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HUM 111 – Western Civ

Midterm

Short answers/Multiple choice

1) Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?

2) What crime was Socrates charged and found guilty of?

3) Who was history’s first Western philosopher?

4) Which 2 Greeks are considered the greatest Western philosophers?

5) Who fought in the Peloponnesian War? Who won?

6) What is the Pax Romana?

7) Who is the founder of Islam?

8) What is the Fertile Crescent?

9) Who was the strategos (archon) during Athens Golden Age?

10) What is the Qiyama?

11) What is the Hegira/Hajj?

12) Who is the Mahdi?

13) What is a Shia Muslim religious leader called?

14-16) What are the 3 holiest cities for Muslims?

17-21) What are the 5 pilars of the Muslim faith?

22) What is the Kabah?

23-24) List two characteristics of Islamic Art.

25-26) List two characteristics of Christian Art.

27) What is a caliph?

28) What is the holy book of the Muslims called?

29) What is a khum?

30) What does jihad mean?

31-33) List 3 types of Islam.

34) What is calligraphy?

35) What is the mi’raj?

36) What is the masterpiece of Islamic art?

37) What is a minaret?

38) What is an Islamic school called?

39) What is Sharia law?

40) What is a fatwa?

41) What is the purpose of a Qibla?

42) Who was Rumi?

43) Which of these was NOT a major Aegean Greek civilization?

a) Mycenaeans b) Trojans c) Minoans d) Cycladic

44) Which of these was NOT a group of archaic Greeks?

a) Ionians b) Spartans c) Dorians d) Aeolians

45) Which building had the world’s first plumbing system?

a) Palace of Knossos b) Colosseum c) Baths of Caracalla d) Livia’s Palazzo

46) Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?

a) Pindar b) Plato c) Thucydides d) Homer

47) What was the main Greek fighting formation?

a) The Legion b) The Phalanx c) The Turtle d) The Pilon

48) Who did the Greeks adopt the alphabet from?

a) The Phoenicians b) The Egyptians c) The Romans d) The Etruscans

49) Who was Minoan civilization named for?

a) King Minoa b) King Noan c) King Minos d) King Mionataur

50) What is considered the most perfect ancient Greek building according to modern architects?

a) Erechtheion b) Propylaia c) Temple of Athena Nike d) The Parthenon

51) Which building has the best natural acoustics in the world?

a) Colosseum b) Pompey’s Theater c) Theater of Epidauros d) Pantheon

52) Which of these was NOT considered a masterpiece of Hellenistic Art?

a) Venus di Milo b) Laocoon c) Winged Victory d) Farnese Bull

53) Which 2 languages of the ancient world have still not been fully deciphered?

a) Minoan and Etruscan b) Minoan and Linear B c) Etruscan and Byzantine

54) Which artwork is now the symbol of the city of Rome?

a) Augustus Prima Porta b) She-Wolf c) Colosseum d) Pantheon

55) When was the founding of Rome?

a) April 21, 753 BCE b) April 29, 1965 c) March 5, 776 BCE

56) Who founded the city of Rome?

a) Mars and Venus b) Aeneas c) Romulus and Remus d) It was never lost

57) What country did Rome fight against in the Punic Wars?

a) Punicia b) Phoenicia c) Carthage d) Greece

58) What is the masterpiece of Roman Imperial Art?

a) Colosseum b) Ara Pacis c) Altar of Peace d) Pantheon

59) What was the real name for the Colosseum?

a) Caesar’s Forum b) Imperial Forum c) Flavian Amphitheater d) Colosseum

60) What year did the fall of the Roman Empire in the West occur?

a) 1453 b) 476 c) 776 d) 1816

61) What happened on August 24, 79 CE?

a) Great Fire of Rome b) Mt Vesuvius erupted c) Pompeii was destroyed d) both b and c

62) Who was the first Roman Emperor?

a) Augustus Caesar b) Julius Caesar c) Diocletian d) Constantine

63) Which of these is NOT a period of Roman history?

a) Imperial b) Monarchial c) Republican d) Democratic

64) What statue was the first monumental nude in history?

