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CSET World History
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1. The first system of independent states - The first system of writing (cuneiform and hieroglyphics) - The first massive architectural achievements (ziggurat and pyramid) - The first lasting monotheism - The beginning of science - mathematics - and ast
Chinese civilization under the Sungs
The Sumerians
The ancient Near East: cultural contributions
Alfred the Great
2. The center of Sumerian community life and served as a temple - storehouse - and treasury
Islam in Africa
The ziggurat
Chinese civilization under the Sungs
General characteristics of the Renaissance
3. Became the birthplace for the Hellenic civilization
Mesopotamia: developments
Contributions of the Greek World
Iona
Spinning jenny
4. The Hopewell people were skilled farmers and flourished in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys (200 B.C.- A.D. 400) - Mississippian culture developed in A.D. 800 and built large religious mound structures - The Anasazi culture (A.D. 800-1300) developed
Turk Dominance
North American Indians
Greece: geography
Philosophy influenced by the Age of Reason
5. 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
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: society
The Phoenicians
Rome's economic problems
6. Architecture was dominated by the Romanesque (11th -12th century) and Gothic (13th -15th century) styles
Steam locomotive
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: architecture
Paleolithic or Old Stone Age
Roman contributions to the western world (greatest contribution)
7. Profits linked to the manufacturing of products - Private ownership of land - Freedom of choice - A competitive free - market system - Limited government restraints
Ibn Battuta
The Roman Republic
Egypt
Capitalism
8. Replaced the Franks as legitimate rulers - The Carolingian Renaissance resulted in the establishment of a palace academy with a prescribed academic curriculum
The Carolingians
Mongul rule in China
Mesopotamia
India under Muslim rule
9. Occupied western Asia Minor (500s B.C.) - Their culture reached its zenith under King Croesus (Golden King) - Were responsible for the first coinage of money
The Age of Reason/Enlightenment
John Calvin
The Babylonians
The Lydians
10. Attempted to stem the tide - The empire split into the Western and Eastern Roman Empires - Barbarian invasions by Germanic and Asiatic tribes (the Goths - Vandals - and Huns) devastated Rome - and it fell in A.D. 476 - The Eastern Roman Empire at Con
Chinese civilization under the Sungs
Constantine
Saul
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: feudalism/manorialism
11. The Turkish empire - By the middle of the 16th century - the Ottomans controlled not only Turkey but most of southeastern Europe - the Crimea - Iran - and a majority of the Middle East
Results of the Industrial Revolution
Reasons for the decline of the Byzantine Empire
Ottoman Empire
The Renaissance
12. In eastern India - Sacred to Indians but was not the geographical river area that led to the development of Indian civilization - Associated with the rise of the Mauryan Empire in 322 B.C.
Christianity: basic doctrines
Ganges River
The Battle of Waterloo (1815)
Egypt
13. 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
Four key beliefs of Hindus
Adam Smith
Impact of Spanish Exploration and Conquest on Indigenous People of the Americas
The Sumerians
14. King Darius of Persia wanted to conquer all of the Greek city - states but Athens and Sparta resisted. Greek city - states vs. Persia - Greek city - states won. Athens emerged as most powerful city state in Greece.
Historical interpretations of the Middle Ages
Arabs
Persian War
Mesopotamia
15. 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
Napoleon and the First Empire
The Ming and Manchu Dynasties
The Carolingians
The Assyrians
16. A.D. 1200-1533 Northwest coastal region and inland region of South America (Peru) - Controlled a vast empire in South America - The Tiahuanaco culture developed in the Andes Mountains - unified an extensive empire - Developed a sophisticated record -
Development of the Renaissance
The Incas
Darwin
The Chaldeans
17. 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
Cotton gin
Adam Smith
Iona
Enlightened despotism
18. 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'
Muslim contributions
Johannes Kepler
The Peloponnesian War
The English Reformation
19. 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 Israelites
Arabs
The Fall of Rome
Neolithic or New Stone Age
20. International relations placed France against Europe. Napoleon won territory from the Holy Roman Empire and forced Spain to cede the Louisiana territory to France
Spartan way of life
Reasons for the spread of Christianity (the Roman period)
Napoleon and the First Empire: international relations
Islamic civilization: government and religion
21. 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
Islamic civilization: trade and cultural expansion
Modern influence of Magna Carta
The ziggurat
Cleisthenes - Athens Leader
22. Began in Italy during the 14th century - The Crusades focused attention eastward (on Greece and the Near East) - By the 14th century - the move toward secularization was predominant - Conflicts between the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire in the 13th
