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Caesar strayed from traditional Roman custom and politics by

All of the above

Greek plays dealt with the following theme(s)

All of the above

Which title best completes the partial outline, above ?

Characteristics of Ancient Greece

During the half century following the Peloponnesian war

Constant warfare between the poleis weakened Greece politically and culturally

The period of ancient greek history that followed Alexander the Great is called

Hellenistic

According to the author, which features of the Hellenistic Age most facilitated the later rise of Christianity?

Hellenistic philosophies and the individual search for happiness and salvation

Based on this map and your knowledge of history, which of the following was NOT a reason for the fall of the Roman Empire?

In order to appease the angry masses , the Roman emperors stopped taxing Roman citizens and thus ran out of money

Why should Athenian democracy always be qualified as Athenian democracy?

It was complex and quite different from democracy today.

The Black Death that struck Europe in the middle of the fourteenth century originated in

Mongolia

Which of the following statements best describes Roman popular tastes in entertainment?

Over the centuries bloody spectacles becam increasingly brutal and bizarre

The first great conqueror and founder of an empire in the history of Mesopotamia was

Sargon of Akkad

What role did the Assyrians and the Phoenicians play in the development of Greece after the end of the Dark Age?

Their commercial and cultural contacts provided Greece with the opportunity to break out of its depressed economic state

Why did many small farmers in late Republican Rome quite farming and drift with their families to the city of Rome?

They could not compete against large plantation estates worked by slave labor

Which of the following best descibes Egyptian religion?

Three of the most important features of Egyptian religion were polytheism,the belief in an afterlife,and an ethical code emphasing truth and compassion

The historian who wrote about the Peloponessian War was-

Thucydides

During the Dark Age, Greek religion-

consisted of a mixture of beliefs and cults inherited from the Mycenaens and older Indo-European tradtions

What essential feature did Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilization share?

dependence upon a great river complex

The Gracchi brothers central demand for which they were killed - was the

distribution to the poor of government land

The most important factor in the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru was

european disease

Octavian's preferred title as

first citizen

A central factor in the decline of the Roman Empire was the

high cost of defending the empire

What were the three central ingredients of the Early middle Ages in the West?

late Roman civilization, Christianity and German

Which of the following best characterizes Golden Age sculpture?

mathematical precision of the human body in motion

The plague most likely reached Europe via

merchant ships in the Mediterranean

The word renaissance means-

rebirth

What prevented the east Germans from becoming full members of the Roman world they occupied?

religious differences

In contrast to Egypt, Mesopotamia life was

ridden with anxiety

The term hieroglyphics refers to

sacred writing of Egypt

The ideology of vassalage glorified-

sevice and loyalty

The Greek Polis known for its emphasis on military training was-

sparta

The Renaissance originated in

the city states of northern Italy

The greatest achievment of the Greeks was

the rational outlook that becomes a distinctive feature of the West

The development of France and England in the Middle Ages were clear instances of :

the rise of centralized monarchies

Prehistory is normally thought of as that period before the invention of

writing

In its earliest history, Rome-

All of the above

Which of the following apply to Pericles, the architect of Athens' Golden Age?

All of the above

In the The Prince , Machiavelli states that

All of these

The Neolithic Revolution -

All of these

Who studied in Alexandria, was a mathametician, established the science of hydrostatics and created many inventions-

Archimedies of Syracuse

Which of the following groups built an empire based on an all-consuming concern for war and the use of terror?

Assyrians

Why did Peloponnesian cities led by Sparta fight Athens in the Peloponnesian War?

Athenian imperialism threatened the city-state system of Greece

What tools and skills developed in Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries enabled the European voyages of exploration?

Changes in ship-building resulted in ships that were stronger, lighter, and faster and improvements in navigational technology

This is an example of what type of early form of writing? picture

Cuneiform

Which of the following was contained in the Code of Hammurabi?

Punishment depended on the status of both the victim and perpetrator

What was one influence of Mongol rule on the history of Russia

Russian leaders adopted the idea of strong, centralized control of the empire

According to the authors one of the first and finest work of literature was-

The Epic of Gilgamesh

The Ottoman Empire ruled over a large area that included all or most of the territory of several previous empires. Choose the incorrect empire on this list

The Holy Roman Empire

Homer's major epic poems were-

The Illiad and the Odyssey

Which best descibes events in the two decades following Caesars death?

The Roman Republic ended

Which of the following dynamics developed in the Roman Empire as a result of the Council of Nicaea?

The Roman government officially accepted Christianity and began to get involved with management of the Church

This visual best represents what Medieval civilization?