a) Kritios Boy b) Female Kore c) Standing Youth (Kouros) d) Aphrodite of Knidos

65) What was the first statue to use contrapposto in its stance?

a) Kritios Boy b) Female Kore c) Standing Youth (Kouros) d) Spear Bearer

66) Which of these was NOT a period of Greek history?

a) Helladic b) Hellenistic c) Classical d) Ionic Age e) Doric Dark Age

67) Which branch of Christianity has been around the longest?

a) Baptist b) non-denominational c) Catholic d) Jehovah Witnesses

68) What is the Tanakh?

69) What is the Mishnah?

70) What was unique about the discovery of Tutankhamen’s (King Tut’s) tomb?

71-73) Name 3 Egyptian gods.

74-75) Which of these was NOT a Persian god?

a) Ahura-mazda b) Anu c) Ahriman

76) What was the Egyptian scientific innovation that we still use today?

a) Solar calendar b) Boats c) the Wheel d) Astronomy

77) Name the world’s first nation state.

a) Sumer b) Assyria c) Egypt d) Babylonia

78) Which of these was not one of the 4 ancient river valley civilizations?

a) Tigris and Euphrates Rivers b) Songhai River c) Nile River d) Yang Tze River e) Indus River

79) Which civilization created the world’s first empire?

a) Assyrian b) Neo-Sumerian c) Akkadian d) Babylonian

80) What is the name of the event in which Nebuchadnezzar II captured Jerusalem and placed the Jews in slavery?

a) Babylonian Captivity b) Exodus c) Armageddon d) Captivity of the Jews

81) Which culture was the first to use iron weapons?

a) Kassites b) Elamites c) Hittites d) Babylonian

82) When were the earliest known cave paintings created? a) 15,000 BCE b) 10,000 BCE c) 40,000 BCE d) 28,000 BCE

83)Which of these is NOT a location where cave painting can be found?a) Ariege b) Lascaux c) Chauvet d) Altamira

84-86) What are the names for the 3 eras of prehistory?

87-88) What were 2 Sumerian innovations/inventions?

89) Why is Hatshepsut important historically?

a) Builder of many temples b) first peace treaty c) first woman pharaoh

90) Which of these was NOT a Sumerian god?

a) Anu b) Ahriman c) Enki d) Ishtar e) Ea

91) Which artwork is considered the masterpiece of the Ancient Near East?

a) Bust of Nefertiti b) Standard of Ur c) Hunting Reliefs d) Mona Lisa

92) Which artwork is considered the masterpieces of the Sumerians?

a) Bust of Nefertiti b) Standard of Ur c) Hunting Reliefs d) Mona Lisa

93) Who wrote the first complete set of laws?

a) Ur-Nammu b) Napoleon c) Justinian d) Hammurabi

94) Who was the first known artist?

a) Michelangelo b) Imhotep c) Djoser d) Ramesses II

95-97) List the 3 major periods of Egyptian history

98) What is the oldest stone structure in history?

a) Ziggurat of Ur b) Great Pyramid c) Step Pyramid d) Mastaba

99) What is the largest stone structure in history?

a) Ziggurat of Ur b) Great Pyramid c) Step Pyramid d) Mastaba

100)What were pyramids mainly used for?

a) Observing the heavens b) Alien landing platforms c) Tombs for pharaohs

101) Who wrote the first code of laws (incomplete)?

a) Hammurabi b) Moses, c) Ur-Nammu d) Justinian

102) What was the greatest/most important Sumerian invention?

a) boats b) schools c) religion d) writing

103) What is the oldest work of written literature?

a) Epic of Gilgamesh b) The Iliad c) The Bible d) Book of the Dead

104) Which Roman Dynasty was the first?

a) Flavian b) Severan c) Julio-Claudian d) Antonine

105) What tragic event occurred on March 15, 44 BCE?

