Diogenes, who lived from approximately 412 to 323 B.C., was one of the leading philosophers of the * Cynics Sophists Stoics Epicureans Aristotleans Which of the following did NOT take control of some part of the empire of Alexander the Great? the Seleucids of Syria the Ptolemies of Egypt * the Etruscans of northern and central Italy the Macedonian rulers of Greece Which of the following cities was NOT a center of learning and culture in the Hellenistic age? Alexandria * Rome Antioch Athens Which of the following statements is false? Among the reasons for the breakup of Alexander's empire after his death were the rivalries among his generals. * Among the reasons for the breakup of Alexander's empire after his death were his refusal to allow Greeks to intermarry with local people. Among the reasons for the breakup of Alexander's empire after his death were the problems of administering an empire that extended over many thousands of miles. Among the reasons for the breakup of Alexander's empire after his death were the variety of the different cultures he had tried to unite. Which of the following statements is false? The Hellenistic empires made Greek a lingua franca throughout the Eastern Mediterranean world. The Hellenistic empires created a cosmopolitan urban culture. * The Hellenistic empires created a culture that unified the cities and the countryside. The Hellenistic empires often accorded their rulers divine honors as a way of holding the allegiance of many different peoples. Which of the following statements is false? Professor Weber argues that Hellenistic art strove for greater realism than could be found in classical art. Professor Weber argues that Hellenistic art often portrayed highly dramatic situations. Professor Weber argues that Hellenistic art was sometimes melodramatic or grotesque. * Professor Weber argues that Hellenistic art neglected technical virtuosity. Which of the following statements is false? * Professor Weber argues that the growth of the great Hellenistic empires strengthened people's attachment to their own civic religions Professor Weber argues that the growth of the great Hellenistic empires moved the center of power away from the individual cities Professor Weber argues that the growth of the great Hellenistic empires led philosophers to discount the importance of active involvement in political life. Professor Weber argues that the growth of the great Hellenistic empires brought people into contact with a great variety of religions. Which of the following statements is false? Astrology was central to many mystery religions because the heavenly bodies were thought to control human destinies. Astrology was central to many mystery religions because the ordered movements of the heavenly bodies were thought to produce a vast and eternal harmony. * Astrology was central to many mystery religions because the keys to salvation were granted to all people, just as the heavens were visible to all. Astrology was central to many mystery religions because it was believed that the doctrines or rituals of the cults allowed believers to reach the heavenly sphere of the ultimate god. Civilization is best defined as * a human form of culture in which many people live in urban centers, have mastered the art of smelting metals, and have developed a method of writing. the ways of living built up by a group and passed on from one generation to another. a society where the population engages in abstract thought and promotes policies of peace rather than war. the complex interrelationships among human beings which result in the accumulation of wealth and power. all of the above The strongest statement of Hebrew monotheism is to be found in Epic of Gilgamish. * the Second Isaiah. Hammurabi's Code. The Book of Abraham. Sanskrit. Which of the following is a telling of the story of the Flood in which the hero has many adventures and learns of his own mortality? Code of Hammurabi the Second Isaiah * the Epic of Gilgamesh the odyssey of the ten lost tribes the "Israel Stele" Man has dominated Earth for only about half of the planet's existence. True * False The Code of Hammurabi was an outline of religious practice. * a body of civil and criminal law. the moral teaching of Hammurabi. a system of writing developed by the Babylonians. the oath taken by the Klingon military caste. Out of the civil wars that followed Julius Caesar's assassination, his nephew Octavian, later called , emerged as the effective ruler of Rome. Tiberius * Augustus Ramses II Abraham Anubis The term Stone Age is used to describe the period of early human cultures because * stone was the material from which tools and weapons were made. it was an age of ignorance, rigidity, and inflexibility. it was so named by the people living in that period. the people of that age were always stoned. it was named after the famed anthropologist, I. M. Stone The greatest achievement of the Neolithic age was the first forms of art. * the creation of agriculture and village life. the invention of gods. the exploration