Western Civ Practice Test Questions

Front 1

Did the Minoans use an alphabet or a syllabary?

Back 1

Syllabary

Front 2

Did Christians ever attack Constantinople?

Back 2

Yes

Front 3

Which Merovingian king reigned when the Frankish barbarians were converted to Christianity?

Back 3

King Clovis

Front 4

Hieronymus Bosch's paintings had what qualities? What renaissance was he a part of?

Back 4

Surreal, wild

Northern Renaissance

Front 5

What was another name for the Counter Reformation and what did it aim to do?

Back 5

Catholic Reformation - aimed to strengthen the spiritual authority of the papacy

Front 6

The Roman Inquisition, or Holy Office, was created to do what?

Back 6

Detect doctrinal errors in works by theologians

Front 7

What was the most powerful office in the late Merovingian dynasty?

Back 7

Mayor of the Palace

Front 8

The Epic of Gilgamesh gives a good description of what society's religion and views of the afterlife?

Back 8

Sumerians

Front 9

How many members were in the council that Solon created?

Back 9

400

Front 10

What did the Romans invent in order to defeat the Phalanx?

Back 10

The Legion

Front 11

What was the Social War over? (90-88 BCE)

Back 11

Roman citizenship

Front 12

The Fourth crusade was mainly between which 2 factions?

Back 12

Latin and Greek Churches

Front 13

What was Cleisthenes' revolutionary new political unit?

Back 13

The deme

Front 14

What language did Ovid write in?

Back 14

Latin

Front 15

What practice of the Roman Catholic Church was Martin Luther particularly outspoken about?

Back 15

Its sale of indulgences (which were used to fund the building of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome)

Front 16

The state of Prussia was created by what body?

Back 16

Teutonic Knights

Front 17

Who was Vasca da Gama sponsored by?

Back 17

Portugal

Front 18

What country was Ferdinand Magellan from?

Back 18

Portugal

Front 19

What country employed Magellan for his circumnavigation of the globe?

Back 19

Spain

Front 20

What change did Cardinal Richelieu have to military spending?

Back 20

He increased it

Front 21

Cardinal Richelieu allowed the Huguenots their religious freedom in exchange for what?

Back 21

That they agreed to serve the French monarchy

Front 22

Who led the Peloponnesian League?

Back 22

Sparta

Front 23

Who abandoned their legal studies when their father died, and turned to classical literature?

Back 23

Francisco Petrarch

Front 24

Who created the god Mithras?

Back 24

Persia

Front 25

What were the 3 kingdoms that emerged after Alexander the Great's death?

Back 25

Antigonid, Ptolemaic, and Seleucid

Front 26

A dome over a square base is characteristic of what civilization's architecture?

Back 26

Byzantine

Front 27

Who was Bartolome de Las Casas?

Back 27

Dominican friar

An early critic of Spanish imperialism in the New World

Front 28

Who deposed the last Roman Emperor in the west?

Back 28

Odoacer

Front 29

Who deposed Odoacer?

Back 29

Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths

Front 30

Three years after Pope Leo dissuaded Attila from attacking Rome, who sacked it?

Back 30

King Gaiseric of the Vandals

Front 31

After the Temple was destroyed in 70 CE, what was composed?

Back 31

The Talmud

Front 32

What did the Gracchi brothers serve as?

Back 32

Peoples Tribunes

Front 33

How did the Gracchi brothers die?

Back 33

Murdered in different political riots

Front 34

What did Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus try to do, respectively?

Back 34

Tiberius: Proposed a policy of land redistribution to take land from wealthy patricians and give it to small farmers

Gaius:

(1) tried to replace senate jury members with members of the equestrian class

(2) tried to extend roman citizenship to the allies

(3) started the sale of state-subsidized grain to the poor

Front 35

After getting married, what did Ferdinand and Isabella do in the name of religious homogeneity?

Back 35

Spanish Inquisition, then they expelled the Jews and Muslims

Front 36

What did Descartes do before his career in philosophy and mathematics?

Back 36

He had a military career

Front 37

Detailed, naturalistic, theatrical, emotional - these are characteristic of what types of sculptures?

Back 37

Hellenistic sculpture

Front 38

How does Dante's Inferno show the influence of the Latin classics on Europe before the Renaissance?

