CIV 101
The major cities of Phoenicia were...
A) Uruk, Akkad, and Ur
B) Sidon, Tyre, and Biblos
C) Memphis, Cairo, and Thebes
D) Sparta, Athens, and Corinth - ANS-B) Sidon, Tyre, and Byblos.
The new metal that transformed ancient warfare after 1200 B.C.E. was
a. tin.
b. bronze.
c. iron.
d. copper. - ANS-c. iron.
The earliest period of human history is called the...
a. Iron Age.
b. Neolithic Age.
c. Paleolithic Age.
d. Egyptian Age. - ANS-c. Paleolithic Age.
Among the Hebrew beliefs that have had an important impact on Western civilization was...
a. the creation of the world at a specific time.
b. the concept of ethical monotheism.
c. that history was a purposeful, morally significant event.
d. All these answers are correct. - ANS-d. All these answers are correct.
Hippocrates, considered the father of modern Western medicine, taught that...
a. good health depends on prayers to the gods.
b. different people contract different diseases according to their genetic makeup.
c. all diseases have natural causes that can be discovered by observation.
d. all diseases are caused by mental and not physical conditions. - ANS-c. all diseases have
natural causes that can be discovered by observation.
Tyrant was the name given to...
a. an elected leader of a democratic state.
b. a king who ruled in a cruel manner.
c. a ruler who used physical force rather than hereditary right or constitutional means to seize
power.
d. an aristocratic ruler who cared only about the interests of his own class. - ANS-c. a ruler who
used physical force rather than hereditary right or constitutional means to seize power.
The Minoan civilization...
a. was centered in Mesopotamia.
,b. had artists who often painted frescoes featuring religious rituals.
c. was destroyed by the Middle Kingdom of Egypt.
d. produced, as its greatest military leader, Alexander the Great. - ANS-b. had artists who often
painted frescoes featuring religious rituals.
The Greek Dark Ages commenced when...
a. the Mycenaean culture collapsed.
b. the eruption of the volcano on Thera caused dust that dimmed the sun.
c. glaciers from the Ice Age spread all over Greece.
d. Homer died, leaving his epics unfinished. - ANS-a. the Mycenaean culture collapsed.
The Mycenaean civilization was..
a. not self-sufficient and had to trade for many valuable commodities.
b. depicted many years later in the Homeric epics.
c. an ancestor of later Greek civilization.
d. All these answers are correct. - ANS-d. All these answers are correct.
The epics of Homer are set in the period of Greek history called the...
a. Sumerian Age.
b. Dark Ages.
c. Mycenaean Ages.
d. Stone Age. - ANS-b. Dark Ages.
During the half-century following the Peloponnesian War...
a. the major poleis recovered their original power and cultural vitality.
b. the Persians conquered Greece and made it into a province.
c. the Greeks united into a single state under the leadership of Sparta.
d. constant warfare among the poleis weakened Greece politically and culturally. - ANS-d.
constant warfare among the poleis weakened Greece politically and culturally.
Greek schools of the Hellenistic era...
a. banned nude exercises in the gymnasium.
b. emphasized Homer as the primary literary text.
c. were usually run-down and neglected.
d. mixed male and female students. - ANS-b. emphasized Homer as the primary literary text.
During the Hellenistic period, slavery...
a. expanded as a practice.
b. shrunk as a practice because war prisoners were generally set free.
c. was controlled, so that only the kings and their officials could own slaves.
d. was restricted to non-whites. - ANS-a. expanded as a practice.
The Hellenistic school of philosophy that advocated the rejection of the goods of this world in
order to achieve happiness was that of the...
, a. Sophists.
b. Cynics.
c. Epicureans.
d. Stoics. - ANS-b. Cynics.
The Hellenistic monarchs created a new economy in the eastern Mediterranean by...
a. standardizing the currency.
b. spreading new agricultural practices and products.
c. establishing royal monopolies in key industries to control production.
d. All these answers are correct. - ANS-d. All these answers are correct.
In 323 B.C.E., Alexander died in Babylon...
a. when he was assassinated by one of his officers.
b. by suicide, drowning in the Euphrates.
c. from alcohol abuse and fever.
d. from a battle wound that had become infected. - ANS-c. from alcohol abuse and fever.
Which of the following policies did Alexander NOT follow in his imperial rule?
a. founding many cities to spread Greek urban life throughout the empire
b. supporting intermarriage between Greeks and Asians
c. destroying all conquered cities to obliterate non-Greek culture
d. recruiting Persian soldiers as part of a new combined army - ANS-c. destroying all
conquered cities to obliterate non-Greek culture
The great Latin orator, statesman, and master of prose was...
a. Romulus.
b. Tiberius Gracchus.
c. Cicero.
d. Hannibal. - ANS-c. Cicero.
The most serious slave revolt in Roman history took place in 73 B.C.E., when 70,000 slaves
revolted under the leadership of...
a. Brutus.
b. Cassius.
c. Publius.
d. Spartacus. - ANS-d. Spartacus.
At the end of the First Punic War, the Romans acquired...
a. Spain.
b. Greece.
c. North Africa.
d. Sicily. - ANS-d. Sicily.
According to Cicero, Romans, compared to other peoples, were superior because of their...