and mapping of the world. the development of iron for making tools and weapons. Neolithic literally means Old Stone Age. Middle Stone Age. * New Stone Age. Bronze Age. natural or organic. The Book of the Dead was written by Akhenaton. * a collection of spells whereby the dead could get safely to the next world. a manual on mummification. a record of items buried with the pharaoh. was compiled and edited by Egypt's most famous Queen, Nefertiti. Scientists estimate that the earth may be as many as 20 billion years old. 5-6 million years old. * 6 billion years old. 100 million years old. 27 thousand years old. The Greeks called the Egyptian system of writing hieroglyph which means: high writings. * sacred carvings. ancient records. Pharaoh's scribe. Mesopotamian. Which of the following was not an Egyptian or an Egyptian god? * Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Amon-Re Aton Osiris Anubis In order to call a period "historical," there must be evidence of * writing. pottery remains. social organization warfare and weapons. the use of tools. According to tradition the Jewish patriarch came from Ur about 1900 B.C. to settle in the land of the Canaanites. * Abraham Noah Moses Octavian King Solomon In 586 B.C., King Nebuchadnezzar II conquered Judah. He destroyed the great temple built by Solomon and took thousands of hostages off to his capital. This time and experience is called * the Babylonian Captivity the Time of Troubles the Age of Anubis Nebuchadnezzer's Curse the Paleolithic Age The word from the study guide that means the doctrine or belief that there is only one God is theology pantheon polytheism Messiah * monotheism The name of Amenholep IV's beautiful wife was Helen * Nefertite Cleopatra Penelope Agnes By 3000 B.C., the Sumerians had developed a system of writing which utilized a wedge shaped stylus writing on clay tablets. This system of writing is called arete hieroglyphics ziggarat * cuneiform frescoe In 480 B.C., the Greeks won a decisive naval battle when they defeated the Persians at Plataea Thermophylae Laconia Ionia * Salamis The Spartan polis aimed above all at producing wise lawgivers. wealthy traders. * brave and victorious soldiers. magicians and mystics. orators. Which qualities would a Homeric hero prize most dearly? 3 strength, team work, artistic ability charity, prowess, speaking ability * individual prowess, courage, excellence wealth, love of country, the good life patriotism and tolerance Hubris (hybris) can best be defined as * arrogance, overweening pride. loyalty. the courage to act quickly when in danger. political insecurity. a soft white cheese. The Persian empire was established by Darius the Great. Xerxes. * Cyrus the Great. Aristagoras. Amenhotep IV. In the battle of Marathon, the Athenians had the aid of many allies. * Athens stood almost alone against the Persians. the Athenians were aided by Spartan land forces. the Athenians lost. King Leonidas and his 300 Spartan heroes stood, fought and died in the defense of the Greek world at the Battle of . Rarely before or since has the world seen such martial courage and military prowess. Salamis * Thermopylae Marathon Plataea Waterloo The famous Greek adages "Know thyself" and "Nothing in excess" are connected to 8 The Cult of Apollo at Delphi The Cult of Dionysus Oedipus of Thebes the Mycenaens Homeric values The Spartan slave was called a hoplite. hybris. agon. * Helot. none of the above. The attack on Greece was led by the Persian king Cyrus. * Xerxes. Solon. Cambyses. Herman. The main palace complex on Crete is located at Laconia. * Cnossus. Mycenae. Attica. Plataea. In 499 B.C. the Ionian Greeks led by Aristagoras of Miletus rebelled against: Sparta. Rome. Athens. 8 Persia. Laconia. Which of the following was the Greek god of war? Hermes Zeus Apollo Dionysus * Ares The Greek colonization movement around 750 B.C. occurred primarily because of the fear of the Dorian invasion. * overpopulation of Greek lands. desire to trade and make money. need to escape from internal disputes between city states. love for excitement and adventure that characterized the Greeks. The Homeric epics refer to Oedipus Rex and the Odyssey. * The Iliad and the Odyssey. Works and Days and the Theogony. The Iliad and The Golden Ass. Agemennon and Achilles. The famous Greek philosopher Socrates believed that democracy was the best possible form of government. True * False The hoplite phalanx was * a military formation composed of heavily armed infantrymen. a military formation composed of aristocratic cavalrymen. a quick, maneuverable warship. the shield or buckler carried by Greek warriors. none of the above Which of the following was the father of the Gods? Demeter Apollo Athena * Zeus Poseidon. The name of the Greek god of the seas and earthquakes is Dionysus Apollo Hermes Oedipus * Poseidon Penelope's husband (name) fought for years at the siege of Troy. After the fall of Troy, it took him many years of wandering adventures to return home whereupon he slew all the suitors of his virtuous wife. Poseidon * Odysseus Achilles Homer Leonidas In 490 B.C., the Athenians beat the Persians at the Battle of . This battleground was 26 miles from the city of Athens. 