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Theodoric, the Ostrogothic king who took control of Italy, was determined to
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maintain Roman customs and practices in Italy.
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Hellenistic sculpture and architecture
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flourished as monarchs were obsessed with beautifying their cities
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As a result of the First Punic War
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the Carthaginians were forced to withdraw from Sicily and pay an indemnity to Rome
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The main achievement of the 287 B.C law in Roman constitutional history was
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its ruling that all plebiscita passed by the plebeian assembly had the force of law and were binding the entire community, including patricians
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Spartan helots
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were bound to the land and labored as farmers and servants
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The Greek tragedy was
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divisions and rivalries between city states
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Christianity was made the official religion of the Roman Empire by the emeror
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Theodosius
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The original Indo-Europeans possibly came from
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the steppe region north of the black sea
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The Germanic tribe which moved into Italy after Justinian's destruction of the Ostrogoths was the
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Lombards
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Daily existence in Egypt was not marked by
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no efforts by the people to enjoy life due to a harsh enviroment
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During the period of the Roman Empire, the Arabian peninsula was dominated by the
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Bedouins
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The following was a similarity between medicine in the Early Middle Ages and the medicine in the ancient world
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In both periods, magical rites, charms, and amulets were used
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Solomon's most revered contribution to the Hebrew society was to
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construct the Temple, the symbolic center of the Hebrew religion and society
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In manorialism, serfs
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could marry only with their lord's permisson
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The Byzantine dynasty which effectively dealt with the many challenges facing the empire was the
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Macedonian
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Julius Caesar
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led military commands in Gual and Spain that enhanced his popularity
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Upper-class Hellenistic women achieved considerable progress and opportunity but not in
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legal equality
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The following best describes the Mycenaeans
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They were a warrior people who achieved their apex between 1400 and 1200 B.C
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At its height, the Assyrian Empire was ruled by
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a king whose power was absolute
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Justinian's military conquests under general Belisarius
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were very-short lived
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After the death of Theodoric, the Ostrogothic kingdom
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was attached by the Byzantines and devastated, destroying Rome as a center of Mediterranean culture
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This was not one of the Hebrew conception of God
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there was no room for personal relationships with him, as his word of law
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At the Battle of Gaugamela
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the Greeks under Alexander were able to break the center of the Persian line and with boldness turn the battle into a rout
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The event that curtailed Augustus's expansionist policies was
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the defeat of Varus in the Teutoburg Forest
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Rome's conquest of the Italian peninsula by 264 B.C can be attributed to
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superb diplomacy
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Greece's topography didn't have
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extensive open plains
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Alexander did not conquer
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Arabia
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As Rome expanded, it became Roman policy to govern the provinces with officials known as
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proconsuls and propraetors
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During the period of Greek history from 750-500 B.C
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The polis developed as chief political institution and trade and colonization increased greatly
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The most tolerant and efficient of the Near Eastern empires was the
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Persian
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This is not true of Mesopotamian society d
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small villages, which were hard to defend, were the basic units of civilization
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The last of the Juilo-Claudian emperors was
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Nero
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This was not a unifying force in Assyrian society
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economic and social equality
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The polis was the Greek name for
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city-state
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In the 9th century, they didn't pose a threat to European civilzation
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Slavs
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The Hebrew Bible
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focuses on the basic theme of the necessity of the Hebrews to obey their god
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The Epic of Gilgamesh teaches that
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human life is difficult and immortality is only for the gods
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The powerful families which dominated Rome during the second and first centuries B.C were collectively known as the
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nobiles
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Egypt's Middle Kingdom
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saw the pharaohs provide more for the public welfare
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Before Philip II, the Macedonians
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were a rural people organized in tribes and considered backward by southern Greeks
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The Roman Empire's persecution of Christians in the first two centuries after Christ's death
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was sporadic and local
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The Abbasids
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broke down the distinctions between Arab and non-Arab Muslims
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The Egyptian god that was most closely associated with the mummification of the dead was
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Osiris
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The Hellenistic era describes an age that saw
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the extension and imitation of Greek culture throughout the ancient Near East
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The result of Macedonian incursions into Greece under Philip II was
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the creation of the Corinthian League under Philip
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The political figure chiefly associated with the establishment of Athenian democratic institutions is
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Cleisthenes
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In general, during the imperialistic New Kingdom, Egyptian government changed by
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a gradual lessening in the power of pharaohs over their neighbors
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The primary instrument of Pope Gregory for converting the Germanic peoples of Europe was
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monasticism
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The " terrible third century" was not made terrible by
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ignorance of military affairs by the seven emperors
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The economy of ancient Egypt relied most heavily on
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agriculture
