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CSET World History
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1. 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
Early cultures in Mesoamerica
Key provisions of Magna Carta
River Valley Civilizations
Famous empires that grew in the West African savanna
2. The period of human culture that began around 10000 years ago in the Middle East and 4000 years ago later in other parts of the world. It is characterized by the beginning of farming - the domestication of animals - the development of crafts such as
The Viking (Norse) invaders
Early cultures in Mesoamerica
Constantine
Neolithic or New Stone Age
3. 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
The Counter Reformation
Confucius
John Calvin
Absolutism
4. Centers of Aegean civilization; depended on the Aegean Sea to develop and extend their culture - (c. 2000-1150 B.C.) developed heavily fortified cities and based prosperity on trade and warfare
The Franks
The Punic Wars with Carthage
Ganges River
Mycenaean civilization
5. Concrete - arch - roads (200000 miles of roads) - aqueducts and cisterns - monumental buildings (the Colosseum)
France during the later Middle Ages
Persian War
Roman contributions to the western world Engineering and architecture
Mesopotamian civilizations
6. Began with the death of Alexander the Great - 323-30 B.C. - Fusion of Greek and Eastern cultures - A time of great economic growth and expansion; an increase in international trade and commerce - Rise of cities; Rhodes - Alexandria - and Antioch repl
The Hellenistic Age
Early Japanese civilization
Mesopotamia: developments
Egypt: developments
7. 1792 - Made it possible to meet increased demand for cotton by mechanizing the process for separating seeds from cotton fiber
Cotton gin
The Ming and Manchu Dynasties
Reasons for the Reformation
Neolithic or New Stone Age
8. A traditional or legendary story - usually concerning some being or hero or event - with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation - especially one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice - rite -
Hinduism
Contributions of the Greek World
Myths
The Olmec
9. Mathematician - physicist - astronomer - With a telescope - provided the first observational evidence in support of Copernicus - Observed the phases of Venus; discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter; observed and analyzed sunspots - Was question
Indus River
Alfred the Great
Galileo Galilei
The ancient Near East: cultural contributions
10. 500 BC to the conquest of Greece by the Macedonian king Philip II in 338 BC; highpoint of greek civ - Sophic emphasis on the individual - revol of philosophy by Socrates - Plato's emphasis on ethics - Aristotle emphasis on observable reality - Herodo
Iona
Classical Greece
The accomplishments of the early Japanese
Arabs
11. The Ming (native Chinese) ousted the Mongols - Ming (1368-1644) rulers limited contact with the West - The Manchus (1644-1911) overran China and followed a policy of isolationism - weakening China
Cotton gin
Renaissance
Martin Luther's beliefs
The Ming and Manchu Dynasties
12. Pillaged the coasts of Europe in the 8th century - The Danes were responsible for the major invasions of England - In France - the Carolingian king was forced to cede Normandy to the Vikings
Calvinism
The Viking (Norse) invaders
Turk Dominance
Cleisthenes - Athens Leader
13. 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
The English Reformation
North American Indians
Feudalism: economic
The topography of Africa
14. His teachings influenced Chinese culture - Wanted to improve society - Taught that certain virtues are guidelines to happy life
Islam
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: architecture
Confucius
The Aztecs
15. Reflected the new secular trends - Humanism stressed the importance of the individual - Machiavelli's 'The Prince' stressed that 'the ends justify the means' as a political philosophy - The influence of the 'classical' arts was strong - and a new emp
Literature and Philosophy during the rennaisance
Muslim contributions
Social Darwinism and Capitalism
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: society
16. 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
The Punic Wars with Carthage
Enlightened despotism
India: developments
Mycenaean civilization
17. 146 B.C. After which Rome emerged as the dominant power in the Mediterranean - Rome incorporated Greek culture into its empire - Roman expansion resulted in a world republic
Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
The ancient Near East: geography
Roman contributions to the western world (greatest contribution)
The Punic Wars with Carthage
18. Class division of society - The decline of feudalism and manorialism - The commercial revival - Education - Philosophy - Architecture
Greece: geography
Zoroastrianism
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages
Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
19. An ethical religion - Of the Persians - based on concepts of good and evil
Martin Luther
Ancient Africans' advances in their societies and cultures
Zoroastrianism
Four key beliefs of Hindus
20. The creators of Mesopotamian civilization (3500-3000 B.C.) - Used Tigris and Euphrates rivers for trade and commerce - as well as areas surrounding the Persian Gulf - Material progress included large - scale irrigation projects - an advanced system o
The Sumerians
The Franks
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: feudalism/manorialism
The ancient Near East: cultural contributions
21. (Virgil's Aeneid - Ovid's Metamorphoses) - rhetoric (the art and study of the use of language with persuasive effect) - Continued the Greek tradition in literature - art - sculpture - and the humanities
Flying shuttle
Egypt
Roman contributions to the western world Culture: history - literature
Alexander the Great
22. A.D. 250-900 - Yucatan peninsula - Achieved a complex civilization - cities were trade and religious centers - excelled in many fields - including mathematics - science - astronomy - and engineering (pyramid building) - Only known written language of
The spread of the Renaissance throughout Europe
The conquest of Indigenous People of the Americas
The Mayas
English Parliament
