Western Civilizations-Cullum
What ancient civilization is divided by historians into the Old, Middle, and New Kingdom?
Egyptians
Who became the friend of Gilgamesh?
Enkidu
Gilgamesh journeyed to the home of Utnapishtim in hopes of obtaining what?
Eternal Life
The first rulers of Rome were the
Etruscans
Who wrote Bacchants and Medea?
Euripides
Who was abducted by Zeus in the form of a bull?
Europa
Who is credited with writing the Iliad and Odyssey?
Homer
Which civilization thrived 2000-1100 B and is considered the earliest of the Greeks?
Mycenaean
Which philosophical school was founded by Zeno
Stoicism
Which philosophical school was founded by Zeno?
Stoicism
Who was Galen
a famous ancient doctor
Sulla and Marius
fought for control of Rome
About which of the following did Livy claim: ' There was no better schooling against pain and death'
games in the Colosseum
Who wrote the Works and Days?
Hesiod
Who was Zoroaster?
a Persian prophet
Where did this Zeus-bull take this abducted personage?
Crete
When did Alexander die?
323 BC
When was the Neolithic period?
10,000 to 3,000
Which of the following centuries was the most tumultuous and dangerous for the Roman Empire? There were a number of civil wars, and many emperors were killed by their own troops
3rd century
How was the Corvus used by the Roman military
A grappling hook and gang plank
Where were the Minoan civilization (2000-1450 BC) based?
Crete
*Test 2* The legendary founders of Rome, Romulus, and Remus, were said to have been suckled by
A wolf
Who was the Greek champion in the Iliad
Achilles
Who wrote approvingly of the "invisible hand" of capitalism
Adam Smith
Who wrote Oresteia?
Aeschylus
Which of the following was said to have killed her husband
Agrippina
Who slept with dagger and a copy of the Iliad under his pillow
Alexander
What ancient king founded a great library in the seventh century BC?
Ashurbanipal
Who ruled an empire from 911 to 612 BC and were said to have been particularly cruel?
Assyrians
According to Thucydides, who was 'born into the world to take no rest themselves and give none to others'?
Athenians
Who ruled as Caesar from 27 BC to AD 14
Augustus Caesar
In AD 330 Constantine moved the capital to
Byzantium/Constantinople
Which of the following was held for ransom by pirates
Caesar
The Punic wars pitted Rome against whom
Carthage
Who was the first wife of Henry VIII of England
Catherine of Aragon
Who tried to defend the Senate's interests after the death of Caesar
Cicero
Which of the following Roman rules stuttered and limped as a child
Claudius
The most famous and complete of ancient law codes is known as what?
Code of Hammurabi
Who was the first emperor to become a Christian and to begin treating Christianity favorably throughout the empire
Constantine
Which philosophical school was nicknamed the 'dogs'?
Cynics
What Persian ruler sent an invading force against Greece in 490 BC
Darius
The most famous of the Greek oracles was the one at
Delphi
Which emperor divided his rule among four men in the Tetrarchy
Diocletian
The cult of which of the following Greek deities was especially oriented toward women?
Dionysus
Who was Martin Luther's protector in Saxony
Frederick III the Wise
What reformer was elected as Tribune of the Plebs in 123 BC? He continued the reforms begun by his brother
Gaius Gracchus
What was the most general name for the Indo-European barbarians who lived on the northern and eastern borders of the Roman Empire? Their tribes included Ostrogoths and Burgundians
Germans
What ancient people were unusual for the monotheism?
Hebrews
What Trojan did this Greek champion kill at the end of the Iliad
Hector
Jews who were culturally and intellectually influenced by the Greeks during the post-classical period became known as what?
Hellenized Jews
Who was the 'Father of History'?
Hesiod
Western European and Indian languages are traced to what stock of people or language?
Indo-European
Athens' participation in what event brought them to the attention of the Persians around the year 500 BC
Ionian Rebellion
What age directly followed the Bronze Age?
