Western Civilization Ch.3-5 Review

Greeks made contact with the _____ in the ninth century B.C.E.

The Greeks referred to some people with whom they came into contact as barbarians because they:

Hubris is:

Homer’s poetry describes a world in which:

The social center and organizational hub of the Greek polis was:

By the sixth century B.

C.E., Greeks founded numerous colonies around the Mediterranean basin, the most significant of which were located where?

After Hoplites were introduced in Greece:

Hoplites were organized into formations called a:

What made Greek battle formations and strategy formidable?

In the symposium, Archaic Age Greek aristocrats:

A Greek aristocrat who seized power and ruled outside the traditional constitutional framework was called:

The origins of Greek democracy can be identified, in part, in the rule of the Athenian aristocrat:

Cleisthenes is important in the history of Athenian government because he:

The most militarized of all the poleis in Greece was:

Spartiates rejected innovation and change and were:

Ionians transmitted the Lydian invention of _________ to the Greek world.

Because of their successful colonial and trading activities, the Miletus:

Milesian philosophers, known as the pre-Socratics:

The decisive Greek military victory over the Persians at Salamis was won by:

The Sophist claim that “Man is the measure of all things” means:

Socrates urged his followers to :

Greek sculpture evolved from the rather stiff likenesses resembling Egyptian statuary to a style labeled as:

One major result of the Persian wars was:

A result of the defeat of the Athenian expedition to attack Syracuse was:

Following Sparta’s victory in the Peloponnesian War:

After the Corinthian War (395-387 B.C.E.), Sparta:

During the economic decline of Greece in the fourth century B.C.E.:

Macedonian military reforms under Philip II most closely resemble earlier reforms undertaken by:

Whereas Plato conceived of politics as a means toward living the good life, Aristotle regarded politics as:

Alexander decided to make Egypt the capital of his empire:

The beginning of the end of Alexander’s conquests was his inability to fully subdue:

Alexander sought to fuse his Greco-Macedonian Empire with Persia by:

Macedonian rule in Egypt was characterized by:

The most important cultural center in the Hellenistic world was:

To highlight their authority and status in the former Persian Empire, Seleucid rulers:

After a period of instability, __________was finally able to establish rule over the homeland of Alexander’s Empire—Macedonia and Greece.

The Aetolian and Achaean Leagues differed from previous Greek attempts at political organization between poleis because:

Why did autocratic rulers in the Hellenistic world encourage manufacturing industries?

With the expansion of population in Hellenistic world:

The _________ believed that the cosmos is an ordered whole in which all contradictions are resolved for ultimate good.

A major influence on Epicurus and his school of Epicureanism was:

Central to the Skeptic worldview is the idea that:

Aristarchus of Samos was unusual among Hellenistic astronomers because:

Herophilus of Chalcedon was an innovative _________ in the ancient Hellenistic world.

The chief characteristics of Hellenistic architecture were:

Philip of Macedonia built his power base north of Greece partially by:

In invading Persia, Alexander began to follow the example of Cyrus the Great and:

With the expansion of population in the Hellenistic world and the creation of larger cities:

Greek rational thought began to separate in the Hellenistic world:

Prior to the establishment of Rome as the dominant state in Italy:

The geographic site of Rome has many advantages, including:

One of the things the Romans borrowed from the Greek settlers in southern Italy was:

The Latin Right of the early Romans guaranteed that:

The myth of the rape of Lucretia appealed to Roman patriotism by emphasizing:

During the early Roman Republic, Rome:

The division between Roman patricians and plebeians was:

The Twelve Tables of Law, approved in 450 B.C.E., represent:

The equestrian order (Roman knights) was established when:

Central to Roman identity was a conservatism expressed in an unwritten code of:

According to the patria potestas provision of the Twelve Tables, a Roman father:

Traditional Roman religion included ancestor worship and:

Once the Romans had effectively gained control of Italy (265 B.C.E.):

After Rome had twice defeated Carthage, a third Punic War:

Cicero, one of the most famous Stoics of the later republic, believed in all the tenets of Stoicism except:

Roman law consisted of three branches: civil law, natural law, and:

The Romans were able to support cities with large populations due, in no small measure, to the:

Cultural and intellectual developments in Rome reached their pinnacle during:

The Augustan system of government:

In the aftermath of the assassination of Julius Caesar, the second triumvirate took out its revenge on everyone opposed to them; one of the more prominent victims of the second triumvirate was:

Tiberius Gracchus sought to protect small farmers and protect the pool of citizens from which the army could be drawn by reviving old laws from the republican days that limited the amount of land a person could hold; for this he was:

Prior to Julius Caesar’s appointment as “Dictator for Life,” only one other Roman had been appointed to that position without the traditional six-month term, and he was:

Those who ruled Rome from 96 to 180 C.E. were called the “Five Good Emperors” because:

One example of how Rome transformed the world into the Roman world would be:

The Romans were the first people to use ___ on a massive scale in their buildings.