Western Civilization

Question 1

Civilization is the term used to describe a society differentiated by levels of ___________ and________________ and in military, religious, economic, and political control are based in cities.

Answer 1

Wealth, Power

Question 2

The paleolithic age, witnessed the development of cave _________?

Answer 2

Cave paintings

Question 3

The diviion of labor between __________ and _________ and discovery of _________.

Answer 3

Men, Women, Fire

Question 4

The neolithic Revolution was the move from hunting and gathering toward the systematic growing of what__________?

Answer 4

Food/ Crops

Question 5

One of th ancient civilization in ______________ began in an Re known as Sumer around 3000 B.C.

Answer 5

Mesopotamia

Question 5

Sargon the Great was the founder of the _________________ empire and esatblished the first empire in Mesopotamia.

Answer 5

Akkadian

Question 5

The Epic of Gilgamesh is a great literary epic of the ancient________.

Answer 5

Sumerians

Question 6

What was Mesopotamian known as Cuneiform?

Answer 6

Eye for an eye

Question 6

What was Hammurabi most famous for ____________________ kings of Babylonian Empire who developed a significant set of laws.

Answer 6

Retaliation

Question 7

What was the most important river to help develope the Egyptian civilization?

Answer 7

Nile

Question 7

Ancient ___________ history was dicived into three major periods. The New Kingdom, The Middle Kingdom, and The Old Kingdom

Answer 7

Egyptian

Question 8

The egyptians were polytheistic during what kingdom- their cheif god was calld Re-the sub god of?

Answer 8

Old Kingdom

Question 9

Osiris was an Egyptian god associated with what?

Answer 9

Mumification

Question 10

In the New Kingdom of Egyptians history rulers took on the title of what?

Answer 10

Pharaoh

Question 11

Hieroglyphics was the primary writing system in ___________ it included symobols and represented sounds and objects.

Answer 11

Ancient Egyptain

Question 12

Egyptian number system what based of what number?

Answer 12

10

Question 13

The Greek, Latin, Persian and other languages belonged t what group?

Answer 13

European

Question 14

Minoan Civilization was located on what island in the Mediterranean Sea?

Answer 14

Crete

Question 15

Linear was a primary script used to place religious writing if ________ Civilization?

Answer 15

Minoan

Question 16

What language group did Myceneaans belong to?

Answer 16

German

Question 17

The virtue of being a skilled warrior was considered most important to what?

Answer 17

Trojan War

Question 18

The earliest written for of __________ used by the Mycenaeans was known ad Linear B.

Answer 18

Greek

Question 19

In religious tradition Abraham is considered the patriarch of what people?

Answer 19

Penataleuch

Question 20

King David is credited with the founder of ___________ and is consideded th greatest King of Isreal

Answer 20

Jerusalem

Question 20

What occuued at hands of the Hewbrews Chaldeans?

Answer 20

Babylonian Captivity

Question 21

________________ Religious Tradition contained three important aspects- The Covenant, The Law, and Prophets.

Answer 21

Jewish

Question 22

What simplified alphabet and writting system was contributed near ancient East?

Answer 22

Pheonicains alphabet

Question 23

Assyrians were warlike conquerors?

Answer 23

Mesopatamia

Question 24

The _________ millitary used terror tactics, had a well trained and diciplined army the used iron weapons, used horse drawn war chariots.

Answer 24

Assyriam

Question 25

The Hanging Garden of Babylon was on the the architectural achievments during what reign?

Answer 25

Nebuchadnezzar II

Question 26

In the Greek Archaic age the Greek adopted _________ form the Phoenicians?

Answer 26

Alphabet

Question 27

The Iliad was work of ___________ to tell a story of the Trojan War, with the wrath of a Greek hero named Achilles

Answer 27

Homer

Question 28

The ________ was a Greek millitary formation where soldiers stood shoulder to shoulder in ranks ofter eight men deep.

Answer 28

Phalanx

Question 28

The Greek ______ was an independent slef-governing city state.

Answer 28

Polis

Question 29

Democracy involves rule by ___________________ and is not determined by birth or wealth.

Answer 29

Political Reforms

Question 30

Cleithenes began a major reform that would create Athenians what?

Answer 30

Democracy

Question 31

The __________ faced problems caused by family sold into slavey , as of result they turned power over to solon to save Athens.

Answer 31

Areopagus

Question 32

Cyrus was the Great founder of _________?

Answer 32

Persian Empire

Question 33

_____________ led Athenians to their allies to victory at the Battlw of Marathon.

Answer 33

Miltiades

Question 34

Xerxes was the Persian ruler who led ___________ Invasion of Greece, with the force og 150,000 to 200,000 men.

Answer 34

Persians

Question 35

Greek unity was destroyed as a result of the ___________ War?

Answer 35

Peloponnesian War

Question 35

The Battle of Thermopylae was a heroic delaying action led by Kind Leonidas and his 300 ___________ to buy time for Athens to prepare for the Persian invasion.

Answer 35

Spartans

Question 36

Herodotus wrote the " Persian War" known of " the Father of ___________?

Answer 36

History

Question 37

Spartans' famous Greek philosopher who was forced commit suicide by drinking hemlock for corrupting the youth of___________?

Answer 37

Athens

Question 37

Hellenistic is the word used to describe the civilization based on _______________?

Answer 37

Greece

Question 38

Philip II defeating an alliance of Thebans the Athenians at the Battle of _____________?

Answer 38

Chaeronea

Question 39

Alexander the Great largest empire the world had ever known diffused_________?

Answer 39

Greek

Question 40

The Battle of Granicus River, The Battle of Issus, and Gaugamela was most famous of who?

Answer 40

Alexander

Question 41

The epic poem of The Argonautica was.

Answer 41

Apollonius Rhodes

Question 42

Doctrine of Pleasure Founded by Epicurus

Answer 42

Epicurus

Question 43

________ founded Zeno?

Answer 43

Stoicism

Question 44

Groundbreaking astronomical theory of the Heliocentric view of the universe?

Answer 44

Aristarchus

Question 45

_______ is best known for determining the circumference of the Earth?

Answer 45

Eratosthenes

Question 46

_______ was most famous contribution of Elements, textbook on geometry

Answer 46

Euclid