Iron
Which of the following was NOT a part of traditional Greek religion?
Monotheism
In 16 BC a Jewish revolt erupted against the rule of Seleucid King Antiochus IV. Who led this revolt?
Judas Maccabeus
What was the name of the holiest site and object in Mecca? Pilgrims circumambulate it to this day
Ka'aba
Which Greek god swallowed his sons?
Kronos
Which Roman emperor wrote the Stoic Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Roman emperors in the first century AD included all but which of the following
Mark Anthony
What Athenian statesman presided over the building of the Athenian empire and the beginning of the Peloponnesian War?
Pericles
Who were the main combatants in the battle of Marathon?
Persia and Athens
Macedon became a dominant military power under which king?
Phillip II
What sea-faring people invented the first Western alphabet?
Phoenicians
Which of the following civilizations did NOT command an empire?
Phoenicians
What tyranat ruled Athens from 546 to 527 BC?? Hie reign achieved many good things and was later recognized as a 'Golden Age'?
Pisistratus
Which leader lost the battle of Pharsalus in 48 BC
Pompey
Hellenistic Egypt was ruled by
Ptolemies
All but which of the following are examples of Hellenistic scientists and philosophers?
Pythagoras
Elected sole archon in 594 BC, this Athenian statesman reformed society, cancelling many debts and abolishing debt slavery. Who was he?
Solon
Who wrote Oedipus Rex?
Sophocles
Cuneiform was the script of the:
Sumerians
What is the name of the earliest civilizations?
Sumerians
Which civilization produced the "Epic of Gilgamesh"?
Sumerians
Who was first divided the circle into 360 degrees and names the major constellations
Sumerians
The battle of Troy is recounted in
The Iliad
Who was forcibly exiled from Spain in 1492 and Portugal in 1497
The Jews
Around 45,000 years ago which of the following occured?
The Upper Paleolithic Revolution
In AD 476 the barbarian chieftain Odovacar deposed
The last western emperor
Who was the Athenian saviour against the Persians, recommending that they trust to the 'wooden walls' of their navy?
Themistocles
Who seems to have been the first 'actor', by virtue of his stepping out of a Greek chorus in 534 BC
Thespis
All but which of the following was an Athenian playwright?
Thucydides
In 133 BC a controversial land use law was introduced by a Roman Tribune named
Tiberius Gracchus
The other most famous Greek proverb is: 'Nothing___"
Too much
Who were Aristogiton and Harmodius?
Tyrant-slayers
Who had the Hellespont flogged and branded for its treachery
Xerxes
Who was Hannibal Barca
a Carthaginian general
The Pax Romana was
a period of civil peace
Isocrates wanted to unite all of Greece so that they could:
attack Persia
Cato the Elder was a force for
conservatism and morality
Traditional Roman values include all but which of the following
individual freedom
How did Remus die
killed by Romulus
What tended to happen to a Roman infant who was not wanted
left out or exposed
The Gracchi brothers were a force for:
liberalization and aiding the poor
By the middle of the first century BC the population of Rome was about
one million
What did the arrival of Sea Peoples bring to the Eastern Mediterranean?
peace and prosperity
After Alexander's death his empire
split into three kingdoms
Who won the battle of Salamis in 480 BC?
the Athenians and Greek allies
In the 19th century scholars were able to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs because of the discovery of what?
the Rosetta Stone
In AD 70 Jewish rebellion against Roman rule resulted in:
the destruction of the temple
The "Donation of Pepin" was a gift from Pepin to:
the papacy
The form of gov't which replaced the Roman Republic was
the principate
What event sparked the final overthrow of the early Roman kings
the rape of a Roman matron
In the battle the Macedonians relied especially upon what?
their cavalry
In Plato's tripartite model of the soul, which part is symbolized by a lion
thumos
One of the most famous Greek proverbs reads: 'Know___'
thyself
What was the population problem faced by Caesar Augustus
too few Roman citizens