5 Laconia Thermopylae Plataea Salamis * Marathon (c.a. 490-425 B.C.) a Greek from Asia Minor is often called "the father of history." He wrote a history of the Persian Wars; he also wrote of the tyranny of the Cypselids of Corinth. Homer * Herodotus Hesiod Solon Thucydides In Greek history, the term that means a city and its surrounding countryside is Ionia Attica * polis arete hubris The Greek poet was born about 612 B.C. on the island of Lesbos. Although only fragments of her writings survive, we know that she was regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets in antiquity. Dorian Penelope Hera * Sappho Helen is the modern English word that means unusually severe penalties., the term derives from the name of an Athenian lawgiver of the 7th Century B.C. * Draconian inimical drachma hedonistic Hippocratic In the great epic poem The Iliad, "the most kingly" commander of the Greek forces in the siege of Troy was Achilles Homer * Agememnon Odysseus Hector The two main historians of classical Greece were Homer and Hesiod. Pliny and Sappho. Sophocles and Aristotle. * Herodotus and Thucydides. Xerxes and Sappho. Thucydides was an Athenian who wrote the history of the Persian wars. * wrote the history of the Peloponnesian War. divorced himself from the influence of the Hippocratic school of medicine. describes the chaos of the warring Greek states in the second century B.C. was the victorious Athenian general at Marathon. Philip II died * by assassination. by suicide. of old age. while fighting in Persia. of ovarian cancer. Which best describes the philosophy of the Stoics? denunciation of convention, advocacy of a crude life in accordance with nature * a life in harmony with god and nature, knowledge of good and evil, avoidance of passion Since nothing can be known, nothing matters. both a. and c. all of the above Alexander's troops refused to proceed farther after they reached Persia. * India. Egypt. China. puberty. In 1977, the excavation of a mound at Vergina yielded extraordinarily rich finds. It is what many consider to be the tomb of . Demosthenes. * Philip II. Isocrates. Aristotle. Cleopatra. The famous soldier and philosopher Xenophon recounts how Greece was at last brought to peace and stability as a result of the decisive Theban victory at the Battle of Mantinea in 362 B.C. True * False The rising power in the Greek world about 350 B.C. was * Macedon. the Athenian Empire. Thrace. Corinth. Sparta. The "Hellenistic World" refers to Greece of the fifth century. the innovative map by Eratosthenes. * a period of three centuries when Greek culture was spread to Egypt and Asia changing both East and West. the Hellenic world after it was conquered by Rome none of the above. All of the following were successors to Alexander and ruled parts of his divided empire except the Ptolemy Dynasty Seleucid Dynasty Antigonid Dynasty * Granicus Dynasty The period from 404-371 B.C. was called the Spartan hegemony and is characterized by Spartan leadership of the Greek world. overextension of Spartan power in Asia Minor. the rise of Theban power. Spartan arrogance. * all of the above. At the time of Alexander's invasion, who was king of Persia? Xerxes * Darius III Cyrus the Great Darius I Elmer VIII Which of the following statements about the Battle of Mantinea is false? It was fought in 362 B.C. Epaminondas of Thebes was killed in the battle. Thebes faced Athens as well as an anti-Theban Peloponnesian coalition as adversaries in the battle. The battle was decisive and ended the uncertainty and political confusion that had plagued Greece. * Xenophon wrote about the battle and its consequences. After the Persian wars, Athens headed a defense alliance which she transformed into the Athenian Empire. It was called the * Delian League. Ionian League. Peloponnesian League. Corinthian League. Eastern Greek Empire The leading opponent of Philip II at Athens was Isocrates. * Demosthenes. Eubulus. Callimachus. Aristotle. Zeno of Cyprus founded cynicism. * stoicism. epicureanism. skepticism. nepotism. The author of the still-influential book ELEMENTS or The Elements of Geometry was . This timeless work was written in the early third century B.C. * Euclid. Archimedes of Syracuse. Demosthenes. Socrates. Plato. Alexander was forced to end his conquest in India because of * a mutiny by his men. a lack of funds. a fever which eventually killed him. his assassination. a lack of resistance by the natives. Which of the following is not one of the three orders of Greek architecture? Doric * Athenian Ionic Corinthian Which style of architecture has the simplest and least ornate columns? * Doric Athenian Ionic Corinthian The leader of the Athenian expedition of 415-413 B.C. against Sicily was Cleon. Lysander. 