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Classical Civilizations
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Classical Civilizations explores the societies, cultures, and legacies of the major civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, including Greece, Rome, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. The course examines their political systems, philosophies, religions, literature, art, and daily life, emphasizing how these civilizations have influenced the modern world. Through primary sources, archaeological findings, and scholarly interpretations, students gain a comprehensive understanding of classical antiquitys enduring impact on Western thought and culture.
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Western Heritage The Volume 1 11th Edition by Donald M. Kagan
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Chapter 1: The Birth of Civilization
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Q1) The Israelites lost to history became known as the ________.
A) twenty lost tribes
B) ten lost tribes
C) scattered groups
D) lost groups
Answer: B
Q2) With reference to the Mideast worldview, how would the people of the region most likely have viewed the destruction of a capital city by an army?
A) as well deserved
B) as the personification of the inherent evil in all of mankind
C) as a random misfortune
D) as the product of divine will
Answer: D
Q3) When the Nile floodwaters receded each year, they left ________.
A) devastated communities in their wake
B) miles of ruined farm lands
C) a rich layer of organically fertile silt
D) an abundance of dead fish on the shore
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: The Rise of Greek Civilization
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Q1) Like most ancient peoples, the Greeks were ________, and religion played an important part in their lives.
Answer: polytheists
Q2) Which of the following ended the calm rule of Ionia by Greece, stirring the Ionian Rebellion?
A) the Athenian victory at Marathon
B) the suicide of Cambyses
C) the death of the Persian king Cyrus the Great
D) the private troubles of the ambitious tyrant of Miletus, Aristagoras
Answer: D
Q3) The earliest Bronze Age settlements were ________.
A) at the mainland site of Mycenae
B) at the coastal site of Miletus
C) on the islands of the Aegean Sea
D) on the island of Crete
Answer: D
Q4) The first record of the Olympics dates back to 776 b.c.e.and was held at Olympia in honor of ________.
Answer: Zeus
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Chapter 3: Classical and Hellenistic Greece
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Q1) In the late fifth century b.c.e., the Spartans, under ________, obtained the support of the Persians, cut off the Athenian food supply through the Hellespont, and starved the Athenian people into submission.
Answer: Lysander
Q2) Aristotle considered the middle class to be the most stable because it possessed the quality of ________, which gave power to neither the rich nor the poor.
A) compassion
B) moderate wealth
C) competition
D) industry
Answer: B
Q3) A relative of Darius of Persia named Bessus ________.
A) helped Darius escape to India
B) plotted with Persian nobles and killed Darius
C) sent extra naval support to help Darius fight Alexander's forces
D) made a new appeal to Alexander to end the fighting
Answer: B
Q4) ________ was considered to be the ablest king in Macedonian history.
Answer: Philip of Macedon
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Chapter 4: Rome: From Republic to Empire
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Q1) The Romans came into contact with Hellenized culture in ________.
A)New Carthage
B)books
C)Athens
D)southern Italy
Q2) Rome borrowed mythology, aspects of religion, philosophy, and literature from the ________; educated Romans were expected to be bilingual.
Q3) Do you believe Caesar wanted to be king? What are the implications of your answer?
Q4) After overthrowing their king, the Roman elite established their state as a ________.
Q5) After the Twelve Tables were published, it became more difficult for ________.
A) patricians to exploit the plebeians
B) plebeians to exploit the patricians
C) men to act as materfamilias
D) Romans to get restaurant reservations
Q6) The text suggests that Sulla's greatest legacy was his use of military power, not the constitutional reforms he enacted.Do you agree? Explain how Sulla influenced the politics of Rome in the decades following his rule.
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Chapter 5: The Roman Empire
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Q1) The fourth- and fifth-century "decline and fall of the Roman Empire" refers to the diminishing fortunes of ________.
A) the frontier provinces
B) Rome and the Italian peninsula
C) the eastern empire
D) the western empire
Q2) Although Latin was the language of the Roman Empire, eastern provinces continued to use _______.
Q3) A pervasive negative mood in the decades following the reign of Augustus is apparent in the ________ of the time, which was satirical and pessimistic.
