - focused on military - used slaves for agriculture - discouraged the arts. Developed a totalitarian and militaristic state dependent on slave labor.
The French Republic
The Palace of Versailles
Contributions of the Greeks
Sparta
38. 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.
The Renaissance
Aegan
Mohammad
Decentralization of the Germanic States
39. First emperor of the Roman Empire. Julius Caesar's grand - nephew.
The Commonwealth Period
Augustus
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
Elizabeth I
40. Reality consists of ideas that exist in the mind - independant of sensory powers of perception.
Hieroglyphics
Commercial Revival
Realism (Plato)
The Counter Reformation
41. 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 Age of Pericles(460 BC-429 BC)
The Glorious Revolution
The Puritan Revolution
The French Religious Wars
42. 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.
Proletariats
The Jesuits
Ninety Theses
The Palace of Versailles
43. 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.
The Peace of Westphalia
Egyptian Religion
Romanesque
Martin Luther
44. French philosopher and writer whose works epitomize the Age of Enlightenment - often attacking injustice and intolerance
Voltaire
The Nile
Napoleon Bonepart
Calvinism
45. 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 Common Law
African Rivers
Frederick Barbarossa
46. Religious movement founded by John Calvin - based on the doctrine of predestination.
Marco Polo
Ceasar
Calvinism
African Culture
47. Oliver Cromwell ruled as a dictator and abolished the monarchy and the House of Lords.
The Commonwealth Period
The Code of Napoleon
The War of the Roses
The Age of Enlightenment
48. 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.
Constantine
The War of the Roses
Mohammad
The Palace of Versailles
49. 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
Result Of the Industrial Revolution
Charlemagne
Hieroglyphics
Byzantine Empire Decline
50. A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula
The Assyrians
Greece
Roman Society
Kingdom of Zimbabwe