Quiz Flashcards
1
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Which of the following actions by Athenians angered members of the Delian League?
A
Athens moved the League’s treasury to Athens
Athenians started using the League’s treasury to make purchases for Athens
Athens would not let member states secede from the Delian League
Athens treated member states as subject states
2
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Who led the Athenians during the Second Peloponnesian War?
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Pericles
3
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True or false: All Greek city-states were democracies
A
False
4
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What is an example of Pan-Hellenism?
A
Olympic Games
5
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What was the major flashpoint that led Darius to launch the First Persian War?
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The Athenians tried to help Ionians repel Persian Rule
6
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What were Athenian rulers called when they ruled with harshness in order to break the power of their fellow aristocrats?
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Tyrants
7
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What is the term for separate and independent city-states?
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Polis
8
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Who was the ruler of the Persian Empire during the Second Persian Invasion?
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Xerxes
9
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What was it called when Athenians voted to exile leaders who were becoming too powerful?
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Ostracism
10
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What is the name of the fighting formation where Greek soldiers defended themselves and their neighbors with armor while wielding long spears and short swords?
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Phalanx
11
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What characterized the art of the Greek Classical Age?
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Realism and Naturalism
12
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1/1
What is the theory of ethics in which pleasure is regarded as the chief good?
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Hedonism
13
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What is the philosophy that taught that happiness could be obtained by accepting one’s lot and living in harmony with the will of God, whatever that might be?
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Stoicism
14
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Which form of Greek religion emphasized spirituality and rituals centered around fertility, death, and resurrection and gods like Dionysus and Demeter?
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Mystery Cults
15
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True or False: Plato taught Socrates and then Socrates taught Aristotle
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False
16
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True or False: The plebeians were a few dozen families who made up the Roman aristocracy and controlled political power.
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False
17
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Which political office in the Roman Republic protected plebeians from patrician magistrates?
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Tribune
18
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Whose deaths after a campaign to help plebeians demonstrated that the checks and balances in Roman politics could now be circumvented by violence?
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Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus
19
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Who was Hannibal?
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The Carthaginian general who marched his armies into Roman territory by way of the Alps and Pyrenees
20
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What was the name of the practice in Rome where a politician’s name was posted publicly as an outlaw and then anyone could kill this politician without penalty?
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Proscription
21
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Who was the Chief Accuser of Socrates?
A
Meletus
22
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How is Socrates executed?
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Poising
23
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In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, what do the shadows in the cave represent?
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Illusions NOT Reality
24
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What was the name of the political system that began to operate under Caesar Augustus?
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Principate
25
What was the name of the political system that began to operate under Diocletian?
Republic
26
What was Mithraism?
A belief system based on Eastern Mediterranean mystery cults popular with Roman soldiers
27
Which Roman emperor reformed and systematized the seasons into a calendar?
Julius Caesar
28
Which subject was not included in the trivium, the first stage of liberal arts instruction?
Arithmetic
29
Which subject was NOT included in the quadrivium, the second stage of the Liberal Arts?
Grammar
30
In 313, Constantine issued which law which granted religious toleration to Christians?
Edict of Milan
31
The Council of Nicaea focused on discussing the orthodox position of which topic?
The divinity of Christ
32
What is the Eucharist?
Communion (The bread and wine)
33
Which Roman enemy lived in modern-day Germany, resisted subjugation by Rome, and became known as the Barbarians by the Romans?
The Goths
34
Who was Theobald?
A count who had compassion on Abelard and sheltered him after Abelard fled his monastery
35
Who was Anselm?
A teacher of Abelard’s accused of persecuting Abelard out of jealousy
36
Where was Abelard born?
Brittany, near Nantes
37
Who was Astrolabe?
Abelard and Heloise’s son
38
What was the Paraclete?
The oratory Abelard set up and Heloise eventually ran.
39
What was the Paraclete?
The oratory Abelard set up and Heloise eventually ran.
40
Who was Fulbert?
Heloise’s uncle
41
Where was Abelard residing when he met Heloise and began to tutor her?
Paris
42
At the Battle of Tours, who the army to defend the Frankish kingdom from the Saracen invasion?
Charles Martel
43
In 843, which agreement broke apart Charlemagne’s empire into three sections each under its own dynasty?
