Pre-Modern World History
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Course Introduction
Pre-Modern World History explores the major civilizations, cultures, and global interactions from the earliest human societies up to the beginning of the modern era around 1500 CE. This course examines the development of political systems, religious beliefs, economic structures, technological innovations, and social organizations across regions including Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. By analyzing primary and secondary sources, students will gain an understanding of how diverse societies influenced one another through trade, conquest, migration, and cultural exchange, shaping the foundations of the modern world.
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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) The most prominent structure in a Sumerian city was a temple called a ziggurat.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Persian is not a Semitic but an Indo-European language.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The word "theocracy" means "rule by the strongest."
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Which of the following statements best applies to the status of women in Mesopotamian society?
A) Women exclusively controlled offices in the priesthood.
B) Divorce laws applied equally to men and women.
C) Punishments for adultery were light compared to those for men.
D) Woman had political but no religious rights.
E) The woman's role was to be in the home and subservient to her husband.
Answer: E
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Chapter 2: The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires
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Q1) The Medes and the Persians were both Semitic speakers.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Most biblical scholars claim that most of the early books of the Hebrew Bible accurately reflect the historical events of the Israelites.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) 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
Q4) The historian of The Persian Wars was Thucydides.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Civilization of the Greeks
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Q1) The Greek Parthenon
A) was dedicated to Zeus, chief of the Greek gods.
B) is considered the greatest example of classical Greek temple architecture.
C) was designed by the Greek architect, Doryphoros.
D) was destroyed during the Peloponnesian War.
E) a and b
Answer: B
Q2) In general, separate early Greek communities
A) developed close ties and cooperated with one another.
B) exchanged diplomatic representatives only.
C) avoided all contact to appease their city gods.
D) established formal federations early in Greece's history.
E) became fierce rivals fighting so often as to threaten Greek civilization itself.
Answer: E
Q3) The woman who sent her son off to war by telling him to come back carrying his shield or upon it reflects the values of Sparta.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: The Hellenistic World
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Q1) At the Battle of Chaeronea (338 B.C.E.), Philip II
A) was killed, leaving Alexander in control of Greece.
B) drove the Persian navy out of the Aegean Sea.
C) unified Macedon for the first time in its history.
D) suffered a humiliating defeat.
E) defeated the Greek poleis, ending their independence.
Q2) Unlike the Epicureans, the Stoics believed that complete withdrawal from the public world of politics and society was necessary in the quest for a passive and unattached life.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following was not one of Philip II's military reforms?
A) He abandoned the phalanx formation as too ineffective and inefficient.
B) He made use of cavalry contingents in breaking the opposing line of battle.
C) His warriors used a longer thrusting spear, double that of the Greek hoplite.
D) Made use of engineers who designed catapults to destroy enemy fortifications.
E) His infantrymen carried smaller shields and shorter swords than Greek hoplites.
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Chapter 5: The Roman Republic
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Q1) As Rome expanded, it became Roman policy to govern the provinces with officials known as
A) consuls.
B) quaestors.
C) colonnae.
D) proconsuls and propraetors.
E) tribunes.
Q2) Which Roman writer is most closely associated with the development of a new poetry at the end of the Roman Republic?
A) Sallust
B) Cicero
C) Catullus
D) Plutarch
E) Virgil
Q3) 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) The Roman praetorian guards were
A) elite troops given the task of protecting the emperor.
B) mobile units meant to patrol the boundaries of the empire.
C) often used to train the gladiators.
D) cavalry used to spearhead military offensives.
E) stationed along Hadrian's Wall in northern Britain.
Q2) Marcus Aurelius' cruel son, who was strangled by his wrestling partner in 192 C.E. was
A) Caligula.
B) Nero.
C) Commodus.
D) Domitian.
E) Nerva.
Q3) The event that curtailed Augustus's expansionist policies was
A) the Senatorial rejection of imperialist policy in 20 B.C.
B) the defeat by Varus in the Teutoburg Forest.
C) the revolt of the Egyptians in 14 B.C.