A) dance
B) music
C) literature
D) architecture
Q4) Augustus introduced laws intended to proscribe moral behavior.What sort of behavior was codified, and who do you think would have suffered the most prosecution from these laws?
Q5) By 212 c.e.almost every free inhabitant of the Roman Empire was granted
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Chapter 6: Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages:
a New European Society and Culture (476 1000)
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Q1) In the fourth and fifth centuries, ________ barbarian tribes invaded the Roman Empire.
Q2) The Merovingian Dynasty was founded by the warrior chieftain ________.
A) Charlemagne
B) Clovis
C) Lothar
D) Merovich
Q3) Although church law directed lords to set peasants free to serve as priests, lords preferred a "serf priest" who ________.
A) would serve priests
B) would attend to serfs
C) would lead the congregation as he was directed by the lord
D) served as priest and serf
Q4) The Viking Leif Erikson traveled as far west as ________.
A) Jamestown
B) New Brunswick
C) Newfoundland
D) Nova Scotia
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Q5) What were the main contributions of the Franks to Western civilization?
Q6) ________ is defined as the opposition to the use of images in Christian worship.
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Chapter 7: The High Middle Ages: The Rise of European Empires and States (1000 1300)
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Q1) Why did Otto make so many bishops and abbots into agents of his empire?
A) They were the only skilled administrators around.
B) They opened up a fifth column in Otto's struggles with Pope Urban II.
C) Taxing them provided the bulk of his revenue.
D) They could not marry and so posed no threat of forming a competitive dynasty.
Q2) The Treaty of ________, signed in 1259, momentarily settled the dispute between France and England.
A) London
B) Newcastle
C) Paris
D) Geneva
Q3) Otto I's victory over the Hungarians in 955 is most important for which of these reasons?
A) It ended the period of invasions.
B) It consolidated Otto I's control of Germany.
C) It created the Holy Roman Empire.
D) The victory brought Otto to the throne.
Q4) In 1084, in response to his second excommunication and the growing power of the papacy, Henry installed his own ________, Clement III.
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Chapter 8: Medieval Society: Hierarchies, Towns,
Universities, and Families (1000 1300)
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Q1) The first important Western university, established by Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa in 1158, was in ________.
Q2) In the northern European model, universities were unions of ________.
A) students
B) professors
C) merchants
D) priests
Q3) Which of the following contributed to Christian envy, suspicion, and distrust toward the Jews?
A) the separateness of the Jews
B) lack of Jewish economic power
C) rich Christian cultural strength
D) the church's laws forbidding Jews from hiring Christians
Q4) Heavier reliance on the infantry in the Hundred Years' War was bad for ________.
A) urban nobles
B) the peasantry
C) the French
D) the status of the nobility
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Q5) In the twelfth century, knighthood was legally restricted to men of ________.
Q6) Wergild payments can be used as evidence of _________.
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Chapter 9: The Late Middle Ages: Social and Political
Breakdown (1300 1453)
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Q1) What were the causes of the Hundred Years' War? Could any of these factors have been avoided or was war inevitable? Explain.
Q2) Which of the following was recognized by the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges?
A) the right of the French to regulate ecclesiastical appointments and taxation in their country
B) the idea that religious rights and principles take precedent over national rights
C) the right of all French clergy to develop their own doctrines
D) the obligation of the state to pay the annates to Rome
Q3) In 1355, in a bid to secure funds for the war, the French king turned to the ____________, a representative council of townspeople, clergy, and nobles.
Q4) ________ supported the Great Schism.
A) Pope Boniface VIII
B) Charles V
C) Philip of France
D) Martin V
Q5) In 1309, Clement V moved the papal court to ___________, an imperial city on the southeastern border of France.
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Chapter 10: Renaissance and Discovery
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Q1) What English humanist wrote a famous book called Utopia?
A) Roger Bacon
B) Thomas More
C) William of Ockham
D) Johann Reuchlin
Q2) Based on "The Renaissance Garden," which of the following is most accurate?
A) A garden's main purpose was to romance and seduce potential suitors.
B) A garden was a sign of wealth and privilege that only the wealthy could enjoy.
C) A garden was a source of food and medicine, and a space of social and religious significance.
D) A garden lacked a practical function, but the social dimensions created outweighed the cost to maintain the garden's beauty.