8 Alcibiades. Cimon. Pericles. was a persuasive speaker, a skillful politician, a respected military leader and an acknowledged patriot. He was the leader of Athens in 431 B.C. when the Great Peloponnesian War broke out. * Thucydides Alcibiades (469-399 B.C.) is probably the most famous teacher in history. He said that all forms of government carry within themselves the seeds of their destruction. He was put to death by the Athenian state and although he was given a chance to escape, he chose to stay and die because of his veneration of duty and the law. Epaminondas Pericles * Socrates Diogenes Aristophanes (429-347 B.C.) founded the Academy in Athens, a school that thrived for almost a thousand years. He was no fan of democracy. He envisioned a Utopia ruled over by carefully selected and educated "philosopher kings." Euclid * Plato Socrates Xenophon Thuycydides Plato said that was Socrates gone mad. This famous Cynic wore rags and lived in a tub (ca. 400-325 B.C.). Pericles Herodotus * Diogenes Demosthenes Leonidas The greatest of the Athenian comic poets, presented the play Lysistrata in 411 B.C. * Aristophanes Demosthenes Dogenes Aristotle Archimedes Professor Weber tells us that the age of reptiles (dinosaurs) ended about years ago. * 60,000,000 10,000,000 3,000,000 800,000 14,000 Professor Weber tells us that man or manlike creatures first fashioned a tool about years ago. 60 million 32 million * 2.5 million 200,000 14,000 Professor Weber describes early Stone Age man as all but which one of the following: hunters gleaners * farmers nomads Which of the following is false? Professor Weber tells us that Stone Age people engaged in frequent warfare Professor Weber tells us that Stone Age people often engaged in human sacrifice. Professor Weber tells us that Stone Age people kept slaves. Professor Weber tells us that Stone Age people lived in a precarious and fear-filled atmosphere. * Professor Weber tells us that Stone Age people generally sacrificed animals to perpetuate the forces of nature and darkness. According to Professor Weber, the main motivators in the politics of the ancient world and in today's world is/are fellow feeling and benevolence the need for order through cooperation religion and altruism * greed, revenge and the will to dominate sociability and the impulse toward group living and decision making Professor Weber tells us that the longest lasting civilization has been the Greek Sumerian * Egyptian Roman English Professor Weber shows that the "Fertile Crescent" was in Italy * Egypt and Mesopotamia Spain and France Greece and Anatolia Egypt and Libya Which of the following is false? Professor Weber tells us that the Egyptians were interested in stability. * Professor Weber tells us that the Egyptians were interested in progress. Professor Weber tells us that the Egyptians were interested in regularity. Professor Weber tells us that the Egyptians were interested in conservation. Professor Weber tells us that the Egyptians were interested in repetition. Professor Weber tells us that the Egyptian god of death and resurrection and also of earth and fertilizing water is Re * Osiris Seth Anubis Isis Professor tells us that the Egyptians believed in a wicked god named who stood for all arid and unpleasant things and the desert, the foreigner, disorder and warfare. Re Osiris * Seth Anubis Isis Professor Weber shows us examples of the Egyptian , which is a tall, slender monument cut from a single piece of granite. * obelisk drachma fresco El Amarna pyramid Professor Weber tells us that the Egyptians were not talented farmers * soldiers bureaucrats artists Professor Weber tells us that a feudal system of landholding existed in China India the Fertile Crescent Medieval Europe * all of the above Professor Weber tells us that the first civilized people in Mesopotamia were the * Sumerians Babylonians Assyrians Egyptians Persians Professor Weber tells us that the wheel was probably first invented and developed in China Egypt 8 Mesopotamia India Central America Professor Weber tells us that the earliest Mesopotamian cities were organized and dominated by a commercial aristocracy the king and his family the Pharaoh an agricultural elite who monopolized the cotton trade * the priests and the temple Professor Weber informs us that glass making techniques were first developed in around 2500 B.C. China India * Mesopotamia Egypt Central America Professor Weber tells us that the earliest metal to be mined and smelted to be used for tools and weapons was bronze * copper iron steel slate Professor Weber tells us that all of the following were cities in Mesopotamia except Ur * Memphis Lagash Akkad Babylon Professor Weber tells us that the first divided the day into 12 double hours, hence our 24-hour day and also were the first to divide the year into weeks of seven days. * Mesopotamians Romans Jews Egyptians Mayans Professor Weber tells us that the first standard of value and medium of exchange in Mesopotamia was gold silver copper coins royal tokens * barley Professor Weber tells us that in the seventh century B.C., began to make silver coins. the Athenians * Lydian kings the Romans the Egyptian Pharoah the Hebrews