Final Exam Flashcards
- Which of the following was a cave in Southern France, discovered in 1994, that contains 300 paintings of animals?
Chavet
- The Akkadian ruler who claimed to divine and who had a temple built for him was
Narm-sin
The Babylonian creation epic was
Enuma elish
- According to Egyptian theology, the pharaoh derived his authority from the fact that he was perceived as a divine instrument of order and
harmony
The economy of Egypt relied mostly on
Agriculture
In ancient Egypt, originally the cult of Osiris was reserved for
the wealthy who could afford preservation of the body.
In the 13th century, the Egyptians were driven out of Palestine and back to their original frontiers by
“the sea peoples.”
The _____ played an important role in the history of the Middle East because they transmitted Mesopotamian culture to the west, especially to the Mycenaean Greeks.
Hittites
Which of the following is not an Indo-European language?
Japanese
Assyrian society was well known for its assimilation of other cultures and development of a ____ society,
polyglot
The Persian Empire reached its largest territorial boundaries under
Darius
The weakening of the Phoenician empire was largely attributed to the kings’ hoarding of wealth and over-taxation of their subjects.
FALSE
Which of the following was the most tolerant and efficient of the Ancient Near Eastern Empires?
Persia
Which is the following is true of Greece from the 8th century?
The polis evolved into the central institution of Greek life
To balance the power of kings and the Council of Elders, Spartan political reformers created the
ephors
For the ancient Greeks, _____ described the striving for excellence.
arete
The immediate cause of the Persian Wars was
a revolt of the Ionian Greek colonies in Asia Minor.
During the Age of _____, Athenians became deeply attached to their democratic system.
Pericles
One of the chief causes of the Peloponnesian War was
Sparta’s fear of the power of Athens and its maritime empire.
The Greek dramatist who was a realist and known for his portrayal of realistic characters in real life situations was
Euripides.
Early Greek philosophers attempted to explain the ________ on the basis of unifying principles.
universe
“The unexamined life is not worth living” is a cornerstone of the philosophy of
Socrates
Alexander the Great invaded the ______ Empire with an army of 37,000 including 5,000 cavalry.
Persian
At the Battle of ________, the Greeks under Alexander were able to break the center of the Persian line and turn the battle.
Gaugamela
Alexander the Great’s troops rebelled when he made the decision to invade and capture
India
The Hellenistic dynasty that lasted the longest was
Ptolemaic
Improvements in trade and commerce in the Hellenistic world were greatly aided by all of the following except
revolutionary innovations in agriculture
Which of the following were not major sources of slaves in the Hellenistic world?
Citizens who could not pay their debts
The surviving works of the Greek historian _______ demonstrate his following of Thucydides in seeking rational motives for historical events.
Polybius
The philosophical school that stressed happiness through the freeing oneself from a political life was
Epicureanism
Which of the following is true about Hellenistic civilization?
Signs of decline were apparent by the late 3rd century BCE
Rome was established in the first millenium BCE on the
Plain of Latium
The Struggle of the ______was a peaceful struggle which resulted in political compromise.
Orders
The Roman senator who led the movement for the complete destruction of Carthage was
Cato
The head of Roman religious observances was
pontifex maximus
In Roman religion, a right relationship with the gods was achieved by
accurate performance of rituals and festivals
The Roman’s most noticable innovations in art and culture were found in
architecture and painting
The _____ were a wealthy and ambitious class of Romans who appeared in the late republic.
Equites
Cicero
ALL OF THE ABOVE
By crossing the _____ river, Caesar showed that he was willing to disobey the direct orders of the Senate.
Rubicon
Which Roman writer is most closely associated with the development of a new poetry at the end of the Roman Republic.
Catallus
Under the rule of Augustus, the Roman Empire turned towards absolute monarchy, with the Senate overshadowing the princeps.
FALSE
Among Augustus’ most important action in the area of Roman religion was his
creation of an imperial cult.
The first of the Flavian emperors was
Vespasian
Trade and commerce in the early Roman Empire
ALL OF THE ABOVE
The two Roman cities that were destroyed by the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 CE were Pompeii and
Herculaneum
The late 3rd century Roman Emperor who re-conquered and re-established order in the eat along the Danube and who was known as the “restorer of the world” was
Aurelian
Guilt under German customary law was determined by
compurgation and ordeal
The Pope who supposedly caused Attila the Hun to turn away from Rome was
Leo I
Augustine did all of the following except
translate scripture in to Latin Vulgate
