Chpt.4 Flashcards
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82601164 | The most characteristic political form in the classical Mediterranean world was | aristocratic assemblies. | 0 | |
82601165 | Classical Mediterranean society differed from classical China in all of the following ways EXCEPT | the rejection of religious belief. | 1 | |
82601166 | If the Greek genius was in politics, the Roman genius was | engineering. | 2 | |
82601167 | democratic city-states. | Greek politics was noted for its formation of | 3 | |
82601168 | tolerated local politicians and religious diversity. | The Roman Empire | 4 | |
82601169 | the landed aristocracy. | The Senate of republican Rome particularly represented | 5 | |
82601170 | Plato | This Greek philosopher suggested that human reason could approach an understanding of the perfect formsthe absolutely True, Good, and Beautifulthat he believed underlay nature. | 6 | |
82601171 | science. | Greek society, compared to Rome's, registered special advances in | 7 | |
82601172 | military service. | Roman slaves were used for all of the following EXCEPT | 8 | |
82601173 | False | Americans have historically shown little interest in classical Mediterranean society. | 9 | |
82601174 | False | Pericles was an ordinary citizen who dominated Athenian politics during the fifth century B.C.E.. | 10 | |
82601175 | False | While Rome expanded the sway of Mediterranean civilization to western Europe, its internal politics were relatively stable. | 11 | |
82601176 | True | Both Greece and Rome experimented in the diversity of political forms of governance, which ranged between democracy and tyranny. | 12 | |
82601177 | False | Classical Mediterranean civilizations regulated their societies with an elaborate legal framework and not a strong centralized bureaucratic state. | 13 | |
82601178 | True | The Greeks and Romans were never concerned with crafting a world-class religion. | 14 | |
82601179 | True | Greek architecture is considered as having invented the foundations of "classical architecture." | 15 | |
82601180 | True | The rise of commercial agriculture in Greece and then around Rome was one of the prime forces leading to efforts to establish an empire. | 16 | |
82601181 | True | Mediterranean society lagged behind both India and China in production technology. | 17 | |
82601182 | Sparta | Athens and __________ came to be the two leading city-states that emerged during classical Greece civilization. | 18 | |
82601183 | Alexander the Great | __________spread the Macedonian Empire through the Middle East, across Persia to the border of India, and southward through Egypt. | 19 | |
82601184 | Punic | Roman conquest spread more widely during the three __________ wars, from 264 to 146 B.C.E., during which Rome fought the armies of the Phoenician city of Carthage, situated on the northern coast of Africa. | 20 | |
82601185 | polis | he word politics comes from the Greek word for city-state, __________ . | 21 | |
82601186 | Twelve Tables | The first law code of the early Roman republic was the __________ | 22 | |
82601187 | Socrates | In Athens, __________ encouraged his pupils to question received wisdom, on the ground that the chief human duty was "the improvement of the soul." | 23 | |
82601188 | Euclid | The Greek mathematician __________ produced what was long the world's most widely used compendiums of geometry. | 24 | |
82601189 | Sophocles | The Athenian dramatist __________ insightfully portrayed the psychological flaws of his tragic hero Oedipus. | 25 | |
82601190 | the Senate | The most important legislative body in classical Rome was __________ | 26 | |
82601191 | Julius Caesar | __________ gained control of Rome in 45 B.C.E. and brought an end to the traditional institutions of the Roman state. | 27 |