Copiar y Editar

Western Civ Midterm

Descripción

Hard Western Civilization Test sobre Western Civ Midterm, creado por bhelfrich.school el 22/11/2015.
bhelfrich.school
Test por bhelfrich.school, actualizado hace más de 1 año
bhelfrich.school
Creado por bhelfrich.school hace alrededor de 9 años
10
0
0

Resumen del Recurso

Pregunta 1

Pregunta
Anthropologists separate early human cultures by their:
Respuesta
  • Writing
  • Clothing
  • Tools
  • Food

Pregunta 2

Pregunta
The Paleolithic Age is characterized by:
Respuesta
  • Domestication of animals
  • The beginning of agriculture
  • A hunting and gathering existence
  • The invention of writing

Pregunta 3

Pregunta
In the Paleolithic Age's division of labor by gender, it was probably women who were responsible for:
Respuesta
  • Gathering of wild grains and berries
  • Making tools
  • Hunting and Fishing
  • Protecting the family with their war skills

Pregunta 4

Pregunta
The Neolithic Revolution is characterized by:
Respuesta
  • The development of urban based civilizations
  • The domestication of animals and the start of agriculture
  • Dependence on hunting and gathering techniques
  • The manufacture and use of iron tools

Pregunta 5

Pregunta
The first metal developed to replace stone in the making of tools was:
Respuesta
  • Bronze
  • Iron
  • Aluminum
  • Tin

Pregunta 6

Pregunta
The development of writing first occurred during the:
Respuesta
  • Paleolithic Age
  • Bronze Age
  • Neolithic Age
  • Iron Age

Pregunta 7

Pregunta
The Early Dynastic Period of Sumerian city states occurred in:
Respuesta
  • ca. 3500 B.C.E.
  • ca. 2800-2370 B.C.E.
  • ca. 2000-1800 B.C.E.
  • ca. 1550 B.C.E.

Pregunta 8

Pregunta
Who developed the form of writing called Cuneiform?
Respuesta
  • The Assyrians
  • The Egyptians
  • The Nubians
  • The Sumerians

Pregunta 9

Pregunta
Which group was the first to unify much of Mesopotamia and create a true empire?
Respuesta
  • The Akkadians
  • The Egyptians
  • The Sumerians
  • The Eridu

Pregunta 10

Pregunta
Whose name and reputation was identified with being the first great conqueror in history?
Respuesta
  • Babylon
  • Naram-Sin
  • Sargon
  • Kish

Pregunta 11

Pregunta
The Mesopotamians constructed lofty towers with several stages or levels, called:
Respuesta
  • Pyramids
  • Ziggurats
  • Basilicas
  • Temples

Pregunta 12

Pregunta
According to the Code of Hammurabi, women in Babylonian society:
Respuesta
  • Were primarily equal to men legally
  • Were less equal to men legally
  • Had more rights than men
  • Had no rights at all

Pregunta 13

Pregunta
In the Mesopotamian Religion, gods:
Respuesta
  • Lived in temples that were run like houses
  • Did not resemble humans in their appearance or actions
  • Represented ideas such as evil, hope, and envy
  • All options

Pregunta 14

Pregunta
Slavery in Mesopotamia took the forms of:
Respuesta
  • Debt Slavery and Labor Slavery
  • Chattel Slavery and Labor Slavery
  • Chattel Slavery and Debt Slavery
  • Debt Slavery, labor slavery, and Chattel Slavery

Pregunta 15

Pregunta
Egypt's "black land" was:
Respuesta
  • The dark fertile fields along the Nile
  • The highlands
  • Found only in the south
  • Another term for Lower Egypt

Pregunta 16

Pregunta
When the old Kingdom of Egypt collapsed:
Respuesta
  • Egypt immediately entered a period of great pyramid constuction
  • It was a result of the invading Hyksos
  • It occurred due to a drought
  • Egypt entered the 1st Intermediate Period which was unstable and disordered

Pregunta 17

Pregunta
The New Kingdom was different from earlier periods of Egyptian history because:
Respuesta
  • Egypt was ruled by foreign born Pharoahs
  • Egypt shrank in size and was limited to mainly Upper Egypt
  • Egyptian rulers pursued foreign expansion and created a large empire through war
  • Egyptians abandoned their old gods for new ones from Greece

Pregunta 18

Pregunta
In ancient Egypt, Maat was:
Respuesta
  • The legendary creator god who had blessed Egypt
  • The Pharoah's chief advisor
  • The highest virtue combining the ideas of truth, justice, and order
  • The name for all areas outside of Egypt

