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CSET World History
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1. The disintegration of traditional feudal loyalties - the rise of powerful monarchies - and the collapse of a single religious doctrine caused European intellectuals to think about new ways of unifying and governing nation - states - Their exploration
Mongul rule in China
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: feudalism/manorialism
The Hittites
The Age of Reason/Enlightenment
2. Attempted to unify the entire Near East under one rule (500s B.C.) - Established an international government - - Failed to conquer the Greeks; Persia was eventually conquered by Alexander the Great (334-331 B.C.)
England during the later Middle Ages
The Persians
The Renaissance
Islam
3. Developed in the interior of the continent - Grew from an iron - working settlement - Huge stone structures were constructed - Economy was based on the gold trade
The Kingdom of Zimbabwe
Greece: geography
The Aztecs
Pepin the Short
4. 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
Confucius
India under Muslim rule
Neolithic or New Stone Age
The Scientific Revolution
5. 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 Holy Roman Empire during the late Middle Ages
'The Communist Manifesto'
The Sumerians
The Phoenicians
6. Region of great cities (e.g Ur and Babylon) located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; chronologically the first urban hearth - dating to 3500 BCE - and which as founded in the Fertile Crescent.
Calvinism
Manorialism
Mesopotamia
The Olmec
7. (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
Hindus
Roman contributions to the western world Culture: history - literature
Classical Greece
The Kingdom of Zimbabwe
8. No formal system in place to choose Roman emperors; some chosen directly by the emperor - others were heirs to the throne - others were able to buy the throne - Informal and corrupt process of succession resulted in weak and ineffective rulers and ma
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9. 1764 - Introduced the first power - driven machine to manufacture cloth
Social Darwinism
John Locke
Water frame
Flying shuttle
10. 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
The Renaissance
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
India under Muslim rule
The ancient Near East: cultural contributions
11. 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
English Parliament
'The Communist Manifesto'
Background to the French Revolution
Minoan civilization
12. 1783 - Allowed iron - makers to roll out iron into different shapes
Grooved rollers
Myths
China: developments
Paleolithic or Old Stone Age
13. 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.
Ganges River
The Phoenicians
Steamboat
Renaissance
14. The agricultural organization and economic foundation of feudalism
The conquest of Indigenous People of the Americas
The Chaldeans
Manorialism
Capitalism
15. 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
Isaac Newton
The Sumerians
Coke smelting
Four key beliefs of Hindus
16. The center of Sumerian community life and served as a temple - storehouse - and treasury
Four key beliefs of Hindus
The ziggurat
Early cultures in Mesoamerica
The Roman Republic
17. Became a revolutionary anti - Catholic movement - Basis of 'Reformed Churches -' which spread throughout Europe; Calvinism made Protestantism an international movement
Calvinism
The Age of Pericles
Impact of Spanish Exploration and Conquest on Indigenous People of the Americas
The Hittites
18. 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
Spain and Portugal during the later Middle Ages
The Early Middle Ages
The Viking (Norse) invaders
19. An ethical religion - Of the Persians - based on concepts of good and evil
Greece: geography
Hindus
Zoroastrianism
Key provisions of Magna Carta
20. The commercial revival led to the rise of towns. - A true middle class emerged - Economic activities in the towns were supervised by the guild system (merchant and craft guilds) - The Crusades led to the revival of international trade
Grooved rollers
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: commercial revival
Roman contributions to the western world Engineering and architecture
The caste system
21. 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
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
Mesoamerica
The East African Coast
Manorialism
22. Christianity and church dogma were questioned
Muslim contributions
The 'continental system'
Philosophy influenced by the Age of Reason
Ganges River
23. 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
Enlightened despotism
Reasons for the spread of Christianity (the Roman period)
The accomplishments of the early Japanese
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: society
24. 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
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: education
Adam Smith
Reasons for the Byzantine Empire's success
Constantine
25. The oldest known civilization on earth - established in the Tigris - Euphrates Valley in the 4th millennium BC. Sumerian civilization took the form of a cluster of city - states - the best known of which is Ur. Sumerians were the first to use the pot
