Western Civilization I Exam Review
Course Introduction
Western Civilization I explores the origins and development of Western society from ancient times through the early modern era. The course covers significant civilizations such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, as well as the transition to medieval Europe. Students examine key historical events, political systems, cultural achievements, religious movements, and philosophical ideas that have shaped the foundations of Western culture. Emphasis is placed on understanding the social, economic, and intellectual forces that contributed to the rise of Western civilization and how these influences persist in 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) Evidence indicates that the Sumerians were not the first peoples in ancient Mesopotamia inasmuch as a number of Sumerian agricultural and craft terms are not Sumerian in origin.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) In agrarian societies, an economic surplus is food which is A) not wanted or needed.
B) used to support a non-laboring elite.
C) used to supplement the diets of hard-working farmers.
D) used to feed a growing population of farmers.
E) used to feed foreign prisoners taken in war.
Answer: B
Q3) Ancient Egyptian history is divided into ____ major periods.
A) two
B) three
C) four
D) six
E) eight
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires
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Q1) Which one of the following is not considered part of the Judeo-Christian heritage in West Civilization?
A) monotheism.
B) law.
C) morality.
D) social justice.
E) revenge.
Answer: E
Q2) The Persian Empire reached its largest territorial boundaries under A) Cyrus.
B) Darius.
C) Xerxes.
D) Cambyses.
E) Darius III.
Answer: B
Q3) The first five books of the Hebrew Bible are known as the Zend Avesta.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Civilization of the Greeks
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Q1) The Sophists
A) were professional teachers who seemingly questioned the traditional values of their societies.
B) had as their chief spokesman Socrates.
C) were led by Plato and emphasized rote memory in education.
D) questioned traditional Greek religion and, instead, worshiped the Egyptian god Isis.
E) were expelled from Athens at the beginning of the fifth century, never to return.
Answer: A
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
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Chapter 4: The Hellenistic World
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Q1) 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.
Q2) In establishing his empire, Alexander the Great
A) saw himself as a descendant of Greek gods and heroes.
B) combined Greek and Persian practices to allow its administration.
C) allowed intermarriage between his soldiers and native Persian women.
D) a and c
E) a, b, and c
Q3) The mystery cults and religions of the Hellenistic world
A) were completely foreign and thus unacceptable to the Greeks.
B) helped pave the way for the success of Christianity.
C) never achieved widespread popularity due to their inability to fulfill people's spiritual needs.
D) lacked an emotional initiation experience, unlike the Greek civic cults.
E) became the state religions of the various Hellenistic kingdoms.
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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) 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.
Q3) Antony and Cleopatra were defeated by Octavian in 31 B.C.E. at the Battle of Actium, thus symbolically ending the Roman Republic.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Like most of the great Roman writers of the first century B.C.E., Catullus was from Rome.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: The Roman Empire
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Q1) The poet Juvenal commented that the only thing that most Romans wanted was bread and circuses.
A)True
B)False
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) Among Augustus' key innovations in Roman provincial rule was his A) abandonment of North Africa.
B) division of Roman provinces into those ruled directly by the princeps and the senatorial provinces administered by the Senate.
C) use of military governors alone.
D) complete revision of provincial tax policies.
E) creation of a federal system wherein provincial governors had almost complete power.
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Chapter 7: Late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World
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Q1) Saint Jerome, is known for all of the following except
A) his mastery of Latin prose.
B) his skills as a linguist.
C) his translations of the Old and New Testaments from Hebrew and Greek into Latin.
D) his final return to pagan heresy and rejection of key Christian doctrines.
E) becoming one of the Latin Fathers of the Church.
Q2) The Council of Nicaea in 325
A) first organized a system of bishoprics.
B) elected the first pope.
C) defined Christ as being "of the same substance" as God.
D) centered around the heresy of Donatism.
E) was condemned by Constantine.
Q3) The greatest difference between Irish Christianity and Roman Christianity was in
A) Irish church organization, giving Irish abbots more power than bishops.
B) differing interpretations of the Nicene Creed.
C) disputes over the powers of deacons.
D) conflicting views on the power of the Papal Curia.
E) the divinity of Jesus.
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Q1) In the Middle Ages, monastic hospitality to travelers was
A) forbidden because monks were to be secluded from any contact with the outside world.
B) offered occasionally, but only with royal permission.
C) offered occasionally, but only with the permission of the abbot.
D) offered to men but not to women, as the latter were potentially too sexually threatening to the celibate monks.
E) a sacred duty.
Q2) Initially, the greatest effect of the church on Frankish marriage
A) was to make it one of the sacraments.
B) was to limit sexual license.
C) emphasized the indissolubility of marriage.
D) prohibited the marriage of priests.
E) encouraged warriors, but not peasants, to have multiple wives.
Q3) In the early Middle Ages, books were written on sheepskin inasmuch as papyrus was too expensive to be imported from Egypt, then under Muslim control.
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 renaissance of the twelfth century was primarily caused by
A) the university movement of the previous century.
B) circulation in the west in Latin translation of many ancient philosophical and scientific works previously saved by Muslim scholars.
C) the elaborate and dialectical writings of St. Thomas Aquinas.
D) the generous financial support of scholars by new European monarchs.
E) renewed contacts with the Byzantine Empire after centuries of separation.
Q2) The first medical school was established in
A) Padua, Italy.
B) Vatican City.
C) Salerno, Italy.
D) Geneva, Switzerland.
E) Moscow.
Q3) 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.
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Chapter 10: The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power
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Q1) The heresy in southern France which Pope Innocent III stamped out with an internal crusade was the
A) Donatist heresy.
B) Arian heresy.
C) Monophysite heresy.
D) Cathar heresy.
E) Lutheran heresy.
Q2) Which of the following was not a result of the crusades?
A) some cultural exchanges between Christians and Muslims
B) new economic growth of Italian port cities
C) by removing many young warriors to the Middle East, European society was possibly more stable and European monarchs gained greater control.
D) increasingly common and violent attacks on European Jews by Christians
E) the growth in power of the Middle Eastern crusader states
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) One of France's advantages toward the end of the Hundred Years' War was its adoption of cannon.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The persecutions against Jews during the Black Death
A) were instigated at the calling of the Catholic church.
B) led to the execution of nearly all of the Jews in eastern Europe.
C) was the result of the decline in popular religious movements and manifestations.
D) had little to do with financial motives.
E) reached their worst excesses in German cities.
Q3) Ars moriendi refers to the
A) claim of victory in medieval warfare.
B) art of dying.
C) peasant's dues paid to the manor lord.
D) collective regulations of urban craft guilds.
E) tithe paid to the church.
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Chapter 12: Recovery and Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance
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Q1) By the fifteenth century, Italy was
A) a centralized state.
B) dominated by the Papal States exclusively.
C) the foremost European power.
D) dominated by five major regional independent powers.
E) made up of hundreds of independent city-states.
Q2) Which of the following is not true of Northern Renaissance artists?
A) They had less mastery of the laws of perspective than many Italian painters.
B) The most influential artist was Jan van Eyck.
C) There was an emphasis on illuminated manuscripts and wooden panel painting.
D) They valued the secular human form as the primary subject of painting.
E) They never portrayed the human body.
Q3) Western Europe in the Renaissance saw
A) a decline in serfdom.
B) a decline in centralized royal government.
C) a reduction in urban trade networks.
D) a rise in famine.
E) an increase in slavery.
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