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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Questão 1

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

Questão 2

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

Questão 3

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

Questão 4

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

Questão 5

Questão
What were two difficulties created by the Tigris/Euphrates?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 6

Questão
Name three benefits that Mesopotamia had because of the River flowing through it:
Responda
  • 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

Questão 7

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

Questão 8

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

Questão 9

Questão
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.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 10

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

Questão 11

Questão
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?
Responda
  • Written Language
  • Cunneiform
  • Bibliotecha
  • Sumerian Symbols

Questão 12

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

Questão 13

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

Questão 14

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

Questão 15

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

Questão 16

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

Questão 17

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

Questão 18

Questão
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.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 19

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

Questão 20

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

Questão 21

Questão
Monotheistic means:
Responda
  • Many gods
  • Demigods
  • Single minded
  • One God

Questão 22

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

Questão 23

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

Questão 24

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

Questão 25

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

Questão 26

Questão
Define rational humanism.
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 27

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

Questão 28

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

Questão 29

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

Questão 30

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

Questão 31

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

Questão 32

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

Questão 33

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

Questão 34

Questão
What is arete?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 35

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

Questão 36

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

Questão 37

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

Questão 38

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

Questão 39

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

Questão 40

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

Questão 41

Questão
Athens represented the epitome of ancient Greece for what reasons?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 42

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

Questão 43

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

Questão 44

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

Questão 45

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

Questão 46

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

Questão 47

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

Questão 48

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

Questão 49

Questão
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.
Responda
  • skillful speaker

Questão 50

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

Questão 51

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

Questão 52

Questão
Socrates charges nothing to teach people.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 53

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

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