Chapter 4: Classical Civilizations: the Mediterranean

Chapter 4: Classical Civilizations: the Mediterranean

<p>Chapter 4: Classical Civilizations: The Mediterranean </p><p>Answer the following questions as a short review(THIS SHOULD NOT BE YOUR ONLY STUDY) Test yourself and see if you can do all of this without looking in the book</p><p>Fill in the blank</p><p>1. Athens and ______emerged as the two leading city-states in classical Greece</p><p>2. ______spread the Greek-based empire through the Middle East into India, setting the stage for the Hellenistic era</p><p>3. Roman conquest spread to North Africa after defeating Carthage in the ______Wars</p><p>4. The word “politics” comes from the Greek word for city-state ______</p><p>5. The best-known law code of the Roman republic was the ______</p><p>6. The Athenian philosopher ______encouraged his students to question conventional wisdom and was put to death for this teaching</p><p>7. Greek mathematicians made especially groundbreaking advances in the field of ______</p><p>8. The Athenian dramatists ______wrote plays like Oedipus Rex that revealed the psychological flaws of the principle character</p><p>9. The two leaders of the executive branch of Rome’s republic were called ______</p><p>10. ______gained control of Rome and effectively ended the republic era</p><p>True or false</p><p>1. ______Augustus was the first Roman emperor</p><p>2. ______Pericles rose slowly from poverty to become a leading Athenian politician</p><p>3. ______During the entire Roman Empire era, internal politics was generally stable</p><p>4. ______Both classical Mediterranean civilizations experienced diverse political forms, which ranged from tyranny to democracy</p><p>5. ______Greece and Rome regulated their societies within an elaborate legal framework but without a strong centralized bureaucratic state 6. ______The Greeks and Romans did not develop a major world religion</p><p>7. ______Greek interest in rationality translated into the study of the physical environment</p><p>8. ______Greek, but not Roman, architecture has been known in the West as “classical” for centuries</p><p>9. ______The rise of commercial agriculture in the Roman world was one of the prime forces that led to the establishment of the empire</p><p>10. ______The Mediterranean civilization lagged behind both India and China in production technology</p>

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