Foundations of European Civilization Review Questions
Course Introduction
This course offers an in-depth exploration of the key developments, cultures, and ideas that have shaped European civilization from antiquity to the modern era. Students will examine the legacy of Ancient Greece and Rome, the impact of Christianity, the rise of feudalism, the Renaissance and Enlightenment, and the formation of modern nation-states. Through analysis of primary sources and historical scholarship, the course encourages critical thinking about the social, political, and intellectual currents that define Europes past and continue to influence its present.
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Western Civilization Volume A To 1500 8th Edition by Jackson J. Spielvogel
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Chapter 1: The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations
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Q1) Mesopotamia is located in the valley of the
A) Indus River
B) Danube River
C) Tigris and Euphrates rivers
D) Nile River
E) Po River
Answer: C
Q2) The term "civilization" refers to human societies which, amongst other features,
A) have an urban focus and a distinct religious structure.
B) have art and music.
C) support themselves mainly by trading and manufacturing.
D) have learned to live in peace with their neighbors.
E) have given up religion and adopted rational thinking.
Answer: A
Q3) The word "theocracy" means "rule by the strongest."
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires
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Q1) Which of the following statements concerning Zoroastrianism is false?
A) It was dualistic and monotheistic in nature.
B) It had few followers outside the Persian Empire.
C) It did not include a final judgment or a last judgment among its beliefs.
D) Its supreme deity was Ahuramazda.
E) Eventually, it regressed into a type of polytheism.
Answer: C
Q2) The Medes and the Persians were both Semitic speakers.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Zoroastrianism was
A) monotheist (one god).
B) dualist (two gods).
C) polytheist (many gods).
D) atheist (no god).
E) agnostic (undecided)
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: The Civilization of the Greeks
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Q1) The strategoi in Athens
A) made the laws that governed the city.
B) was the judicial body.
C) administered the laws and was the day-to-day government.
D) kept the numerous slaves under control.
E) was a board of ten generals.
Answer: E
Q2) Which of the following phrases best describes the social situation of most Greek women?
A) Women were kept under strict control, cut off from formal education, and were always assigned a male guardian.
B) Women were afforded equal rights with men in city politics.
C) Women were often allowed to participate in public life, especially through jury service.
D) Women were not allowed to participate in any religious festivals.
E) Women exercised in the nude except in Sparta and took part in the Olympic Games.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: The Hellenistic World
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Q1) In the Hellenistic era, medicine
A) entirely broke from using magical practices such as the use of amulets.
B) made radical advances due to the discovery of the germ theory of disease.
C) progressed due to the use of dissection and vivisection.
D) was seen as an acceptable product of divine wisdom and a viable substitute for any existing religion.
E) was mainly influenced by knowledge from China and India.
Q2) The scientific foundations of medicine made by Alexandrian physicians
A) continued uninterrupted through Roman times.
B) were made possible through the use of dissection and vivisection.
C) included, most importantly, a new understanding of the circulation of blood through the body.
D) made magical practices, amulets, and herbal potions obsolete.
E) abandoned their Greek roots and relied exclusively on previous Persian practices.
Q3) Slavery was viewed as abnormal throughout the Hellenistic world.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: The Roman Republic
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Q1) After imposed retirement from Roman politics, Cicero took up writing
A) comic plays.
B) tragic theater pieces.
C) new poems.
D) philosophical treatises.
E) histories of early Rome.
Q2) The Roman Dictator
A) was a temporary executive during the period of the Republic.
B) exercised unlimited power for a period of usually six months.
C) was responsible for getting Rome involved in the Punic Wars.
D) all the above
E) a and b
Q3) The most significant non-Latin influence upon early Rome came from the Etruscans.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Latin alphabet was derived from the Greek alphabet.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: The Roman Empire
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Q1) Trade and commerce in the Early Empire
A) stimulated manufacturing.
B) concentrated some industries in certain areas.
C) was secondary in importance to agriculture.
D) a and c
E) a, b, and c
Q2) The "golden age" historian Livy is well known for his
A) rejection of Latin prose in favor of Greek poetic forms.
B) perceiving history in terms of sharp moral lessons.
C) factual accuracy and critical judgment toward his sources and Rome's past.
D) Epistles, which portrayed Rome as a degenerate society in a state of collapse.
E) history of the Trojan Wars, which was the subject of the Aeneid.
Q3) During the Early Empire (14-180 A.D.), the Roman army
A) was increased to 400,000 men.
B) was dominated by only Italian legionaries.
C) was successful in invading Gaul.
D) became corrupt due to nepotism.
E) became mostly made up of German soldiers, although Romans remained the officers.
