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CSET World History
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1. Trade and commerce led to a high standard of living in cities - Muslim trade helped spread Islamic culture to foreign lands - Many factors helped trade expand - including no taxation and strong banking practices
The Age of Pericles
Indus River
The (Protestant) Reformation
Islamic civilization: trade and cultural expansion
2. 1792 - Made it possible to meet increased demand for cotton by mechanizing the process for separating seeds from cotton fiber
Cotton gin
The forest states
The ancient Near East: geography
The English Reformation
3. 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
Four key beliefs of Hindus
The feudal system
The Babylonians
Mythology
4. Profits linked to the manufacturing of products - Private ownership of land - Freedom of choice - A competitive free - market system - Limited government restraints
Constantine
The forest states
Capitalism
Minoan civilization
5. (Islamic scholar - A.D. 1305-1368) spread Islamic culture by traveling widely
Neoclassicism
Muslim contributions - Science and technology
Ibn Battuta
The Roman Republic
6. 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
Ganges River
The feudal system
Hinduism
Reasons for the spread of Christianity (the Roman period)
7. 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
John Calvin
Impact of Spanish Exploration and Conquest on Indigenous People of the Americas
Grooved rollers
The spread of the Renaissance throughout Europe
8. 'Liberty - Equality and Fraternity'
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
Rallying cry of the French Revolution
Martin Luther's beliefs
The Battle of Waterloo (1815)
9. Influenced its history - Japanese culture reflects a reverence for nature - Mountains - forests - and coastal areas determined cultural growth
10. 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)
The Age of Pericles
Mycenaean civilization
India under Muslim rule
Laissez faire
11. Christianity and church dogma were questioned
Charles Martel
Philosophy influenced by the Age of Reason
Saul
Steamboat
12. 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
Development of feudalism and a samurai warrior - class
The accomplishments of the early Japanese
The Carolingians
Historical interpretations of the Middle Ages
13. 1779 - A power - driven machine that produced fine - strong yarn
Modern influence of Magna Carta
Spinning mule
The Counter Reformation
The Fall of Rome
14. Architecture was dominated by the Romanesque (11th -12th century) and Gothic (13th -15th century) styles
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: architecture
Egyptian civilization: significant aspects
Muslim contributions - Science and technology
Indus River
15. Became a revolutionary anti - Catholic movement - Basis of 'Reformed Churches -' which spread throughout Europe; Calvinism made Protestantism an international movement
The Chaldeans
Calvinism
Classical Greece
The Dorians
16. Mesopotamia (Tigris and Euphrates rivers; southwest Asia/modern - day Iraq) - floods were unpredictable and destructive; flat plains invited invasion - Egypt (banks of Nile River - Mediterranean and Red Seas; Northeastern Africa) - India (Indus and G
The Peloponnesian War
Isaac Newton
The Viking (Norse) invaders
River Valley Civilizations
17. The Olmec - The Mayas - The Aztecs - The Incas
Mesopotamia
Early cultures in Mesoamerica
Reasons for the spread of Christianity (the Roman period)
Roman contributions to the western world Culture: history - literature
18. 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
Achievements of the Byzantine Empire
Voltaire - Montesquieu - Locke - and Rousseau
Four key beliefs of Hindus
Hindus
19. Established the first lasting monotheism - After the death of Solomon (922 B.C.) - the Hebrews were divided into two kingdoms (Israel and Judah) - Disunity and conquest resulted in the destruction of Israel (722 B.C.) and Judah (586 B.C.) - The revol
Mesoamerica
The Early Middle Ages
The Israelites
The Napoleonic Code
20. The Phoenicians - The Lydians - The Israelites
The Holy Roman Empire during the late Middle Ages
Smaller civilizations of the Near East
The (Protestant) Reformation
Dissolution of the Frankish Empire
21. 1764 - Increased the speed and output of yarn spinners
The intellectual response to the Industrial Revolution
Spinning jenny
The Roman Republic: decline
Egypt
22. 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
The Incas
Alexander the Great
The Hittites
23. Law - rule of law/equality before the law - civil and contract law codes
Roman contributions to the western world (greatest contribution)
The Magna Carta
Iona
The Persians
24. 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
England during the later Middle Ages
Social Darwinism and Capitalism
Power loom
Feudalism: economic
25. 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
Muslim contributions
The 'continental system'
India: developments
Minoan civilization
26. 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
The Franks
Historical interpretations of the Middle Ages
The Phoenicians
