Midterm Exam

Question 1

This poet wrote the Iliad and the odyssey which are some of the few sources we have for “Dark Age” Greece

Answer 1

Homer

Question 2

Was put to death in 399 BCE for corrupting the youth of Athens

Answer 2

Socrates

Question 3

This war ended with a “victory” for Sparta over Athens in 404 BCE

Answer 3

The Great Peloponnesian War

Question 4

Tutor of Alexander the Great

Answer 4

Aristotle

Question 5

Helped to create the demes in Athens and was most responsible for the creation of Athenian democracy

Answer 5

Cleisthenes

Question 6

Started a war in 49 BCE by crossing the rubicon river

Answer 6

Julius Ceaser

Question 7

This Carthaginian general invaded Italy in 218 BCE by crossing the alps and brought along 18 war elephants.

Answer 7

Hannibal

Question 8

This Roman politician ended most of the speeches he gave with the phrase “Carthage must be destroyed”

Answer 8

Cato the elder

Question 9

He was the elder of two brothers that were radical reformers in early Rome

Answer 9

Tiberius Graccbus

Question 10

He was twice elected as dictator of the Roman people and gave power back each time

Answer 10

Cincinnatus

Question 11

Julius Caesar’s nephew, Rome’s first emperor (never held that official title)

Answer 11

Augustus

Question 12

First Christian Roman emperor

Answer 12

Constantine the Great

Question 13

He argued that Christianity was not bringing about the collapse of the Roman Empire

Answer 13

St. Augustine of Hippo

Question 14

Byzantine emperor, had Body of Roman Law (Corpus juries civilis) compiled in his reign

Answer 14

Justinian

Question 15

Brought stability back to the Roman Empire in 284 CE and divided the empire into a tetrarchy

Answer 15

Diocletian

Question 16

Founder of Islam

Answer 16

Muhammad

Question 17

The religion of much of ancient Persia

Answer 17

Zoroastrianism

Question 18

@ first a persecutor of Christians, ended up spreading Christianity throughout the Roman Empire

Answer 18

St. Paul

Question 19

Church council that occurred in 325 CE. Settled issue of trinity, helped standardize the books of the Bible and created a formula to determine the date of Easter.

Answer 19

Counsel of Nicaea

Question 20

Egyptian pharaoh and worlds first identifiable monotheist

Answer 20

Amenhotep or Akhenaten.

Question 21

Author of socrates’ apology and a political reformer

Answer 21

Plato

Question 22

Athenian demagogue who was killed by plague in 429 BCE

Answer 22

Pericles

Question 23

King of Babylonia from 1792-1750 BCE and is best known for the law code that bears his name

Answer 23

Hammurabi

Question 24

Conquered Greece between 350 and 330 BCE

Answer 24

Phillip of Macedon

Question 25

Unified of the ancient Persian kingdom and the conqueror of Babylon

Answer 25

Cyrus the Great