Western Civ. I Final Study Guide – Flashcards
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According to the biblical account, 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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What historians refer to as an agricultural revolution
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included the growing of crops and the taming of food-producing animals
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The Assyrians' use of terror tactics and atrocities
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especially targeted inhabitants of the empire who rebelled against Assyrian rule.
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Moses united the Israelites after their enslavement in
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Egypt.
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After the death of Solomon, tensions between the northern and southern tribes led to the establishment of two kingdoms, the kingdom of ____ and the kingdom of ____.
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Israel and Judah
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The vast majority of the population in Sumerian city-states worked as
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farmers.
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In comparison to Mesopotamian society, Egyptian society was
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more rural.
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The cave in southern France, discovered in 1994 and that contains three hundred paintings of animals, is known as the ____ cave.
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Chauvet.
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The Egyptian pyramids were
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conceived and built as tombs for a city of the dead.
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In Zoroastrianism, the evil spirit was known as
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Ahriman.
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The focal points and sources of life for the ancient Egyptians were the
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Nile River and the pharaohs
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In ancient civilizations, bronze would replace copper because
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bronze was harder and more durable
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The early Neolithic era saw
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a slow transition from hunting and gathering to an agricultural society.
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Unlike the rivers in Mesopotamia, the Nile River
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floods predictably at the same time every year.
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The principal economic basis of Assyrian society was
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Susa
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The central, sacred text of Zoroastrianism is the
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Zend Avesta
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The term "civilization" refers to human societies which, amongst other features
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have an urban focus and a distinct religious structure
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Mesopotamia means the land "between the ____"
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rivers.
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Which of the following statements best applies to the status of women in Mesopotamian society?
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Woman had political but no religious rights
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The elite infantry of the Persian army were known as the?
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Immortals
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According to the tradition of the Hebrews, they were descendants of the patriarch ____ who had migrated from Mesopotamia to the land of Canaan.
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Abraham
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Hebrew religion
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was an ethical religion that centered around the law of God.
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Which of the following Egyptian gods was most closely associated with the mummification of the dead?
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Osiris
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The Persian King Cyrus the Great was succeeded by his son
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Cambyses II.
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Gilgamesh was
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the hero of a Sumerian epic poem
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Greek comedy was
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used to express political views as evidenced by Aristophanes
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Early Greek philosophy attempted to
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explain the universe on the basis of unifying principles
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The Peloponnesian War resulted in
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the defeat of Athens and the collapse of its empire
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The term wanax refers to Mycenaean
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Kings.
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The Spartans made the army the center of their society because
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they feared an uprising by their helots
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What were the chief characteristics of the Greek Dark Age?
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It was a period of migrations and declining food production
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Which of the following phrases best describes the social situation of most Greek women?
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Women were kept under strict control, cut off from formal education, and were always assigned a male guardian.
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The development of the polis had a negative impact on Greek society by
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dividing Greece into fiercely competitive states
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Which Greek philosopher said, with regard to the polis, "We must rather regard every citizen as belonging to the state"?
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Aristotle.
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The neighbors of the Spartans who were free inhabitants and required to pay taxes and perform military service but who were not citizens of Sparta were
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helots
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The Greek Parthenon
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is considered the greatest example of classical Greek temple architecture.
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The immediate cause of the Persian Wars was
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revolt of the Ionian Greek colonies in Asia Minor
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For the Greeks, the term arete described the
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the striving for excellence
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The polis was the Greek name for
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city-state
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Cleisthenes' reforms established the Athenian government as
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a democracy.
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The board of ten officials known as strategoi in Athens consisted of
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generals
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The Sophists
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were professional teachers who seemingly questioned the traditional values of their societies
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Which of the following did Aristotle favor as the best government for most people in his Politics?
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constitutional.
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The Lycurgan reforms resulted in
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the establishment of a permanent military state in Sparta.
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Shortly after taking the throne, Alexander dealt swiftly and harshly with a Greek rebellion by sacking the city of
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Thebes.
