Question 1

The division between Roman Patricians and Plebeians was:

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between the wealthiest (2 %) and the rest (98%) of the people

Question 2

Traditional Roman Religion included ancestor worship and:

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oligarchs who played roles as priests and politicians

Question 3

One of the things the Romans borrowed from the Greek Settlers in Southern Italy was:

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the derived Roman alphabet

Question 4

Tiberius Gracchus sought to protect small farmers and protect the pool of citizens from which the army could be drawn by reviving old laws from the Republican days that limited the amount of land a person could hold: for this he was:

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murdered

Question 5

One example of how Rome transformed the world into the Roman world would be:

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that Roman leaders who originated from everywhere within the empire would settle far from their place of birth.

Question 6

After Rome had twice defeated Carthage, a third Punic War:

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was provoked by war hawks who thought Carthage must be destroyed.

Question 7

The Augustan system of government:

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is known as the early empire of Principate, because Octavian ruled as first citizen.

Question 8

Cultural and intellectual developments in Rome reached their pinnacle during:

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the Principate

Question 9

During the early Roman Republic, Rome:

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expanded slowly and extended the Latin right to many of the cities it conquered.

Question 10

The equestrian order (Roman knights) was established when:

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businessmen who did not become senators wanted privileges

Question 11

The Romans were the first people to use___ on a massive scale in their buildings:

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concrete

Question 12

Once the Romans had effectively gained control of Italy (265 BCE)

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they started a series of ward for control of the western Mediterranean

Question 13

The Romans were able to support cities with large populations due, in no small measure, to the:

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construction of a system of aqueducts to allow a steady supply of potable water to the cities

Question 14

Roman law consisted of three branches: civil law, natural law, and:

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the law of nations

Question 15

Cicero, one of the most famous stoics of the later republic, believed in all the tenets of Stoicism except:

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withdrawal from public life

Question 16

In the aftermath of the assassination of Julius Caesar, the second triumvirate took out its revenge on everyone opposed to them; one of the more prominent victims of the second triumvirate was:

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Cicero

Question 17

The geographic site of Rome has many advantages, including:

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hills that increase the defensibility of the city

Question 18

The Twelve Tables of Law, approved in 450 BCO represent:

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the codification of existing laws for all to see and obey

Question 19

Prior to the establishment of Rome as the dominant state in Italy:

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Etruscans, skilled metalworkers, and artists lived there

Question 20

Prior to Julius Caesar\'s appointment as \"dictator for Life\" only one other Roman had been appointed to that position without the traditional six month term, and he was:

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Sulla

Question 21

The Latin Right of the early Romans guaranteed that:

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contracts, marriages, and citizenship were valid across Latium

Question 22

Central to Roman identity was a conservatism expressed in an unwritten code of:

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mos maiorum

Question 23

According to the patria potestas provision of the Twelve Tables, a Roman father

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had absolute power over his family, up to and including the power of life and death

Question 24

The myth of the rape of Lucretia appealed to Roman patriotism by emphasizing

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the corruption of the Etruscan morals and government

Question 25

Those who ruled Rome from 96-180 CE were called the \"five good emperors\" because:

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they were capable administrators who governed successfully.

Question 26

The epic of Gilgamesh, the dramatic confrontation between Gilgamesh and Enkidu and its aftermath, illustrates:

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that the forces of nature cannot be overcome by civilization and death is inevitable

Question 27

The Egyptians made notable advances in:

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measuring time

Question 28

one of the contributors to the Neolithic revolution was

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climate change

Question 29

the civilization that emerged in ancient Egypt arose

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at the same time as that of ancient Sumer

Question 30

cave paintings, such as those found in Lascaux, Franc, are evidence of:

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development of language as well as religious artistic ideas

Question 31

the law code of Hammurabi

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had most of its laws aimed at free commoners

Question 32

Hammurabi might have been the first ruler in history to

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have most of his laws aimed at free commoners

Question 33

which comparison between Egypt and Mesopotamian civilizations is false?

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both enjoyed significant political and cultural interations

Question 34

Sargon of Akkad is significant because he

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subdued Sumer and exerted influence from Ethiopia to the Indus Valley

Question 35

An individual who successfully led the city states army in battles was

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able to acquire prestige and power as a lugal

Question 36

by becoming a lawgiver, Hammurabi

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set a new standard of kingship

Question 37

the Egyptian system of hieroglyphics was

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deciphered by Champollion using the rosetta stone

Question 38

Jericho, one of the world\'s oldest villages, began an impressive building program of structures to protect their grain surplus around

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6800 BCE

Question 39

One of the significant technological achievements of the Sumerians was

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the invention of the potters wheel

Question 40

Although early writing was produced using pointed sticks, Sumerian scribes 3100 BCE advanced writing with durable reeds that

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produced wedge like script called cuneiform

Question 41

Ur-Nammu built the great ziggurat at

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UR

Question 42

to the peoples of the ancient world, the characteristic manifestations of civilization-government, literature, science, and are-were necessarily products of:

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city life

Question 43

The Akkadian rulers of Sargon and Naram-Sin

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ruled from cities and kept their empires through conquest and commerce

Question 44

the switch from subsistence by food gathering to food production

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momentus revolution that made stable settlements possible

Question 45

one of the new approaches to the study of how humans lived before the development of cities and writing is:

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evolutionary biology

Question 46

the Egyptians developed elaborate tombs and burial techniques

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to provide the dead with all they would need in the afterlife

Question 47

The Egyptian book, ___, is an example of \"wisdom literature\" offering advice to those in public life

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the instruction of ptah hotep

Question 48

historians typically divide ancient Egyptian history into___to facilitate the discussion of Egyptian politics and culture

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kingdoms and periods

Question 49

the earliest cities in Mesopotamia were founded by the

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Ubaid people

Question 50

One of the notable characteristics of civilization was the development of

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occupational specialization

Question 51

The new kingdom, particularly the Eighteenth Dynasty, we marked by

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the rise of the wealthy aristocracy

Question 52

In phoenician\'s overseas colonies

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power was wielded by a small number of elite families

Question 53

The Phoenicians greatest contribution to civilization was

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their alphabet

Question 54

The culture of hittites was

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strongly militaristic prone to attacks on other peoples

Question 55

the division of property and wealth in new kingdom

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favored pharoah, the officer class and temples of the gods

Question 56

The mitannians introduced lighter chariots to carry archers, but

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their opponents soon copied them and used protective armor

Question 57

by the fourteenth century BCE, international relations were marked by

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diplomatic standards, polite forms of address, gifts and alliances

Question 58

in the 1100s BCE a wave of destruction swept across the Near East and Mediterranean world as a result of invasions of the

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Sea Peoples

Question 59

two of the foremost hebrew prophets who emphasized the ethical demands God makes on humans were

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amos and hosea

Question 60

By 1500 BCE

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huge mycenaen citadels were scattered across some of Greece

Question 61

Indo-European as used in historical anthropological texts refers to

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linguistic and cultural patters found widely distributed from Ireland to India

Question 62

The Late bronze Age

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was an age of superpowers

Question 63

The system of writing developed by citizens of Ugarit

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used an alphabet of about thirty symbols for the consonants

Question 64

In the Book of Judges, the Hebrew people

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begin to settle and organize themselves into twelve tribes

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