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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which statement best summarizes the difference between Sparta and Athens?
Sparta stressed stern discipline, while Athens glorified the Individual
Athens stressed stern discipline, while Sparta glorified the Individual
Sparta was a military power, while Athens had no military
Athens was an oligarchy, while Sparta was a democracy
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which philosopher thought we could discover the ideal society through pure reason?
Aristotle
Socrates
Plato
Darius
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which is: "government by the people"
Democracy
Aristocracy
Monarchy
Oligarchy
- 4. Multiple Choice
What is the Roman name for a privileged, landowning, upper-class citizen?
patrician
dictator
plebeian
spartan
- 5. Multiple Choice
How did Romans supply their cities with water?
Romans built cities where there were natural springs
Romans only built cities on the banks of rivers
Roman engineers built aquaducts that carried water to the cities
Romans relied exclusively on abundant rainfall
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which city-state on the northern coast of Africa fought three wars against Rome?
Carthage
Thebes
Egypt
Sardinia
- 7. Multiple Choice
Who was the Roman leader appointed dictator in 44 BCE and then assassinated that same year?
Brutus
Caesar
Octavian
Sulla
- 8. Multiple Choice
Greek Sophists taught the art of skillful and persuasive speaking called...
rhetoric
tragedy
slander
legislature
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which city-state dominated Greece after the Persian Wars?
Athens
Macedonia
Sparta
Persia
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which war ended Athenian dominance in Greece as Sparta took control?
Peloponnesian War
Persian War
Punic War
War of the Orders
- 11. Multiple Choice
Stoic philosophers, like the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, mainly focused on...
personally avoiding desires and calmly accepting whatever life brought
seeking ultimate truth and self-knowledge
promoting full equality for all people
discovering the ultimate substance of reality
- 12. Multiple Choice
What did Romans call a large grouping of soldiers?
legion
mercenary
senate
patrician
- 13. Multiple Choice
Rome's first written laws and legal codes were the...
Twelve Tablets
Consuls
Triumvirates
Acropolis
- 14. Multiple Choice
Who divided the Roman empire into an eastern and western part?
Diocletian
Constantine
Augustus
Caesar
- 15. Multiple Choice
The Roman emperor who embraced Christianity was...
Constantine
Diocletian
Augustus
Marcus Aurelius
- 16. Multiple Choice
The 200 years of Roman peace and prosperity was called...
"Golden Years"
"Pax Romana"
"Roman's Peace"
"Age of Pericles"
- 17. Multiple Choice
Roman culture and society is most known for its...
governing
music
trading
religion
- 18. Multiple Choice
Greek temples were built on the higher land of a city-state called the...
acropolis
agora
forum
senate
- 19. Multiple Choice
The form of government where a small and wealthy business class rules is called a...
monarchy
aristocracy
oligarchy
democracy
- 20. Multiple Choice
The "Fall of Rome" was...
a rapid and destructive event
due to entirely military defeats
not a single event, but a long process of change
the end of the entire roman civilization
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