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CSET World History
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1. (Islamic scholar - A.D. 1305-1368) spread Islamic culture by traveling widely
Ibn Battuta
Manorialism
Japan's geography
Africa's geological diversity
2. 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
The Age of Reason/Enlightenment
Coke smelting
Mesoamerica
The (Protestant) Reformation
3. 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
Muslim contributions - Science and technology
Rome's political problems
Africa's geological diversity
The Hellenistic Age
4. Conquered the Peloponnesus (peninsula of southern Greece) and ushered in a 'dark age' characterized by violence and instability
The East African Coast
The Dorians
The Viking (Norse) invaders
The conquest of Indigenous People of the Americas
5. 1804 - Used initially to haul freight at coal mines and ironworks - The steam engine was used to develop it
The Viking (Norse) invaders
The Babylonians
Impact of Spanish Exploration and Conquest on Indigenous People of the Americas
Steam locomotive
6. The Sumerians - The Babylonians - The Hittites - The Assyrians - The Chaldeans - The Persians
France during the later Middle Ages
Mesopotamian civilizations
Athens and Sparta
Feudalism: economic
7. 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 -
The Incas
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: society
The Early Middle Ages
The Battle of Waterloo (1815)
8. The center of Sumerian community life and served as a temple - storehouse - and treasury
China: developments
'The Communist Manifesto'
Ibn Battuta
The ziggurat
9. 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
The Scientific Revolution
The spread of the Renaissance throughout Europe
Modern influence of Magna Carta
Napoleon and the First Empire: international relations
10. 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
Darwin
Water frame
The English Reformation
Smaller civilizations of the Near East
11. 1792 - Made it possible to meet increased demand for cotton by mechanizing the process for separating seeds from cotton fiber
Mycenaean civilization
Cotton gin
Mongul rule in China
The Babylonians
12. The decline of feudalism and manorialism was evident by the 12th century and complete by the 16th century
'The Communist Manifesto'
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: feudalism/manorialism
Spain and Portugal during the later Middle Ages
Mesopotamian civilizations
13. Writing - Commerce - Government
Spinning jenny
Contributions of the Greek World
Absolutism
China: developments
14. 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
The Olmec
Ottoman Empire
Social Darwinism and Capitalism
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
15. 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
The Carolingians
The Assyrians
The East African Coast
John Locke
16. 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
Iona
Feudalism: outcomes
The Mayas
Ibn Battuta
17. Borrowed from China - Archaeology has revealed Japan's ancient past - Japanese culture developed during the Heian Era (794-1156) - Poetic form such as the Haiku developed - and literature spread
Early Japanese civilization
The intellectual response to the Industrial Revolution
General characteristics of the Renaissance
The Lydians
18. Hastened by the Frankish system of inheritance - The Treaty of Verdun (A.D. 843) divided Charlemagne's empire among his three grandsons - Carolingian rule ended in the 10th century because of the decline in central authority and the invasions of the
Dissolution of the Frankish Empire
Mesopotamia: developments
Rome's political problems
The Persians
19. Became the dominant Germanic tribe - Clovis - king of the Franks (A.D. 481-511) - was converted to Christianity - Domestic feuds and civil war broke out among the Merovingians (A.D. 561) - Political power shifted away from the monarchy
The Franks
Greece: geography
Spinning mule
Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
20. Firmly established by the 14th century - Gained power at the expense of the king - Composed of the House of Lords (titled nobility) and the House of Commons (gentry and middle classes)
