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Hard Western Civilization Quiz sobre Western Civ Midterm, criado por bhelfrich.school em 22-11-2015.
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Questão 1

Questão
Anthropologists separate early human cultures by their:
Responda
  • Writing
  • Clothing
  • Tools
  • Food

Questão 2

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

Questão 3

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

Questão 4

Questão
The Neolithic Revolution is characterized by:
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  • 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

Questão 5

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

Questão 6

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

Questão 7

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

Questão 8

Questão
Who developed the form of writing called Cuneiform?
Responda
  • The Assyrians
  • The Egyptians
  • The Nubians
  • The Sumerians

Questão 9

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

Questão 10

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

Questão 11

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

Questão 12

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

Questão 13

Questão
In the Mesopotamian Religion, gods:
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  • 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

Questão 14

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

Questão 15

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

Questão 16

Questão
When the old Kingdom of Egypt collapsed:
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  • 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

Questão 17

Questão
The New Kingdom was different from earlier periods of Egyptian history because:
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  • 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

Questão 18

Questão
In ancient Egypt, Maat was:
Responda
  • 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

Questão 19

Questão
Slaves in Ancient Egypt:
Responda
  • 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

Questão 20

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

Questão 21

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

Questão 22

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

Questão 23

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

Questão 24

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

Questão 25

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

Questão 26

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

Questão 27

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

Questão 28

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

Questão 29

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

Questão 30

Questão
Ethical Monotheism was pioneered by the:
Responda
  • Babylonians
  • Egyptians
  • Israelites
  • Chinese

Questão 31

Questão
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:
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  • Moses
  • Mohammad
  • Socrates
  • Abraham

Questão 32

Questão
The HEBREWS saw their God as:
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  • 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

Questão 33

Questão
For the Hebrew's the shift to the exclusive worship of a single god occurred:
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  • 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

Questão 34

Questão
The Torah is:
Responda
  • 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

Questão 35

Questão
The first Israelite prophets contributed to allow the following except:
Responda
  • 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"

Questão 36

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

Questão 37

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

Questão 38

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

Questão 39

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

Questão 40

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

Questão 41

Questão
The [blank_start]Euphrates[blank_end] "Naturally" aided Mesopotamia to survive and flourish
Responda
  • Euphrates

Questão 42

Questão
[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.
Responda
  • Divination

Questão 43

Questão
[blank_start]Khufu[blank_end] was the pharaoh that created the largest pyramid ever
Responda
  • Khufu

Questão 44

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

Questão 45

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

Questão 46

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

Questão 47

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

Questão 48

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

Questão 49

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

Questão 50

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

Questão 51

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

Questão 52

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

Questão 53

Questão
According to the Jewish religion, how should man best serve God?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 54

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

Questão 55

Questão
The Babylonian captivity began on this date:
Responda
  • 961 BCE
  • 722 BCE
  • 586 BCE
  • 539 BCE

Questão 56

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

Questão 57

Questão
In the end, the Messiah would do what in the Jewish faith:
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  • 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

Questão 58

Questão
Some primary characteristics of Greek society that CONNECTED them to other civilizations included:
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  • 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

Questão 59

Questão
Thales is regarded as the first Greek philosopher because he...
Responda
  • 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

Questão 60

Questão
Protagoras of Abdera utilized a naturalistic philosophy of the divine by stating:
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  • 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

Questão 61

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

Questão 62

Questão
The atomists believed the world was made of "atoms" and these two men founded the school:
Responda
  • 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

Questão 63

Questão
The Cynics would MOST LIKELY believe:
Responda
  • 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

Questão 64

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

Questão 65

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

Questão 66

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

Questão 67

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

Questão 68

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

Questão 69

Questão
[blank_start]Thucydides[blank_end] explained history strictly through human nature and chance
Responda
  • Thucydides

Questão 70

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

Questão 71

Questão
[blank_start]Aristotle[blank_end] lived from 429-347 BCE
Responda
  • Aristotle

Questão 72

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

Questão 73

Questão
An [blank_start]Episteme[blank_end] was a body of true and unchanging wisdom
Responda
  • Episteme

Questão 74

Questão
[blank_start]Socrates[blank_end] lived from 469-399 BCE
Responda
  • Socrates

Questão 75

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

Questão 76

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

Questão 77

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

Questão 78

Questão
[blank_start]Diogenes[blank_end] abandoned the idea of the polis completely
Responda
  • Diogenes

Questão 79

Questão
[blank_start]Plato[blank_end] lived from 429-347 BCE
Responda
  • Plato

Questão 80

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

Questão 81

Questão
The [blank_start]Assyrians[blank_end] destroyed Israel and scattered the Israelites in 722 BCE
Responda
  • Assyrians

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