Pregunta 19

Pregunta
Slaves in Ancient Egypt:
Respuesta
  • Were always taken from the poor classes within Egyptian society
  • Could hope to be accepted into the general population if freed
  • Performed society's household labors only
  • All of the above

Pregunta 20

Pregunta
The Hittites:
Respuesta
  • Were innovators and helped bridge culture
  • Were isolated from other peoples
  • Lacked strong central government
  • Were pacifists

Pregunta 21

Pregunta
The Assyrians were famous for their:
Respuesta
  • Fierce and well disciplined military
  • Delicate bronze and copper artwork
  • Mathematical and astronomical skills
  • Limitations on the power of their kings

Pregunta 22

Pregunta
The Neolithic Revolution shows dramatic changes in settlement, etc. [blank_start](Date)[blank_end]
Respuesta
  • 10,000 Years ago
  • 2370 BCE
  • 30 BCE
  • 3100-1200BCE

Pregunta 23

Pregunta
The Bronze Age [blank_start](Date)[blank_end]
Respuesta
  • 1792-1750 BCE
  • 3100-1200 BCE
  • 671 BCE
  • 1400-1200 BCE

Pregunta 24

Pregunta
The Old Kingdom of Egypt [blank_start](date)[blank_end]
Respuesta
  • 2700-2200 BCE
  • 671 BCE
  • 1400-1200 BCE
  • 30 BCE

Pregunta 25

Pregunta
The Reign of Sargon who unified all of Mesopotamia as conqueror [blank_start](Date)[blank_end]
Respuesta
  • 2370 BCE
  • 1550-1075 BCE
  • 671 BCE
  • 2700-2200 BCE

Pregunta 26

Pregunta
The Reign of Hammurabi who created the first code of laws [blank_start](date)[blank_end]
Respuesta
  • 1792-1750 BCE
  • 3100-1200 BCE
  • 671 BCE
  • 30 BCE

Pregunta 27

Pregunta
The New Kingdom in Egypt ([blank_start]Date[blank_end])
Respuesta
  • 1,550-1075 BCE
  • 10,000 years ago
  • 2370 BCE
  • 30 BCE

Pregunta 28

Pregunta
The Span of the Hittite Empire [blank_start]date[blank_end]
Respuesta
  • 1,400-1,200 BCE
  • 3,100-1,200 BCE
  • 612-539 BCE
  • 2370 BCE

Pregunta 29

Pregunta
The Second Assyrian Empire conquers Egypt [blank_start]date[blank_end]
Respuesta
  • 671 BCE
  • 30 BCE
  • 2370 BCE
  • 10,000 years ago

Pregunta 30

Pregunta
Ethical Monotheism was pioneered by the:
Respuesta
  • Babylonians
  • Egyptians
  • Israelites
  • Chinese

Pregunta 31

Pregunta
Called the "Father of the Faithful," many consider him to be the symbolic founder of three of the world's largest religions-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam:
Respuesta
  • Moses
  • Mohammad
  • Socrates
  • Abraham

Pregunta 32

Pregunta
The HEBREWS saw their God as:
Respuesta
  • The only god in existence
  • The same god that the Mesopotamians call Marduk
  • The chosen diety among many gods who might be worshipped
  • The same God that the Egyptians called Aten

Pregunta 33

Pregunta
For the Hebrew's the shift to the exclusive worship of a single god occurred:
Respuesta
  • With Abraham's journey from Mesopotamia to Canaan
  • During the Exodus from Egypt under the leadership of Moses
  • When Solomon built the great temple in Jerusalem
  • With the start of the teachings of Jesus

Pregunta 34

Pregunta
The Torah is:
Respuesta
  • The primary religious text for the Persians
  • The code of ethics among Ionian Greeks
  • God's holy law as part of Hebrew Scripture
  • Spartan training committing soldiers to the polis

Pregunta 35

Pregunta
The first Israelite prophets contributed to allow the following except:
Respuesta
  • The campaign to turn people against false gods and toward Yaweh
  • The purification of Jewish faith by demanding righteousness of its followers
  • The enslavement by Jews in Egypt before Moses led them to freedom
  • The religious notion of Israelite national success by following their god's "plan"

Pregunta 36

Pregunta
The Span of the Neo-Babylonian Empire [blank_start]date[blank_end]
Respuesta
  • 612-539 BCE
  • 1550-1075 BCE
  • 3100-1200 BCE
  • 671 BCE

Pregunta 37

Pregunta
The defeat of the Egyptians by the Roman Emperor Octavian [blank_start]date[blank_end]
Respuesta
  • 30 BCE
  • 671 BCE
  • 2370 BCE
  • 10,000 Years ago

Pregunta 38

Pregunta
The [blank_start]Bronze Age[blank_end] marks the rise of metal tools, weapons, and Mesopotamia.
Respuesta
  • Bronze Age