The Vikings

What made the Near East a hotbed of historical development?

The contact and competition among peoples

The Greek invention of philosophy, or the search for knowledge, involved the idea that

The cosmos was orderly, accessible to human reason, and based on natural laws

. . . The town was a centre of attraction and diffusion, but above all it was a centre of production. The town was a crossroads and a terminus [last stop]: through contacts, meetings and exchanges it could play a major creative role. . . . — Jacques Le Goff, in The Fontana Economic History of Europe: The Middle Ages Base your answer on the above passage

Towns were important in an emerging international economy

Rome's rise to great power status followed which sequence of events?

Unification of the Italian peninsular, the defeat of Carthage, subjucation of the Hellenic states

Following Alexander's death his empire

Was divided by his generals into three main sucessor kingdoms

Why did the agreements and shared interests of the Roman people breakdown in the late Roman Republic?

What worked for a city- state worked less well for the governance of a vast territory

According to the textbook, Hellenistic society was characterized by-

a mingling of peoples and an interchange of culture

The Peloponnesian War was

a war between the Delian League and the Peloponessian League

The most important development of the Neolithic Age was

agriculture

Alexander's legacy includes

all of the above

During its Dark Age, Greece experienced-

all of the above

In the days of the Five Good Emperors-

all of the above

In the years 27B.C. to A.D. 180 the Roman Empire-

all of the above

Sugar growers in the New World turned to Africa as a slave source because

all of the above

As the ancient world collapsed, Christianity

all of these

Emerging European global hegemony:

all of these

The age of exploration and commercial expansion

all the above

Alexander's love of Greek culture,literature, and science seems to have come from his tutor-

aristotle

All of the following statements about Joan of Arc are true EXCEPT

as the name indicates her family was noble

Each of the following is true about civilization Except

civilization first arose with the creation of humankind five thousand years ago

Which groups in European society benefitted most from the effects of the plague?

farm workers and urban wage earners

The distinctly modern outlook developed-

from the Italian Renaissance through the age of Enlightenment

What was the paramount problem that Augustus never solved?

how to solve the problem of imperial succession

One may say of the Battle of Crecy that it

illustrated dramatically the power of the long bow

The chart titled "Roman Government" shows that the Romans designed their government to

incorporate checks on the power of different parts of government.

The ziggurt picture

monumental architecture and urban planning

The Hellenistic school of philosophy, called Skepticism, held that-

nothing can be known for certain

Pyramid of Giza picture

organized religion and government

theory map picture

out of Africa theory

Historically and culturally, Carthage was most tied to

phoenica

Secularism in the Italian Renaissance meant

preoccupation with life in the world

In this passage, Thucydides emphasizes his use of what kind of source?

primary

The main focus of Hellenistic philosophy was

providing the individual with practical guidlines for living

which statement regarding the painting (people in the dining hall)

realistic portrayal that recognizes that peasants had their own meaningful and significant culture as a class

All of the following aspects of the Roman Empire faciliated the spread of Christianity EXCEPT

the active persecution of Christianity from the very beginning by the Roman state gave the faith an added quality of nobilty

Emperor Justinian's most lasting achievement was-

the codification of Roman law in CorpusJuris Civilis

Cuneiform refers to

the earliest system of writing- symbol writing on clay tablets

Rome became a Republic when-

the patricians overthrew the Etruscan king

In the Central Middle ages, power became local and often brutal in a vast network of

vassalage

The term Pax Romano applies best to-

what Romans called a "Time of Happiness"

Why was Egypt more politically stable, confident, and self-sufficient than Mesopotamia?

Egypt's geography left it isolated and protected from frequent turmoil.

Alexander's empire stretched from___________ to _____________

Greece to India

Byzantine identity was thoroughly

Greek with a little Latin influence

Why was Herodotus been called the "father of history"?

He authored the first great narrative history

Why was the development of coinage among the the Greeks by 500 BCE so signifcant?

It marked the re-entrance of Greece as a trading presence in the Mediterranean

What was the basis for the bishop of Rome's claims to superior authority in Christendom?

Jesus's statement to the disciple Peter that " you are Peter and on this rock I will build my church" better known as the "Petrine Authority"

Which of the following could be described as a universal or renaissance man

Leonardo da Vinci

Why did almost a third of the poleis decide not to resist the second Persian invasion?

Many smaller poleis realized that they had as much to fear from Sparta, Athens, and hostile neighboring poleis as they did from Persia.

The "land between the rivers" refers to

Mesopotamia


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