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This term is used to describe the Late Stone Age when agricultural skills had been developed but stone was still the principal material for tools and weapons.

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Neolithic Period

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This is the sight of the great Sphinx that stands near the three colossal pyramids built for Pharaohs Cheops, Chefren, and Mycerinus.

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Giza

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A code of laws was developed by this Babylonian ruler.

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Hammurabi

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This statue marks the "turning point" between the late Archaic world and the early Classical world.

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Kritios Boy

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What field is the basis for the philosophical system devised by Pythagoras?

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Mathematics

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Who is considered the "Father of History"?

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Herodotus

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This is the author of the History of the Peloponnesian War

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Thucydides

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A Greek word meaning "virgin," this term is the source from which the Greeks derived the name for Athena's temple atop the Acropolis.

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parthenos

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Which two powers were involved in the Peloponnesian War?

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Athens and Sparta

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This is Rome's first emperor, under whose rule the empire achieved unequaled peace and prosperity.

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Caesar Augustus

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During this Roman emperor's reign, the Pantheon was built.

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Hadrian

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This Chinese philosopher believed that a state run by a wise ruling class would produce similar characteristics in its people.

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Confucious

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This system in India divides all of society into several subgroups.

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caste

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This term literally means "the enlightened one."

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Buddha

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This Chinese ruler directed construction of the Great Wall to defend his empire from outside invaders.

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Shih Huang-ti

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This term refers to the belief in one God.

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Monotheism

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The term identifies a father of a tribe.

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Patriarch

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Which Biblical story was the assigned subject in the competition for the right to decorate the doors of the Florence Baptistery?

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Abraham's sacrifice of Issac

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Literally meaning "going out," this term is used to refer to Moses' leading the Hebrews out of Egyptian captivity.

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Exodus

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This Roman emperor established the eastern capital of the Empire in Byzantium and renamed the city.

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Constantine

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This is the first great example of the entire Ordinary of the Mass set to polyphonic music by a single composer.

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Messe de Notre Dame

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To what destination does a Muslim travel in making the Haj?

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Mecca

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During the 13th Century, he was the most famous and influential of the Parisian masters, whose lifetime study concerned the balance between reason and revelation.

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Thomas Aquinas

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A term used to refer to Muhammad's flight from Mecca to Medina, this marks the beginning of the Islamic religion.

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hegira

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Monastic guidelines that became the Magna Carta of monasticism in the West are known by this name.

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Rule of St. Benedict

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This city served as the Muslims' Spanish capital in the 8th Century.

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cordoba

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These are ribald tales, such as those found in the Decameron.

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Fablieaux

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What epic poem during the reign of Charlemagne served to raise him to almost mythic status.

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The song of Roland

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The "Carolingian Renaissance" concerns the rise of the kingdom of the Franks under what ruler?

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Charlegmagne

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The Carolingian world was essentially this.

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Rural and fuedal

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In contrast to the Carolingian period, the "High Middle Ages" saw the growth of what things?

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Rise of the city, knowledgeable class,population, spiritual rewal.

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32. Which member of the Medici family established and endowed an academy for the study of Plato?

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Cosimo

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Medieval Paris, from about 1150 to 1300, was what? (Think of qualities or assets)

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Gothic Architecture, scholasticism, and universities

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On the social ladder, which group stood between the rural peasant and the landed royalty?

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Middle Class

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"Unparalleled natural calamity, institutional decay and cruel violence" describe which century most closely?

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14th

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This library and study center, which attracted scholars from throughout the Muslim world, is credited with having preserved the works of Aristotle for later generations.

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House of Wisdom

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Around what major devastation does the Decameron, by Boccacio, center?

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The black Plague

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This city became the first important center of the early Italian Renaissance

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Florence

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With which Old Testament character is St. Catherine's Monastery at Mt. Sinai associated?

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Moses

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Under the direction of this emperor, the enormous undertaking of codifying Roman law was accomplished.

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Justinian

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Literally meaning "going out," this term is used to refer to Moses' leading the Hebrews out of Egyptian captivity.

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Exodus

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Who was the most important Christian humanist in Europe during the 1500's?

