West In the World: HIST150- Exam One

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Multiple choice quiz featuring questions about B.C. time period.
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Frage 1

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In prehistoric times, the people were known as 'survivalists' and relied on what practice to sustain them?
Antworten
  • Cooperation and Language
  • Hunting and Gathering
  • Small Numbers
  • Community 'Job' Placement

Frage 2

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The time period where domestication of animals and growing crops, also known as farming and agriculture, were important factors in their civilization was called:
Antworten
  • Prehistory
  • Neolithic Revolution
  • Paleolithic Revolution
  • Specialization

Frage 3

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What was a characteristic of the Neolithic Revolution?
Antworten
  • Domestication of Animals
  • Staying in the Same Place
  • Population Increase
  • Specialization
  • All Answers are Correct

Frage 4

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What was Mesopotamia?
Antworten
  • Region made of City States
  • A River
  • A Single City
  • A War Town

Frage 5

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What were two difficulties created by the Tigris/Euphrates?
Antworten
  • Difficult to navigate and flooding
  • Two many water creatures trying to attack and kids died swimming in the river
  • Hard to wash your clothes and no fresh water
  • Too easy for enemies to attack and had to have a navy

Frage 6

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Name three benefits that Mesopotamia had because of the River flowing through it:
Antworten
  • Access to fresh water, method of travel, fishing
  • Fishing, boating, water sports
  • Navy base, method of protection from enemies, method of travel
  • Place to wash your clothes, could go for a swim, fishing

Frage 7

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The Mesopotamian outlook on the "Afterlife" could be described as:
Antworten
  • Optimistic
  • Pessimistic
  • There is no after life
  • Anything you want it to be

Frage 8

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Which river in Egypt was easy to travel, flowed consistently, and flooded to the same point for 1,000's of years?
Antworten
  • Nile
  • Euphrates
  • Tigris
  • Amazon

Frage 9

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Because of the consistent flooding of the Nile River, the people living along it decided to build their houses up to the line of flooding and were never harmed by it.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 10

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The soil along the Nile River was rocky and hard to use for farming.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 11

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What was the process called where Egyptians would go to the river, gather mud, use a stylus to write on the mud, and let the mud dry and turn into stone tablets?
Antworten
  • Written Language
  • Cunneiform
  • Bibliotecha
  • Sumerian Symbols

Frage 12

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People who lived in the city of Sumer and developed a written language using symbols were known as Sumerians.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 13

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The "Code of Hammurabi" was a system of written laws.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 14

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With written law, the "little guy" is more likely to resort to violence because of unfair trials.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 15

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To what does the phrase, "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," refer to?
Antworten
  • Cuneiform
  • Getting what you deserve
  • The Code of Hammurabi
  • Violence

Frage 16

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What were the four main topics of the Code of Hammurabi?
Antworten
  • Justice, Temperance, Fortitude, Prudence
  • Faith, Hope, Love, Charity
  • Severity, Class, Gender, Trade

Frage 17

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In the Code of Hammurabi, everyone was treated equally and given the same punishments.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 18

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In the Code of Hammurabi men and women were treated differently: If a woman cheated on her husband she was put to death. If a man cheated on his wife then he had to pay a fine.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 19

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When a wealthy or important man dies, his widow inherits his rights.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 20

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The Hebrew were ancient Jews enslaved by the French in Mesopotamia.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 21

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Monotheistic means:
Antworten
  • Many gods
  • Demigods
  • Single minded
  • One God

Frage 22

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What was a characteristic of Yahweh?
Antworten
  • Sovereign
  • Transcendent
  • Good
  • All of the Choices are Correct

Frage 23

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A transcendent God is one that is above nature because he created all parts of it.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 24

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To be sovereign means to share your power with all.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 25

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Lying is an important part of Judeo-Christianity.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 26

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Define rational humanism.
Antworten
  • A human is able to think clearly when not under the influence.
  • Human beings cause their own problems, so they can solve their own problems.
  • If you believe in the gods, then they will fix all of your problems.
  • No human knows how to fix a problem on their own and they need help from those around them.

