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Foundations of Western Civilization Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
This course offers a comprehensive overview of the major historical, cultural, intellectual, and social developments that have shaped Western civilization from its ancient origins through the Renaissance. Students will explore the emergence of classical societies in Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome, the transformative impact of Christianity, the evolution of feudalism and medieval institutions, and the profound changes brought about during the Renaissance. Emphasis is placed on key ideas, events, and individuals that influenced art, philosophy, politics, and religion in the Western world, providing a foundational understanding of the forces that have molded modern Western societies.
Recommended Textbook 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) The cave in southern France, discovered in 1994 and that contains three hundred paintings of animals, is known as the ____ cave.
A) Lascaux
B) Chauvet
C) Andalusia
D) Pyrenees
E) Poitiers
Answer: B
Q2) The Sumerian government
A) came to view kings as agents of their gods.
B) saw the various city-states erect different types of governments.
C) was a theocracy in which the priest ruled.
D) was a type of aristocracy where nobles were appointed by an assembly.
E) was controlled by the merchant and artisan class.
Answer: A
Q3) Hieroglyphics means "mystery."
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires
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Q1) The Hebrew Bible
A) differs fundamentally from the Torah and the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.
B) focuses on the basic theme of the necessity of the Hebrews to obey their God.
C) related only the words of the prophets and tells us little about Hebrew daily life.
D) tells little about the history of the Hebrews before the Babylonian Captivity.
E) was written in Aramaic.
Answer: B
Q2) The weakening of the Persian Empire was largely attributed to A) a corrupt system of satraps that was never closely monitored by the king.
B) the constant erosion and diminishment of its standing army.
C) the kings' hoarding of wealth and over taxation of their subjects.
D) a lack of communication due to its vast size.
E) earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: The Civilization of the Greeks
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Q1) The Delian League was organized in 478-477 B.C. to
A) prevent democracy from spreading to the Aegean islands.
B) keep Sparta isolated in the Peloponnesus.
C) arrange for proper rituals to Apollo on Delos.
D) drive the Persians from the Aegean Sea and Ionia.
E) resist the take over of Greece by Macedonia.
Answer: B
Q2) The story that when told that the many Persian arrows would darken the sky, a Greek warrior supposedly said, "That is good news. We will fight in the shade," is associated with the Battle of Thermopylae.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The Greek historian Thucydides differed from Herodotus in that the former
A) was unconcerned with spiritual forces as a factor in history.
B) exhibited a critical attitude toward his sources but Herodotus did not.
C) devoted much of his writing to economic history.
D) was unconcerned with teaching lessons based on history.
E) never wrote about warfare but only about political and cultural matters.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: The Hellenistic World
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Q1) The most famous scientist of his era, Archimedes of Syracuse, was responsible for all of the following except
A) uniting the disciplines of science and philosophy.
B) designing military devices to thwart siege attackers.
C) creating the science of hydrostatics.
D) establishing the value of the mathematical constant pi.
E) work on the geometry of spheres and cylinders.
Q2) In his Philippics, Demosthenes
A) portrayed Philip II as a looming threat to Greek freedom.
B) foresaw a revival of Athenian culture under Philip II.
C) glorified the Macedonian armies as the saviors of Greece.
D) praised Philip II for freeing the Ionian cities.
E) portrayed Philip II as a looming threat to Persia.
Q3) Slavery was viewed as abnormal throughout the Hellenistic world.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Romans sacked Athens and Alexandria in the fourth century B.C.E. and then invaded Asia Minor.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: The Roman Republic
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Q1) For the Romans, Italy's geography
A) provided little productive land for agriculture.
B) divided the peninsula into small isolated communities.
C) made Rome a natural crossroads and an area easy to defend.
D) made the conquering of the Mediterranean a difficult task.
E) created the same difficult environment as in Greece, thus making political unity difficult.
Q2) Which one of the following innovations enabled Romans to erect giant amphitheaters, public baths, and high-rise tenement buildings?
A) steel.
B) copper.
C) calculus.
D) concrete.
E) load-bearing arches.
Q3) The paterfamilias in Roman society was
A) a client to a patron or wealthy citizen.
B) the male head of the household.
C) an upper-class aristocrat.
D) a common person.
E) the male head of the family.
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Chapter 6: The Roman Empire
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Q1) Which of the following argued that women should be subservient to men?
A) Jesus of Nazareth.
B) Mary Magdalene.
C) John the Baptist.
D) Paul of Tarsus.
E) Diocletian.
Q2) The Roman Senate under Augustus was
A) stripped of all but the most superficial of powers.
B) a full and equal partner of the princeps.
C) retained as the chief deliberative body of the Roman state.
D) no longer a high court of justice nor allowed to control the public treasury.
E) completely dissolved and eliminated.