Back 38

Dante's guide is the Roman poet Vergil (Virgil)

Front 39

Horace, Virgil, and Ovid were poets during what age of literature? Who ruled during this age?

Back 39

The Golden Age

Augustus Casesar ruled

Front 40

When did Roman Law receive its first written form?

Back 40

450 BCE

Front 41

What was the Greek alphabet based on?

What was THAT alphabet based on?

What was THAT alphabet based on?

Back 41

Greek alphabet was based on the Phoenician alphabet

The Etruscan alphabet was based on the Greek alphabet

Roman alphabet was based on the Etruscan alphabet

Front 42

Who wrote satires during the French Renaissance describing the adventures of two giants?

Back 42

Rabelais

Front 43

Who started off as a raider of Spanish shipping, claimed part of the American west coast for himself, was the first of his countrymen to circumnavigate the globe, and was knighted?

Back 43

(Sir) Francis Drake

Front 44

What is the traditional date for the Great Schism?

Back 44

1054

Front 45

Who was the Dominican friar during the Italian renaissance who urged repentance of sins and denounced the Medici family?

Back 45

Girolamo Savonarola

Front 46

What century was there the most persecution of witches?

Back 46

1500s (16th century)

Front 47

Alexander the Great's empire included what in addition to the Persian empire's territory?

Back 47

Egypt and Greece

Front 48

Who had the Neo-Babylonians conquered?

Back 48

The Assyrians

Front 49

Who conquered the Neo-Babylonians?

Back 49

The Persians

Front 50

The Persians were conquered by what leader?

Back 50

Alexander the Great

Front 51

Did Francis Bacon believe in deduction or induction?

Back 51

Induction

Front 52

Which reasoning method begins with general principles and uses them to derive conclusions about specific instances?

Back 52

Deductions

Front 53

What artist with a volatile personality had many unfinished works, was considered a genius, and had many depictions of muscular nude men?

Back 53

Michaelangelo

Front 54

Who wrote the book "Utopia" about an ideal society?

Back 54

Thomas More

Front 55

Who did John Calvin have executed in Geneva in 1553? Who was that man?

Back 55

Michael Servetus

A Spanish religious dissident who denied the Trinity

Front 56

When did the Roman Empire fall in the West? When did it transition in the East?

Back 56

West - 476 AD

East - 610 AD

Front 57

When did the Roman Republic end and transition to the Roman Empire?

Back 57

27 BC

Front 58

What two systems did wealthy citizens during the Roman Republic use to oppose the Senate?

Back 58

Clientage and Professionalization of armies

Front 59

What did the senate do to bring about the downfall of the Roman Republic?

Back 59

It was reluctant to share effective power with its citizens

Front 60

Who was Jean Bodin? During what age?What was he in strong support of?

Back 60

Renaissance Philosopher

In strong support of Royal Absolutism

Front 61

Coffins adorned with a cheerful husband and wife were typical of what peoples?

Back 61

Etruscans

Front 62

What was the primary way that ancient Greek city-states attempted to prevent revolution? What is one method they never attempted?

Back 62

Primarily - colonization

Never attempted - redistribution of land

Front 63

What is the main difference between feudalism and manorialism?

Back 63

Feudalism was a military organization

Manorialism was an economic organization

Front 64

What did the Treaty of Westphalia declare should be the way that German principalities decide their state's religious alignment?

Back 64

That the ruler can decide it

Front 65

What did Queen Elizabeth I do to strengthen the English monarchy?

Back 65

She cooperated with Parliament

Front 66

What was one thing that happened during Tiberius' reign, unbeknownst to him?

Back 66

Crucifixion of jesus of nazareth

Front 67

What ruler who was king of Spain, and then became Holy Roman Emperor, was then challenged by the Protestant Princes in Germany, and then went on to fight many wars during his reign?

Back 67

Charles I of Spain, or Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor)

Front 68

What prevented Protestantism from having a presence in Spain?

Back 68

The inquisition

Front 69

What made Benedictine rule an exceptional document?

Back 69

Its outline and balance of the 3 basic activities: work, study, prayer

Front 70

Why was the capital of the Roman Empire moved to Constantinople?

Back 70

Increasing threats in the north and the east

Greater wealth of the Eastern provinces

Front 71

What practice did the mendicant friar get their name from?

Back 71

Begging