Spinning jenny
Sumeria
Impact of Spanish Exploration and Conquest on Indigenous People of the Americas
Flying shuttle
26. An Aegean civilization - Minoan civilization of Crete (c. 4000-1400 B.C.) based its prosperity on extensive commerce
Greece: geography
Minoan civilization
John Locke
Philosophy influenced by the Age of Reason
27. The emphasis was on man rather than God - There was a reawakening or rebirth of classical models - The ideal of the 'universal man' was widely held
Muslim contributions - Science and technology
The importance of city life in the Sung Empire
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: feudalism/manorialism
General characteristics of the Renaissance
28. 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: outcomes
Origins of people in America
The Incas
The forest states
29. (460-429 B.C.) Represented the zenith of Athenian society and the height of its democracy
Mesoamerica
The Age of Pericles
Islamic civilization: government and religion
The Battle of Waterloo (1815)
30. 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
Arabs
The Olmec
Neoclassicism
Capitalism
31. 1733 - Increased the speed of weavers
The Hellenistic Age
Flying shuttle
The (Protestant) Reformation
Rome's political problems
32. Ghana - Mali and Songhai
Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
Watt steam engine
Feudalism: political
Famous empires that grew in the West African savanna
33. 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
The conquest of Indigenous People of the Americas
The English Reformation
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: commercial revival
Impact of Spanish Exploration and Conquest on Indigenous People of the Americas
34. In economics - the doctrine of '___________' (limited government intervention in business affairs) stood in opposition to regulated trade
Johannes Kepler
Muslim contributions - Science and technology
Laissez faire
John Locke
35. 1760 - Improved production of iron
The Renaissance
Absolutism
The Early Middle Ages
Coke smelting
36. 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
Classical Greece
The Assyrians
General characteristics of the Renaissance
The Hittites
37. 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
The Assyrians
The Viking (Norse) invaders
Paleolithic or Old Stone Age
The ancient Near East: cultural contributions
38. 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
The Roman Republic
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: society
Islamic civilization: government and religion
The Ming and Manchu Dynasties
39. Works of Greeks and Romans reconnected Europeans with their ancient heritage
Renaissance
Feudalism: outcomes
The conquest of Indigenous People of the Americas
The Persians
40. Writing - Commerce - Government
Galileo Galilei
India under Muslim rule
Enlightened despotism
China: developments
41. 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
Greece: geography
John Locke
Historical interpretations of the Middle Ages
John Calvin
42. Conquered much of Asia Minor and Northern Mesopotamia (2000-1200 B.C.) - A major contribution included the invention of iron smelting - which revolutionized warfare
The Phoenicians
The Hittites
Adam Smith
Darwin
43. Military and political leader during the later stages of the French Revolution - Emperor of the French from 1804-1815 - His legal reform - the Napoleonic Code - has been a major influence on many civil law jurisdictions worldwide - Best remembered fo
Napoleon and the First Empire
'The Communist Manifesto'
Neoclassicism
Rome's economic problems
44. 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
Ganges River
Ottoman Empire
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
Paleolithic or Old Stone Age
45. 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
Paleolithic or Old Stone Age
The Counter Reformation
Adam Smith
The Napoleonic Code
46. 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
Historical interpretations of the Middle Ages
North American Indians
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages
Water frame
47. Replaced the Franks as legitimate rulers - The Carolingian Renaissance resulted in the establishment of a palace academy with a prescribed academic curriculum
Mythology
The Carolingians
Mohammed
Roman contributions to the western world Culture: history - literature
48. 1483-1546 - Northern Germany - Rejection of hierarchical priesthood and papal authority - Questioned the right of the pope to grant indulgences (full or partial remission of temporal punishment due for sins which have already been forgiven)
The Roman Republic
Martin Luther
Egypt: developments
The Later Middle Ages
49. 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
Christianity: basic doctrines
Mycenaean civilization
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: architecture
Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
50. Complex religion of gods - rituals - and governance (pharaoh)- Writing (hieroglyphics) - Engineering and building (pyramids) - Mathematics
The Napoleonic Code
Paleolithic or Old Stone Age
Napoleon and the First Empire: international relations
Egypt: developments