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| In the eleventh century B.C.E., the Israelites transformed their political system from a confederation of loosely organized tribes into a(n) | show 🗑
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| show | The need to concentrate the population in order to carry out the extensive irrigation of the region
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| Old Kingdom Egypt's stability and self-sufficiency was due to all of the following factors EXCEPT which one? | show 🗑
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| Around 3500 B.C.E., the first civilization was established in the region of Mesopotamia called | show 🗑
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| Which of King David's sons elevated the kingdom of Israel to its greatest power and prestige? | show 🗑
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| It is MOST accurate to state that the early nomadic groups of Hebrews or Aramaeans | show 🗑
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| show | Epic of Gilgamesh
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| Especially after the so-called Babylonian captivity, the Israelites began to | show 🗑
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| The building of the great pyramids at Sakkara and outside Memphis took place during the time of the | show 🗑
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| show | actually a form of divinity shared by the pharaoh and the sun-disk.
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| show | Jericho
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| The written script of Mesopotamian civilizations was | show 🗑
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| The Hebrews, after leaving Egypt, migrated to | show 🗑
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| show | Central Greece
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| What group destroyed the kingdom of Israel in 722 B.C.E.? | show 🗑
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| show | Mesopotamians constantly sought intimate contact with the gods.
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| show | Mathematics
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| The main contribution of the foreigners known as the Hyksos who invaded Egypt during the Middle Kingdom was to | show 🗑
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| show | Akhenaten
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| Much of Hammurabi's Code was concerned with | show 🗑
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| show | Sinuhe
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| show | the knowledge and technology of agriculture could be easily transported from one place to another.
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| show | Memphis
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| show | Egyptian god of the dead.
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| show | Women gained constitutional rights.
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| Which of the following is NOT true of the ecology of Mesopotamia? | show 🗑
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| Mesopotamian society became highly stratified, and not everyone shared equally in its benefits. Those who were the primary victims in this civilization were the | show 🗑
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| show | a smaller brain than other Homo sapiens.
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| show | broad-spectrum gathering.
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| Around 3500 B.C.E., the first civilization was established in the region of Mesopotamia called | show 🗑
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| In 586 B.C.E. the kingdom of Judah was conquered by the New Babylonian Empire under the leadership of | show 🗑
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| show | utilized simple tools.
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| show | anthropomorphic--that is, they had human form.
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| Which of the following Judaic groups produced a body of oral law termed the Mishnah? | show 🗑
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| As a result of his religious reform, Amenhotep IV did all of the following EXCEPT which one? | show 🗑
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| show | Emphasis on temple worship rather than study of the Torah
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| show | Like most states of Mesopotamia, the Akkadian state crumbled under the pressure of dynastic disputes and regional assertions of autonomy.
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| show | Philistines.
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| After their exodus from Egypt, the ancient Hebrews forged a new identity and faith that included all of the following EXCEPT the | show 🗑
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| show | Zoser
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| What Hebrew leaders were particularly concerned with keeping Judaism uncontaminated by other religious and cultural influences after the return from Babylon? | show 🗑
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| show | perfected the light, horse-drawn war chariot
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| show | Ur under Shulgi
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| Which of the following was NOT one of the major Sumerian cities around 3000 B.C.E.? | show 🗑
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| show | Sargon
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| show | uprising of its subjugated people
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| The Mycenaean civilization was based on | show 🗑
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| All of the following challenged the traditional aristocratic rule in the late Archaic Age EXCEPT | show 🗑
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| The Minoan religion placed particular emphasis on | show 🗑
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| What Greek god was associated with the oracle of Delphi? | show 🗑
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| show | their common stock of myths.
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| The development of democracy in Greece was associated with | show 🗑
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| show | Archons
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| Until the seventh century B.C.E., Athens was able to escape the civil strife prevalent in other states because | show 🗑
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| Which of the following statements best describes the socioeconomic system of the Minoan culture? | show 🗑
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| show | internal warfare coupled with socioeconomic disintegration
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| show | A causeway was constructed, the fleet was enlarged, and political factionalism was weakened.
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| show | Palace bureaucrats
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| show | Persian
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| Homer's Iliad was composed during what period of Greek history? | show 🗑
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| The Greek myths | show 🗑
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| What is the MOST plausible explanation for the fall of the Minoan civilization? | show 🗑
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| show | Phoenicians.
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| show | administrative purposes.
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| Draco's measures for ending violence in Athens during the seventh century B.C.E. could BEST be termed | show 🗑
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| show | Cycladic
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| The Iliad's contribution to Western thought stems primarily from its | show 🗑
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| show | government in which eunomia was the sole guiding principle, and service to the state came before family and class considerations.
