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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
The ancient Near East: cultural contributions
The conquest of Indigenous People of the Americas
China: developments
Flying shuttle
2. (1848) - Written by Marx and Friedrich Engels - advanced the theories of modern scientific socialism
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3. 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
Islam
Galileo Galilei
The Phoenicians
The Magna Carta
4. Education stressed the liberal arts. - Theology influenced both religion and politics - Universities were created in Paris - Oxford - and Cambridge during the 11th and 12th centuries - Latin was the language of intellectual Europe; vernacular was use
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: education
The Scientific Revolution
Japan's geography
Pepin the Short
5. 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.)
The Persians
Martin Luther's beliefs
The Renaissance
The (Protestant) Reformation
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.
The Roman Empire
Mesopotamia
The accomplishments of the early Japanese
The Assyrians
7. 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
The Punic Wars with Carthage
Turk Dominance
The Dorians
The Assyrians
8. 1785 - Led to faster production of cloth
Power loom
The Later Middle Ages
The Dorians
Greece: geography
9. 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 -
Myths
Minoan civilization
Background to the French Revolution
Mongul rule in China
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
Adam Smith
Galileo Galilei
River Valley Civilizations
11. 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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12. 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)
India under Muslim rule
Background to the French Revolution
Steamboat
The Counter Reformation
13. The most important city - states in ancient Greece; both developed a unique culture and distinct political structure - Established the world's first democracy (c. 507 B.C.) - developed democratic institutions - Developed philosophy as represented by
English Parliament
Athens and Sparta
The Mayas
Martin Luther
14. The Norman Conquest (invasion of England by William the Conqueror - duke of Normandy) had a profound impact on the development of the culture - language - and judicial system of England - The Battle of Hastings (1066) ended Anglo - Saxon rule in Engl
Coke smelting
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Feudalism: political
England during the later Middle Ages
15. 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
Roman contributions to the western world Culture: history - literature
American Indian culture
Early cultures in Mesoamerica
Hinduism
16. (Frankish military/political leader) Halted the Muslim advance into Europe at the Battle of Tours (A.D. 732); Martel's victory helped preserve western civilization
The Sumerians
Cleisthenes - Athens Leader
Johannes Kepler
Charles Martel
17. (A.D. 747-768) a Carolingian ruler appointed by the pope as king and established the Papal States on former Byzantine lands
Pepin the Short
Constantine
Steamboat
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
18. The earliest Indian civilization - the Harappa culture - developed around the Indus River Valley in 2500 B.C.
Zoroastrianism
The Kingdom of Zimbabwe
Mohammed
Indus River
19. 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 -
Islam
Grooved rollers
The Incas
Japan's geography
20. Established at Byzantium by Emperor Constantine as a 'New Rome' in the East in A.D. 330 - Strategically located (where Europe and Asia meet) - had excellent defensible borders - and was a crossroads of world trade - With the fall of Rome/collapse of
The Scientific Revolution
The Counter Reformation
Constantinople
England during the later Middle Ages
21. 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
The Punic Wars with Carthage
Johannes Kepler
The Babylonians
22. 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.)
Reasons for the Byzantine Empire's success
The Roman Republic: decline
The Fall of Rome
The Early Middle Ages
23. 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
Feudalism: economic
The forest states
Smaller civilizations of the Near East
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: society
24. An ethical religion - Of the Persians - based on concepts of good and evil
Zoroastrianism
Hinduism
Rallying cry of the French Revolution
Feudalism: outcomes
25. 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
Zoroastrianism
The Franks
Impact of Spanish Exploration and Conquest on Indigenous People of the Americas
26. 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
Mesopotamia
Classical Greece
Reasons for the Byzantine Empire's success
Enlightened despotism
27. 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
Islam in Africa
Islamic civilization: trade and cultural expansion
Darwin
Famous empires that grew in the West African savanna
28. Class division of society - The decline of feudalism and manorialism - The commercial revival - Education - Philosophy - Architecture
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages
Steamboat
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: architecture
The 'continental system'
29. 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 Counter Reformation
The (Protestant) Reformation
Indus River
Spain and Portugal during the later Middle Ages
30. 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
Constantine
Hinduism
The intellectual response to the Industrial Revolution
Feudalism: outcomes
31. 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
Laissez faire
Origins of people in America
The ancient Near East: geography
'The Communist Manifesto'
32. The Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads
American Indian culture
Division of the Muslim Empire
Confucius
Constantine
33. 1764 - Introduced the first power - driven machine to manufacture cloth
The Phoenicians
Water frame
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages
Islamic civilization: trade and cultural expansion
34. Conquered much of Asia Minor and Northern Mesopotamia (2000-1200 B.C.) - A major contribution included the invention of iron smelting - which revolutionized warfare
Spinning mule
The Hittites
The East African Coast
Mythology
35. The decline of feudalism and manorialism was evident by the 12th century and complete by the 16th century
Arabs
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: feudalism/manorialism
Flying shuttle
The caste system
36. 1785 - Meant that factories were no longer dependent on water sources for power
Watt steam engine
Johannes Kepler
The 'continental system'
The caste system
37. A.D. 960-1279 - The Chinese Empire lost much territory after the fall of the Tang rulers - Advances in education - art - and science contributed to an improved way of life
Grooved rollers
Contributions of the Greek World
Chinese civilization under the Sungs
The Incas
38. A collection of myths or stories - usually about the gods and their relationships to human beings; the study of myths
Mythology
General characteristics of the Renaissance
Reasons for the Byzantine Empire's success
Steam locomotive
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
Neoclassicism
Four key beliefs of Hindus
Social Darwinism and Capitalism
Cotton gin
40. Became the first explorers - traders - and colonizers of the ancient world; their civilization reached its peak in 1000 B.C. - Greatest seafaring civilization in the ancient world - Developed extensive trade networks throughout the Mediterranean and
The Phoenicians
Reasons for the Reformation
Egyptian civilization: significant aspects
The Kingdom of Zimbabwe
41. 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 topography of Africa
Effects of the Reformation
Social Darwinism
The Ming and Manchu Dynasties
42. 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
The Scientific Revolution
The Kingdom of Zimbabwe
Cleisthenes - Athens Leader
English Parliament
43. 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
Martin Luther
The Age of Pericles
Early Japanese civilization
The Magna Carta
44. Called for a free and open economic system was needed - Expanded Darwin's theory of evolution to include society as a whole - viewed society as a 'struggle for existence'; only the 'fittest' members of society would survive - The accumulation of weal
The Roman Republic
Social Darwinism
Modern influence of Magna Carta
The intellectual response to the Industrial Revolution
45. 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
Flying shuttle
Early Japanese civilization
Spartan way of life
Darwin
46. 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
Ancient Africans' advances in their societies and cultures
Classical Greece
Reasons for the Byzantine Empire's success
Manorialism
47. 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
Charles Martel
India: developments
Greece: geography
The Kingdom of Zimbabwe
48. 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
Absolutism
Roman contributions to the western world (greatest contribution)
Napoleon and the First Empire
49. 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
Impact of Spanish Exploration and Conquest on Indigenous People of the Americas
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
Adam Smith
The forest states
50. Became a revolutionary anti - Catholic movement - Basis of 'Reformed Churches -' which spread throughout Europe; Calvinism made Protestantism an international movement
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
Steam locomotive
Calvinism
Ottoman Empire