west hist midterm 4
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Central to Roman identity was a conservatism expressed in an unwritten code of:
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mos maiorum
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The Assyrian king:
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also served as chief priest
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The initial shift from village to city took place in the area of Mesopotamia known as:
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Sumer
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Changes in the Roman law of marriage, in the second century B.C.E., meant that
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wives retained control of their fathers' property, preserving their independence
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One belief that Western religions took from Zoroastrianism is the idea:
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of an ultimate battle between the forces of good and those of evil
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The Augustan system refers to:
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political reforms instituted by Augustus and continued under his successors
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The Persian Wars were ideologically based as they were waged between:
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Greeks who believed they should rule themselves and the Persian empire
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Romans could support cities with large populations due to the:
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construction of a system of aqueducts bringing potable water to the cities
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The greatest Roman stoic, Cierco, believed that:
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virute leads to happiness, and peace of mind is the highest goal
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Slavery in Sumerian society was:
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usually the result of capture during the war and limited in some ways
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During the early Roman Republic, Rome:
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expaned slowly and extended the Latin right to many of the cities it conquered
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The decisive Greek military victory over the Persians at Salamis was won by the:
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Athenian fleet
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The \"Five Good Emperors\" from 96 to 180 C.E. were so called because they:
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were capable administrators who governed successfully
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Before entering an enjoyable afterlife, the deceased, Egyptian:
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would be judged by Osiris and other divine judges
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Most historians believe that the Hebrew Bible describes:
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few historical events which actually happened as they are described in the text
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An important difference between Roman and Greek religion was the Roman view of:
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the integration of religion with Roman politics
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The Greek innovation in shipbuilding, the trireme, was so called because it had:
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three banks of oars on each side
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Social tensions in the late Roman Republic were made worse by:
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the fourfold division of people: senators, equestrians, commoners, and slaves
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The Delian League helped to transfrom which city-state into an empire?
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Athens
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One example of how Rome transformed the world into the Roman world would be:
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Roman leaders coming from everywhere within the empire
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Rome's cultural and intellectual developments peaked in the reign of:
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Augustus
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Which sentence best describes Spartan government c. 600 B.C.E.?
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Sparta was ruled by a citizen assembly, a council of elders, and two kings
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Traditional Roman religion included ancestor worship and:
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oligarchs who played dual roles as priests and politicians
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One way that the Romans were influenced by the Greeks was by:
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observing the many Greeks who lived in Sicily and southern Italy
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The Twelve Tables of Law, approved in 450 B.C.E., represent:
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the codification of existing laws for all to see and obey
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The monothesim developed by the Hebrews differed from other religions by the:
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