test 3 ch 8-12

The Iliad deals with the

the war to capture Troy

The political structure of the ancient Greeks

usually consisted of independent, autonomous city-states

The Greeks used the word polis to refer to

The City-State ( meaning refuge place )

Distinction among the ancient Spartans came from

discipline and military talent

Who won the Peloponnesian War?

Sparta

The point at which Alexander had to give up his conquests and return home was in

India

In general, women in classical Greece

lived under the legal authority of their male relatives

Greek law regarded all slaves as

the private chattel property of their owners

Which of the following did Socrates believe was more important than wealth or fame?

honor

Which Greek god was the grandson of the earth and sky gods?

Zeus

The most prominent school of moral philosophy in Rome was

stoicism

Jesus of Nazareth's followers called him Christ, which meant

the anointed one

Buddhism was spread to China by

foreign merchants

Christianity was popularized in central Anatolia during the third century C.E. by

gregory the wonderworker

In the year 184 C.E., peasant discontent in China led to an uprising known as the

Yellow Turban Rebellion

After 340 C.E., the capital of the Roman world became

Constantinople

In 476 C.E., Rome finally fell to

Odovacer

After the collapse of the western half of the Roman empire, imperial authority survived for another thousand years in the

Byzantine Empire

Christian thought was linked to Greek and Roman philosophical traditions through the work ofGroup of answer choices

St. Augustine

The Spartans were constantly afraid of the prospect of an uprising by serfs known as

Helots

The concept of Forms or Ideas is associated withGroup of answer choices

Plato

In the Republic, Plato proposed that the true rulers of society should be

a philosophical elite

Latifundia were

enormous plantations worked by slaves.

The last of the Ptolemaic rulers was

Cleopatra

The reign of Augustus inaugurated a period known as the

pax romana

The term paterfamilias refers to the

the patriarchal nature of the Roman family

In 73 B.C.E., Spartacus

raised an army of seventy thousand rebellious slaves

Which of the following religions was NOT popular during the Roman empire?

Islam

In the ancient world, the main producer of silk wasGroup of answer choices

China

St. Augustine made Christian thought more appealing to the educated classes by harmonizing it with ________ thought

Greek and Roman

The only classical society that survived in the centuries after 400 C.E. was theGroup of answer choices

Byzantine

The most important political feature of the Byzantine state was its

tightly centralized rule under a powerful emperor

The mixture of secular and religious authority that marked Constantine's reign as well as that of the Byzantine emperors is known as

Caesaropapism

Historians use the term caesaropapism to refer to the

system in which the emperor has a mixture of political and religious authority

Hagia Sophia was

the magnificent church at Constantinople

Justinian's most important and long-lasting political achievement was his

codification of Roman law

A direct challenge to the Byzantine emperor arose in the year 800 when the pope gave an imperial crown to the Frankish king,

Charlemagne

In 1054 the pope in Rome and the patriarch in ConstantinopleGroup of answer choices

mutually excommunicated each other

From the sixth century on, the official language of Constantinople was

Greek

Constantinople finally fell in 1453 to the

Ottoman Turks

By the sixteenth century, Russians had begun to think of Moscow as the

the third Rome

The Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca is known as the

Hajj

The word Islam means

submission

The phrase "one who has submitted" is the meaning of the term

Muslim

In 595, Muhammad married a wealthy widow named

Khadija

The Quran

is the holy book of Islam

The Islamic holy law is known as the

Sharia

The main split inside Islam was between Sunni and

Shia

The Shia believed that

The Caliphate should follow in the line of Ali

No religious leader could follow Muhammad, so political authority rested in the position of the

Caliph

The Quran, following the example of Muhammad, allowed men to have up to how many wives?

four

The other name for the collection of stories known as The Arabian Nights is

The Thousand and One Nights

The Sufis believed

in an emotional and mystical union with Allah

The capital of the Abbasid empire was

Baghdad

The phrase dar al-Islam means

House of Islam

The greatest contribution of Sui Yangdi, the second Sui emperor, was

the construction of the Grand Canal

The kowtow was

Ritual prostration

Foot binding is probably the best example of the

increasingly patriarchal nature of Chinese society

What was the title of the military governor who ruled in place of the Japanese emperor?

Shogun

In 1279, the Song dynasty finally fell to the

Mongols

The most important new crop introduced into China during the Tang and Song periods was

Fast-ripening rice

In an effort to win support in China by tying into Chinese traditions, Buddhist missionaries translated the Indian term dharma as

dao

The native religion of Japan is

Shintoism

Which of the following refers to a mounted warrior?

samurai