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Among the most ill-treated of Hellenistic slaves were those
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who worked in Egyptian gold mines
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The mystery cults and religions of the Hellenistic world
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helped pave the way for the success of Christianity
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The best example of Hellenistic 'New Comedy' was the Athenian playwright
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Menander.
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The Greek general who took Egypt after Alexander's death and converted it into the longest-lasting Hellenistic kingdom was
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Ptolemy
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The Greek god of healing, thought responsible for miraculous cures in the Hellenistic period, was
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Asclepius
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What was the primary difference between the philosophy of the Greek classical period and philosophy during the Hellenistic period?
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Hellenistic philosophy dealt more with human happiness disassociated from the life of the polis.
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Isocrates
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hoped that Philip would unite the Greek world in a campaign against Persia
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The widespread popularity of Stoicism and Epicureanism
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suggested a new openness to thoughts of universality in the cosmopolitan Hellenistic states.
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Alexander the Great's troops rebelled when he made the decision to invade and capture
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India.
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Which of the following statements best describes Hellenistic cities?
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They served as important centers of administration, most of which were dominated by Greeks and Greek culture.
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The Alexandrian scholar Euclid's most famous achievement was
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systematizing the study of geometry.
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Which of the following Hellenistic kingdoms was the largest and controlled much of the old Persian Empire?
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Seleucid.
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Improvements in trade and commerce in the Hellenistic world were greatly aided by all of the following except
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revolutionary innovations in agriculture
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Which class of women achieved the most notable gains during the Hellenistic period?
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upper class
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The Antigonid kingdom was located in
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Macedonia.
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Which of the following was Alexander's last battle against the Persian king Darius?
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Guagamela
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The greatest trade product in the Hellenistic world was
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grain.
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Which of the following is true of Jewish settlements in the Hellenistic period?
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Jews were numerous in cities in Egypt, Asia Minor, and Syria.
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Hellenistic sculpture
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was more emotional and realistic than classical Greek sculpture.
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Who was credited with having been the first to separate medicine from philosophy?
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Hippocrates.
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At the Battle of Chaeronea (338 B.C.E.), Philip II
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defeated the Greek poleis, ending their independence.
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Philip II planned to defeat the Greek cities by
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breaking up their hoplite formations with cavalry
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The famous Indian ruler who sent Buddhist missionaries to Greek rulers was
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Asoka.
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Who wrote the treatise, "On Chastity"?
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Phintys.
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The Hellenistic states in the centuries after Alexander the Great
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became despotic monarchies.
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The scientific foundations of medicine made by Alexandrian physicians
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were made possible through the use of dissection and vivisection.
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Scholarship on the legacy of Alexander the Great has suggested he sought
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to emulate the Homeric warrior-hero Achilles
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The immediate cause of the First Punic War was
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Rome sending an army to Sicily.
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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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In Rome, the male family head could
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ALL OF THESE: sell his children. put his children to death. arrange the marriages of all offspring. divorce his wife
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Among the dangerous military innovations of Marius threatening the Republic was his
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Recruitment of destitute volunteers who swore an oath of allegiance only to him
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After imposed retirement from Roman politics, Cicero took up writing
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philosophical treatises
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By crossing the Rubicon, Caesar showed that he
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was willing to disobey the direct orders of the Senate
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The Roman Senate
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could only advise the magistrates in legal matters.
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Optimates in the late Roman Republic wanted to maintain the privileges of the
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nobiles.
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By the later Republic, Roman slaves
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often worked on the Roman latifundia.
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The paterfamilias in Roman society was
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the male head of the family
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Rome set a precedent for treating its vanquished foes after forming the Roman Confederation by
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offering its most favored allies full Roman citizenship, thus giving them a stake in successful Roman expansion
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What was the significance of Scipio Africanus in the Second Punic War?
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He expelled the Carthaginians from Spain and later won the decisive Battle of Zama.
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Imperium was
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the power to command Roman citizens
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The Roman Dictator
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was a temporary executive during the period of the Republic. and exercised unlimited power for a period of usually six months.