Frage 27

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Who was Homer?
Antworten
  • A poet of ancient Greece
  • A troublemaker of ancient Rome
  • A writer from Mesopotamia
  • The person who developed the rational humanism theory

Frage 28

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The Iliad was an instruction manual and holy book for Ancient Greeks written by Homer.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 29

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What did King Agamemnon do during the Battle of Troy?
Antworten
  • Get some booty.
  • Watch over the preceedings but not participate.
  • Steal the other Kings woman.
  • Fight alongside his men.

Frage 30

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Why was Achilles important?
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  • He was a great soldier
  • He killed the King
  • His mother loved him
  • He killed his father

Frage 31

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King Agamemnon gave his wife to Achilles as a reward.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 32

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What significant thing happens to Achilles when he sits out of a battle?
Antworten
  • His side loses
  • His side wins
  • His best friend dies
  • The King dies

Frage 33

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When Achilles sits out during a battle and his friend dies, it is a result of the universal order.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 34

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What is arete?
Antworten
  • A fruit used for wine making in Ancient Greece
  • A type of sandal worn by wealthy land owners
  • The idea that every human being is supposed to embrace their mind and body in the pursuit of perfection
  • The idea that every human being should be as athletically fit as they can be

Frage 35

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A polis is an independent city state government. Who were the most important examples of polis in Ancient Greece?
Antworten
  • Troy and Athens
  • Athens and Sparta
  • Sparta and Persia
  • Greece and Gaul

Frage 36

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What was a large downfall in the city of Sparta?
Antworten
  • Rocky Soil
  • Not having enough slaves
  • Weak in times of battle
  • Not enough people

Frage 37

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Sparta struggled to have enough food for their entire history.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 38

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Who were the Helots?
Antworten
  • Farmers
  • People who were captured from other cities and turned into slaves
  • Lawmakers in the city of Sparta
  • Spartan Soldiers

Frage 39

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To avoid a possible slave rebellion, the Spartans gave them free food.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 40

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The winner of the "Helot Olympics" received the price of their freedom and no longer had to be a slave to the Spartans.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 41

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Athens represented the epitome of ancient Greece for what reasons?
Antworten
  • Navy, Trade, Cosmopolitan, Crops
  • Great in Battle and Grew lots of Crops
  • Stole from other cities and took their people as their slaves
  • They made great wine and sold it to the surrounding cities

Frage 42

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Solon was known as what?
Antworten
  • The Town Fool
  • The Reformer
  • The Farmer
  • The Philosopher

Frage 43

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What were the two cash crops of Ancient Greece?
Antworten
  • Olives and Grapes
  • Corn and Beans
  • Rice and Potatoes
  • Grapes and Beans

Frage 44

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Grapes and olives were important because they could be used as food sources.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 45

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What concept did Thespis introduce to the theater?
Antworten
  • Dance
  • Song
  • Dialogue
  • Costumes

Frage 46

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What does important work Sophocles write?
Antworten
  • Iliad
  • Odyssey
  • Oedipus Rex
  • Ophelia

Frage 47

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In Oedipus Rex, the main character kills his uncle and marries his aunt.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 48

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Who was Socrates?
Antworten
  • The writer of the Apology
  • The main character in the Apology
  • Plato's brother
  • An important law maker

Frage 49

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Socrates says that he does not have the slightest skill as being a [blank_start]skillful speaker[blank_end], unless they mean a speaker of truth.
Antworten
  • skillful speaker

Frage 50

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Socrates is [blank_start]70[blank_end] years old at the trial.
Antworten
  • 70

Frage 51

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The person indicting Socrates is [blank_start]Meletus[blank_end].
Antworten
  • Meletus

Frage 52

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Socrates charges nothing to teach people.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 53

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The god at Delphi tells Caerephon that he has magical powers.
Antworten
  • True
  • False
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