Art Characteristics – Please write 2 art characteristics from each of the periods below:

106-107) Roman

108-109) Hellenistic Greece

110-111) Classical Greece

112-113) Minoan Greece

114-115) Mycenaean Greece

116-117) Egypt

118-119) Amarna Egypt

120-121) Paleolithic

122-123) Neolithic

124-125) Assyrian

125-126) Akkadian

127-128) Sumerian

129-130) Etruscan

Matching 1 – Place the capital letter in the space provided.

131) 1st triumvirate _____ A) citadel on a hill in Greek city-states

132) 2nd triumvirate _____ B) female statue that serves as a column

133) 1st Roman Civil War _____ C) Greek public square

134) 2nd Roman Civil War _____ D) “general” in Greek, one of 10 leaders in Athens

135) 3rd Roman Civil War _____ E) Jupiter, Juno, Neptune, Pluto, Venus, Mercury

136) Greek Gods _____ F) Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus

137) Roman Gods _____ G) first Christian emperor, legalized Christianity

138) pax romana _____ H) emperor during Great Fire of Rome, persecuted

Christians, killed his own mother and his wife

139) veristic _____ I) the sickest, most twisted emperor, made his horse

Consul, had incest with his sister

140) agora _____ J) Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Aphrodite, Hermes

141) acropolis _____ K) first great Western philosopher

142) faience _____ L) “Roman Peace” lasted 200 years from Augustus –

Commodus

143) caryatid _____ M) Octavian Ceasar, Marc Antony, Lepidus

144) contrapposto _____ N) Sulla v Marius, Sulla wins

145) strategos _____ O) Octavian v Marc Antony , Octavian wins

146) fresco _____ P) Caesar v Pompey, Caesar wins

147) Caesar _____ Q) painting on wet plaster upon a wall

148) Nero _____ R) considered greatest military leader in ancient world, defeated the Persians, nicknamed ‘the Great’

149) Augustus _____ S) glazed earthenware (pottery)

150) Alexander _____ T) true to natural appearance

151) Pericles _____ U) a stance used by the Greeks to show shifted weight,

comes from the Italian word

152) Socrates _____ V) first Roman emperor, changed his name from Octavian, began the pax romana

153) Caligula _____ W) chosen dictator for life, he was assassinated on March

15, 44 BCE, member of 1st triumvirate, defeated Gauls

154) Constantine _____ X) Strategos of Athens during the Golden Age, died of plague

Matching 2. Choose the best answer for each selection. Place the lower case letter in the space provided.

155) ____ Menhir a) Egypt’s greatest pharaoh; builder of first

transcontinental empire during Golden Age

156) ____Megalith b) upright walking man

157) ____ Dolmen c) builder of Step Pyramid; world’s first known artist

158) ____Theocracy d) government ruled by religious authority

159) ____ Polytheism e) ruler (king) of Egypt

160) ____Cuneiform f) Egyptian sacred picture writing

161) ____monarchy g) handy man, first tool maker, opposable thumb

162) ____Monotheism h) Sumerian writing script

163) ____Hieroglyphics i) large stone monument

164)____Hierarchic Scale j) belief in many gods

165)____Pharaoh k) single upright standing megalith

166)____Thutmoses III l) two upright stones with one on top of them

167)____Imhotep m) belief in one god

168)____homo habilis n) a government ruled by one person, usually a king

169)____homo erectus o) the more important a person/object the larger it is

Mixed questions.

170) Which discovery separates Paleolithic from the Neolithic period?

a) writing b) domestication of animals c) agriculture d) both b and c

171) What is the oldest city in the world?

a) Catal Huyok b) Jericho c) Jerusalem d) Rome

172) What is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world?

a) Catal Huyok b) Jericho c) Jerusalem d1-3) List 3 Roman innovations

173-175) List 3 names of the imperial forums that could be found in Rome.

Name the following works of art and list the style and importance of it.

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Bonus Short Essay: Choose 1

1) List the differences between Greek and Roman Theaters and Greek and Roman Temples2) List the difference between Aristotle’s Realism and Plato’s Idealism philosophies.3) Which common threads can be found in all the ancient religions of Greece, Rome, Egypt and the

Etruscans?