Q3) The most important figure in early Christianity after Jesus was
A) Mary Magdalene.
B) the Apostle Peter
C) John the Baptist.
D) Paul of Tarsus.
E) Pontius Pilate.
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Chapter 7: Late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World
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Q1) In the late fourth century, the Visigoths and other Germanic tribes, were pushed into the Balkans region of the Eastern Roman Empire because of pressure from the A) Byzantines.
B) Vikings.
C) Avars.
D) Arians.
E) Huns.
Q2) The best example of Hiberno-Saxon art is A) a Viking war ship.
B) a long sword.
C) the Book of Kells.
D) the architecture at the monastery of Whitby
E) the Hagia Sophia
Q3) The basic rule for western monastic living was developed by A) Benedict.
B) Pachomius.
C) Jerome.
D) Ambrose.
E) Basil.
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Q1) Manorialism
A) marked an end to the fief-holding system of the Early Middle Ages.
B) was an economic system based upon landed estates.
C) brought about a rejuvenated increase in European slavery.
D) devastated the social mobility of the lowest classes in European society.
E) ended with the Viking invasions.
Q2) The Carolingian scholar Alcuin is best noted for
A) helping to lay the foundation for medieval education.
B) his influential views on the "indissoluble nature" of marriage.
C) his emphasis on Frankish languages over classical Latin.
D) preaching against the lazy monastic orders.
E) his opposition to celibacy.
Q3) The Poles, Czechs, and Hungarians
A) ignored all efforts of German kings to Christianize them.
B) were united by their cultural links to the Byzantine Empire.
C) were greatly influenced by assimilation into the Catholic church and Latin culture.
D) rejected western Christianity and became increasingly antagonistic toward Christianity.
E) became Orthodox Christians, unlike most of the other Slavic peoples.
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Chapter 9: The Recovery and Growth of European Society
in the High Middle Ages
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Q1) Troubadour poetry was chiefly concerned with A) religious imagery.
B) the courtly love of nobles, knights, and ladies.
C) the highly irreverent life of wine, women, and song.
D) rhyme and a meter based on accent.
E) religious crusades and military conquests.
Q2) The Gothic style of architecture emerged and was perfected in A) England.
B) the Netherlands.
C) Spain.
D) Sweden.
E) France.
Q3) The first university in northern Europe was A) Paris.
B) Oxford
C) Cambridge.
D) Heidelberg.
E) Bruges.
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Chapter 10: The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power
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Q1) The founder of the Mongol Empire was
A) Alexander Nevsky.
B) Kublai Khan.
C) Genghis Khan.
D) Khanbaliq
E) Vladimir of Kiev.
Q2) Pope Gregory VII
A) claimed that popes had the right to depose kings and emperors.
B) stated that popes should not be involved in the everyday activities of the church.
C) increased the Church's missionary activities to Russia and the east.
D) collected new taxes to finance building programs.
E) crawled in the snow and begged the forgiveness of Henry IV of the Holy Roman Empire.
Q3) The Magna Carta could best be described as
A) a promise to work to develop democratic institutions.
B) an affirmation of the traditional rights of barons.
C) a guarantee of religious freedom for all Englishmen.
D) a guarantee of civil rights for all Englishmen.
E) the first feminist legislation of King John's reign.
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Chapter 11: The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century
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Q1) The conflict between Pope Boniface VIII and Philip IV of France began when Philip A) tried to end corruption in the French Church.
B) tried to buy the papacy for his nephew, Henry.
C) taxed churchmen without the Church's permission.
D) denied the existence of witches.
E) authorized a French translation of the Bible.
Q2) The chief ambition of the Venetian city-state in the fourteenth century was A) financial control of the Holy Roman Empire.
B) inducing the bankruptcy of the papacy.
C) to create a maritime commercial empire throughout the Mediterranean and Black seas.
D) monopolizing the shipping of English wool to Flanders.
E) to wage a crusade against the Turks in order to gain access to the Holy Land.
Q3) All medical books, even after the impact of the Black Death, continued to be written in Latin and all were highly theoretical rather than being practical.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Recovery and Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance
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Q1) The Italian Renaissance was primarily
A) a mass movement of the peasants.
B) characterized by a preoccupation with religion.
C) a product of rural Italy.
D) a recovery or rebirth of antiquity and Greco-Roman culture.
E) a religious reform movement.
Q2) In Concerning Character, Pietro Paolo Vergerio argued that liberal studies led to
A) the death of God.
B) the rise of the peasant.
C) insights into nature.
D) true freedom.
E) enslavement to the false god of knowledge.
Q3) Who said, ''Christ is my God; Cicero is the prince of the language.''
A) Savanarola.
B) Leonardo da Vinci.
C) Petrarch.
D) Dante.
E) Boccaccio.
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