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The First Triumvirate was a political alliance between Crassus, Julius Caesar, and
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Pompey
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For the Romans, Italy's geography
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made Rome a natural crossroads and an area easy to defend
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The Struggle of the Orders
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was a peaceful struggle which resulted in political compromise.
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The equites
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were a wealthy and ambitious class of Romans who appeared in the late Republic.
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The Second Punic War saw Carthage
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carry a land war to Rome by crossing the Alps.
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Under the rule of Augustus, the Roman Empire
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turned towards an absolute monarchy, with the princeps overshadowing the Senate.
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The Aeneid is a poem about
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the founding of Rome.
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Roman provincial and frontier policy under Augustus was characterized by all of the following except
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limitless expansion in central Europe
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The word "gospels" means
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the good news.
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The event that curtailed Augustus's expansionist policies was
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the defeat by Varus in the Teutoburg Forest.
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The first of the Flavian emperors was
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Vespasian.
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Which of the following trends developed during the reigns of the Julio-Claudian emperors?
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Emperors took more and more actual ruling power away from the old Senate.
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Marcus Aurelius' cruel son, who was strangled by his wrestling partner in 192 C.E. was
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Commodus
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The largest area of Roman innovation in architecture was
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the use of concrete on a massive scale
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Hadrian built a defensive wall in which Roman territory?
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Britain.
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The greatest historian of the "silver age" of Latin literature was
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Tacitus.
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The mystery cult of Mithraism in the Early Empire
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was a religion especially favored by soldiers.
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Which one of the following mystery cults had a great following, especially among the urban poor
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Isis.
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The last great persecution of Christians was ordered by
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Diocletian.
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Which of the following statements was true of Augustan society?
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Legislation was passed concerning the corruption of morals
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The early values of Christianity, as exemplified in Jesus' "sermon on the mount,"
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emphasized devotion to the values of humility, charity, and true brotherly love
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The absolute monarchical powers of Augustus as princeps led to
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All of the BELOW: his great popularity, as he followed proper legal forms for his power. the decline of popular participation in elections. the usual victory of his candidates in official elections. led to the perception that he co-ruled with the senate
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The late third century emperor who reconquered and reestablished order in the east and along the Danube and who was known as the "restorer of the world" was
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Aurelian.
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The successors to Muhammad's leadership of the Muslims were known as
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caliphs.
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Muhammad's flight from Mecca to Medina in 622 is known as the
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Hegira.
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The cardinal principle of the Islamic faith is that there is no God but Allah and his Prophet is
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Muhammad
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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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Muslim societies abide by a strict code of law, much of it derived from the holy book Qur'an, and regulating all aspects of Muslim life. This law code is called
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the Shari'a
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The Council of Nicaea in 325
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defined Christ as being "of the same substance" as God.
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The basic rule for western monastic living was developed by
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Benedict
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The famous Hagia Sophia is recognizable by
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a large dome, symbolizing the sphere of heaven.
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The Edict of Milan
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was Constantine's document officially tolerating the existence of Christianity.
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Frankish marriage customs
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placed strong sanctions on adulterous women
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The eighth-century controversy that set the Latin and Greek Orthodox Christians apart was over
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iconoclasm, or the destruction of icons
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After the death of Theodoric, the Ostrogothic kingdom
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was defeated by the Byzantines, reducing Rome as a center of Mediterranean culture.
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Augustine's Confessions was written as
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an account of his own miraculous personal conversion
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Constantine's most enduring reform came in the creation of
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the "New Rome."
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The Petrine Doctrine
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was the belief that the bishops of Rome held a preeminent position in the church
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The best example of Hiberno-Saxon art is
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the Book of Kells.
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The seventh-century nun who founded the monastery of Whitby was
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Saint Hilda
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In the late fourth century, the Visigoths and other Germanic tribes were pushed into the Balkans region of the Eastern Roman Empire because of pressure from the
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Huns.
