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1. The most important god of all those worshiped by the Egyptians was the sun god ____________.
2. In ancient Egypt, those responsible for using hieroglyphics to record important information and maintain
records were called _________________
3. How were the Egyptians able to predict when the Nile would flood each year?
4. Ideas spread from Egypt to other lands through the buying and selling of goods and services, which was
called _________________
5. What development eventually led to the Peloponnesian War?
6. Which groups resented Athens’s growing power after winning the Second Persian War?
7. What was the result of the rivalry between Athens and Sparta for supreme power in ancient Greece?
8. Which ruler was MOST responsible for uniting Greece?
9. The origins of Hellenistic culture can be traced to ____________
10. The defeat of which city-states was key to the Macedonians’ conquest of Greece?
11. Much of the territory conquered by Alexander the Great was previously part of which empire?
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12. According to the ancient Greeks’ beliefs, where did most of their major gods live?
13. Which structure is considered to be the finest example of classical Greek architecture?
14. What ancient Greek playwright became famous for writing something other than tragedies?
15. Who was the most powerful and important of the Greek gods and goddesses?
16. Ancient Greek culture continues to influence modern_________________________
17.Which ancient Greek is said to have used his observations of nature to develop a military weapon?
18. Much of the knowledge that added to Greek learning in the Hellenistic Age came from where?
19. Alexandria became an important center for the study of ____________________________________
20. Assistance from ____ helped Athens defeat the mighty Persian empire in 480 B.C.
21.What factor was MOST important in making Athens the most powerful Greek city-state after the Persian
Wars?
22. Why did Sparta want to weaken Athens’s power in ancient Greece?
23. What was the result of the Peloponnesian War?
24. How did Alexander keep control of Greece after his father, King Philip, died?
25.About how long did Alexander the Great’s empire remain united?
26. Why did the ancient Greeks study and write about the past?
27. Which Greek philosopher’s method of teaching his followers is still used by teachers today?
28. The Spartan king _____ helped defend the Greeks at _____.
29. Alexander the Great’s army was said to have numbered in the tens of thousands. What might be the
impact of such a massive army as it passed through the countryside?
30. What best demonstrates cultural diffusion in the Hellenistic Period?
31. The Greek author _____ used the story form known as a _____ to teach moral lessons.
32. According to this passage from The Hippocratic Oath, why might it be important for a doctor to keep
secret what he learns from a patient?
“I will prescribe treatment for the good of my patients according to my ability and never do harm to
anyone. In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients. All that I learn
from my patients I will keep secret.”
33. What was the main reason that the Romans wished to build good roads?
34. Why was most Roman trade conducted by sea, rather than by land?
35. Which of the following most helped people in the provinces to prosper?
36. In what way did earlier Roman sculpture differ from that of Greece?
37. How can you tell that Cicero was considered a great orator?
38. Decisions in court cases in the Roman empire before 500 B.C. were based on _________________
39. Why is today’s legal system in the state of Louisiana based partly on Roman civil law?
40. What group rebelled against the Romans, and in what area?
41. Our information about the life of Jesus comes mainly from _______________
42. Jesus was a member of which religion?
43. What did the disciples of Jesus do after his death?
44. The Gospels say that Jesus was descended from ________________
45. If you wanted to learn more about the lives of important early Christians, you would read
__________________________________
46. _____________ was a major part of Jesus’ teachings.
47.What are the central beliefs of Christianity held by most Christians ?
48. When the Pax Romana ended, Roman leaders gained power more from the ________________
49.Which event led to the arrival of Goths in Roman lands?
50 When the Roman empire became overwhelmed by foreign invasions, what did the Roman leaders do?
51. The last leader to rule over both the eastern and western Roman empires was ___________
52. The emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote a book about ______________
53. One way that Greco-Roman culture spread was by extending _____ to all free persons in the empire.
54. Any hopes of Rome returning to a republican form of government ended when_______
55. What advantages did concrete have over stone?
56. What improvement in bridge design was pioneered by Roman engineers?
57. The Roman poet Horace wrote _________________
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_____________________Languages developed from Latin and are still spoken today.
59. The Romans enjoyed large-scale public entertainments, so they developed
60. What discovery did Claudius Galen make that is still important today?
61. More than any other event, followers of Jesus were convinced he was the Messiah by
_______________________________
62. How did Roman persecution of Christians affect their faith?
63. Most Christians believe in one God who exists in three forms, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Together these three forms are called the _____.
64.The tradition that includes common elements of both Judaism and Christianity is called the _____ tradition.
65. The name for God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit is
66. While the Romans considered the Germans barbarians who did not share their culture, in fact
___________________________________________________________
67. Merchants traveling by sea in ancient Rome found water routes to be __________________________
68. .When locating the Roman Empire in 118 A.D., or the present-day European country of Italy, the global
position could best be described as
69 .During the Pax Romana, the Roman Empire extended as far east as the present-day country of
________________
70.Why was the lack of a formal system of succession a problem in the Roman empire?
71.Which of the following is NOT a correct description of how Latin continues to influence language today?
72. How did the growth of the Roman Empire during the Pax Romana help the spread of Christianity?
73.List following events in the collapse of the western Roman empire in chronological order.
A.D. 285 Diocletian divides the Roman empire.
A.D. 476 Roman empire ends in the west.
A.D. 312 Constantine converts to Christianity.
A.D. 180 The Pax Romana ends.
74. Which of the following was considered the main role of Roman women?
75. What was something that both wealthy and poor Romans had in common?
76. What was the relationship between tenant farmers and wealthy Romans?
77. What does the United States government share in common with the ancient government of the Roman
republic?
78. What is the purpose of checks and balances?
79. What measure was taken by the Romans to prevent overly powerful officials?
80. How did plebeians first get access to political offices?
81. Why were tribunes of the plebs so powerful in Roman government?
82. What was the result of Rome’s conquest of Carthage?
83. How did life change for Rome’s poor as the empire became larger?
84. By allowing more people to join the army and serve for long periods of time, Gaius Marius built a(n)
_____ army.
85. After winning civil wars, the military commanders Sulla and Caesar ______________________________
86. How did Italy’s geography help the Romans conquer the Italian Peninsula?
87. Rome was built along what body of water?
88. In the newly formed Roman republic, who could be active in government?
89. How did Rome’s position on the Tiber River protect it from attacks by boat?
90. Which part of the Roman government decided how to spend the republic’s money?
91. What are some things that the Romans borrowed from the Greeks or Etruscans?
92. It is estimated that in the year 1 B.C., as much as _____ percent of the population of Rome was made up
of slaves.
93. How did plebeians first get access to political offices?
94. Who decided how the Roman kings should act?
95. How did Greek mythology become part of Roman culture?
96. How did Rome’s conquests change the Roman army?
97. What did magistrates have in common?
98.What is a main difference between the current U.S. government and that of the Roman republic?
99. What was the relationship between government and religion in Rome?
100. How did Rome change as it conquered more territory?
101. How did Julius Caesar became dictator?
102. What is an “established religion”?
103. How were loyal allies sometimes rewarded by Rome?
104. What was the Romans’ attitude toward other cultures?
105. Military might and treaties with defeated people helped the Roman Republic expand. How did these new
allies gain the ability to participate in Roman government?
106 From the Roman Republic up to modern day America, one of government’s most powerful actions is the
Latin word for “I forbid.” What is that word?