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CSET World History
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1. The First Act of Supremacy (1534) marked the beginning of the English Reformation. - The king of England - Henry VIII - became the head of the church - The pope's refusal to annul the marriage of Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon initiated the break
Nicolaus Copernicus
The English Reformation
Ancient Africans' advances in their societies and cultures
The importance of city life in the Sung Empire
2. The classical economists advanced the theory of laissez faire - Thomas Malthus (1776-1834) theorized that population growth would far outstrip food production - The revolutionary socialism of Karl Marx advocated a violent overthrow of the present eco
Constantinople
The intellectual response to the Industrial Revolution
The spread of the Renaissance throughout Europe
The Dorians
3. Economic prosperity - domination of the commercial trade routes controlled by Constantinople - monopoly of the silk trade - The Byzantines made excellent use of diplomacy to avoid invasions - and they were geographically distant from the tribes who s
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4. 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.
The Incas
Ganges River
Spain and Portugal during the later Middle Ages
England during the later Middle Ages
5. 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)
Calvinism
English Parliament
Persian War
Smaller civilizations of the Near East
6. Ended in defeat for Napoleon and ended the French Empire; Napoleon was permanently exiled to St. Helena
The Early Middle Ages
The ancient Near East: cultural contributions
The Battle of Waterloo (1815)
Effects of the Reformation
7. (460-429 B.C.) Represented the zenith of Athenian society and the height of its democracy
Impact of Spanish Exploration and Conquest on Indigenous People of the Americas
Mohammed
Results of the Industrial Revolution
The Age of Pericles
8. 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.
Spinning jenny
The Phoenicians
Roman contributions to the western world (greatest contribution)
Persian War
9. 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
Spain and Portugal during the later Middle Ages
Turk Dominance
Power loom
The Aztecs
10. Writing (cuneiform) - Organized government - Written law code (Hammurabi's Code) - Systematized religion (Zoroastrianism) - Astronomy; astrology
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: philosophy
The Ming and Manchu Dynasties
The Battle of Waterloo (1815)
Mesopotamia: developments
11. 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.)
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: philosophy
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: education
The Roman Republic: decline
Ibn Battuta
12. Foreign trade enabled populations to grow in cities and to become sophisticated - The family was the focus of Chinese life - Women had lower status than men
American Indian culture
The importance of city life in the Sung Empire
The Counter Reformation
North American Indians
13. 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
Mycenaean civilization
The Roman Empire
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
The Viking (Norse) invaders
14. Originated in India (1500 B.C.) as part of the teachings of Hinduism - Divided people into four distinct and inflexible social groups: priests and teachers; rulers and warriors; merchants and artisans; and peasants and servants (the lowest caste) - P
Islam
The caste system
English Parliament
Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
15. 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 Babylonians
Muslim contributions
Background to the French Revolution
Paleolithic or Old Stone Age
16. Established the new Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar (605-538 B.C.) - Conquered Mesopotamia - Syria - and Palestine - Developed astrology - astronomy - advanced government bureaucracy - and architectural achievements such as the Hanging Gardens
The Counter Reformation
The Chaldeans
The Peloponnesian War
Spinning jenny
17. 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
Background to the French Revolution
Constantinople
Water frame
The East African Coast
18. Its geographic proximity to the Arabs - Slavs - and Seljuk Turks - all of whom were becoming more powerful - The loss of commercial dominance of the Italians - Religious controversy with the West and a subsequent split with the Roman Catholic Church
Islam in Africa
Reasons for the decline of the Byzantine Empire
Confucius
Myths
19. 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
The Kingdom of Zimbabwe
Christianity: basic doctrines
20. 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 Counter Reformation
Jesus of Nazareth
Origins of people in America
21. 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
Classical Greece
The Assyrians
Spain and Portugal during the later Middle Ages
Muslim contributions - Science and technology
22. Aztecs conquered by Cortes in 1521 - Inca Empire conquered by Pizarro in 1513
India under Muslim rule
The conquest of Indigenous People of the Americas
Confucius
Zoroastrianism
23. The rise of feudal monarchs resulted in the development of the nation - states of France - By the early 13th century - royal authority had expanded and France had become a European power - Conflicts with the pope over the extent of religious rule res
Power loom
The French Revolution
France during the later Middle Ages
The ancient Near East: cultural contributions
24. 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 Olmec
The Persians
Charles Martel
The Magna Carta
25. 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
Hinduism
Mesopotamian civilizations
Rome's political problems
The caste system
26. 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
Martin Luther
Four key beliefs of Hindus
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Social Darwinism
27. 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
The Renaissance
The English Reformation
Constantine
Calvinism
28. 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
Four key beliefs of Hindus
England during the later Middle Ages
Chinese civilization under the Sungs
Steam locomotive
29. 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
Napoleon and the First Empire
The accomplishments of the early Japanese
English Parliament
30. Manor estates - Owned by lords - Peasant serfs given land to work in exchange for percentage of crop - Free peasants worked as skilled laborers - Dues and fees charged for tenancy - use of roads - bridges - etc.