Greece: geography
27. 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
Persian War
The Napoleonic Code
Paleolithic or Old Stone Age
Paul of Tarsus (Paul the Apostle)
28. An English philosopher - Believed that people made a contract with their government to protect natural writes - Wrote about the inalienable writes to life - liberty - and the pursuit of happiness - His political ideas had a dramatic impact on the dev
Dissolution of the Frankish Empire
The Chaldeans
Manorialism
John Locke
29. 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
Mesoamerica
Ottoman Empire
Reasons for the spread of Christianity (the Roman period)
China: developments
30. 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
Famous empires that grew in the West African savanna
The Ming and Manchu Dynasties
Egypt: developments
India under Muslim rule
31. 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
Development of feudalism and a samurai warrior - class
The caste system
Renaissance
32. 1783 - Allowed iron - makers to roll out iron into different shapes
The Roman Empire
Grooved rollers
Reasons for the spread of Christianity (the Roman period)
The accomplishments of the early Japanese
33. 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
Renaissance
The 'continental system'
Galileo Galilei
Classical Greece
34. 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
Impact of Spanish Exploration and Conquest on Indigenous People of the Americas
Sumeria
The Phoenicians
Confucius
35. A totalitarian and militaristic state dependent on slave labor to sustain its agricultural system; state owned most of the land - Warrior state - dependent on a superior military (result of constant threat of rebellion) - Spartan citizens were outnum
Spartan way of life
The Later Middle Ages
The intellectual response to the Industrial Revolution
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: commercial revival
36. Writing (cuneiform) - Organized government - Written law code (Hammurabi's Code) - Systematized religion (Zoroastrianism) - Astronomy; astrology
Manorialism
Ibn Battuta
The Battle of Waterloo (1815)
Mesopotamia: developments
37. Refers to the absolute rule of monarchs with unlimited power - The theory of absolute monarchs and the divine right of kings (rule by God's will) - Evolved from the limited power of the ruling class during the Middle Ages to the Age of Absolutism in
The feudal system
Early cultures in Mesoamerica
Absolutism
Literature and Philosophy during the rennaisance
38. The government system and basis for society in the Middle Ages - The system was based on land ownership; person who was allowed by a lord to use his land was called a vassal and the land was called a fief
Napoleon and the First Empire: international relations
The Age of Pericles
Christianity: basic doctrines
The feudal system
39. Mainly composed of three regions: desert - savanna - and tropical rainforest - The Sahara desert dominates the continent (covers most of northern Africa) - Trade and commerce were connected to the geographical potential of the area - Large population
The Babylonians
The topography of Africa
Development of the Renaissance
Background to the French Revolution
40. 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
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: commercial revival
Muslim contributions - Science and technology
The French Revolution
Social Darwinism
41. 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
42. The medieval political unity of Europe was replaced by the spirit of modern nationalism - The authority of the state was strengthened - The middle class was strengthened - Calvinism gave capitalism its psychological base - Religious wars reflected th
Flying shuttle
Grooved rollers
Islam in Africa
Effects of the Reformation
43. 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
Water frame
The ziggurat
Roman contributions to the western world (greatest contribution)
Impact of Spanish Exploration and Conquest on Indigenous People of the Americas
44. 1785 - Led to faster production of cloth
The feudal system
The topography of Africa
Saul
Power loom
45. 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
Mohammed
Spinning jenny
Steam locomotive
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: society
46. Centers of Aegean civilization; depended on the Aegean Sea to develop and extend their culture - (c. 2000-1150 B.C.) developed heavily fortified cities and based prosperity on trade and warfare
Isaac Newton
The accomplishments of the early Japanese
Roman contributions to the western world Engineering and architecture
Mycenaean civilization
47. 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
Four key beliefs of Hindus
Feudalism: political
Characteristics of medieval civilization during the late Middle Ages: society
The ziggurat
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.)
Egypt
Confucius
Feudalism: economic
The Roman Republic: decline
49. 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
The forest states
The Incas
The English Reformation
Iona
50. 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 Carolingians
The Age of Pericles
Flying shuttle