23. In 1215 - King John was forced by the nobles to sing the Magna Carta - Limited the power of the king and increased the power of the nobles
The Magna Carta
Constantinople
The feudal system
The Kingdom of Zimbabwe
24. 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'
The Roman Republic: decline
China: developments
Christianity: basic doctrines
Johannes Kepler
25. 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
Feudalism: economic
Napoleon and the First Empire
Feudalism: outcomes
Constantinople
26. Influenced its history - Japanese culture reflects a reverence for nature - Mountains - forests - and coastal areas determined cultural growth
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27. Hierarchical and interdependent - Church - Lords/nobles - Vassals/lesser lords - Knights - Peasants (free and serfs) - Grants of land given by lords in exchange for oaths of loyalty - Private armies of vassals and their knights protected lords and th
Feudalism: political
Manorialism
Ottoman Empire
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
28. The agricultural organization and economic foundation of feudalism
Manorialism
Capitalism
Enlightened despotism
Charles Martel
29. The Reconquista reestablished Christian control over Muslim Spain in 1492 - Portugal in 1250 - The Spanish state was marked by strong - absolutist rule - The monarch instituted inquisitions and also expelled the Jews
Myths
The Lydians
Galileo Galilei
Spain and Portugal during the later Middle Ages
30. Salvation through faith rather than sacraments - 'Ninety - five Theses' served as a catalyst in starting the Reformation - Luther's excommunication initiated the Reformation; Lutheranism developed its own following - Lutheranism decentralized religio
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31. Egyptian life was dominated by concerns for the afterlife - religion - and the pharaoh - Medical advances and specialized surgery were major contributions - The Egyptians invented a hieroglyphic writing system - Commerce flourished throughout Arabia
The Lydians
Egypt
The topography of Africa
Egyptian civilization: significant aspects
32. Christianity and church dogma were questioned
Greece: geography
Paleolithic or Old Stone Age
Philosophy influenced by the Age of Reason
Paul of Tarsus (Paul the Apostle)
33. 1783 - Allowed iron - makers to roll out iron into different shapes
Myths
Feudalism: political
Water frame
Grooved rollers
34. 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
The Franks
The conquest of Indigenous People of the Americas
Egypt
Ibn Battuta
35. 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
Mesopotamia: developments
The Roman Republic
Turk Dominance
Alexander the Great
36. Lived and worked under Muslim rule - Most were self - sufficient farmers - The caste system dominated their life
Steamboat
Hindus
'The Communist Manifesto'
Turk Dominance
37. The Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads
Hinduism
Laissez faire
Division of the Muslim Empire
Roman contributions to the western world Engineering and architecture
38. 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
Adam Smith
Japan's geography
India: developments
England during the later Middle Ages
39. Renaissance secularism created tension between princely kingdoms and the authority of the Church - There also emerged within the Church questions about its worldly rather than spiritual interest in acquiring power and wealth - This internal struggle
The Phoenicians
Development of feudalism and a samurai warrior - class
The (Protestant) Reformation
Islamic civilization: government and religion
40. Warrior nation; created an empire based on military superiority - conquest - and terrorism (911-550 B.C.) - Empire origniated in the highland region of the upper Tigris River but grew to encompass the entire area of the Fertile Crescent - Military te
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
The Assyrians
Mongul rule in China
Athens and Sparta
41. Constitutionalism/importance of a written constitution - individual rights - due process of the law - concept of a representative government - taxation with representation - trial by jury - Would later be a significant influence on the American Const
Modern influence of Magna Carta
The Napoleonic Code
Hinduism
The topography of Africa
42. Rugged landscape of mountains and valleys - scattered islands led to the development of independent city - states (polis) rather than one unified empire - Scarcity of good agricultural land encouraged seafaring in eastern Greece - The southern mainla
Mythology
The (Protestant) Reformation
Greece: geography
Key provisions of Magna Carta
43. (A.D. 768-814) A Carolingian ruler - dominated the political structure of the early Middle Ages - crowned 'Emperor of the Romans' by Pope Leo in A.D. 800 and had a major impact on the history of Europe - revived the concept of the Holy Roman Empire a
The Later Middle Ages
North American Indians
Charlemagne
The Punic Wars with Carthage
44. The Sumerians - The Babylonians - The Hittites - The Assyrians - The Chaldeans - The Persians
Background to the French Revolution
Mesopotamian civilizations
American Indian culture
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
45. 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 Phoenicians
Hinduism
Rome's political problems
The Aztecs
46. Complex religion of gods - rituals - and governance (pharaoh)- Writing (hieroglyphics) - Engineering and building (pyramids) - Mathematics
John Calvin
Rome's political problems
Egypt: developments
The Assyrians
47. 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
Arabs
Historical interpretations of the Middle Ages
The Napoleonic Code
48. Writing (cuneiform) - Organized government - Written law code (Hammurabi's Code) - Systematized religion (Zoroastrianism) - Astronomy; astrology
Philosophy influenced by the Age of Reason
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia: developments
The Fall of Rome
49. Established the first kingdom in Palestine (c. 1030-1010 B.C.)
Calvinism
The Peloponnesian War
Persian War
Saul
50. The proper function of government was defined by ___________________. Their ideas led to the philosophical bases for the American and French revolutions.
The Olmec
The Israelites
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
The Napoleonic Code