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: philosophy
Hinduism
Ganges River
Feudalism: economic
31. 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
The (Protestant) Reformation
The Battle of Waterloo (1815)
Reasons for the spread of Christianity (the Roman period)
32. Influenced its history - Japanese culture reflects a reverence for nature - Mountains - forests - and coastal areas determined cultural growth
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33. A period of transition between ancient and modern Europe - Unique with a distinctive culture; out of feudal customs and traditions that included Greek and Roman classical culture - influences from the Arab world and the East - and tenets of Judeo - C
Martin Luther
Historical interpretations of the Middle Ages
The Early Middle Ages
Enlightened despotism
34. 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
Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
Mohammed
Africa's geological diversity
35. 1733 - Increased the speed of weavers
Minoan civilization
The Aztecs
Reasons for the spread of Christianity (the Roman period)
Flying shuttle
36. Also known as the Catholic Reformation - Attempted to halt the spread of Protestantism - The Jesuits (Society of Jesus) became the first official Catholic response to the Reformation; Jesuits also initiated missionary and educational endeavors - The
The Counter Reformation
The ziggurat
The accomplishments of the early Japanese
Steamboat
37. Conquered the Peloponnesus (peninsula of southern Greece) and ushered in a 'dark age' characterized by violence and instability
The English Reformation
The Dorians
India: developments
Spinning jenny
38. Ghana - Mali and Songhai
Ottoman Empire
The Kingdom of Zimbabwe
Famous empires that grew in the West African savanna
Cotton gin
39. The Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads
Saul
Division of the Muslim Empire
Hinduism
The 'continental system'
40. 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
The Olmec
Mohammed
The Later Middle Ages
China: developments
41. 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
Muslim contributions - Science and technology
Laissez faire
The 'continental system'
Turk Dominance
42. Individual conviction in one's beliefs (solidarity) - The efficiency and organization of the early church administration - - Doctrines that stressed equality and immortality - Teachings and doctrines developed by 'Church Fathers' such as Augustine we
Literature and Philosophy during the rennaisance
Reasons for the spread of Christianity (the Roman period)
Grooved rollers
Impact of Spanish Exploration and Conquest on Indigenous People of the Americas
43. 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
Mohammed
The Sumerians
Mesopotamian civilizations
Isaac Newton
44. 1760 - Improved production of iron
The Early Middle Ages
Islam
The intellectual response to the Industrial Revolution
Coke smelting
45. The agricultural organization and economic foundation of feudalism
Mesopotamia
Historical interpretations of the Middle Ages
Manorialism
India under Muslim rule
46. 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
Egypt
The feudal system
Christianity: basic doctrines
The Israelites
47. (A.D. 871-99) established the English kingdom after stemming the Danish invasions
Mycenaean civilization
Persian War
Alfred the Great
Africa's geological diversity
48. 1792 - Made it possible to meet increased demand for cotton by mechanizing the process for separating seeds from cotton fiber
The Roman Republic
The Israelites
Cotton gin
Feudalism: outcomes
49. (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 Magna Carta
Development of the Renaissance
Charlemagne
Myths
50. Developed their own language and sophisticated system of writing - developed literature and poetry - developed the Shinto religion - placed great emphasis on a love of nature - beauty - and good manners
'The Communist Manifesto'
Islam
Zoroastrianism
The accomplishments of the early Japanese