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Muhammad was born in
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Mecca
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The founder of the Frankish kingdom and the first royal Frankish defender of the Catholic faith was
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Clovis
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The Slavs
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were originally a single people in central Europe.
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The economic structure of the Early Middle Ages
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was underdeveloped and predominantly agricultural
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The Swedish Vikings tended to concentrate on conquests and trade in
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Russia
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By the early eleventh century, the Byzantine Empire
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had achieved a new brilliance of power and influence under the Macedonians
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The Treaty of Verdun in 843
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divided the Carolingian empire
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The ruthless Russian leader responsible for tying Russian political and religious ideals to the Byzantine Empire was
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Vladimir.
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The Abbasids
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broke down the distinctions between Arab and non-Arab Muslims
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In feudal Europe, a vassal was a man who
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served another as a warrior
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Under feudalism of the Early Middle Ages
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the major obligation of a vassal to his lord was to provide military service.
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One of the most famous Vikings, who discovered Greenland, was
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Erik the Red
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Charlemagne's most disappointing military campaign came against the
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Basques
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Socially and culturally, the church's advocacy of indissoluble marriage resulted in
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the development of the nuclear family at the expense of the extended family.
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Initially, the greatest effect of the church on Frankish marriage
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was to limit sexual license and concubinage
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Carolingian society was marked by all of the following except
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a total disinterest in bodily cleanliness
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The capital of the Abbasid caliphate during the high point of Islamic culture was the city of
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Baghdad
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The coronation of Charlemagne in 800 as emperor of the Romans
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symbolized the fusion of Roman, Germanic, and Christian cultures
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In 987, the Western Frankish nobility met and elected which of the following as their king, contributing to the formation of a new dynasty to rule France for centuries?
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Hugh Capet
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The most successful Muslim raids in the ninth century occurred in
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Sicily.
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The English king who helped establish a unified Anglo-Saxon monarchy by defeating the Danish army was
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Alfred the Great
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In feudal Europe, a serf was a man who
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was bound to the land as a farmer.
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The Swedish Vikings⎯the Varangians⎯became assimilated with which of the following groups?
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Slavs
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The expansion of the Carolingian Empire under Charlemagne
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was most successful against the German tribes to the east
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Manorialism
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was an economic system based upon landed estates
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Which of the following is not an accurate characteristic of Islamic civilization in the eighth and ninth centuries?
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Men and women were equally dominant in Muslim society
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The German monarchy was restored in 919 when the German dukes elected Henry the Fowler, Duke of
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Saxony.
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The word "vernacular" means
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local language
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The basic staple of the peasant diet was
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bread.
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Much of the surplus resources of medieval urban society went into
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the construction of castles and churches reflecting its basic preoccupations, warfare and God.
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Which of the following was not used as a source of power by medieval farmers?
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coal
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The center of the North Sea/Baltic trade route in northern Europe in the 1100s and 1200s, and an important center of woolen cloth production, was
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Flanders.
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Which of the following brought peasants into contact with the village church?
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religious feasts, holidays, mass, and baptism. all of the above.
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The area that assumed a leading role in the revival of trade in the Middle Ages was
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Italy
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The Gothic style of architecture emerged and was perfected in
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France.
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The writer from Classical antiquity who came to be viewed as the "master of those who know" was
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Aristotle.
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The main part of the medieval castle was called the
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keep.
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Merchant cities in northern Europe, frequently ending in "-burg" or "-borough", grew up in the 1100s around
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the castles of noblemen
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Marriages among the aristocracy of the High Middle Ages
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were expected to establish political alliances between families and increase their wealth
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Medieval university instruction
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used the lecture method
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Combative tournaments involving knights
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were considered by knights to be excellent and necessary training for warfare
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In northern European countries, the most common drink of the medieval peasant was
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ale
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By the twelfth century, divorce among nobles was
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not possible except through official recognition that a marriage had never been valid
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The high number of fights and accidents described in medieval court records may plausibly be attributed to
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the high consumption of alcohol
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The Capetian king who wrested control of several French territories from the King John of England was
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Philip II
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William the Conqueror took over England in 1066 after the Battle of
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Hastings.
