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The earliest hominids

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lived in Africa.

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During the Old Stone Age,

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hunting and gathering was the way most people supported themselves.

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The migration patterns of the first modern humans show that people moved beyond their familiar hunting grounds at a rate of about ____ miles per generation.

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2-3

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What was the central aspect of the Neolithic Revolution?

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The emergence of systematic food production through the domestication of plants and animals.

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Which of the following were among the basic characteristics of the first civilizations?

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the development of cities

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Mesopotamian civilization

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was made of cities and located in a river valley.

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Which of the following is a true statement?

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The Amorites, under the leadership of Hammurabi, replaced the Sumerians and Akkadians as rulers of Mesopotamia.

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What principle did the Code of Hammurabi emphasize?

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retribution

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Hammurabi did all of the following except

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become Pharaoh of Egypt during the Middle Kingdom.

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Which of the following is not true about cuneiform?

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It used the Cyrillic alphabet.

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The Epic of Gilgamesh was

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an epic poem from Mesopotamia dealing with the search for immortality.

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The annual flooding of the Nile River

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enabled Egyptian civilization to thrive by leaving deposits of fertile silt

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Which of the following is not correct about the pyramids?

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They were constructed during the Middle Kingdom.

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Mummification was to

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help ensure that one could continue to live despite the death of the physical body.

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Egyptian hieroglyphs

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used sacred characters as picture signs.

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In addition to Mesopotamia and Egypt, other nearby areas in which significant human advances were made included

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the construction of a large megalithic complexes in the British Isles and in northwestern France which revealed a surprising awareness of astronomical data.

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The Indo-Europeans

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spoke related languages, among which are Sanskrit, Persian, and Greek.

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Which of the following ancient language does not belong to the Indo-European language group?

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Chinese

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The Phoenicians

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invented an alphabet.

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Many historians believe that the early books of the Hebrew Bible

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were written long after the events written about.

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After the death of King Solomon, Jerusalem became the capital of the southern Kingdom of

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Judah.

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The following are true about the Jewish concept of monotheism except

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a transcendent God, he was part of nature, created rather than the creator.

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Cyrus the Great

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created a great Persian Empire.

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The Assyrian army

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was renowned for its ability to besiege enemy cities.

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Some central ideas of Zoroastrianism are believed to have had a fundamental impact on Christianity. Which of the following did these ideas tend to emphasize?

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good and evil.

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The two major cities of the Harappan civilization

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Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa.

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Which of the following correctly describes Harappan civilization?

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It was a collection of over fifteen hundred towns and cities, ruled by landlords and rich merchants.

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The transition the Aryans made from pastoral to primarily agricultural pursuits was aided by the introduction of which of the following?

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Iron

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What army of occupation was driven from India by Chandragupta Maurya?

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the Greek administrators who had remained after Alexander the Great

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The authority of Mauryan kings was

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curtailed by an institutionalized bureaucracy of powerful governors and ministers.

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What were the three "twice-born" castes?

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vaisya, kshatriya and brahmins

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The caste system

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was applicable to every member of Indian society.

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The third-ranked caste, usually viewed as the merchant caste, was the

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vaisya.

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The term that refers to the system of large, joint families in India is

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jati

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All of the following are true about the jati system except

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it was the category of social classification with subdivisions within each for different castes.

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Which of the following statements about the relationship between the Indus River and Aryan cultures is correct?

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Elements of both cultures provided creative impulses for ancient Indian civilization.

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The Hindu pantheon today is estimated to include ____ deities.

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more than 30,000

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The Indian term that refers to the impact of one's actions in life on a later life after reincarnation is

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karma

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The ultimate goal of Hindus is to

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attain an ultimate spiritual reunion with Brahman and escape the pain of living.

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The founder of Buddhism was

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Siddhartha Gautama.

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A key difference between Hinduism and Buddhism was that Buddhism

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was simpler, as it rejected the numerous Hindu gods.

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Ashoka

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changed his personal values and governmental policies after becoming a Buddhist.

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After the decline of the Mauryan Empire, the new kingdom that was founded by nomadic warriors in Bactria was the

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Kushan Kingdom.

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The purpose of the Vedas was to provide

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hymns and ritual sacrifices for tribal Aryan religious ceremonies.

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The language of the Vedas was

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Sanskrit

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The Mahabharata

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provides an elaborate discussion of the ethics of the dharma.

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Stupas

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ultimately became a place of devotion.

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Which of the following is not true about the rock chambers?

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Ashoka prohibited their use for religious ceremonies.

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Much of ancient Indian architecture

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was inspired by the Mauryan rulers' desire to propagate Buddhist ideas in stone structures.

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The numerical system we know as 'Arabic numerals' was devised

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devised in ancient India.