Pregunta 39

Pregunta
[blank_start]Aten[blank_end] was declared the creator god by Amunhotep IV to gain power
Respuesta
  • Aten

Pregunta 40

Pregunta
In [blank_start]Chattel Slavery[blank_end], people were owned as property and had few if any rights
Respuesta
  • Chattel Slavery

Pregunta 41

Pregunta
The [blank_start]Euphrates[blank_end] "Naturally" aided Mesopotamia to survive and flourish
Respuesta
  • Euphrates

Pregunta 42

Pregunta
[blank_start]Divination[blank_end] was chance observations or rituals to find your destiny that played a bit role in Mesopotamian religion as it revealed a person's destiny.
Respuesta
  • Divination

Pregunta 43

Pregunta
[blank_start]Khufu[blank_end] was the pharaoh that created the largest pyramid ever
Respuesta
  • Khufu

Pregunta 44

Pregunta
The [blank_start]Red Land[blank_end] was the desert cliffs and valleys bordering the Nile River
Respuesta
  • Red Land

Pregunta 45

Pregunta
[blank_start]Sexagesimal[blank_end] was the Sumerian mathematical system based on the number 60.
Respuesta
  • Sexagesimal

Pregunta 46

Pregunta
[blank_start]Naram-Sin[blank_end] declared himself a god and was a powerful Akkadian ruler
Respuesta
  • Naram-Sin

Pregunta 47

Pregunta
[blank_start]Manumission[blank_end] was the rare freeing of slaves in Egypt: they could rejoin society.
Respuesta
  • Manumission

Pregunta 48

Pregunta
The pharaohs were considered god kings during the [blank_start]Old Kingdom[blank_end]
Respuesta
  • Old Kingdom

Pregunta 49

Pregunta
[blank_start]Jericho[blank_end] was the First Neolithic town with a massive stone wall for protection.
Respuesta
  • Jericho

Pregunta 50

Pregunta
[blank_start]Kish[blank_end] was large city in Babylonia with history's first kings
Respuesta
  • Kish

Pregunta 51

Pregunta
During the [blank_start]Middle Kingdom[blank_end], the pharaohs changed and became more "in touch" with their people.
Respuesta
  • Middle Kingdom

Pregunta 52

Pregunta
[blank_start]Assyria[blank_end] was the Northern ecological zone of Mesopotamia
Respuesta
  • Assyria

Pregunta 53

Pregunta
According to the Jewish religion, how should man best serve God?
Respuesta
  • Through rituals and prayer
  • Through heroic deeds
  • Through ethical responsibility following God's divine plan
  • Through fasting and other forms of self discipline or denial

Pregunta 54

Pregunta
The so called ten lost tribes originally lived in:
Respuesta
  • Judah
  • Turkey
  • Jerusalem
  • Israel

Pregunta 55

Pregunta
The Babylonian captivity began on this date:
Respuesta
  • 961 BCE
  • 722 BCE
  • 586 BCE
  • 539 BCE

Pregunta 56

Pregunta
The reign of King Solomon who built the great temple in Jerusalem lasted from:
Respuesta
  • 1000-961 BCE
  • 987-924 BCE
  • 961-922 BCE
  • 722-685 BCE

Pregunta 57

Pregunta
In the end, the Messiah would do what in the Jewish faith:
Respuesta
  • Convert all polytheists to monotheism
  • Save sinners from the Day of Judgment
  • Would re-instruct the Jews in the lessons of God's divine plan
  • Would establish the kingdom of God on earth

Pregunta 58

Pregunta
Some primary characteristics of Greek society that CONNECTED them to other civilizations included:
Respuesta
  • Magic, incantation, and polytheistic divinity in their lives and laws
  • Belief in the need for a strong, authoritarian government
  • Concern with personal salvation through supernatural union with God.
  • Raising questions concerning the nature of the world around them

Pregunta 59

Pregunta
Thales is regarded as the first Greek philosopher because he...
Respuesta
  • Demonstrated the existence of gods scientifically
  • Compared Egyptian and Mesopotamian religions with those of Greece
  • Explained the origins of the world in naturalistic terms
  • Argued the importance of ethical behavior

Pregunta 60

Pregunta
Protagoras of Abdera utilized a naturalistic philosophy of the divine by stating:
Respuesta
  • The size and beauty of nature meant gods existed and created the world
  • He couldn't agree or disagree with he existence of gods because he had no real proof either way
  • Through philosophy man can become close to the divine by examining his own actions
  • There was a god for each of the elements of the world

