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Question 1
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Which of the following offices and institutions was NOT part of the Roman republic?
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Senate
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Consuls
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Kings
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Tribunes
Question 2
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In the process of military expansion , Rome's chief rival in the western Mediterranean was
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Syracuse
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the Germans
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Sparta
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Carthage
Question 3
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What were Rome's conflicts with Carthage for control of the western Mediterranean called?
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Macedonian Wars
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Jugurthine Wars
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Punic Wars
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Propontine Wars
Question 4
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The person responsible for the creation of the unified Persian Empire around 550 B.C.E. was
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Hammurabi
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Alexander the Great
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Xerxes
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Cyrus the Great
Question 5
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Which of the following was not a Greek city-state?
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Istanbul
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Athens
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Sparta
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Olympia
Question 6
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Who seems to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey?
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Solon
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Plato
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Cyrus the Great
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Homer
Question 7
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The Greek alphabet was adapted from the
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Egyptians
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Macedonians
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Chalcedonians
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Phoenicians
Question 8
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The mythos of Greek culture was established by the wide acceptance of two great poems, the
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Gilgamesh and Art of War
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analects and the Aeneid
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Iliad and the Odyssey
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Metamorphoses and the Odyssey
Question 9
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The person responsible for the conquest of the Persian Empire was
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Philip II
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Pericles of Athens
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Agesilaus of Sparta
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Alexander the Great
Question 10
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Which of the following was NOT a Greek philosopher?
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Plato
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Socrates
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Aristophanes
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Aristotle
Question 11
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The Yellow Turbans were
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Confucian administrators in the empire of the later Han
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Buddhist missionaries following the fall of the Han
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Leading members of the scholar-gentry in Han China
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Daoist leaders of a peasant revolution against the Han
Question 12
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What dynasty succeeded the Han?
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Tang
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Song
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Sui
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Qin
Question 13
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What group was responsible for the disruption of the Gupta empire?
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Aryans
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Tamils
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Germans
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Huns
Question 14
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The name given to the regional princes who governed much of India after the imperial period was
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emir
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Dolmut
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Bhoona
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Rajput
Question 15
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The cult of what Hindu divinity gained greater popularity following the fall of the Gupta empire?
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Shiva
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Devi
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Kali
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Mandala
Question 16
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How does the decline and fall of the Roman empire compare chronologically to the collapse of the Han and Gupta empires?
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The Roman empire collapsed after both of the other two
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The Roman empire collapsed before both of the other two
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The Roman empire collapsed after the Han but before the Gupta
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The Roman empire collapsed after the Gupta but before the Han
Question 17
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What Roman emperor attempted to reverse the decline of the empire by administrative reform and improvement in the system of tax collection?
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Constantine
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Commodus
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Septimius Severus
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Diocletian
Question 18
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The word for Buddhist holy men is
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buddhas
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bodhisattvas
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mahayanas
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monks
Question 19
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The leader under whose guidance Christians began to see themselves as part of a new religion was
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Christ
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Peter
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Augustine
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Paul
Question 20
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Under what emperor did Christianity receive official toleration of the state?
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Constantine
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Commodus
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Septimius Severus
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Diocletian
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