Comp Exam

Question 1

civilization

Answer 1

a culture that has attained a high degree of complexity, characterized by urban life

Question 2

city-state

Answer 2

urban region and agricultural land under city control

Question 3

Sargon

Answer 3

built the world’s first substantial empire

Question 4

Overview of Egyptian History

Answer 4

Old kingdom period-age of pyramids

2nd intermediate period-central authority weakened (Hyksos)

New Kingdom Period- Hyksos driven out and Egypt united, greatest period

Question 5

Mesopotamia

Answer 5

“land between the rivers”

Fertile Crescent, Babylonia, far east, near east

Question 6

Hittites

Answer 6

horse-drawn light weight chariots

iron weapons

treaties

Question 7

Phoenicians

Answer 7

Lebanon

contributed alphabetic symbols

Question 8

Aramaeans

Answer 8

Syria
dominated camel trade

language became international language

Question 9

Assyrians

Answer 9

militaristic and cruel
Turkey
capital: Nineveh

Question 10

Babylonians

Answer 10

joined with the Medes to overthrow the Assyrians

Question 11

Trojan Wars

Answer 11

10 year war btw Greeks & Trojans

Question 12

Dorians

Answer 12

nomadic shepherds and hunters

Question 13

Greek Dark Ages

Answer 13

caused by the Dorian invasion

Question 14

epicurians

Answer 14

the finest pleasures are intellectual

Question 15

stoics

Answer 15

the force

Question 16

oligarchy

Answer 16

rule by a few

Question 17

Spartan

Answer 17

means a disdain for luxury

Question 18

Punic Wars

Answer 18

1: Rome won; fought over trade
2: Hannibal made things hard, but Rome still won

Question 19

bread and circuses

Answer 19

refers to Colosseum

sarcastic

Question 20

Roman political life

Answer 20

republic
dictator
empire

Question 21

reason for the fall of the Roman empire

Answer 21

high taxes

technology stagnated

Question 22

edict of milan

Answer 22

gave religious freedom

Question 23

where did Constantine fight?

Answer 23

Milvian bridge

Question 24

Barbarians

Answer 24

Visigoths
Ostrogoths
Vandals
Huns
Franks

Question 25

Theories against the resurrection

Answer 25

Swoon/Semi-Coma theory Vision Theory Wrong Tomb theory Fraud theory

Question 26

Proof of Christ

Answer 26

Mara bar Serapion- letter to son mentions Jesus with wise people Pliny the Younger- Roman official who tortured people bc they would not deny Christ Tacitus- historian who talks about how Christians who got their name

Question 27

Reasons of Christian persecution

Answer 27

disloyal subjects (wouldnt make sacrifices) thought to be atheists (worshipped an invisible God) charged with incest, cannibalism, and immorality lifestyle contrasted with Romans

Question 28

Council of Nicaea

Answer 28

church operates independently of the govt

Question 29

sacerdotalism

Answer 29

priest is an essential mediator btw God and man

Question 30

positive elements of monaasticism

Answer 30

lots of education care for the afflicted preserved manuscripts

Question 31

negative elements of monasticism

Answer 31

limited engagements wit world false standards of holiness hierarchical religious structure

Question 32

Byzantine historical periods

Answer 32

expansion peril recovery disintegration

Question 33

reasons for byzantine endurance

Answer 33

money economy advanced military science centralized administration by a divine right ruler Caesaropapism (link btw church and state)

Question 34

sacraments

Answer 34

``` Baptism Holy Eucharist Penance/Confession Confirmation Matrimony Holy Orders Extreme Unction ```

Question 35

feudalism

Answer 35

a decentralized political relationship

Question 36

manorialism

Answer 36

an economic relationship

Question 37

fief

Answer 37

grant of land

Question 38

simony

Answer 38

the buying and selling of Church benefits

Question 39

scandinavia

Answer 39

norway sweden denmark

Question 40

primogeniture

Answer 40

the right of an eldest son to succeed to the estate of his father excluding his siblings

Question 41

investiture

Answer 41

the claim of kins to appoint bishops

Question 42

Shiah

Answer 42

only descendants of Muhammed can rule

Question 43

Hadith

Answer 43

report of Muhammad's deeds

Question 44

Innocent III

Answer 44

most powerful pope

Question 45

Franciscan order

Answer 45

missionaries

Question 46

Dominican Order

Answer 46

intellectuals

Question 47

Curia

Answer 47

selects pope when one dies

Question 48

Magna Carta

Answer 48

king must observe all feudal rights law is above the king

Question 49

merchant vs craft guilds

Answer 49

commerce vs professions

Question 50

heart of renaissance life

Answer 50

florence