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Henry, Duke of Anjou, vastly increased his fortune in 1152 when he married the wealthy heiress
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Eleanor of Aquitaine
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Pope Gregory VII
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claimed that popes had the right to depose kings and emperors
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Which of the following territories did Khubilai Khan complete the Mongol conquest of?
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China.
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The Cistercians, a new reform-minded monastic order
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broke with the Benedictine tradition because they were dissatisfied with its lack of strict discipline
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Feudalism in England under William I differed from feudalism in most other countries in that
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he required all subvassals to swear allegiance to him.
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The Islamic world in the mid-eleventh century was largely unified and dominated by the
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Seljuks
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Under William of Normandy and his son Henry I, medieval England
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developed a strong, centralized monarchy
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The power of the Capetian monarchy was strengthened by the emergence of
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all of the above.
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After capturing the city of Jerusalem in 1099, the Christian soldiers of the First Crusade
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a and b
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The church during the twelfth century possessed a hierarchical structure with the pope and which group at the apex?
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the papal curia.
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Followers of the Cathar (Albigensian) heresy believed that
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the spirit is pure but the body is corrupt and evil.
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In 1071, at Manzikert, the Seljuk Turks defeated the
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Byzantines
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The papacy reached its zenith of power in the thirteenth century during the papacy of
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Innocent III.
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Parliament in England originally arose from the
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king's need to collect new taxes
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Frederick Barbarossa was defeated at Legnano in 1176, ending his attempts to control
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the towns in northern Italy
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The action of the medieval church that closed churches in a region or a country and that forbade the clergy from administering the sacraments to the populace was
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the interdict
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Saint Francis of Assisi stressed that
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his followers must accept strict vows of poverty and live by working and beg for food.
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During the eleventh and twelfth centuries, Holy Roman Emperors
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attempted to exploit the resources of Italy
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The investiture controversy was resolved in 1122 by a compromise agreement known as the Concordat of
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Worms.
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Which of the following territories did Khubilai Khan complete the Mongol conquest of?
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China
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Scandinavia by the twelfth century
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had accepted Christianity through the agency of local kings who wished to better organize and govern their states
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Russia's religious development led to a close affinity between Russian civilization and
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Byzantine civilization
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The Fourth Crusade was diverted from Jerusalem and ended up sacking
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Constantinople.
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Postplague socioeconomic relations between rich and poor in Europe
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got much worse as the positions of landlords deteriorated, and they sought to limit the gains of the peasants.
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France's "first woman of letters" was
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Christine de Pizan
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The conflict between Pope Boniface VIII and Philip IV of France began when Philip
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taxed churchmen without the Church's permission
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A key economic consequence of the plague was
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decline in manorialism and weakening of feudalism as noble landlords desperate for cash converted peasant labor service to market rents freeing their serfs.
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The French government and aristocracy responded to the Jacquerie by
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massacring the participants
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The most revolutionary of thirteenth and fourteenth-century inventions was/were
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clocks
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In fourteenth-century Venice, the real executive power of the state came to be held by the
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Council of Ten.
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From 1305 to 1377, the Papacy resided across the French border in the town of
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Avignon.
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The Italian condottieri were
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leaders of mercenary bands, occasionally ruling as military dictators.
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The Great Schism
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badly damaged the faith of many Christian believers
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Politically, Italy and Germany were similar in the fourteenth century because
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both regions failed to develop a centralized monarchical state.
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The fifteenth century theologian who claimed that reason could not prove spiritual truth was
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William of Occam
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Mysticism in the fourteenth century
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emphasized an intensely personal feeling of oneness with God.
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Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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portrayed characters from a variety of status levels, both high- and low-born
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The crucial battle of the Hundred Years' War that was won by Henry V in 1415 and that led to the treaty and apparent victory in the war for Henry and England was the Battle of
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Agincourt
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During the reign of Edward III of England, the Great Council of the barons
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became the House of Lords forming a hereditary body of peers in Parliament
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During the Black Death
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Jews were accused of causing the plague by poisoning town wells.
