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CSET World History
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1. Established a civilization in the Nile Valley (3000 B.C.) - Natural barriers (desert and sea) - as well as its isolation from other civilizations - greatly hindered foreign invaders; spared Egypt from the repeated political disruptions characteristic
Egypt
Muslim contributions
The accomplishments of the early Japanese
Role of the Church in the Early Middle Ages
2. Originated in India (1500 B.C.) as part of the teachings of Hinduism - Divided people into four distinct and inflexible social groups: priests and teachers; rulers and warriors; merchants and artisans; and peasants and servants (the lowest caste) - P
Nicolaus Copernicus
The caste system
The Lydians
Spartan way of life
3. 1760 - Improved production of iron
Alexander the Great
Coke smelting
Martin Luther's beliefs
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
4. Lineage was the basis of tribal organization - Religion - politics - and law became the focus of African culture - Art and sculpture were emphasized
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5. Refers to the absolute rule of monarchs with unlimited power - The theory of absolute monarchs and the divine right of kings (rule by God's will) - Evolved from the limited power of the ruling class during the Middle Ages to the Age of Absolutism in
Absolutism
The Renaissance
Minoan civilization
The conquest of Indigenous People of the Americas
6. Mathematician - physicist - and astronomer - The most influential scientist of the Enlightenment - Described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion - which dominated the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centurie
Islam in Africa
Coke smelting
Isaac Newton
The Carolingians
7. Works of Greeks and Romans reconnected Europeans with their ancient heritage
Hinduism
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
Renaissance
Enlightened despotism
8. Political outcomes: stability - leading lords emerged as kings - foundation for nation - states - Economic outcomes: self - sufficiency - foundation for urbanization - Productive surpluses and specialization of skills would lead to trade - Trade woul
The Roman Republic
Feudalism: outcomes
Ganges River
The Punic Wars with Carthage
9. The Muslim empire was ruled by Arab caliphs - Arabs conquered much of the Byzantine and Persian empires (including North Africa) and Spain - The Battle of Tours (A.D. 732) resulted in the Franks halting Muslim expansion in Europe - Muslim Spain laste
The Early Middle Ages
Arabs
Islam in Africa
Egypt
10. A failed French attempt to close the continent to British trade in hopes of destroying the British economy
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11. Developed strong governments - Benin grew wealthy and powerful until European contact threatened society - Slave trade produced wealth for the cities and the expansion of the slave trade extended into Africa's interior - Trade - taxes - and a powerfu
The forest states
Constantine
Islamic civilization: government and religion
Grooved rollers
12. Assumed leadership of the Muslim world - The Seljuks fought with the crusaders and regained lost land - Mongols invaded the eastern Muslim Empire - The Ottoman Empire expanded territory and lasted for many centuries - Constantinople was the center of
Early Japanese civilization
Hindus
The feudal system
Turk Dominance
13. The rise of feudal monarchs resulted in the development of the nation - states of France - By the early 13th century - royal authority had expanded and France had become a European power - Conflicts with the pope over the extent of religious rule res
France during the later Middle Ages
India: developments
American Indian culture
The intellectual response to the Industrial Revolution
14. Urban culture - Planned cities (i.e. citywide sanitation systems) - Metallurgy (gold - copper - bronze - tin) - Measurement (weight - time - length - mass)
Rallying cry of the French Revolution
Grooved rollers
The French Revolution
India: developments
15. Science: methodology - theory and experimentation - astrolabe (astronomical instrument used to locate and predict the positions of the sun - moon - planet and stars) - alchemy - Technology: mechanical clocks - pointed arch - stained glass - windmill
Mesopotamian civilizations
Background to the French Revolution
Zoroastrianism
Muslim contributions - Science and technology
16. The medieval political unity of Europe was replaced by the spirit of modern nationalism - The authority of the state was strengthened - The middle class was strengthened - Calvinism gave capitalism its psychological base - Religious wars reflected th
Iona
Mesopotamia
The topography of Africa
Effects of the Reformation
17. (A.D. 747-768) a Carolingian ruler appointed by the pope as king and established the Papal States on former Byzantine lands
Islamic civilization: trade and cultural expansion
Philosophy influenced by the Age of Reason
The Age of Reason/Enlightenment
Pepin the Short
18. 20000-30000 years ago - during the last Ice Age - the first humans crossed over the Bering Sea land bridge into the Americas - As they migrated southward - they inhabited the hemisphere from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego - Their widespread dispersion le
Origins of people in America
The Age of Reason/Enlightenment
Laissez faire
