CSET Subtest 1: History & Social
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Egypt - ANSWER✔✔-Nile's annual floods were predictable
-Greatly hindered foreign invaders due to it's natural barriers (desert & sea)
Mesopotamia (Modern-day Iraq) - ANSWER✔✔-Floods were often unpredictable
& destructive
-Invited invasion
Hindu Caste System - ANSWER✔✔Originated in India (1500 B.C) as part of the
teachings of Hinduism
-Outlawed in India in 1950
Untouchables: people who did not belong to any group
-Members of one caste could not marry or eat with members from another caste
,*No amount of success would allow a person to move from one caste to another
Mycenaeans (Aegean civilization) - ANSWER✔✔Centers of Aegean civilization
and depended on the Aegean Sea to develop and extend their culture
Phoenicians (Aegean civilization) - ANSWER✔✔Greatest seafaring civilization in
the ancient world, developed extensive trade networks throughout the
Mediterranean, & set up distant trade networks and trading colonies such as Tyre
& Sidon.
Sumerians (Aegean civilization) - ANSWER✔✔The first civilization in
Mesopotamia and would have used the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for trade and
commerce, as well as areas surrounding the Persian Gulf.
Assyrian empire (Aegean civilization) - ANSWER✔✔Originated in the highland
region of the upper Tigris River but grew to encompass the entire area of the
Fertile Crescent.
-Were a warrior nation who terrorized conquered people.
The Hellenistic Age (323 B.C to c. 30 B.C) - ANSWER✔✔Time of great
economic growth and expansion
-Began w/ the death of Alexander the Great
, -Rhodes, Alexandria, & Antioch replaced Athens in commercial importance
-Dynasties were established in Macedonia, Egypt, and Persia following
Alexander's death
-Saw the expansion of Greek culture, the rise of cities, and the virtual
disappearance of the Greek city-state, or polis, as an administrative center
Principal Objective why Russia expanded to direction of the Ottoman Empire -
ANSWER✔✔To gain permanent access to the Mediterranean Sea
-Russia was landlocked and did not have a geographical outlet to the
Mediterranean
Turkey's Borders - ANSWER✔✔1. The Black Sea (north)
2. Mediterranean Sea (south)
Ottoman Empire - ANSWER✔✔Centered in Turkey
Feudalism - ANSWER✔✔The government system of the Middle Ages
-became the way of life in Europe following the collapse of the Roman Empire
-No formal countries, but the fiefdom held economic and political power
-System based on landownership called fiefs
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