Test Format: The test will cover material from class discussions and chapters 5 and 6 in the text, it will have the following types of questions: 32 Multiple Choice Questions..............................1 point each 16 Matching Questions........................................1/2 point each 6 Short Answer/Essay Questions.........................10 points total Total Points.......................................................50 points Topics for Multiple Choice Questions: Chapter 5: • Agora • Alexander the Great • Battle of Salamis • Cleisthenes Reforms • Cynicism • Development of Democracy in Athens • Draco • Euclid • Goddesses of Wisdom • Greek Religious Worship • Hellenistic Political Units • Macedonian Expansion under Phillip II • Mycenaeans • Phalanx • Plato’s Republic • Reason • Socrates Philosophy • Sophocles • Sparta • The Illiad and the Odyssey • The Peloponessia War • Xerxes Short Answer/Essay Topics:
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Chapter 6: Alaric Augustus/Octavian Building of Constantinople Cause of 3rd Punic War Constantine Consuls Diocletian’s Governmental Reforms Edict of Milan Hannibal Inflation in Rome Latin Influence on Language Odoacer Organization of Roman Government Paterfamilias Paul’s Christian Reforms Reason for Killing Caesar Republican form of Government Sequence of Roman Governments The 12 Tables The Bishop of Rome The Colosseum and Circus Maximus The First Triumvirate
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Archimedes Inventions Democracy in Athens Development of Hellenism
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Cinncinatus and Roman Ideals Roman Legal Influences Expansion of Christianity
Chapter 5 Study Questions: 1. Why is it appropriate that Athena is the goddess whom Athens is named after?
2. Who was Xerxes?
3. Who fought in the Peloponnessian War?
4. What was the subject of Plato’s Republi, and whom did he believe should rule?
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What was the purpose of the Agora?
6. What was the cause of the Peloponnessian War?
7. What type of writing are Homer’s Illiad and the Oddyssey?
8. What reforms did Cleisthenes enact in Athens?
9. What play did Sophocles author?
10. What did Euclid create?
11. What change occurred to the political unit of government during the Hellenistic period?
12. What areas did Phillip II of Macedonia conquer?
13. List the order of democratic reformers in Athens.
14. How does the term “Draconian� reflect the laws of Draco?
15. How did Alexander the Great become King of Macedonia?
16. Explain the Socratic Method.
17. Explain the significance of the Battle of Salamis.
18. Describe the hellenistic philosophy of cynicism.
19. Describe life in Sparta.
20. Describe how the greeks worshipped their gods.
21. Describe how the Greeks used the Phalanx to fight.
22. Define reason, as the Greeks would define it.
Chapter 6 Study Questions: 23. By what name is Octavian commonly referred to today?
24. Describe how Rome established checks and balances within their government in the era of the Roman Republic.
25. Describe the role of the consuls in the Roman Republic.
26. Explain how a Republic is different from a Democracy.
27. How did Paul make Christianity more accessible to non-Jews?
28. How did the 12 Tables protect the Plebians?
29. How did the Edict of Milan help the spread of Christianity?
30. How does the phrase, “and Carthage must be destroyed” relate to the cause of the Third Punic War?
31. List the Sequence of Roman Governments from the Republic to the last of the Good Emperors. This is not a list of rulers, but rather what these 4 different government movements were called.
32. What did Alaric do?
33. What did Odoacer accomplish that Attilla did not?
34. What does the term “paterfamilias” mean?
35. What emperor converted to Christianity?
36. What is inflation? How does it relate to the Roman Empire?
37. What modern languages have been influenced by Latin?
38. What purpose did the Colosseum and the Circus Maximus serve?
39. What reforms did Diocletian make to the structure of Roman government?
40. Who is Hannibal?
41. Who were the members of the First Triumvirate?
42. Why did Brutus and the other senators believe it was necessary to kill Julius Caesar?
43. Why did Constantine move the capital of the Roman Empire to Constantinople?
44. Why is the Bishop of Rome the Pope?