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He was the general who defeated Rome at the Battle of Cannae.
Who is Hannibal?
100
This symbol appears on the robe of Moses in a Christian catacomb painting.
What is a swastika?
100
This quality, more than any other, was the ultimate objective of Gothic architecture.
What is light?
100
An Italian scholar, this man can be called the "first modern man" because he decided to climb a mountain for pleasure, not necessity.
Who is Petrarch?
100
We used this game in class to illustrate why the fall of Rome is a "historical problem."
What is Jenga?
200
More than anything, this is the occupation that the ancient Romans most valued in their history and self-image.
What is a farmer?
200
This Old Testament story was the most popular and widely represented in Christian catacomb art.
What is the story of Jonah?
200
The worldview of the Middle Ages can best be described by this spatial term.
What is a hierarchy?
200
This emerging idea in the early modern age may be the single most important value in shaping the modern western world.
What is individualism?
200
Our "taste test" in class demonstrated the effects of this development in the early modern age.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
300
This statue, which had a long history in Roman politics as a symbol of Roman power, was finally removed from the Senate in the 4th century.
What is Victoria?
300
This object, considered the masterpiece of early Christian art, documents the struggle between paganism and Christianity in the late Roman Empire.
What is the sarcophagus of Junius Bassus?
300
According to this theory, almost three hundred years of the Middle Ages never occurred at all.
What is the Phantom Time Hypothesis?
300
Renaissance artists developed this technique to make their paintings imitate natural space.
What is linear perspective?
300
This misleading term describes the centuries following the collapse of the western Roman Empire.
What are the Dark Ages?
400
The term used to describe historical events so complex that they can't be easily described.
What is a "historical problem"?
400
An academic discipline that has recently provided a unique approach to the question of why early Christianity prospered and grew in the Roman Empire.
What is sociology?
400
This was the earliest and most important of the monastic orders that helped to preserve western civilization in the "Dark Ages."
What is the Benedictine Order?
400
The Renaissance humanists invented this word to describe the ancient Greco-Roman world that they admired.
What is "classical"?
400
In a famous early Renaissance painting, Mrs. Arnolfini appears to be in this condition, even though she is not.
What is pregnant.
500
A revisionist theory that challenges the idea that Rome fell in 476 A.D.
What is the "Pirenne Thesis"?
500
This pagan philosopher attacked Christianity as "irrational" and socially inferior.
Who is Celsus?
500
This engineering development insured that Gothic cathedrals would be secure from collapse.
What are flying buttresses?
500
Marked by famine and plague, this century paved the way for the early modern world to emerge.
What is the 14th century?
500
Roman materialism was illustrated by three examples of this that were revealed under three plastic pails.
What is currency?