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Chapter 7: Late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World
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Q1) By 395, the western and eastern parts of the Roman Empire became virtually two independent states.
A)True
B)False
Q2) After the death of Theodoric, the Ostrogothic kingdom
A) prospered under very able rulers.
B) was defeated by the Byzantines, reducing Rome as a center of Mediterranean culture.
C) allied itself with the Vandals against the Visigoths.
D) dominated Mediterranean trade for the next fifty years.
E) converted the Germans to orthodox Christianity.
Q3) The Corpus Iuris Civilis (Body of Civil Law) compiled under Justinian
A) was not immediately adopted by the Byzantine Empire.
B) was the last Byzantine contribution to the west to be written in Latin.
C) marked a turning away from Roman law.
D) served to undermine economic prosperity in the empire.
E) was the first literary work to be written entirely in Greek.
Q4) Muslims regard Muhammad as a prophet of god but not as himself divine.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) An independent Umayyad dynasty survived in Spain until 1453.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Socially and culturally, the church's advocacy of indissoluble marriage resulted in
A) more bachelors who never married.
B) the development of the nuclear family at the expense of the extended family.
C) a great proportion of widows in communities.
D) the birth of fewer children in medieval times.
E) an rapid increase in Europe's population.
Q3) In feudal Europe, a vassal was a man who
A) was in the Church as a monk, priest, or bishop.
B) farmed his own land and lived his own life.
C) served another as a warrior.
D) wandered the roads begging for his bread.
E) had been banned from a territory for life.
Q4) Muslims contributed little of importance in mathematics or philosophy, stuck as they were in an insular myopia.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: The Recovery and Growth of European Society
in the High Middle Ages
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Q1) Concerning the curriculum of the medieval university
A) students studied the trivium and quadrivium.
B) it allowed for a wide degree of student choice.
C) it was determined by the professors of the universities.
D) it was based on the classics of Rome.
E) it was based upon the Bible and the writings of the church fathers.
Q2) Between 1100 and 1300, the population of Europe trebled.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The high number of fights and accidents described in medieval court records may plausibly be attributed to
A) the violence of lords.
B) the high consumption of alcohol.
C) generally poor diet and nutrition.
D) fears of witchcraft.
E) religious heresy.
Q4) The revival of trade led to a decline of cities.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power
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Q1) The Cistercians, a new reform-minded monastic order, A) grew very slowly in the eleventh century.
B) eliminated all decorations from their churches.
C) spent more time in private prayer and manual labor by curtailing religious services.
D) endorsed serfdom and were supported by peasant labor services.
E) b and c
Q2) Saint Dominic, founder of the new Dominican order of preachers, A) was chiefly concerned with limiting papal power.
B) did not embrace the necessity of poverty for the members of new church orders. C) was an intellectual who created a new order of learned prelates to fight heresy within the church.
D) worked most closely with popes to reform the College of Cardinals. E) preached on street corners to common people.
Q3) The Byzantine loss at Manzikert led eastern Christians to ask their western brethren for help.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century
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Q1) France's "first woman of letters" was
A) Pope Joan.
B) Joan of Arc.
C) Heloise.
D) Christine de Pizan
E) Simone de Beauvoir.
Q2) Changed urban attitudes in the fourteenth century included
A) the promotion of equality between men and women in the workplace.
B) later marriages and increases in the number of extended families.
C) children being seen as valuable only in their capacity to work and earn money for the family.
D) the regulation and acceptance of prostitution in most communities.
E) the abolition of any property requirement for voting and political participation.
Q3) The Great Schism arose in 1378 when
A) an argument broke out over the nature of the Trinity.
B) England broke away from the Catholic Church.
C) France was converted to Lutheranism.
D) the French cardinals elected a second pope.
E) an earthquake split St. Peter's basilica in two.
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Chapter 12: Recovery and Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance
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Q1) The wealth of the northern Italian cities that funded the Renaissance was gained mostly from
A) colonization.
B) the slave trade.
C) agriculture.
D) military conquest.
E) trade.
Q2) The "new monarchs" of the late fifteenth century in Europe
A) continued the trend toward decentralization.
B) were focused upon the acquisition and expansion of power.
C) attempted to build up the nobility for support.
D) accepted the domination of the church as a matter of course.
E) were generally illiterate.
Q3) Federigo da Montefeltro of Urbino was
A) an example of a skilled, intelligent, independent Italian warrior prince.
B) an outspoken advocate of Italian unification.
C) a callous, disloyal prince, loathed by the papacy.
D) strictly opposed to the proliferation of condottieri in Italy.
E) a pious subject of the papacy.
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