The major cities of Phoenicia were...
A) Uruk, Akkad, and Ur
B) Sidon, Tyre, and Biblos
C) Memphis, Cairo, and Thebes
D) Sparta, Athens, and Corinth - ANS-B) Sidon, Tyre, and Byblos.
The new metal that transformed ancient warfare after 1200 B.C.E. was
a. tin.
b. bronze.
c. iron.
d. copper. - ANS-c. iron.
The earliest period of human history is called the...
a. Iron Age.
b. Neolithic Age.
c. Paleolithic Age.
d. Egyptian Age. - ANS-c. Paleolithic Age.
Among the Hebrew beliefs that have had an important impact on Western civilization was...
a. the creation of the world at a specific time.
b. the concept of ethical monotheism.
c. that history was a purposeful, morally significant event.
d. All these answers are correct. - ANS-d. All these answers are correct.
Hippocrates, considered the father of modern Western medicine, taught that...
a. good health depends on prayers to the gods.
b. different people contract different diseases according to their genetic makeup.
c. all diseases have natural causes that can be discovered by observation.
d. all diseases are caused by mental and not physical conditions. - ANS-c. all diseases have
natural causes that can be discovered by observation.
Tyrant was the name given to...
a. an elected leader of a democratic state.
b. a king who ruled in a cruel manner.
c. a ruler who used physical force rather than hereditary right or constitutional means to seize
power.
d. an aristocratic ruler who cared only about the interests of his own class. - ANS-c. a ruler who
used physical force rather than hereditary right or constitutional means to seize power.
The Minoan civilization...
a. was centered in Mesopotamia.
,b. had artists who often painted frescoes featuring religious rituals.
c. was destroyed by the Middle Kingdom of Egypt.
d. produced, as its greatest military leader, Alexander the Great. - ANS-b. had artists who often
painted frescoes featuring religious rituals.
The Greek Dark Ages commenced when...
a. the Mycenaean culture collapsed.
b. the eruption of the volcano on Thera caused dust that dimmed the sun.
c. glaciers from the Ice Age spread all over Greece.
d. Homer died, leaving his epics unfinished. - ANS-a. the Mycenaean culture collapsed.
The Mycenaean civilization was..
a. not self-sufficient and had to trade for many valuable commodities.
b. depicted many years later in the Homeric epics.
c. an ancestor of later Greek civilization.
d. All these answers are correct. - ANS-d. All these answers are correct.
The epics of Homer are set in the period of Greek history called the...
a. Sumerian Age.
b. Dark Ages.
c. Mycenaean Ages.
d. Stone Age. - ANS-b. Dark Ages.
During the half-century following the Peloponnesian War...
a. the major poleis recovered their original power and cultural vitality.
b. the Persians conquered Greece and made it into a province.
c. the Greeks united into a single state under the leadership of Sparta.
d. constant warfare among the poleis weakened Greece politically and culturally. - ANS-d.
constant warfare among the poleis weakened Greece politically and culturally.
Greek schools of the Hellenistic era...
a. banned nude exercises in the gymnasium.
b. emphasized Homer as the primary literary text.
c. were usually run-down and neglected.
d. mixed male and female students. - ANS-b. emphasized Homer as the primary literary text.
During the Hellenistic period, slavery...
a. expanded as a practice.
b. shrunk as a practice because war prisoners were generally set free.
c. was controlled, so that only the kings and their officials could own slaves.
d. was restricted to non-whites. - ANS-a. expanded as a practice.
The Hellenistic school of philosophy that advocated the rejection of the goods of this world in
order to achieve happiness was that of the...
, a. Sophists.
b. Cynics.
c. Epicureans.
d. Stoics. - ANS-b. Cynics.
The Hellenistic monarchs created a new economy in the eastern Mediterranean by...
a. standardizing the currency.
b. spreading new agricultural practices and products.
c. establishing royal monopolies in key industries to control production.
d. All these answers are correct. - ANS-d. All these answers are correct.
In 323 B.C.E., Alexander died in Babylon...
a. when he was assassinated by one of his officers.
b. by suicide, drowning in the Euphrates.
c. from alcohol abuse and fever.
d. from a battle wound that had become infected. - ANS-c. from alcohol abuse and fever.
Which of the following policies did Alexander NOT follow in his imperial rule?
a. founding many cities to spread Greek urban life throughout the empire
b. supporting intermarriage between Greeks and Asians
c. destroying all conquered cities to obliterate non-Greek culture
d. recruiting Persian soldiers as part of a new combined army - ANS-c. destroying all
conquered cities to obliterate non-Greek culture
The great Latin orator, statesman, and master of prose was...
a. Romulus.
b. Tiberius Gracchus.
c. Cicero.
d. Hannibal. - ANS-c. Cicero.
The most serious slave revolt in Roman history took place in 73 B.C.E., when 70,000 slaves
revolted under the leadership of...
a. Brutus.
b. Cassius.
c. Publius.
d. Spartacus. - ANS-d. Spartacus.
At the end of the First Punic War, the Romans acquired...
a. Spain.
b. Greece.
c. North Africa.
d. Sicily. - ANS-d. Sicily.
According to Cicero, Romans, compared to other peoples, were superior because of their...