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| show | phalanx
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| show | Territorial units of the western Peloponnesus featuring villages and small towns
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| The form of political organization based on city-states was the | show 🗑
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| The fall of the Mycenaean civilization ushered in the | show 🗑
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| show | device for individual portraiture
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| What reformer reorganized the major political units and helped Athens toward democracy in 507 B.C.E.? | show 🗑
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| With increasing democratization, Greek attitudes toward women | show 🗑
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| What was the primary purpose of Greek colonization after 750 B.C.E.? | show 🗑
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| Greek religion can tell us a great deal about the values of the Greeks, in that their gods and goddesses reflected | show 🗑
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| show | Its erratic rainfall and constant temperature necessitate a wider world for trade.
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| Which of the following was NOT one of Solon's reforms? | show 🗑
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| show | Peisistratus and Hippias
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| Which of the following was NOT condoned in Greek society during the Archaic Age? | show 🗑
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| The origins of Greek philosophy can be traced to all of the following EXCEPT | show 🗑
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| show | Lycurgus
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| show | The demos, or assembly of the people, was relatively effective in enforcing the law.
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| Rulers who came to power, often in opposition to aristocratic authority and without official position, were called | show 🗑
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| show | between the civilizations of the Fertile Crescent and the barbarian worlds of the north and west.
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| Which statement BEST describes the city-state of Corinth under Periander's rule (ca. 627-586 B.C.E.)? | show 🗑
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| show | a democracy.
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| Which description BEST illustrates the Spartan lifestyle? | show 🗑
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| show | insulated and removed positions from interstate rivalry.
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| While the Homeric epics are tales set in the late Bronze Age, they were likely written in the | show 🗑
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| Which of the following was NOT the site of a great Minoan palace complex? | show 🗑
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| show | a massive population increase.
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| The form of political organization based on city-states was the | show 🗑
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| show | experimented with portraying heroic narratives from Greek mythology.
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| Which of the following most accurately reflects the Spartan attitude toward assuming leadership of the Greek world after the Persian Wars? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following was NOT a form of drama presented at the feast of Dionysus in Athens? | show 🗑
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| show | scientific minds of the Hellenistic Age
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| show | Thebes
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| show | Leonidas
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| show | Hellenistic architecture was more flamboyant, elaborate, and monumental in scale.
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| show | Macedonia
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| show | Depending on the Spartans to enforce military rule
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| After Alexander's death, his empire | show 🗑
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| Which of the following was NOT a Greek victory during the two Persian invasions of Greece? | show 🗑
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| show | Socrates
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| show | ostracism
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| show | Marathon.
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| How did Pericles redirect Athens' foreign policy? | show 🗑
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| show | Existentialism
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| Most of the leaders of fifth-century Athens came from the | show 🗑
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| What phrase best describes the first phase of the Peloponnesian War (the Archidamian War)? | show 🗑
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| show | Rely exclusively on the support of the aristocracy that tended to dominate political office
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| show | Dioscurus
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| Which of the following statements most accurately reflects the philosophical position of the Stoics? | show 🗑
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| show | Euclid
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| show | Sophists.
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| One of the greatest libraries of the ancient world was assembled in the Hellenistic city of | show 🗑
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| What was the name for foreigners living in Athens who could neither own land nor participate directly in politics? | show 🗑
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| Alexander's prime political objective for his vast conquests was to | show 🗑
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| Despite Greek victories in the Persian Wars, this city was still captured and burned by the Persians. | show 🗑
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| show | Systematic observation yields valid general theories.
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| Which of the following statements does NOT accurately describe Herodotus' history of the Persian Wars? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following was NOT true of the Athenian victory over the Persians in 490 B.C.E.? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following statements best describes Plato's political views? | show 🗑
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| show | Athens
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| show | provoked opposition from throughout the Greek world after clumsy attempts to establish oligarchies in former democratic city-states.
