Western Civ Exam 2

Front 1

Greek culture after the time of Alexander the Great mixed with that of the cultures of various eastern nations, this mixed Greek culture is today called?

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Hellenistic

Front 2

What Greek ruler of Syria persecuted the Jews and instituted idol worship in the Temple in Jerusalem

Back 2

Antiochus IV

Front 3

The Bosci were?

Back 3

Grazers; ascetic Christians who eat grass

Front 4

The Minoan Civilization was centered on what island?

Back 4

Crete

Front 5

What seems to have caused the end of the Minoan Civilization

Back 5

The Eruption of the Thera Volcano

Front 6

Alexander the Great followed his father Phillip II as the king of what nation?

Back 6

Macedonia

Front 7

What Persian king did alexander the great defeat?

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Darius III

Front 8

Under which Greek leader did Athens reach the zenith of its military power and the peak of its cultural development?

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Pericles

Front 9

What happened at the Battle of Salamis in 479 BC that was so important for the future of Greece?

Back 9

Greek navy defeated the Persians

Front 10

In which battle did the famous 300 spartans fight?

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Battle of Thermopylae

Front 11

Which man was responsible for killing Alexander the Great's family?

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Casandor

Front 12

The members of the first true emperor of the Roman Empire?

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Julius Caesar, Crassus, Pompei

Front 13

Which was not a provision of the Benedictine Rule?

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Marriage

Front 14

Who was the first true emperor of the Roman Empire?

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Caesar Augustus

Front 15

What famous general led the Carthagenians and almost defeated Rome in the 2nd
Punic War?

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Hannibal the Great

Front 16

Ancient, heavily armed, Greek, infantry soldiers were called?

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Hoplites

Front 17

Which two cities fought each other in the Pelopnnesian Wars?

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Athens and Sparta

Front 18

The monastery of Monte Cassino in Italy was founded by?

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St. Benedict

Front 19

Pachomius was the founder of?

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Christian Monasticism

Front 20

Which was not one of the four great Greek famlies which divided the Empire of Alexander the Great into four kingdoms?

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Attalios, Ptolomies, Selucids, Antigonids

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The lower class people of ancient Greece were called?

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Demoi

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The upper class people of ancient Greece were called?

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Aristo

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A trireme was?

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A Greek warship

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Which Jewish group was violently opposed to Roman rule?

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Zealots

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The Pax Romana was?

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a period of relative peace under Casear August' rule

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Which Roman emperor went totally insane?

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Nero

Front 27

Which Roman general and future Roman emperor defeated the Jews in 70 AD and burned their Temple?

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Titus

Front 28

Which Roman Emperor is famous for building an extensive all weather road system in the Roman empire?

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Caesae Augustus

Front 29

The Roman Republic lasted from?

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509-31BC

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On what island did the Athenians lose their entire fleet of 50000 men during the Peloppenesian War?

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Sicily

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King of Hell

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Hades

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Parthenon was her temple

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Athena

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Known to Romans as Diana

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Artemis

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Goddess of the hearth and family

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Vesta

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Same as Roman god Mars

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Ares

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Known to the Romans as Venus

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Aphrodite

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Greek god of the sea

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Neptune

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King of gods for Greeks

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Zeus

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Greek god of win and orgies

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Dionysus

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Wife of Jupiter

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Juno

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Blacksmith of the gods

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Hepaestus

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Oracle of Delphi

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Apollo

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The Pelloponnesian Wars

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Thucydides

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The Republic

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Plato

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The City of God

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Augstine

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The Anabasis

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Xenophan

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The Koran

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Muhammad

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Latin Vulgate

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St. Jerome

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Corpus Juris Civilis

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Justinian I

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The Aeneid

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Vergil

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Wars of the Jews

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Josephus

Front 52

OedipusRex

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Sophocles

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The Iliad

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Homer

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The Histories

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Heroditus

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The Bacchae

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Euripedes

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Earth rotates on its axis

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Heracleides

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Calculated the size of the earth

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Eratosthenes

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Build Paros Lighthouse

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Sostratus

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Father of geometry

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Euclid

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Theory of Atoms

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Democritus

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Discovered nerves

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Herophilus

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Tides caused by the moon

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Posidonius

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Heliocentric theory

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Aristarchus

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Specific gravity of matter

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Archimedes

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Father of Medicine

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Hippocrates

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Plato

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Ideal forms

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Aristotle

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Peripatetics and logic

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Antisthenes

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Founder of Cynics

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Hedonism

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Do what feels good-pleasure

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Epicureanism

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calculate pain and pleasure

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Diogenes

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lived in a barrel

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Pythagorus

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all things are numbers

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Zeno

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founded Stoicism

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Origen

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Christian-Neo-Platonists

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Augustine

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City of God

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Athenasius

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Defeneded orthodoxy position