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Who established a massive Persian Empire across the northern Middle East and into northwestern India by 550 B.C.E.?
What is Cyrus the Great.
100
Political decline soon set in, as Athens and Sparta vied for control of Greece during the bitter ______________ _____. Fill in the blanks.
What is Peloponnesian Wars.
100
What two strong emperors attempted to reverse the tide of less effective government?
What is Diocletian and Constantine.
100
What was the only religion Roman emperors attacked?
What is Christianity.
100
First in Greece, then in central Italy, farmers were increasingly tempted to shift to the production of ______ and ______, which were used primarily for cooking and winemaking. Fill in the blanks.
What is olives and grapes.
200
What new religion did the Persians develop?
What is Zoroastrianism.
200
Who extended the Macedonian Empire through the Middle East, across Persia to the border of India, and southward through Egypt?
What is Alexander the Great.
200
What religion did emperor Constantine adopt in 313 in an attempt to unite the empire in new ways?
What is Christianity.
200
Who encouraged his pupils in Athens to question conventional wisdom?
What is Socrates.
200
Slavery was nonexistent in classical civilization in the Mediterranean. True or false?
What is false.
300
The rapid rise of civilization in Greece between 800 and 600 B.C.E. was based on the creation of strong ____________, rather than a single political unit. Fill in the blank.
What is city-states.
300
During what period did Greek art and culture merge with other Middle Eastern forms?
What is the Hellenistic period.
300
What is the term to describe the major decisions of state that were made by general assemblies in which all citizens could participate?
What is direct democracy.
300
What two tales of Greek literature were attributed to the poet Homer?
What is Iliad and Odyssey.
300
Partly because of slavery, neither Greece nor Rome was especially interested in _____________ innovations applicable to agriculture or manufacturing. Fill in the blank.
What is technological.
400
What were the two leading city-states?
What is Sparta and Athens.
400
Roman conquest spread more widely during the three ______ _____, from 264 to 146 B.C.E., during which Rome fought the armies of the Phoenician city of _________, situated on the northern coast of Africa. Fill in the blanks.
What is Punic Wars....Carthage.
400
What was the most important legislative body in the Roman state?
What is Senate.
400
What three embellishments did the Greeks devise for the tops of columns supporting their massive buildings?
What is the Doric, the Ionic, and the Corinthian.
400
How much of her property did a Roman woman lose if divorced because of adultery?
What is a third.
500
Who was the most famous Greek political figure that dominated Athenian politics during the 5th century B.C.E.?
What is Pericles.
500
Who was Julius Caesar's grandnephew?
What is Augustus Caesar.
500
The early Roman Republic introduced its first code of law, the _________ _______, by 450 B.C.E. Fill in the blanks.
What is Twelve Tables.
500
Most Greeks and Romans were farmers. True or false?
What is true.
500
What central religion derived from the classical civilization in the Mediterranean region?
What is no central religion.
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