The Treaty of Verdun
44
True or False: Charlemagne had little control over his nobles.
False
45
Where was Charlemagne's capital?
Aachen
46
Who staved off the Magyar invasion in the Kingdom of the Germans as well as expanded his kingdom down to Italy? He would later force the Pope to crown him the new Holy Roman Emperor.
Otto I
47
In 1215, barons forced which king to sign the Magna Carta?
John I
48
In 1054, the Great Schism split Roman Catholicism from which Christian denomination?
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
49
From 1309-1377, the Babylonian Captivity saw seven successive popes reside in which French city?
Avignon
50
Which medieval heresy alleged that the devil ruled material things while God ruled the spirit?
Catharism
51
Which council in 1414-1417 gained the resignation of the three popes of Pisa, Avignon, and Rome and then elected one universally recognized pope?
Constance
52
What is another name for the Angevin royal dynasty of England?
Plantagenets
53
Which meeting ended the Investiture Crisis in 1122?
The Concordat of Worms
54
Who called the First Crusade?
Urban II
55
According to Pavlac, England perfected the use of which weapons during the Hundred Years War? (Choose ALL that apply)
Longbows
56
Which two countries participated in the Hundred Years War?
England and France
57
Which dynasty won the Wars of the Roses?
The Tudors
58
Which family from Florence is credited with playing a key role in patronizing and supporting the Italian Renaissance?
The Medicis
59
The Peace of Westphalia ended which war?
The Thirty Year's War
60
Which Spanish ruler launched the Spanish Armada against England in 1588?
Philip II
61
Jean Calvin created a Calvinist theocracy in which Swiss city?
Geneva
62
One of the key culminations of the Counter Reformation was which reformist Council?
Council of Trent
63
Which of the following was NOT a result of the Counter-Reformation?
A blanket ban on all indulgences
64
Which country enacted a certain (very limited) version of religious tolerance with the Edict of Nantes?
France
65
Which economic theory posits that a state’s prosperity depends on its supply of gold and silver and that the total volume of trade is unchangeable. Its adherents therefore advocate that the government should play an active role in the economy by encouraging exports and discouraging imports.
Mercantilism
66
Which Portuguese explorer rounded the Cape of Good Hope AND THEN continued on to reach India?
Vasco da Gama
67
In 1494, The Treaty of Tordesillas split the New World between which two European states? (Choose two)
Spain and Portugal
68
After 1682, the tsars of Russia adopted a policy of Westernization as showcased in which Russian city?
St. Petersburg
69
What is the belief that monarchs receive their power directly from God and are responsible to no one except God?
Divine Right
70
Frederick II was famous for his well-trained army, his vision of expansion, and ruling over which European state?
Prussia
71
Which ruler’s ascension to the Austrian Throne prompted the War of Austrian Succession?
Maria Theresa
72
Who was the commander of the Parliamentarians and later ruled over the Commonwealth?
Oliver Cromwell
73
In the Glorious Revolution, Protestant William and Mary claimed the English throne from Mary’s Catholic father. Who was Mary’s father?
James II
74
Some Puritans became separatists and resisted any engagement with the Anglican church. What are these "separatists" known as today?
Pilgrims
75
Nicolaus Copernicus’s Concerning the Revolutions of the Celestial Bodies argued in favor of which scientific theory?
Heliocentricism
76
Which of the following were not key goals of the Enlightenment?
Pietism
77
Who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)?
Mary Wollstonecraft
78
The Seven Years War had many names, what was it called in India?
The Third Carnatic War
79
Who was the king of France during the early years of the French Revolution?
Louis XVI
80
True or False: Only members of the Third Estate signed the Tennis Court Oath.
False
81
“Olympe de Gouges,” the nom de plume of _________, wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen.
Marie Gouze
82
During the Reign of Terror, who was the leader of the Jacobins and the Committee of Public Safety?
Maximilien Robespierre
83
What is the practice of relying on observation and experiment?
Empiricism
84
Who edited the first French encyclopedia?
Diderot
85
What is a “maroon” in the context of Saint Domingue?
A Runaway
86
Which Haitian revolutionary gathered “Free Black” revolutionaries to his side but refused the idea of letting enslaved men join his army?
