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| show | Monarchy
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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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| show | solomon
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| show | were not strictly monotheistic.
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| The first great heroic poem of Western civilization was the | show 🗑
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| Especially after the so-called Babylonian captivity, the Israelites began to | show 🗑
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| show | Tiglath-Pileser III
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| Akhenaten's monotheism was | show 🗑
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| Which of the following was an early agricultural settlement in the Middle East? | show 🗑
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| show | Cuneiform
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| The Hebrews, after leaving Egypt, migrated to | show 🗑
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| show | Central Greece
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| show | assyrians
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| Which of the following statements concerning the practice of Mesopotamian religion is NOT accurate? | show 🗑
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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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| show | protecting women and children from unfair treatment.
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| show | Sinuhe
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| The statement that the agricultural revolution was portable means that | show 🗑
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| Around 3150 B.C.E., King Narmer united Upper and Lower Egypt and founded a new capital at | show 🗑
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| Osiris was the | show 🗑
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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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| show | Sumer
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| show | Nebuchadnezzar II
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| show | utilized simple tools.
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| The gods of Mesopotamian society were | show 🗑
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| show | The Pharisees
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| show | Move his religious capital to the city of Thebes
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| Which of the following was NOT a consequence of the fall of Judah in 586 B.C.E.? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following statements concerning the Akkadian nation-state is MOST accurate? | show 🗑
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| The warlike people who dominated the Palestinian coast and defeated the Israelites in 1050 B.C.E. were the | show 🗑
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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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| The Hittite people | show 🗑
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| What was the state to expand in Mesopotamia after the fall of the Akkadian nation-state? | show 🗑
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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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| The founder of the first unified Akkadian state was | show 🗑
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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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| show | It was a strongly stratified system in which the peasantry paid a heavy tribute.
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| What is the MOST plausible explanation for the fall of the Mycenaean civilization? | show 🗑
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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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| Who controlled the Minoan civilization's economy and agriculture? | show 🗑
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| In the second half of the sixth century B.C.E., what empire set up puppet regimes in Greek city-states in Asia Minor and then threatened the mainland city-states? | show 🗑
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| show | The Dark Age
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| The Greek myths | show 🗑
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| show | invasion and destruction at the hands of Mycenaeans after the Thera eruptions
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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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| Which was the first of the late Bronze Age cultures to develop in Greek civilization? | show 🗑
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| show | concern with how people face the universal elements of human destiny.
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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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| What are ethne (singular, ethnos)? | show 🗑
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| The form of political organization based on city-states was the | show 🗑
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| show | Dark Age.
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| Which of the following was NOT a use of the Greek standing male nude, or kouros, figure? | show 🗑
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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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| show | the values and weaknesses of the Greeks themselves.
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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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| show | the strong foundation of rational science left over from Achaean civilization.
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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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| The Minoan civilization's geographic advantage in the Mediterranean resulted from its location | show 🗑
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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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| From the sixth century B.C.E. until its conquest by Macedonia in 338 B.C.E., Corinth was ruled by | show 🗑
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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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| show | Corinth
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| During the eighth century B.C.E. in Greece the first sign of radical change was | show 🗑
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| show | Polis
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| By the eighth century B.C.E., Greek black-figure vase painters | show 🗑
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| show | Concerned with the threat of a helot revolt, they failed to step into the power vacuum left by the withdrawal of the Persians.
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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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| Hero and Archimedes were two of the greatest | show 🗑
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| What Greek city-state finally freed Messenia and broke the foundation of Sparta's economic prosperity? | show 🗑
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| The Spartan king responsible for the defense of the pass at Thermopylae during the second Persian invasion of Greece was | show 🗑
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| show | Hellenistic architecture was more flamboyant, elaborate, and monumental in scale.
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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 Athenians controlled their maritime empire in all of the following ways EXCEPT which one? | show 🗑
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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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| 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 | ostracism
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| The Athenians defeated the Persians and Darius I in 490 B.C.E. at the battle of | show 🗑
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| How did Pericles redirect Athens' foreign policy? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following schools of philosophy was NOT prevalent in the Hellenistic period? | show 🗑
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| Most of the leaders of fifth-century Athens came from the | show 🗑
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| show | A war of attrition
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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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| show | True happiness consists in freely accepting one's role, whatever it may be, while evil results from rejecting one's place in the divine plan.
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| The author of the fundamental textbook on geometry created during the Hellenistic period was | 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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| 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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| Which of the following statements best describes Aristotle's philosophy? | show 🗑
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| show | He failed to demonstrate even a rudimentary understanding of cause and effect in history.
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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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| After victory in the Peloponnesian War, the Spartans | show 🗑
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| show | He emphasized an ideal world of eternal Forms.
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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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| show | Cimon
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| show | Athens
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| Which of the following statements best describes Aristotle's political philosophy? | show 🗑
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| show | They were never independent of monarchs.
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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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| show | Pakistan
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| show | Thucydides
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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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| Which of the following was NOT typical of Villanovan culture? | show 🗑
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| show | The conquered people were treated generously and made either citizens or allies of Rome.
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| show | an opportunity brought about by war between small Hellenistic states seeking alliances with rome
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| show | The Etruscan monarchy was everywhere yielding to oligarchic republics.
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| show | order and authority.
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| What Greek religious cult was regarded as threatening to traditional Roman values? | show 🗑
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| The conflict between plebeians and patricians in the first half of the fifth century B.C.E. was called the | show 🗑
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| show | exercising her role as moral educator of the children.
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| The Law of the Twelve Tables | show 🗑
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| show | established a military and political system based only on property holding.
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| show | obtain land.
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| show | Phoenicians
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| show | centuries
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| show | Small centuries of wealthy, well-armed cavalrymen outnumbered the more numerous but modestly equipped centuries.
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| show | Greek
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| show | persistent, methodical policy that wore down Carthage.
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| show | The Romans prevented the Carthaginians from entering Italy, while the Roman legions ravaged Spain
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| show | Enki
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| show | Development of a centralized empire
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| show | The existence of an army composed entirely of Carthaginian citizens
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| show | Terence and Plautus
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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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| show | farmer of modest means
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| Which of the following statements most accurately portrays the Carthaginian political system? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following statements concerning early Roman society is NOT accurate? | show 🗑
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| What Greek historian first recorded Roman history? | show 🗑
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| show | Palatine
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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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| show | Etruscans
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| What development signaled the end of Etruscan dominance in Italy? | show 🗑
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| What senator is often presented as the preserver of the old traditions, a man who fought against the rising conspicuous consumption of New Rome? | show 🗑
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| What institution in early Roman society selected a candidate for king? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following statements concerning the Carthaginian empire is most accurate? | show 🗑
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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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| Rome's ascendency in the eastern Mediterranean was the result of | show 🗑
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| Which of the following statements concerning the centuriate assembly is most accurate? | show 🗑
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| show | Persian military threats
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| show | Tribunes
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| show | The Romans prevented the Carthaginians from entering Italy, while the Roman legions ravaged Spain.
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| Which of the following was NOT a result of the three Punic wars? | show 🗑
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| show | Hannibal
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| show | an economic loser who was occasionally forced to give up eligibility for public service.
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| show | western Italy, as they were not immigrants.
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| show | The Romans worshiped many gods.
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| show | Roman armies were composed of ill-trained conscripts.
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| show | sanctioned the child's killing.
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| show | Fathers tended to transfer their authority over daughters to their husbands at the time of their marriage.
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| Which of the following is NOT a feature from which Carthage benefited? | show 🗑
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| show | comedies
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| show | lasted as long as he lived.
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