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CSET Multiple Subject Subtest 1: World History
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1. First known kingdom in sub - Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E. Also the modern West African country once known as the Gold Coast.
Ghana
The House of Lords
Ceasar
Thomas Malthus
2. Was divided into the patricians (propertied class) - plebeians (main body of Roman citizens) - and slaves.
Ashikaga Shogunate
Roman Society
Kublai Khan
Minoan Civilization
3. 17th century Europe - elaborate and detailed artwork - drama - tension - exuberance - and grandeur in sculpture - painting - literature - and music
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
The Code of Napoleon
Kublai Khan
Baroque Style
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 Dark Ages
The French Republic
Mali
Mughuls
5. A city established as the new eastern capital of the roman empire by the emperor constantine in a.d. 330 that is now called istanbul
Ceasar
Henry IV
Frederick Barbarossa
Constanople
6. The middle class - including merchants - industrialists - and professional people
Bourgeoisie
The Rise of Christianity
The Jesuits
The Continental System
7. 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
Egyptian Religion
The House of Lancaster
Scholasticism
Napoleon Bonepart
8. Te monotheistic religion of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran
Kush
Islam
Arab Caliphs
Seljiks
9. Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China
The Middle Ages
Kublai Khan
The Chaldeans
The Egyptians
10. First emperor of the Roman Empire. Julius Caesar's grand - nephew.
Thomas Malthus
The Middle Ages
The Reconquista
Augustus
11. The system of ethics - education - and statesmanship taught by Confucius and his disciples - stressing love for humanity - ancestor worship - reverence for parents - and harmony in thought and conduct.
Confucianism
Paul the Apostle
Tang Dynasty
Byzantine Empire Success
12. A catalyst in the collapse of the Greek city - state alliance.
The Anasazi Culture
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Greek Individualism
Byzantine Empire
13. 16th century religious movement led by Martin Luther that sought to reform the Roman Catholic Church and led to the formation of Protestantism
The Israelites
The Huguenots
The Protestant Reformation
Contributions of the Greeks
14. 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
Fuedal System
Confucius
Seljiks
15. English military - political - and religious figure who led the Parliamentarian victory in the English Civil War (1642-1649) and called for the execution of Charles I. As lord protector of England (1653-1658) he ruled as a virtual dictator.
Oliver Cromwell
Ceasar
Hugh Capet
The Lord of the Manor
16. Establishe a civiliztion in the Nile Valley.
Islamic Civilization
The Hopewell People
The Egyptians
Calvinism
17. 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.
Roman Contributions
Benin
Calvinism
Mohammad
18. This was the letter Martin Luther wrote to Archbishop Albert which explained that indulgences undermined the seriousness of the sacrament of penance.
Ninety Theses
Ashikaga Shogunate
Mali
The House of York
19. A system of philosophical and religious doctrines composed of elements of Platonism and Aristotelianism and oriental mysticism
Roman Military Strategy
Minoan Civilization
Neoplatonism
Absolutionism
20. Overthrew the Umayyad but one escaped
Baroque Style
Neoplatonism
The Scientific Revolution
Abbassides
21. 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 Continental System
Charles I
Akbar
Shinto Religion
22. The separation of people into different social groups like lower class - upper class. Clergy & nobility were the privileged class - peasants and artisans wer the work force and serfs were tied to the land.
Realism (Plato)
Scholasticism
The Samurai
Class Division
23. 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.'
The Continental System
Machiavelli
Egyptian Religion
Scholasticism
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.
Kush
Alexandar the Great
The Restoration Era
The Crusades
25. 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
Byzantine Empire Decline
The Roman Empire
The Viking Invasions
Hugh Capet
26. Creators of the Mesopotamia civiliztion. Large scale irrigation projects - advanced system of mathematics and the invention of the wheel.
The Summarians
The law of Primogeniture
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
Greek Individualism
27. One of the largest military fleets in the history of warfare which was sent to attack England in 1588. The smaller English fleet was able to defeat the armada by using its ease of maneuverability and ended Spain's domination of the Atlantic Ocean and
The Spanish Armada
The Phoenicians
The House of Lancaster
Dorians
28. 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 Commonwealth Period
Ghana
Mughuls
English Common Law
29. Among the most vigorous of the medieval emperors. Clashed with the pope over the appointment of the clergy. Known as 'the red beard' (r. 1152-1190). He attempted to conquer Lombardy (n. Italy) and unite the German princes - but the popes did not appr
The Peace of Westphalia
Frederick Barbarossa
Islamic Government and Religion
Kingdom of Zimbabwe
30. The restoration of the monarchy began in 1660 when the English - Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the wars of the 3 kingdoms. Stuart rule was restored.
The Restoration Era
Byzantine Empire
Egyptian Religion
Calvinism
31. Emperor of Rome who adopted the Christian faith and stopped the persecution of Christians (280-337)
Constantine
Swahili
The Intellectual Response to the Industrial Revolution
The Roman Government
32. 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.
Shinto Religion
Roman Contributions
The English Civil War
Ceasar
33. Military Genius of France - who later became a dictator and eventually overthrown. He sold the west land (Louisiana) to the United States for a very cheap price doubling the land of America.
The Battle of Hastings
Napoleon Bonepart
Machiavelli
Reasons for the Spread of Christianity
34. 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 French Republic
Egyptian Religion
Industrial Revolution
The Summarians
35. Made up of art and culture - music/dance - storytelling and very Religious
The Palace of Versailles
Frederick Barbarossa
African Culture
Realism (Plato)
36. Conquered the Mycenaeans - illiterate - cause the Dark Age of violence and instability
The Shogun
The Persians
Dorians
The Manchus
37. 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
Dorians
African Desert
Islamic Civilization
38. Wars which - in the century after the death of Muhammed in 632 - created an empire stretching from Spain to the Indus Valley.
Brahman
Greek Individualism
Ashikaga Shogunate
Arab Conquests
39. 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
The Mongols
The Hittites
Cardinal Richelieu
The Palace of Versailles
40. 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.
Charles I
Peter the Great
The Counter Reformation
The Early Middle Ages
41. 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
Machiavelli
The Near East
The Middle Ages
Aegan
42. Powerful city in Ancient Greece that was a leader in arts - sciences - philosophy - democracy and architecture.
Effect of the Reformation
Proletariats
Athens
Classical Art
43. 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
The Holy Roman Empire
The Renaissance
Norman Conquest
Byzantine Empire Success
44. 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 Heian Era
The Scientific Revolution
Manorialism
The House of Commons
45. Several have inland as well as coastal deltas - Nile flows northward . Niger - Nile - Congo - Zambezi And were important to Africa's economic history.
The Summarians
Sparta
The French Republic
African Rivers
46. 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
Elizabeth I
The Code of Napoleon
Ceasar
The Crusades
47. Athens vs Sparta - Sparta won but both were devastated unable to unite Greed city - states.
The Pelponnesian War
The Peace of Augsburg
The Mongols
Arab Conquests
48. The battle that took place in 1066 - in which William the Conqueror and Harold Godwinson fought for control of Normandy?
Turks
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
The Battle of Hastings
The Puritan Revolution
49. 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.
Nomadic
Marco Polo
Arab Conquests
The House of Commons
50. 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 French Religious Wars
The Samurai
St. Augustine
Scholasticism