Pregunta 61

Pregunta
The first people to recognize Greek beliefs were not universally accepted were:
Respuesta
  • The Sophists
  • The Athenians
  • The Ionians
  • The Macedonians

Pregunta 62

Pregunta
The atomists believed the world was made of "atoms" and these two men founded the school:
Respuesta
  • Leucippus of Colophon and Heraclitus of Ephesus
  • Parmenides of Elea and his pupil Zeno
  • Anaximander and Democritus of Athens
  • Leucippus of Miletus and Democritus of Abdera

Pregunta 63

Pregunta
The Cynics would MOST LIKELY believe:
Respuesta
  • In material progress
  • The concept of the polis
  • That a person's character was a matter of knowledge gained through free experience
  • None of these

Pregunta 64

Pregunta
The Sophists valued which following of the techniques and were paid to teach them:
Respuesta
  • Observation, Dialectic, Analysis
  • Rhetoric, Argumentation, Calculation
  • Dialectic, Argumentation, Rhetoric
  • Observation, Calculation, Analysis

Pregunta 65

Pregunta
The polis AKA Greek city state, provided the following for it's citizens:
Respuesta
  • Political Organization
  • Cultural characteristics like religion and common practices
  • Theoretical belief that they all came from common ancestry
  • All of these

Pregunta 66

Pregunta
Which of the following philosophers wanted people to seek "the greatest improvement of the soul?
Respuesta
  • Socrates
  • Plato
  • Xenophon
  • Aristotle

Pregunta 67

Pregunta
A [blank_start]covenant[blank_end] is a solemn and formal pledge between 2 or more parties
Respuesta
  • covenant

Pregunta 68

Pregunta
[blank_start]Anaximander[blank_end] believed in an undefined and unlimited element that the world emerged from
Respuesta
  • Anaximander

Pregunta 69

Pregunta
[blank_start]Thucydides[blank_end] explained history strictly through human nature and chance
Respuesta
  • Thucydides

Pregunta 70

Pregunta
[blank_start]Critias[blank_end] was a Sophist who believed the gods were invented by "clever men" to control others
Respuesta
  • Critias

Pregunta 71

Pregunta
[blank_start]Aristotle[blank_end] lived from 429-347 BCE
Respuesta
  • Aristotle

Pregunta 72

Pregunta
[blank_start]Hippocrates[blank_end] looked to diagnose and cure disease without aid from the supernatural
Respuesta
  • Hippocrates

Pregunta 73

Pregunta
An [blank_start]Episteme[blank_end] was a body of true and unchanging wisdom
Respuesta
  • Episteme

Pregunta 74

Pregunta
[blank_start]Socrates[blank_end] lived from 469-399 BCE
Respuesta
  • Socrates

Pregunta 75

Pregunta
[blank_start]Achaemenids[blank_end] freed the Jews from Babylonian captivity and let them go home
Respuesta
  • Achaemenids

Pregunta 76

Pregunta
[blank_start]Logos[blank_end] was the guiding principle of the world meaning "word, language, speech, and reason."
Respuesta
  • Logos

Pregunta 77

Pregunta
[blank_start]Empedocles[blank_end] thought that reality was four basic elements shaped by Love and Strife
Respuesta
  • Empedocles

Pregunta 78

Pregunta
[blank_start]Diogenes[blank_end] abandoned the idea of the polis completely
Respuesta
  • Diogenes

Pregunta 79

Pregunta
[blank_start]Plato[blank_end] lived from 429-347 BCE
Respuesta
  • Plato

Pregunta 80

Pregunta
The [blank_start]patriarch[blank_end] was the male leader of a group or family
Respuesta
  • patriarch

Pregunta 81

Pregunta
The [blank_start]Assyrians[blank_end] destroyed Israel and scattered the Israelites in 722 BCE
Respuesta
  • Assyrians
Mostrar resumen completo Ocultar resumen completo

¿Quieres crear tus propios Tests gratis con GoConqr? Más información.

Similar

Trigonometría
Ana Priego
Apuntes sobre Modelos Atómicos - Rutherford y Bohr
Raúl Fox
Test para Practicar para el TOEFL
Lolo Reyes
Vocabulario Inglés Avanzado - Hats
Diego Santos
¿Qué es el Antiguo Régimen?
maya velasquez
ARTE DE GRECIA
Alex Velazquez
ESTADO DE FLUJOS DE EFECTIVO
Christian Muñoz
ONDAS
ROSA MARIA ARRIAGA
PROPIEDAD INTELECTUAL
Mary Angeles
Simulacro Prueba ICFES
pulidonomesque
Fichas Evaluación de las actividades de la vida Diaria
ELSY DEL CARMEN QUEVEDO TEJERO
Explorar la Librería