The Renaissance
The Later Middle Ages
The spread of the Renaissance throughout Europe
Development of the Renaissance
23. Aztecs conquered by Cortes in 1521 - Inca Empire conquered by Pizarro in 1513
The conquest of Indigenous People of the Americas
Key provisions of Magna Carta
Historical interpretations of the Middle Ages
The Early Middle Ages
24. The ancient Near East comprised the Tigris and Euphrates Valley - the Fertile Crescent - and the Nile Valley.
Origins of people in America
Power loom
The Hellenistic Age
The ancient Near East: geography
25. 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
Persian War
Alexander the Great
The topography of Africa
Isaac Newton
26. 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
Galileo Galilei
The topography of Africa
Turk Dominance
Feudalism: outcomes
27. Conquered Sumeria and established a new empire (2300-1750 B.C.) - The code of Hammurabi was the first universal written codification of laws in recorded history (c. 1750 B.C.) - Ahievements included a centralized government and advancements in algebr
Social Darwinism
Constantine
The Babylonians
Darwin
28. (Islamic scholar - A.D. 1305-1368) spread Islamic culture by traveling widely
The topography of Africa
Ibn Battuta
Alexander the Great
Napoleon and the First Empire: international relations
29. 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
Flying shuttle
The Hellenistic Age
The intellectual response to the Industrial Revolution
The Olmec
30. 1785 - Meant that factories were no longer dependent on water sources for power
Islam
Water frame
Watt steam engine
Hinduism
31. 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
Hindus
Steamboat
Hinduism
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: philosophy
32. Law - rule of law/equality before the law - civil and contract law codes
Manorialism
The East African Coast
Roman contributions to the western world (greatest contribution)
Cleisthenes - Athens Leader
33. 1779 - A power - driven machine that produced fine - strong yarn
Spinning mule
Background to the French Revolution
The Napoleonic Code
The Roman Empire
34. Writing - Commerce - Government
China: developments
Rome's economic problems
Isaac Newton
Manorialism
35. Greek language and cultural accomplishments preserved - Center for world trade and exchange of culture - It spread civilization to all of eastern Europe - Codification of Roman law ('Justinian Code') - It preserved the Eastern Church ('Greek Orthodox
The French Revolution
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
North American Indians
Paleolithic or Old Stone Age
36. 509-27 B.C. Started after Etruscan control was overthrown - Society was divided into the patricians (propertied class) - plebians (main body of Roman citizens) - and slaves - Government was based on consuls - the Senate - and the Centurial Assembly -
North American Indians
The Roman Republic
The Assyrians
Water frame
37. 1764 - Increased the speed and output of yarn spinners
Famous empires that grew in the West African savanna
Spinning jenny
Classical Greece
The East African Coast
38. An inequitable class structure - A disorganized legal system and no representative assembly - Enlightenment philosophy influenced the middle class - The bankruptcy of the French treasury was the immediate cause - The 'Declaration of the Rights of Man
Persian War
Galileo Galilei
Charles Martel
Background to the French Revolution
39. 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
Mesopotamia: developments
Steamboat
Greece: geography
Reasons for the spread of Christianity (the Roman period)
40. 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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41. Saw the development of city - states - East African civilization was based on international trade and seaport cities - Swahili culture developed its own language and thrived in the city - states - The Portuguese destroyed much of the East African tra
American Indian culture
Effects of the Reformation
The East African Coast
Martin Luther
42. Developed over many centuries - The first American Indians originated from Asia - Agriculture changed some Indian culture from a nomadic existence to farming communities
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: philosophy
Watt steam engine
American Indian culture
Hinduism
43. The cultural period of the Stone Age that began about 2.5 to 2 million years ago - marked by the earliest use of tools made of chipped stone. The Paleolithic Period ended at different times in different parts of the world - generally around 10000 yea
Watt steam engine
Paleolithic or Old Stone Age
The Later Middle Ages
Arabs
44. 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
India under Muslim rule
The Age of Pericles
The Renaissance
Chinese civilization under the Sungs
45. 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
Alexander the Great
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages
The East African Coast
46. 1785 - Led to faster production of cloth
Power loom
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
Coke smelting
John Locke
47. 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
Mohammed
Laissez faire
John Calvin
Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
48. 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 ancient Near East: cultural contributions
The Roman Republic: decline
Islamic civilization: government and religion
Results of the Industrial Revolution
49. An Athenian ruler who came to power around 500 B.C.E. - an introduces further reforms that advanced democracy. He developed ten social classes based on where someone lived rather than their wealth. Established the Council of 500 and a policy where al
Reasons for the decline of the Byzantine Empire
Cleisthenes - Athens Leader
Reasons for the Byzantine Empire's success
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
50. Began as an attempt by the leaders of the industrial and commercial classes to end the injustices of the French monarchy - a Reign of Terror against the aristocracy - The fall of the Bastille on July 14 marks France's 4th of July - Napoleon Bonaparte
The Fall of Rome
Cleisthenes - Athens Leader
Four key beliefs of Hindus
The French Revolution
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