Vincent Ogé
87
Who did Napoleon send to retake control of Haiti?
General Leclerc
88
Although Napoleon Bonaparte’s real power came from his ability to control the French army, what did he do to get the French people to endorse his seizure of the French state?
Held a Plebiscite
89
What was the significance of the Napoleonic Code?
It proclaimed the equality of all adult male citizens
It limited the rights of women gained in the French Revolution
It established new laws based on rationalist principles
It spread throughout Europe and is still the foundation of laws in Italy, Holland, Latin America, and even Louisiana
90
Which Napoleonic battle is commonly referred to as “The Battle of Three Emperors” and spelled the end of Austria’s fight against Napoleon in 1805?
Battle of Austerlitz
91
Where did the Battle of Waterloo take place?
Belgium
92
There was limited readings this week because of our Peer Review Class. However, its always better when a quiz is out of 10 than when it is out of 7. Check "True" if you agree and get 3 points.
True
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How did Mary Prince’s personal account of her experiences as an enslaved person become a best-seller in England?
Prince narrated her story to a female guest at the house where Prince worked as a free woman
94
1/1
| How was Mary Prince able to earn a bit of money as an enslaved woman?
When the Woods travelled she took in washing and sold food to captains of ships
95
Why was Mary Prince punished so severely for marrying Daniel James?
Prince did not receive permission from the Woods to marry.
96
At the end of her narrative, why does Mary Prince stay in Britain and not return home to the West Indies to join her husband?
Prince is free in Britain but if she returned to the West Indies she would once more become the property of the Woods family
97
Who are the Pringles?
The family who took Prince in at the end of her narrative and treated her well as a free servant
98
Where was Sharpe's Rebellion?
Jamaica
99
Who were the Kru?
African sailors who patrolled African coasts for illegal slavers
100
Who invented the Spinning Jenny?
James Hargreaves
101
The Revolutions of 1830 brought liberal Louis-Phillipe to power in which country?
France
102
Who was Klemens von Metternich?
An important arch-conservative Austrian diplomat in post-Napoleonic Europe
103
Which two European powers controlled the Suez Canal from inception to investment to decolonization in the twentieth century?
British and French
104
Which colonial war saw the first use of modern concentration camps?
Boer War
105
The explosion of the battleship Maine sparked which war?
Spanish American War
106
Who were the members of the Triple Alliance?
Italy, Germany, Austria-Hungary
107
Who were the members of the Triple Entente?
Britain, Russia, France
108
The Balfour Declaration supported the creation of which state after WWI?
Israel
109
Who proposed the Fourteen Points to Europe to settle post-war Europe?
Woodrow Wilson
110
Which Chancellor of Prussia spearheaded the movement to unify Germany under the leadership of Prussia?
Otto von Bismarck
111
Who, alongside Victor Emmanuel II, spearhead the effort to unite Italy under the leadership of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia?
Count Camillo di Cavour
112
Who was the Republican mercenary who led the "Red Shirts," conquered the Kingdom of Naples, and marched all the way to Rome?
Giuseppe Garibaldi
113
What was the name of the conference where high-ranking Nazis coordinated the implementation of their horrific ‘Final Solution’”?
Wannsee Conference
114
Which conference, in 1938, saw delegate nations express sympathy for the Jewish refugee crisis but refuse to open their doors?
Evian Conference
115
At the previous question’s conference, held in 1938, which country DID offer substantial promises to Jewish refugees?
Dominican Republic
116
True or False: Ghettos were supposed to be a temporary measure.
True
117
True or False: Eastern European railroad employees protested and resigned when they started noticing that the trains full of Jewish “re-settlers” never came back with anyone on them.
False
118
According to C.S. Lewis, the lack of the TAO produced people without what?
Chests
119
The Munich Conference saw Britain, France, and Italy allow Germany to annex the Sudetenland. Which country therefore lost its sovereignty over that area?
Czechoslavakia
120
Who was the Prime Minister of Britain during the majority of WWII?
Winston Churchill
121
What event provoked the Americans into officially joining WWII?
Pearl Harbor
122
What was the name of the German government that fell to the Third Reich in 1933?
The Weimar Republic