Spartan way of life
19. Mesopotamia (Tigris and Euphrates rivers; southwest Asia/modern - day Iraq) - floods were unpredictable and destructive; flat plains invited invasion - Egypt (banks of Nile River - Mediterranean and Red Seas; Northeastern Africa) - India (Indus and G
Background to the French Revolution
Paleolithic or Old Stone Age
The East African Coast
River Valley Civilizations
20. (1848) - Written by Marx and Friedrich Engels - advanced the theories of modern scientific socialism
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21. Immediate cause: continuous barbaric invasion - Internal factors included political instability - decreasing farm production - inflation - excessive taxation - and the decline of the military - including the use of mercenaries - The rise of Christian
The Fall of Rome
Origins of people in America
Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
Social Darwinism and Capitalism
22. Wrote the 'Wealth of Nations' (1776) and advocated manufacturing as the true source of a nation's wealth (the laws of the market place and not government regulations dictate national economies); considered the father of modern economics
Mycenaean civilization
The ancient Near East: geography
Adam Smith
The Viking (Norse) invaders
23. Capitalism was regarded as the 'natural environment' in which 'survival of the fittest' could be tested - belief that some races were superior to others - that poverty indicated unfitness - and that a class - structured society was desirable
English Parliament
Renaissance
Egypt: developments
Social Darwinism and Capitalism
24. The Phoenicians - The Lydians - The Israelites
The feudal system
The Holy Roman Empire during the late Middle Ages
Smaller civilizations of the Near East
The Hellenistic Age
25. A collection of myths or stories - usually about the gods and their relationships to human beings; the study of myths
Reasons for the spread of Christianity (the Roman period)
England during the later Middle Ages
Mythology
Alexander the Great
26. Developed their own language and sophisticated system of writing - developed literature and poetry - developed the Shinto religion - placed great emphasis on a love of nature - beauty - and good manners
The Scientific Revolution
The accomplishments of the early Japanese
Indus River
Flying shuttle
27. Its geographic proximity to the Arabs - Slavs - and Seljuk Turks - all of whom were becoming more powerful - The loss of commercial dominance of the Italians - Religious controversy with the West and a subsequent split with the Roman Catholic Church
Athens and Sparta
The Scientific Revolution
Watt steam engine
Reasons for the decline of the Byzantine Empire
28. Also called enlightened absolutism - Grew out of the earlier absolutism of Louis XIV (France) and Peter the Great (Russia) - Advocated limited responsibility to God and church - A form of absolutism in which rulers were influenced by the Enlightenmen
England during the later Middle Ages
The Israelites
Enlightened despotism
The Fall of Rome
29. c. 1350-1600 - The revival of intellectualism - literature - philosophy - and artistic achievement - Spread westward and into northern Europe - Continued the road started in the Middle Ages that would lead to modern Europe
Power loom
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages
The Renaissance
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: education
30. Considered one of the world's major religions and has influenced religious - political - and social thought for over 4000 years - Originated in the Indus River Valley of India and primarily spread to and throughout southeast Asia
The feudal system
Background to the French Revolution
Hinduism
Spinning jenny
31. Geneva - Switzerland - The Doctrine of Predestination (God willed eternal damnation for some people and salvation for others) was central to Calvinistic belief - Rejection of all forms of worship and practice not traced to Biblical tradition
Literature and Philosophy during the rennaisance
Egypt: developments
The Lydians
John Calvin
32. International relations placed France against Europe. Napoleon won territory from the Holy Roman Empire and forced Spain to cede the Louisiana territory to France
The intellectual response to the Industrial Revolution
Spinning jenny
Napoleon and the First Empire: international relations
The Battle of Waterloo (1815)
33. 1200-400 B.C. - South - central Mexico - Developed one of the first civilizations in Mesoamerica - Developed an agricultural community - Developed the first calendar in America - Noted artwork in many media (jade - clay - basalt - and greenstone) - M
Absolutism
Egyptian civilization: significant aspects
Greece: geography
The Olmec
34. Muslims controlled India for centuries - Muslim invaders came into India in the 11th and 12th centuries and created kingdoms in the north - The Delhi Sultanate was the most powerful (1206-1526)
The Lydians
Spartan way of life
India under Muslim rule
Hinduism
35. Became a revolutionary anti - Catholic movement - Basis of 'Reformed Churches -' which spread throughout Europe; Calvinism made Protestantism an international movement
Modern influence of Magna Carta
Classical Greece
England during the later Middle Ages
Calvinism
36. Manor estates - Owned by lords - Peasant serfs given land to work in exchange for percentage of crop - Free peasants worked as skilled laborers - Dues and fees charged for tenancy - use of roads - bridges - etc.