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What was the main cause of the early fourteenth century famines?
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a little ice age inducing bad weather with heavy rains
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The Wars of the Roses refers to a civil conflict in
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England
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The monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella
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reorganized the military forces of Spain; expelled all professed Jews from Spain; conquered the last Muslim kingdom of Granada; and filled their royal council with middle-class lawyers instead of aristocrats.
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Propertyless workers and the unemployed constituted what percentage of the population living in cities?
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30 to 40 percent
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The wealth of the northern Italian cities that funded the Renaissance was gained mostly from
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trade.
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The Renaissance figure in the following list who was not a leading painter was
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Petrarch
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Perhaps the most famous of Italian ruling woman was
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Isabella d'Este.
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Marriages in Renaissance Italy
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were an economic necessity of life involving complicated family negotiations
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The Book of the Courtier was a
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popular handbook laying out the new skills in politics, the arts, and personal comportment expected of Renaissance aristocrats
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The Italian Renaissance was primarily
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a recovery of antiquity and Greco-Roman culture.
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The family of merchants and bankers who dominated Florence during the high point of the Renaissance was the
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Medici.
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The painter of the Rome's Sistine Chapel ceiling was
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Michelangelo
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The Third Estate of the fifteenth century was
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overwhelmingly made up of peasants
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Western Europe in the Renaissance saw
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a decline in serfdom
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According to Jacob Burckhardt, the Renaissance in Italy represented
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a distinct break from the Middle Ages and the true birth of the modern world.
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Johannes Gutenberg was a key developer of
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movable type printing press
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Which of the following statements best describes marriage in Renaissance Italy?
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Marriages were usually arranged, to strengthen familial alliances
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Which pair of artists both sculpted a likeness of David?
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Donatello and Michelangelo.
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The first Italian humanist to gain a thorough knowledge of Greek was
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Leonardo Bruni.
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Which ancient writer was considered by civic humanists as their model?
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Cicero
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Renaissance humanists in Italy
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had occupations in schools and universities or as secretaries in city-states or at the courts of princes or popes.
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In the eastern part of his empire, Charles V faced a threat to his power from
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the Ottoman empire
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At its outset, the Reformation in Germany was
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largely an urban phenomenon
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Which of the following are among the chief characteristics of John Calvin's reform movement?
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predestination and the absolute sovereignty of God.
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Though Luther was condemned at the Diet of Worms, he survived because he was protected by
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the Elector of Saxony
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England's break with the Roman church became official with the passage of the
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Act of Supremacy
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In France, the Protestant minority was known as
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Huguenots
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The Reformation affected the development of education in Europe by
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expanding public access to primary schooling and improving secondary schooling through the gymnasium.
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"Bloody Mary" Tudor earned her nickname by executing more than 300
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Protestants
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The Anabaptists
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advocated adult baptism, and if they had been baptized as children, a second baptism
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Millenarianism is the belief that
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the end of the world is imminent.
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The author of Utopia, a satire on European government and society, was
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Thomas More.
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Concerning the sacraments of the Catholic Church, Luther
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rejected all of them except baptism and communion, or the Lord's Supper
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Which of the following was not a central belief of Lutheranism?
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The sale of indulgences is a proper revenue source for a church
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Victory over the Spanish Armada at the end of the sixteenth century was achieved by
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England
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The Swiss religious reformer who established the Protestant Reformation in Zürich was
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Ulrich Zwingli.
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The Peasants' War of 1524-1525
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was strongly opposed by Luther who saw it as a social revolution from below against God's divine order.
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Calvin's success in which city enabled it to become the vibrant center of Protestantism?
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Geneva.
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The Council of Trent
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reaffirmed traditional Catholic beliefs against the Reformation
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Calvin believed that salvation might be indicated by
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a decent and godly life