Combo with "Western Civilization ch1,2,3 - EXAM 1"
By the sixth century B.C.E., Greeks founded numerous colonies around the Mediterranean basin, the most significant of which were located where?
Anatolia and Italy.
In the 1100s B.C.E. a wave of destruction swept across the Near East and the Mediterranean world as a result of the invasions of the:
Sea Peoples.
Because of their successful colonial and trading activities, the Miletus:
became extraordinarily wealthy.
In the Book of Judges, the Hebrew people:
begin to settle and organize themselves into twelve tribes.
The accomplishments of King Darius of Persia included:
building roads for transport and postal service.
Cleisthenes is important in the history of Athenian government because he:
championed the cause of the demos and took steps to limit the power of aristocrats.
The Babylonian Captivity of the Hebrews affected Judaism by:
enabling the Hebrews to sustain an identity outside of a Hebrew kingdom.
In the symposium, Archaic Age Greek aristocrats:
enjoyed wine and listened to poetry.
Although early writing was produced using pointed sticks, Sumerian scribes c. 3100 B.C.E. advanced writing with durable reeds that:
produced wedgelike script called cuneiform.
The division of the ancient kingdom of Israel was:
provoked by Solomon's oppressive regime.
The Akkadian rulers of Sargon and Naram-Sin:
ruled from cities and kept their empires through conquest and commerce.
By becoming a "lawgiver" Hammurabi:
set a new standard of kingship.
The Egyptians developed elaborate tombs and burial techniques:
to provide the dead with all they would need in the afterlife.
Socrates urged his followers to :
understand the principles of proper conduct and one's actions.
A Greek aristocrat who seized power and ruled outside the traditional constitutional framework was called:
a tyrant.
The social center and organizational hub of the Greek polis was:
the agora.
One of the significant technological achievements of the Sumerians was:
the invention of the potter's wheel.
The Minoans:
wrote tablets in Linear A to record their economic transactions.
Jericho, one of the world's oldest villages, began an impressive building program of structures to protect their grain surplus around:
6800 B.C.E.
Two of the foremost Hebrew prophets who emphasized the ethical demands God makes on humans were:
Amos and Hosea.
Which comparison between Egypt and Mesopotamian civilizations is false?
Both enjoyed significant political and cultural interactions.
The Eighteenth Dynasty in Egypt produced many strong pharaohs, among them:
Hatshepsut.
Greeks made contact with the _____ in the ninth century B.C.E.
Phoenicians.
The origins of Greek democracy can be identified, in part, in the rule of the Athenian aristocrat:
Solon.
The most militarized of all the poleis in Greece was:
Sparta.
In Phoenicia's overseas colonies:
power was wielded by a small number of elite families.
The Egyptian book, _________, is an example of "wisdom literature" offering advice to those in public life.
The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep.
The earliest cities in Mesopotamia were founded by the:
Ubaid peoples.
Ur-Nammu built the great ziggurat at:
Ur.
The civilization that emerged in ancient Egypt arose:
at the same time as that of ancient Sumer.
An individual who successfully led the city-state's army in battles was:
able to acquire prestige and power as a lugal ("big man").
After Hoplites were introduced in Greece:
aristocrats lost their monopoly on military prowess.
To the peoples of the ancient world, the characteristic manifestations of civilization—government, literature, science, and art—were necessarily products of:
city life.
One of the contributors to the Neolithic revolution was:
climate change.
Ionians transmitted the Lydian invention of _________ to the Greek world.
coinage.
The Egyptian system of hieroglyphics was:
deciphered by Champollion using the Rosetta Stone.
Cave paintings, such as those found in Lascaux, France, are evidence of:
development of language as well as religious and artistic ideas.
The Greeks referred to some people with whom they came into contact as barbarians because they:
did not speak Greek.
By the fourteenth century B.C.E., international relations were marked by:
diplomatic standards, polite forms of address, gifts, and alliances.
One of the new approaches to the study of how humans lived before the development of cities and writing is:
evolutionary biology.
Hubris is:
excessive pride, which was punished by the gods.
The division of property and wealth in New Kingdom Egypt:
favored the pharaoh, the officer class, and the temples of the gods.
Spartiates rejected innovation and change and were:
forbidden to engage in trade or commerce.
The Sophist claim that "Man is the measure of all things" means:
goodness, truth, and justice are not absolutes, but vary according to the needs and interests of human beings.
The Law Code of Hammurabi:
had most of its laws aimed at free commoners.
Hammurabi might have been the first ruler in history to:
have most of his laws aimed at free commoner.
By 1500 B.C.E.:
huge Mycenaean citadels were scattered across some of Greece.
A mysterious wave of invasions entered the Mediterranean world and destroyed almost all of the preexisting civilizations:
in the second millennium B.C.E.
Historians typically divide ancient Egyptian history into _________ to facilitate the discussion of Egyptian politics and culture.
kingdoms and periods.
"Indo-European," as used in historical or anthropological texts, refers to:
linguistic and cultural patterns found widely distributed from Ireland to India.
Milesian philosophers, known as the pre-Socratics:
looked to physical explanations of the workings of the universe.
The Egyptians made notable advances in:
measuring time.
Akhenaten represents one of the earliest moves, in Western history, toward:
monotheism in religious practices.
Greek sculpture evolved from the rather stiff likenesses resembling Egyptian statuary to a style labeled as:
naturalism.
One of the notable characteristics of civilization was the development of:
occupational specialization.
One belief that other Western religions took from Zoroastrianism is the idea:
of a Last Day or a Day of Judgment.
Hoplites were organized into formations called a:
phalanx.
The culture of the Hittites was:
strongly militaristic, prone to attacks on other peoples.
Sargon of Akkad (c. 2350 B.C.E.) is significant because he:
subdued Sumer and exerted influence from Ethiopia to the Indus Valley.
The Epic of Gilgamesh, the dramatic confrontation between Gilgamesh and Enkidu and its aftermath, illustrates:
that the forces of nature cannot be overcome by civilization and death is inevitable.
A result of the defeat of the Athenian expedition to attack Syracuse was:
the Athenian assembly replaced its democracy with oligarchy.
The decisive Greek military victory over the Persians at Salamis was won by:
the Athenian fleet.
Philistine power was based in:
the Pentapolis.
The New Kingdom, particularly the Eighteenth Dynasty, was marked by:
the rise of a wealthy aristocracy.
What made Greek battle formations and strategy formidable?
the training and skill of the hoplites to stay together.
One major result of the Persian wars was:
the vindication of hoplites in battle and a boost to Athenian and Greek confidence.
The Phoenicians's greatest contribution to civilization was:
their alphabet.
The Mitannians introduced lighter chariots to carry archers, but:
their opponents soon copied them and used protective armor.
The system of writing developed by the citizens of Ugarit:
used an alphabet of about thirty symbols for the consonants.
Homer's poetry describes a world in which:
warrior aristocrats competed for status and power and reinforced social ties through hospitality and gift-giving.
The switch from subsistence by food gathering to food production:
was a momentous revolution that made stable settlements possible.
The Late Bronze Age:
was an age of superpowers.
The Hebrew cult of Yahweh:
was significantly advanced by the Levites.
