Western Civilization I
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Course Introduction
Western Civilization I offers an in-depth exploration of the political, social, economic, and cultural developments that shaped the Western world from ancient times through the medieval period, concluding around 1600 CE. The course examines the contributions of major civilizations including Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, as well as the rise of Christianity, the Byzantine Empire, and the Middle Ages in Europe. Through the study of key historical figures, pivotal events, foundational texts, and transformative ideas, students gain a nuanced understanding of how Western traditions and institutions emerged and evolved, laying the groundwork for the modern era.
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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) Akhenaten is best known for his unsuccessful attempt to reform Egypt's
A) military.
B) borders.
C) marriage customs.
D) religion.
E) currency.
Answer: D
Q2) Punishments for crimes under the Code of Hammurabi
A) were more severe for the lower classes.
B) did not apply to domestic family concerns.
C) stressed reform rather than retribution.
D) were not for the upper class at all.
E) stressed the importance of confession and forgiveness.
Answer: A
Q3) Persian is not a Semitic but an Indo-European language.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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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) The sun god, who became a helper of Ahuramazda and later, in Roman times, the source of another religion, was
A) Avesta.
B) Osiris.
C) Buddha.
D) Vishnu.
E) Mithra.
Answer: E
Q3) The elite infantry of the Persian army were known as the?
A) Immortals
B) Marines
C) Praetorian Guard
D) Assassins
E) Invisibles
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: The Civilization of the Greeks
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Q1) Greek culture in the Archaic Age was represented in life-size stone statues of nude males known as kouros figures.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Typical of Greek culture in the archaic age was
A) Homeric epic poetry.
B) the symposium, the sophisticated drinking party uniting all ranks of society.
C) lyric poetry as found in the works of Sappho.
D) the poetry of Hesiod emphasizing the superiority of the aristocratic class.
E) the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
Answer: C
Q3) The Peloponnesian War resulted in
A) the consolidation of Pericles' power.
B) the unification of the Greek city-states under Thebes.
C) the defeat of Athens and the collapse of its empire.
D) Athenian control of Sicily.
E) the defeat of Sparta, leading to its permanent decline.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: The Hellenistic World
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Q1) The Aetolian and the Achaean leagues were
A) military alliances of Greek cities.
B) formed primarily for social reasons.
C) located in central Greece and the Peloponnesus.
D) dominated by Athenian and Sparta representatives.
E) destroyed by Philip II.
Q2) By the 1 century B.C.E., which of the following was the largest city in the Mediterranean?
A) Antioch.
B) Rome.
C) Athens.
D) Carthage.
E) Alexandria
Q3) The Hellenistic era describes an age that saw
A) the extension and imitation of Greek culture throughout the ancient Near East.
B) the absence of autocratic power for nearly three centuries.
C) the disappearance of a Greek cultural legacy until Roman times.
D) Alexander's successors maintain a united empire until Roman times.
E) the disappearance of Greek religious beliefs and practices.
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Chapter 5: The Roman Republic
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Q1) The Carthaginians originated from
A) Phoenician Tyre.
B) northern Italy.
C) Macedonia.
D) southern Gaul.
E) "Nether" Spain.
Q2) Optimates in the late Roman Republic wanted to give more power to the A) patricians.
B) proletariat.
C) plebeians.
D) equestrians.
E) emperors.
Q3) After the Latin revolt (440-338 B.C.E.) Rome
A) sacked, plundered, and destroyed the Latin cities.
B) gave the Latin cities complete independence.
C) isolated itself from other societies on the peninsula.
D) enrolled the Latin cities as military allies.
E) asked the Latin cities to be more understanding.
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Chapter 6: The Roman Empire
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Q1) In the second century, the Pantheon was built, which was one of Rome's greatest buildings, a temple to all the gods.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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.
Q3) Christianity spread very slowly and remained a minority religion in the Roman Empire by the end of the first century A.D.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The peace of the Roman Empire and the security of the princeps depended ultimately upon the support of the patrician class and the Senate.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World
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Q1) The political, economic, and social policies of the restored empire under Diocletian and Constantine
A) meant the destruction of the civil and military bureaucracies.
B) renewed the support of the Roman peasants and lower classes for the Empire.
C) led to the economic rejuvenation of the Empire.
D) were based on coercion and the loss of individual freedom.
E) led to the abandonment of the Eastern Mediterranean with a renewed focus upon Italy.
Q2) In Islam, Jihad has been defined as "holy war" but a more accurate description is "striving in the way of the Lord."
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Order of St. Benedict stressed
A) study and the preservation of manuscripts.
B) ecstatic worship.
C) hard manual labor to learn humility.
D) prayer and meditation.
E) a balance of study, work, and prayer.
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Q1) Muslims contributed little of importance in mathematics or philosophy, stuck as they were in an insular myopia.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The German monarchy was restored in 919 when the German dukes elected Henry the Fowler, Duke of
A) Bavaria.
B) Swabia.
C) Franconia.
D) Naples.
E) Saxony.
Q3) Under feudalism of the Early Middle Ages
A) the major obligation of a vassal to his lord was to provide military service.
B) a vassal was not required to provide legal assistance at his lord's court.
C) a lord has no formal responsibilities toward his vassals.
D) there was no outlet for the breaking of the bond between lord and vassal.
E) serfdom came to an end.
Q4) The premier scholar in Charlemagne's court was Alcuin of York.
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) The "agricultural revolution" of the High Middle Ages
A) caused little change in the forested areas of Europe.
B) was in part brought about by a change from the two-field to the three-field system.
C) led to the demise of the cooperative agricultural villages.
D) was in large part due to the development of the aratum, an iron ploughshare.
E) was the result of corn imported from the New World.
Q2) Students in medieval universities
A) came strictly from the upper class.
B) usually started their instruction while in their late twenties.
C) often engaged in quarrels with one another and in confrontations with townspeople.
D) were both male and female.
E) learned in the vernacular.
Q3) The Song of Roland is one of the finest examples of
A) the medieval chanson de geste.
B) twelfth-century courtly romance.
C) the Arthurian legend.
D) Latin religious verse.
E) troubadour epic.
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Chapter 10: The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power
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Q1) Feudalism in England under William I differed from feudalism in most other countries in that
A) he de-emphasized the role of knights.
B) he required all sub-vassals to swear allegiance to him.
C) homage was eliminated.
D) fiefs were drastically reduced in size.
E) manors were awarded only to members of William's own family.
Q2) The policy that Spanish Christian rulers followed during the reconquest in distributing lands, houses, and property of Muslims to Christians was known as A) reconquista.
B) arrangemento.
C) parlemento
D) repartimiento.
E) none of the above
Q3) Within Europe, the most popular sites for Christian pilgrims were Rome and Jerusalem.
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) 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) In contradiction to Thomas Aquinas, William of Occam claimed that the truths of religion could not be proved by reason but could be accepted only by faith.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Recovery and Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance
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Q1) The development of printing in the fifteenth century
A) pertained predominantly to secular works, as theological works were still done by hand.
B) saw the invention of movable type by Nicholas Fabian.
C) ensured that literacy and new knowledge would spread rapidly in European society.
D) made communication and collaborative work between scholars more difficult due to competition.
E) had little impact until the eighteenth century.
Q2) 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.
Q3) Filippo Brunelleschi's statue of David was the first life-size freestanding bronze nude since ancient Greece and Rome.
A)True
B)False
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