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GRADED A
The major cities of Phoenaicia were
Select one:
a. Uruk, Akkad, and Ur.
b. Sidon, Tyre, and Byblos.
c. Memphis, Cairo, and Thebes.
d. Sparta, Athens, and Corinth. - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔️b. Sidon, Tyre, and
Byblos.
Hammurabi of Babylon was known for
Select one:
a. being the first ruler of Sumer and Akkad.
b. his irrigation projects.
c. authoring The Epic of Gilgamesh.
d. his law code. - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔d
️ . his law code.
During the Paleolithic and Neolithic ages, human tools were made primarily of
Select one:
a. stone.
b. iron.
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c. bronze.
d. copper. - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔️a. stone.
Zoroaster's religious beliefs had a similarity to Jewish ideas in all the following
areas EXCEPT the
Select one:
a. need to live an ethical life.
b. need to observe strict dietary laws.
c. ultimate prevalence of the forces of good over the forces of evil.
d. revelation of the will of God to man. - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔b
️ . need to
observe strict dietary laws.
The Greek political reformer Cleisthenes
Select one:
a. wrote epic poetry.
b. established an Athenian constitution with many democratic features.
c. preached equal rights for Athenian women.
d. became a tutor to Alexander the Great. - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔️b.
established an Athenian constitution with many democratic features.
The great historian of the Persian Wars, justifiably know as the "father of Western
history," was
Select one:
a. Homer.
b. Archimedes.
c. Herodotus.
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d. Sargon. - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔️c. Herodotus.
The Minoan civilization
Select one:
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. - CORRECT
ANSWERS✔️✔️b. had artists who often painted frescoes feauturing religioius
rituals.
Which of the following was NOT a result of the widespread violence and
movement of peoples in the eastern Mediterranean around 1200 B.C.E.?
Select one:
a. a besieged and weakened Egyptian Empire
b. the Trojan War and destruction of Troy
c. the establishment of democracy at Athens
d. the decline of Mycenaean civilization and its invasion by Dorian Greeks -
CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔️c. the establishment of democracy at Athens
The Greek Dark Ages commenced when
Select one:
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.
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d. Homer died, leaving his epics unfinished. - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔️a. the
Mycenaean culture collapsed.
During the Persian Wars,
Select one:
a. Athens defeated Sparta.
b. Xerxes of Persia conquered Greece, ending Athenian democracy.
c. Athens and Sparta invaded Persia and destroyed the Persian Empire.
d. None of these answers is correct. - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔️d. None of these
answers is correct.
Which of the following applies to Pericles, the architect of Athen's Golden Age?
Select one:
a. He was elected chief strategos, or commander, from 443 to 429 B.C.E.
b. He provided the leadership for the rebuilding of the Acropolis.
c. He advocated the supremacy of Athens over other members of the Delian
League.
d. All these answers are correct. - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔d
️ . All of these
answers are correct.
The Hellensistic school of philosophy that advocated the rejection of the goods of
this world in order to achieve happiness was that of the
Select one:
a. Sophists.
b. Cynics.
c. Epicureans.
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Western Civilization 1
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STUDY QUESTIONS WITH 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS.ALREADY
GRADED A
The major cities of Phoenaicia were
Select one:
a. Uruk, Akkad, and Ur.
b. Sidon, Tyre, and Byblos.
c. Memphis, Cairo, and Thebes.
d. Sparta, Athens, and Corinth. - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔️b. Sidon, Tyre, and
Byblos.
Hammurabi of Babylon was known for
Select one:
a. being the first ruler of Sumer and Akkad.
b. his irrigation projects.
c. authoring The Epic of Gilgamesh.
d. his law code. - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔d
️ . his law code.
During the Paleolithic and Neolithic ages, human tools were made primarily of
Select one:
a. stone.
b. iron.
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c. bronze.
d. copper. - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔️a. stone.
Zoroaster's religious beliefs had a similarity to Jewish ideas in all the following
areas EXCEPT the
Select one:
a. need to live an ethical life.
b. need to observe strict dietary laws.
c. ultimate prevalence of the forces of good over the forces of evil.
d. revelation of the will of God to man. - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔b
️ . need to
observe strict dietary laws.
The Greek political reformer Cleisthenes
Select one:
a. wrote epic poetry.
b. established an Athenian constitution with many democratic features.
c. preached equal rights for Athenian women.
d. became a tutor to Alexander the Great. - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔️b.
established an Athenian constitution with many democratic features.
The great historian of the Persian Wars, justifiably know as the "father of Western
history," was
Select one:
a. Homer.
b. Archimedes.
c. Herodotus.
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d. Sargon. - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔️c. Herodotus.
The Minoan civilization
Select one:
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. - CORRECT
ANSWERS✔️✔️b. had artists who often painted frescoes feauturing religioius
rituals.
Which of the following was NOT a result of the widespread violence and
movement of peoples in the eastern Mediterranean around 1200 B.C.E.?
Select one:
a. a besieged and weakened Egyptian Empire
b. the Trojan War and destruction of Troy
c. the establishment of democracy at Athens
d. the decline of Mycenaean civilization and its invasion by Dorian Greeks -
CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔️c. the establishment of democracy at Athens
The Greek Dark Ages commenced when
Select one:
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.
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d. Homer died, leaving his epics unfinished. - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔️a. the
Mycenaean culture collapsed.
During the Persian Wars,
Select one:
a. Athens defeated Sparta.
b. Xerxes of Persia conquered Greece, ending Athenian democracy.
c. Athens and Sparta invaded Persia and destroyed the Persian Empire.
d. None of these answers is correct. - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔️d. None of these
answers is correct.
Which of the following applies to Pericles, the architect of Athen's Golden Age?
Select one:
a. He was elected chief strategos, or commander, from 443 to 429 B.C.E.
b. He provided the leadership for the rebuilding of the Acropolis.
c. He advocated the supremacy of Athens over other members of the Delian
League.
d. All these answers are correct. - CORRECT ANSWERS✔️✔d
️ . All of these
answers are correct.
The Hellensistic school of philosophy that advocated the rejection of the goods of
this world in order to achieve happiness was that of the
Select one:
a. Sophists.
b. Cynics.
c. Epicureans.
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