D) the successful series of invasions by the Parthians in the east.
E) revolt by the Jews in Judea.
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Chapter 7: Late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World
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Q1) In 597, Pope Gregory the Great sent the monk, ____, to England to convert the Anglo-Saxons.
A) Anthony.
B) Leo.
C) Constantius.
D) Augustine.
E) Ambrose.
Q2) The Byzantine emperor who initiated the iconoclastic controversy in 725 was
A) Leo III
B) Alexis I Comnenus.
C) Irene.
D) Heraclius.
E) Justinian.
Q3) Guilt under Germanic customary law was determined by
A) trial by jury.
B) the decisions of the major domus.
C) the wergeld.
D) compurgation and ordeal.
E) confession and penance.
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Q1) The Swedish Vikings the Varangians became known or assimilated with which of the following groups:
A) Magyars
B) Czechs
C) Armenians
D) Bulgars
E) Russians
Q2) Climatic patterns improved around 700 after several centuries of colder and wetter conditions.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Swedish Vikings tended to concentrate on conquests and trade in
A) Spain
B) Russia
C) Scotland
D) France
E) Ireland
Q4) An independent Umayyad dynasty survived in Spain until 1453.
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) Male nobles of the High Middle Ages
A) were almost solely preoccupied with warfare.
B) gradually became more involved in economic pursuits.
C) had previously been successful merchants.
D) were very effeminate and shunned the warlike ways of their predecessors.
E) became less committed to war because of the influence of the church.
Q2) Peter Abelard's most famous work was
A) the Confessions.
B) Yes and No.
C) Summa Theologica.
D) consumers trying to assure free competition.
E) Song of Roland.
Q3) 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.
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Chapter 10: The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power
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Q1) William the Conqueror took over England in 1066 after the Battle of A) Poitiers.
B) Runnymede.
C) Hastings.
D) Bosworth Field.
E) Agincourt.
Q2) The church taught that purgatory was
A) a place where the soul was purified through punishment before admission to heaven.
B) a type of hell reserved for the worst sinners.
C) similar to the Greek's concept of an afterlife.
D) a fabulous place where saints dwelled.
E) a heresy.
Q3) The Christian reconquest of Spain in the thirteenth century
A) brought an economic revival, especially for the Andalusian region.
B) saw a politically united Spain.
C) saw the king of Castile, Alfonso X, expel all Jews and Muslims.
D) left Granada the last Muslim kingdom on the Iberian peninsula.
E) drove all of the Moors from Spain and back into Africa.
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Chapter 11: The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the
Fourteenth Century
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Q1) The English Peasants' Revolt of 1381
A) was caused by the rising economic expectations of ordinary people.
B) was brutally crushed by the nobles.
C) succeeded in getting the government to agree to the peasants' demands.
D) gained long-term results for the peasants.
E) led to the end of the Hundred Years' War.
Q2) Because of the resulting economic depression, the price of labor was drastically reduced in the aftermath of the Black Death.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In France, after the papacy was moved to Avignon, the clergy were reduced in rank to being only the Third Estate.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The French government and aristocracy responded to the Jacquerie by
A) drafting the rebels into the army.
B) standing back and letting it run its course.
C) negotiating a settlement with its leaders.
D) massacring the participants.
E) renouncing their historic privileges.
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Chapter 12: Recovery and Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance
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Q1) Slavery in Renaissance Italy
A) reached its height in the early sixteenth century.
B) was universally condemned by the Catholic Church.
C) disappeared entirely by the early fifteenth century.
D) experienced a slow decline.
E) saw slaves from Africa and the eastern Mediterranean used mostly as courtly domestic servants and as skilled workers.
Q2) Johannes Gutenberg was a key developer of
A) the water wheel.
B) the astrolabe.
C) the movable type printing press.
D) smokeless gunpowder.
E) the compass.
Q3) Michelangelo was a painter and sculptor but never tried his hand at architecture. A)True
B)False
Q4) During the fifteenth century, Italians forbade slavery throughout the peninsula.
A)True
B)False
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