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