Q3) ________ is a reaction to the simplicity of High Renaissance art and made room for the strange and the abnormal, giving freer reign to the individual perceptions and feelings of the artist, who now felt free to paint, compose, or write in an "affected" way.
Q4) Why was Pope Julius II called the "warrior pope"? What happened at the battle of Novara in 1513? What were the terms of the Concordat of Bologna?
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Chapter 11: The Age of Reformation
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Q1) The Peace of Augsburg recognized in law what had already been established in practice, which was that _________.
A) the religion of the land was determined by the Holy Roman Emperor
B) the ruler of a land would determine the religion in his territory
C) Calvinists were to be tolerated throughout Europe
D) Protestants everywhere must restore Catholic beliefs and practices
Q2) The Jesuit order, which was essential to the Counter-Reformation's success, was founded by __________.
Q3) Issued by Henry VIII, the ____________ reaffirmed transubstantiation, denied the Eucharistic cup to the laity, declared celibate vows inviolable, provided for private Masses, and ordered the continuation of oral confession.
Q4) The Council of Trent's most important reforms concerned ________.
A) religious tolerance
B) discipline within the church
C) transubstantiation
D) the power structure of the church
Q5) Discuss how Conrad Grebel and Ulrich Zwingli differed in their religious objectives.
Q6) Martin Luther was ordered to recant at the ___________ in April of 1521.
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Chapter 12: The Age of Religious Wars
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Q1) The Edict of Nantes was criticized for ________.
A) revoking the rights of the Huguenots
B) creating a state within a state
C) turning a long cold war into a long hot war
D) removing Catholicism as the official religion of France
Q2) The ______________ sponsored a centralized episcopal church system hierarchically arranged from pope to parish priest and stressing unquestioning obedience to the person at the top.
Q3) Refer to the piece "Going to the Theater." What were the basic elements and purpose of the medieval stage, and what was carried over from it to the Elizabethan theater? How did these new theaters change the social habits of their guests?
Q4) Compare and contrast the images of the Catholic baroque church and the open Bible and raised pulpit at the Protestant church.What explains the differences in the décor? What is the rationale behind each? Would these differences sway or alter your opinions of each establishment? Why?
Q5) These more extreme English Puritans, known as ____________, wanted every congregation to be autonomous, a law unto itself, with neither Episcopal nor Presbyterian control.
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Chapter 13: European State -Consolidation in the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Centuries
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Q1) Under Hohenzollern rule, ________ were allowed almost complete control over the serfs on their estates.
Q2) The Petition of Right can be characterized as _________.
A) Charles I's attempt to placate Parliament
B) the long-term result of the English Civil War
C) the document that triggered the English Civil War
D) Parliament's demands on the king, presented in exchange for voting new taxes
Q3) The chief feature of eighteenth-century French political life was ________.
A) Louis XIV's lack of leadership
B) the failure of the nobility to dominate the Parliament
C) the protest by the peasantry to gain more influence and representation in Parliament
D) the attempt of the nobility to use its authority to limit the power of the monarchy
Q4) Compare two noble groups in Europe in the early modern period-such as the boyars and junkers-and examine their agendas, their political power, and how they shaped both domestic and foreign policy.
Q5) In the Netherlands, more people lived in __________ than in any other area of Europe.
Q6) The ________ dynasty ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917.
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Chapter 14: New Directions in Thought and Culture in the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
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Q1) The condemnation of ___________ by Roman Catholic authorities in 1633 is the single most famous incident of conflict between modern science and religious institutions.
Q2) According to Francis Bacon, the Bible and nature ________. A) should be explained by scientists B) must be compatible since they shared the same author C) are directly opposed on countless points and must be reconciled D) are inadequately explained by the Roman Catholic Church
Q3) The scientific fact that the orbits of the planets are elliptical was discovered by
A) Newton
B) Galileo
C) Brahe
D) Kepler
Q4) Compare and contrast Blaise Pascal's and Francis Bacon's approaches to the relationship between religion and science.On what would they agree? On what would they disagree?
Q5) Bernini was hired by Urban VIII to decorate ________.
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Q6) Baroque painters depicted their subjects in a thoroughly _____________, rather than an idealized, manner.
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