China: developments
Feudalism: economic
The Early Middle Ages
Darwin
37. Genghis Khan united nomadic peoples and conquered China - Kublai Khan became emperor of China - Marco Polo - the Italian explorer - opened the door to trade with China and described the Mongol Empire.
The topography of Africa
Mongul rule in China
Spain and Portugal during the later Middle Ages
Absolutism
38. Complex religion of gods - rituals - and governance (pharaoh)- Writing (hieroglyphics) - Engineering and building (pyramids) - Mathematics
Role of the Church in the Early Middle Ages
Egypt: developments
The Incas
Constantinople
39. That each person is born into a caste or social group - Reincarnation: after death all people will be reborn in either human or animal form; nothing truly dies and the spirit in death passes from one living thing to another - The cow is considered sa
Charles Martel
Power loom
Contributions of the Greek World
Four key beliefs of Hindus
40. In 'On the Origin of Species' (1859) - theorized that evolution is a continuous process in which successful species adapt to their environment in order to survive
The Napoleonic Code
Darwin
Muslim contributions - Science and technology
The (Protestant) Reformation
41. Conquered much of Asia Minor and Northern Mesopotamia (2000-1200 B.C.) - A major contribution included the invention of iron smelting - which revolutionized warfare
Renaissance
Steamboat
The feudal system
The Hittites
42. Lasted five centuries - The Pax Romana (Roman peace) was two centuries without a major war (27 B.C.- A.D. 180) - By the end of the second century A.D. - Rome was in economic and political decline - which weakened the empire
Cleisthenes - Athens Leader
Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
The Roman Empire
The accomplishments of the early Japanese
43. Mathematician - astronomer - Believed God had created the world according to an intelligible plan and that man could understand this plan through application of reason -'Three laws of Planetary Motion'
Jesus of Nazareth
Turk Dominance
Johannes Kepler
Social Darwinism
44. Profits linked to the manufacturing of products - Private ownership of land - Freedom of choice - A competitive free - market system - Limited government restraints
Capitalism
Absolutism
The Aztecs
The Battle of Waterloo (1815)
45. The region that is now Mexico - Central America - and the western coast of South America
Ibn Battuta
Iona
Mesoamerica
Rome's political problems
46. Mainly composed of three regions: desert - savanna - and tropical rainforest - The Sahara desert dominates the continent (covers most of northern Africa) - Trade and commerce were connected to the geographical potential of the area - Large population
Classical Greece
The Scientific Revolution
Mesopotamia: developments
The topography of Africa
47. Ravaged by economic and political decline and repeated civil wars - Caesar was assassinated in 44 B.C. - Augustus became the first emperor of the Roman Empire (27 B.C.)
The conquest of Indigenous People of the Americas
The Phoenicians
The Roman Republic: decline
Martin Luther's beliefs
48. The center of Sumerian community life and served as a temple - storehouse - and treasury
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
River Valley Civilizations
The ziggurat
Spinning mule
49. Disease devastated native populations - Smallpox - measles - typhus - From Mexico - spread into the American southwest and southward toward the Andes - From 1520-1620 - 20 million dead - Conquest aided by weakening of native forces - Mass transfer of
Impact of Spanish Exploration and Conquest on Indigenous People of the Americas
The importance of city life in the Sung Empire
Mesoamerica
Mycenaean civilization
50. Began with the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth (compassion for the poor and downtrodden) - Emphasized the Holy Bible as the word of God - the sacraments as the instruments of God's grace - and the importance of a moral life for salvation
The Viking (Norse) invaders
Role of the Church in the Early Middle Ages
Christianity: basic doctrines
Greece: geography
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