Greece: geography
English Parliament
Literature and Philosophy during the rennaisance
Spain and Portugal during the later Middle Ages
21. Established the first kingdom in Palestine (c. 1030-1010 B.C.)
The Franks
Mythology
Nicolaus Copernicus
Saul
22. A failed French attempt to close the continent to British trade in hopes of destroying the British economy
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23. The Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads
Ibn Battuta
The spread of the Renaissance throughout Europe
Enlightened despotism
Division of the Muslim Empire
24. The region that is now Mexico - Central America - and the western coast of South America
The Holy Roman Empire during the late Middle Ages
Sumeria
England during the later Middle Ages
Mesoamerica
25. 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'
Johannes Kepler
Cleisthenes - Athens Leader
France during the later Middle Ages
Capitalism
26. 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)
Steamboat
Spain and Portugal during the later Middle Ages
India under Muslim rule
The 'continental system'
27. The agricultural organization and economic foundation of feudalism
Spain and Portugal during the later Middle Ages
The Carolingians
Manorialism
Muslim contributions - Science and technology
28. 1764 - Introduced the first power - driven machine to manufacture cloth
Origins of people in America
The Punic Wars with Carthage
Water frame
The topography of Africa
29. 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
Isaac Newton
Literature and Philosophy during the rennaisance
Hindus
Social Darwinism
30. 1807 - Built by American inventor Robert Fulton - The steam engine was used to build it
Steamboat
Spain and Portugal during the later Middle Ages
The Napoleonic Code
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: feudalism/manorialism
31. The pope was dominant in religious matters and the monarch in secular matters - A continuing power struggle evolved between the papacy and the secular ruler during the late Middle Ages
The Holy Roman Empire during the late Middle Ages
The Napoleonic Code
Spinning jenny
Enlightened despotism
32. There were three periods of feudal government
Key provisions of Magna Carta
India: developments
The Peloponnesian War
Development of feudalism and a samurai warrior - class
33. Lived and worked under Muslim rule - Most were self - sufficient farmers - The caste system dominated their life
Africa's geological diversity
Hindus
Isaac Newton
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: commercial revival
34. 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
Napoleon and the First Empire
Galileo Galilei
Power loom
The Olmec
35. Institutions: hospitals - medical schools - libraries - universities - Agriculture: cash crops - crop rotation - Mathematics: algebra - algorithms - Arabic numerals - decimal point - Globalization: exploration - work of scholars - trade (Atlantic - M
The Phoenicians
Muslim contributions
Johannes Kepler
Roman contributions to the western world Engineering and architecture
36. 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
Jesus of Nazareth
The Carolingians
Isaac Newton
Reasons for the Reformation
37. 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
Islamic civilization: government and religion
Hinduism
Literature and Philosophy during the rennaisance
Paleolithic or Old Stone Age
38. 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
Reasons for the spread of Christianity (the Roman period)
The Kingdom of Zimbabwe
The Roman Republic: decline
Roman contributions to the western world Engineering and architecture
39. Society was based on a strict class division: clergy and nobility were the privileged class - peasants and artisans were the work force - and serfs were tied to the land
The Roman Republic: decline
Development of the Renaissance
River Valley Civilizations
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: society
40. 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
Renaissance
Famous empires that grew in the West African savanna
The Ming and Manchu Dynasties
Napoleon and the First Empire: international relations
41. The proper function of government was defined by ___________________. Their ideas led to the philosophical bases for the American and French revolutions.
Jesus of Nazareth
The Roman Empire
The French Revolution
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
42. 'Liberty - Equality and Fraternity'
England during the later Middle Ages
Impact of Spanish Exploration and Conquest on Indigenous People of the Americas
Rallying cry of the French Revolution
Mythology
43. 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 forest states
Reasons for the Reformation
Galileo Galilei
Egypt
44. 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 -
Jesus of Nazareth
The Aztecs
Egypt
The Roman Republic
45. (460-429 B.C.) Represented the zenith of Athenian society and the height of its democracy
Ancient Africans' advances in their societies and cultures
The Age of Pericles
Early Japanese civilization
Mycenaean civilization
46. 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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47. 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
Islam
General characteristics of the Renaissance
The Hittites
The Hellenistic Age
48. 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 importance of city life in the Sung Empire
The Magna Carta
John Calvin
General characteristics of the Renaissance
49. A.D. 570-632 - Emerged from the deserts of Arabia; appeared as a messenger of God (Allah) and a prophet of Allah's monotheistic faith - According to Islamic traditions - Mohammed was last in a line of prophets that traced back to Abraham and included
The Later Middle Ages
Mohammed
Neoclassicism
The Scientific Revolution
50. The earliest Indian civilization - the Harappa culture - developed around the Indus River Valley in 2500 B.C.
General characteristics of the Renaissance
Indus River
The Age of Pericles
India: developments