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Erasmus

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This is the Hindu path or discipline in which one does one's duty according to one's caste obligations and not out of greed or ambition.

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bhakti

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Often included in Buddhist art, these saints invite prayer and meditation.

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Boshistattvas

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This is a Greek term meaning "character," used to describe music's ability to affect human behavior in a specific way.

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ethos

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In the Greek's war with Troy, he was the Greek's greatest warrior whose argument with Agamemnon is the subject of Homer's Iliad.

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Achilles

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This is the most famous composer of the fifteenth century, whose accomplishments include introducing a familiar folk tune into the music for the Mass.

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Guillaume Dufay

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This term identifies an upright stone slab decorated with relief carvings, frequently used as a grave marker.

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stele

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This is the Arabic term meaning "beautiful writing."

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Calligraphy

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Charlemagne's reign saw the standardization of what things or areas?

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Monasticism, worship, music, and education of the church

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Scholasticism during the "High Middle Ages" is often associated with whom?

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Thomas Aquinas

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This Sumerian king who ruled Uruk about 2700 B. C. E. is also the subject of an epic story that predates the Iliad and the Odyssey.

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Gilgamesh

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This is the Egyptian architect who designed the earliest pyramid as a tomb for the Pharaoh Zoser.

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Imhoptep

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In this comedy by Aristophanes, the women of Athens refuse to make love with their husbands until peace is negotiated.

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Lysistrata

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Latin for "keep death before your eyes," this motif was common in medieval morality plays.

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Memento Mori

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This is a type of standing male statue, always shown nude.

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kouros

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This term identifies a sculptural technique in which figures are carved out of a block of stone, part of which is left to form a background.

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relief

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This Greek sculptor created Discobolus (Discus Thrower), an idealized portrayal of an athlete.

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Myron

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Sophocles' best-known play, which Aristotle used as his model in discussing the nature of tragedy.

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Oedipus the King

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This emperor commissioned Vergil to write the Aeneid to celebrate the legendary founding of Rome.

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Augustus

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This Roman author wrote bitter and stinging satires that got him into trouble with Rome.

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Juevenal

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This is an early Christian symbol representing "peace."

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Olive Branch

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This sculptor's Aphrodite of Cyrene is considered one of the first attempts in Western art to introduce the elements of sensuality into the portrayal of the female form.

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Praxiteles

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The Book of the Dead provides insights into the beliefs about the afterlife of which ancient culture?

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Egyptian

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Which of the following is considered the Romans' most important contribution to the classical style in architecture?

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the arch

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The epic of Gilgamesh provides insights about which ancient culture?

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Mesopatamian

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This author of The Prince was considered the greatest Renaissance political theorist.

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Machiavelli

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This culture first invented the system of so-called Arabic numerals in the late 3rd century B.C.E.

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Indian

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Inspired by Taoism during the T'ang Dynasty, this writer became the best known of all Chinese poets.

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Li Po

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Name the Italian author celebrated for his vernacular poetry, including well over three hundred sonnets.

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Petrach

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What Hebrew word is the part of the Bible meaning "the Law"?

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Torah

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This Italian artist is noted as one of the creators of modern sculpture.

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Pisana

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Derived from the Greek for "image," this term is often used to identify a painting of a religious figure or a religious scene that is used in the public worship in the Byzantine Christine tradition.

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Icon

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Hegira identifies...what?

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Muhammad's flight from Mecca to Medina

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Name the situation which divided European Christianity into hostile camps.

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The Great Schism

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This is Justinian's most famous building project, legendary for the beauty and opulence of its decoration.

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Haghia Sophia

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Written by Augustine as an analysis of his spiritual and intellectual development from his youth until his conversion to Christianity.

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Confessions

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The discovery of this pharaoh's almost undisturbed tomb in 1922 was filled with remarkable artifacts that revealed the opulence of ancient Egyptian culture.

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King Tut

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What is included among the Islam's Five Pillars?

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To read from theQur' and in Arabic

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80. Which work was placed in the Palazzo del Vecchio as a symbol of the civic power of Florence?

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Michaelangelo's David

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