Western Civ. Reading Final Exam
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Significant features of the Paleolithic Age include each of the following except |
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| Q.2) | Your text refers to which of the following as the central force in "primary" civilizations? |
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| Q.3) | Who were the creators of the earliest civilizations? |
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| Q.4) | Sargon the Great may be said to have been |
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The "land between rivers" refers to |
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Which of the following civilizations provided a basis for Mesopotamian civilization? |
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| Q.7) | Cunieform was found in ancient |
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| Q.8) | In Mesopotamian civilization, the temple administration functioned in the following ways except to |
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| Q.9) | Which factor best accounts for the fact that a Mesopotamian king was not seen as an all-powerful ruler? |
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| Q.10) | Cunieform can be described as |
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| Q.11) | According to your text, the "finest work of Mesopotamian literature" was the |
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| Q.12) | Which ruler of Upper Egypt conquered the Nile Delta and Lower Egypt? |
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| Q.13) | All of the following are features of Egyptian belief in the afterlife except |
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| Q.14) | The Egyptian writing known as hieroglyphics was |
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| Q.15) | It was said that Pharaoh |
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| Q.16) | Qualities of truth and justice |
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| Q.17) | All of the following were achievements of the Egyptians except |
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| Q.18) | Who is most associated with promoting monotheistic ideas? |
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| Q.19) | Which of the following groups ended Egyptian independence? |
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| Q.20) | The Hittites are best associated with |
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| Q.21) | One can credit Ashurbanipal with |
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| Q.22) | Which religion came to be associated with Persian rulers? |
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| Q.23) | The term satrap relates to |
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| Q.24) | Who founded a dualistic religion in the Near East? |
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| Q.25) | Which term is best associated with the "Wise Lord" or the god of light and justice? |
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| Q.26) | One Greek contribution to Western Civilization was |
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| Q.27) | The work of Heinrich Schliemann resulted in |
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| Q.28) | Mycenaean civilization thrived between |
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| Q.29) | Homer's major epics were |
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| Q.30) | Mount Olympus was famous as |
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| Q.31) | By the fifth century bc, Greeks believed the only way to the good life was through |
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| Q.32) | The early inhabitants of the area around Sparta |
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| Q.33) | Which period in Greek History is referred to as the Dark Age? |
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| Q.34) | The Greek term arete means |
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| Q.35) | Of the following, the pair that is least well matched is |
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| Q.36) | Helots were |
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| Q.37) | The reputation of Cleisthenes rests upon his work as |
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| Q.38) | The Athenian conception of excellence is best associated with |
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| Q.39) | The First Persian Invasion of Greece was brought on by |
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| Q.40) | The Athenian statesman Solon wanted to |
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| Q.41) | During the era of the Delian League |
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| Q.42) | The oration delivered by Pericles demonstrated Athenian concern for |
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| Q.43) | The Peloponnesian War was |
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The Peloponnesian League was led by |
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| Q.45) | Which of the following states emerged as a first-rate power in the fourth century BC? |
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| Q.46) | Which of the following statement describes Anaximander's work with the Ionian school of philosophy? |
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| Q.47) | The earliest Ionian philosophy |
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The term "matter philosophers" has been applied to |
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| Q.49) | Which of the following speculated that the world was composed of atoms? |
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| Q.50) | Hippocrates |
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| Q.51) | Aristophanes was a comic playwright who |
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| Q.52) | Which of the following tragedians believed that the world was governed by divine justice? |
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The term "sophrosyne" refers to |
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| Q.54) | Herodotus was a historian of the |
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| Q.55) | Which of the following poets established a school to teach music and singing to well-to-do girls and to prepare them for marriage? |
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| Q.56) | When the authorites in Athens charged Socrates, he |
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| Q.57) | When Plato wrote "The Republic", he |
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| Q.58) | Plato would have argued against which of the following statements? |
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| Q.59) | Aristotle believed the "best political community" should be composed of |
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| Q.60) | Who may be remembered as the first actor in history because he engaged in dialogue? |
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| Q.61) | Thucydides |
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| Q.62) | Which poet wrote poems of friendship and love? |
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| Q.63) | Which of the following dramatists beleived that through suffering, people acquired knowledge? |
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| Q.64) | In contrast to Plato, Aristotle |
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| Q.65) | One of the chief concerns of Aeschylus involved the |
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Which of the following tragic poets subjected the problems of human life to critical analysis and challenged human conventions? |
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| Q.67) | Which Greek tragedian held that individuals should shape their character in the way a sculptor shapes a form? |
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