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| Which of the following best describes Plato's philosophy? | show 🗑
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| Because Athenian political offices were filled by lot and turned over frequently, leadership was often provided by | show 🗑
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| show | One fourth
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| show | Xerxes
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| Which of the following statements most accurately describes the role of women in Athens during the fifth century B.C.E.? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following Athenian leaders was ostracized? | show 🗑
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| Which city-state was defeated in the Peloponnesian War? | show 🗑
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| show | He proposed a balanced view based on empiricism
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| Hellenistic cities were similar to classical Greek poleis in all the following ways EXCEPT which one? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following statements most accurately describes the style achieved by the Athenian sculptor Phidias? | show 🗑
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| The man credited with writing a book of "inquiry" (in Greek historia) was | show 🗑
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| Alexander's conquests took him as far east as the modern nation of | show 🗑
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| Which if the following wrote a history of the Peloponnesin War? | show 🗑
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| What controversial Athenian philosopher engaged in the search for moral self-enlightenment by questioning all who claimed to possess wisdom? | show 🗑
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| show | Charmides
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| Where did Alexander the Great win victories in his conquest of the Persian Empire? | show 🗑
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| To unite the Greek city-states after his victory at Chaeronea in 338 B.C.E., Philip II formed the | show 🗑
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| show | Alexandria
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| What Athenian politician offered a Persian alliance in return for replacing the Athenian democracy with an oligarchy? | show 🗑
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| What was the name for foreigners living in Athens who could neither own land nor participate directly in politics? | show 🗑
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| Teachers who offered to teach aspiring politicians the art of persuasion and other aspects of advanced education were called | show 🗑
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| show | Dioscurus
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| The kingdom that moved into the power vacuum left by the constant strife among the Greek city-states was | show 🗑
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| The function of the censor in the early Roman republic was to | show 🗑
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| show | Worship of Baal
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| show | The conquered people were treated generously and made either citizens or allies of Rome.
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| Rome's ascendency in the eastern Mediterranean was the result of | show 🗑
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| Which statement represents the most plausible explanation for Roman ascendence over the Etruscan kings in the sixth century B.C.E.? | show 🗑
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| show | order and authority.
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| show | Bacchus (Dionysus)
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| show | Struggle of Orders.
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| show | exercising her role as moral educator of the children.
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| show | allowed anyone to know what the established laws were.
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| Servius Tullius's reform | show 🗑
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| The plebeians benefited from republican conquests in Italy in that they were able to | show 🗑
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| Which of the following groups was responsible for the settlement at Carthage in northern Africa? | show 🗑
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| Following Servius Tullius' reforms, landowners were divided into five classes, which were in turn subdivided into | show 🗑
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| Which of the following statements concerning the centuriate assembly is most accurate? | show 🗑
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| What civilization most strongly affected Roman letters? | show 🗑
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| Rome's conduct in the First Punic War could BEST be described as a | show 🗑
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| Which of the following statements concerning the Second Punic War is NOT accurate? | show 🗑
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| show | Enki
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| show | Development of a centralized empire
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| Which of the following is NOT a feature from which Carthage benefited? | show 🗑
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| Who were the first major dramatists in Roman letters? | show 🗑
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| show | Greek city-states of Italy.
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| show | Only members of gentes could take part in the village curiae.
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| The ideal citizen of the Roman Republic was a | show 🗑
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| show | Carthage was governed by a mixed constitution that combined elements of monarchical, aristocratic, and popular rule.
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| show | Only members of gentes could take part in the village curiae.
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| What Greek historian first recorded Roman history? | show 🗑
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| On which hill were the earliest Roman villages founded? | show 🗑
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| The Carthaginian religion was condemned by Roman and Greek contemporaries because of the Carthaginian practice of | show 🗑
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| What Greek colony dominated the island of Sicily following victory at the battle of Himera in 480 B.C.E.? | show 🗑
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| What group overwhelmed Latium in the seventh century B.C.E. and absorbed it into their civilization? | show 🗑
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| show | The defeat of the Etruscan fleet at the battle of Cumae and subsequent loss of control of the seas
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| show | Cato the Elder
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| show | Senate
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| show | Carthage's multiethnic empire proved far more stable than any of those created by the Greeks.
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| show | permitted women to enjoy an elevated social status
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| In the early republic, the patrician class secured its privileged status by monopolizing all of the following EXCEPT which one? | show 🗑
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| show | The west was governed by former magistrates or proconsuls, while the east was controlled through the existing political hierarchies.
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| show | an opportunity brought about by war between small Hellenistic states seeking
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| show | Small centuries of wealthy, well-armed cavalrymen outnumbered the more numerous but modestly equipped centuries
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| Which of the following was NOT a reason for Greek colonization of the West? | show 🗑
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| show | Tribunes
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| Which of the following statements concerning the Second Punic War is NOT accurate? | show 🗑
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| show | The Roman system of alliances in Italy broke down.
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| What Carthaginian commander led his army, including elephants, across the Alps into Italy? | show 🗑
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| show | an economic loser who was occasionally forced to give up eligibility for public service.
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| Based on recent archaeological evidence, the Etruscans originated in | show 🗑
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| Which of the following statements concerning Roman religion is most accurate? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following statements concerning the Roman military is NOT accurate? | show 🗑
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| If a child was born with some sort of physical defect in a Roman family, the Law of the Twelve Tables | show 🗑
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| Which of the following changes in the position of women after the imperial conquests is NOT accurate? | show 🗑
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| show | The existence of an army composed entirely of Carthaginian citizens
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| show | comedies
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| show | lasted as long as he lived.
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