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Which of these ancient civilizations survived, intact, until the twentieth century?

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Chinese

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The legendary "three sovereigns" of prehistoric China were

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Fu Xi, Shen Nong, and Huang Di.

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In what valleys did ancient Chinese civilization originate?

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Yellow and Yangtze rivers

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Which of the following is not a true statement?

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All evidence indicates that the first agricultural villages in China developed only along the Pearl River.

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Ancient Chinese villages were organized on the basis of

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clans.

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What was the first metal used for making tools?

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copper.

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Which of the following statements is correct?

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The Bronze and Iron Ages overlapped.

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The first culture to use iron weapons and tools was the ____ culture.

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Hittite

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According to the Zhou concept of the Mandate of Heaven

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the king was expected to rule in a compassionate and effective manner because he was selected by the gods to rule in order to maintain the order of the universe.

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What was the "well-field system"?

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It allowed peasants plots of their own to work, as well as working the lands of their lords.

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Examples of Zhou advances in agricultural technology included the

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technique of leaving fallow land to better use soil nutrients.

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"If the government seeks to rule by decree, and to maintain order by the use of punishment, the people will seek to evade punishment and have no sense of shame. But if the government leads by virtue and governs through the rules of propriety, the people will feel shame and seek to correct their mistakes." This statement reflects the ideas of

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Confucianism.

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Although not technically rejecting aristocratic rule, Confucius believed that a primary basis for granting the right to participate in government should be

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merit.

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Which of the following describes Legalism?

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It was developed during the "Hundred Schools" era.

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Daoism

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has the Dao De Jing as its primary document.

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In the Book of Xunzi human nature is portrayed as fundamentally

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evil

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The autocratic, centralized rule of the Qin dynasty was a

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desire to limit the power of regional lords.

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The major nomadic threat to the Qin came from the

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Xiongnu.

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Most of the currently standing Great Wall of China, and which is the most photographed, was

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built during the Ming dynasty.

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All are correct about the "five relationships" except

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the husband to the wife.

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Characteristic elements of daily Chinese life were

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simple and sparsely furnished houses.

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The significant cultural contribution of the Shang dynasty was the work that was cast in

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bronze.

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The terra-cotta figures near the Qin First Emperor's burial mound demonstrate the

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huge expenditures that were devoted to afterlife preparation for the monarch.

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What makes the Chinese written language unique?

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its ideographical format

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The Chinese written language maintained its unique quality because of

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its unifying role within the society.

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The earliest Aegean civilization was located

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on Crete.

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Sparta was located in

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the Peloponnesus.

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Mycenaean civilization was characterized by

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a militaristic program of conquest, even of Crete.

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The emergence of the 'city state' as a central institution in Greek life

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preceded the classical age.

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Which of the following statements is not an accurate characterization of the Greek polis?

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It played a significant role in unifying all Greeks throughout the entire region under a single government.

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By about 700 B.C.E., which of the following replaced the aristocratic cavalryman in Greek warfare?

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hoplites.

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Greek colonization

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resulted from overpopulation, an increase in trade, and a widening gap between rich and poor.

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In ancient Greece, tyrants

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served in a transitional role from oligarchy to democracy for many city-states.

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All of the following were true about the Spartan assembly except that

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it was elected by the gerousia and the military commanders.

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The myth of Persian invincibility was broken at

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Marathon

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All of the following was true about the Peloponnesian War except

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the ultimate result of the war was a unified Greece headed by the city by Thebes

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The Greek historian who wrote the History of the Persian Wars was

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Herodotus

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Thucydides believed that

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historical writing should be objective, accurate, and factual

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The tragic Greek tale of the man who killed his father and married his mother was written by

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Sophocles

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The plays of Euripides

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reflected a skepticism that questioned traditional values

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Socrates

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employed a question-and-answer method by which students' reasoning helped them to learn

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The first Olympic Games took place in the ____ century BCE.

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8th.

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Greek religion was characterized by

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polytheism, rituals, sacrifice, and festivals

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In their effort to uncover the will of the gods, the ancient Greeks made use of

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oracles

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Which of the following statements is an accurate depiction of life in classical Athens?

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It was a male-dominated environment that used slaves, was predominantly agricultural, employed a limited number of craftsmen, gave a major role to the family, and accepted the practice of male homosexuality.

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Women in ancient Sparta

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engaged in systematic physical exercise.

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From primary records of Alexander's military campaigns we learn that Alexander

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always dealt harshly with the leaders of enemy armies.

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In his well-known movie about Alexander the Great, Oliver Stone portrayed Alexander as which of the following?

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an idealistic dreamer.

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One of the Hellenistic kingdoms that succeeded Alexander was that of the

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Ptolemies in Egypt

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The Hellenizing process

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created greco-macedonian domination of the population centers of the middle east

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