Survey of Western Civilization
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This course offers a comprehensive overview of Western Civilization from its ancient beginnings through the modern era. Students will explore the political, cultural, intellectual, and social developments that have shaped Western societies, examining key moments such as the rise of ancient Greece and Rome, the influence of Judeo-Christian traditions, the Renaissance and Reformation, the Enlightenment, revolutions in science and politics, and the impact of industrialization and globalization. Through critical analysis of primary and secondary sources, students will gain a deeper understanding of the historical forces and ideas that continue to influence the modern Western world.
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Western Heritage The Volume 1 11th Edition by Donald
M. Kagan
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Chapter 1: The Birth of Civilization
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Q1) The archaeological findings at Neolithic Jericho and Çatal Höyük suggest that the
A) settlement patterns of this period were characterized by upheaval
B) settlement patterns of this period were markedly similar
C) use of fortifications was widespread
D) settlement patterns of this period may be more complicated than previously inferred
Answer: D
Q2) Archaeologists refer to the period after 1100 b.c.e.as the ________.
A) Bronze Age
B) Steel Age
C) Iron Age
D) Copper Age
Answer: C
Q3) The Israelites lost to history became known as the ________.
A) twenty lost tribes
B) ten lost tribes
C) scattered groups
D) lost groups
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: The Rise of Greek Civilization
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Q1) Solon changed the constitution of Athens so that citizenship, currently the privilege of males whose fathers were citizens, was extended to include ________.
A) females whose fathers were citizens
B) all males, even if their fathers were not citizens
C) immigrants who were tradesmen and merchants
D) whoever lived there at the time the constitution was changed
Answer: C
Q2) Miltiades, who had fled from Persian service, led the Greeks to a vital victory over the Persians at ________.
A) Tempe
B) Thebes
C) Corinth
D) Marathon
Answer: D
Q3) In some cities, the crisis produced by new economic and social conditions led to the establishment of a ________.
Answer: tyranny
Q4) The marketplace and civic center of the polis was called an ________.
Answer: agora
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Chapter 3: Classical and Hellenistic Greece
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Q1) ________ was the first to argue that reason and reflection showed that reality was fixed and unchanging according to the idea that nothing could be created out of nothingness.
Answer: Parmenides
Q2) In the late fifth century b.c.e., the Spartans, under ________, obtained the support of the Persians, cut off the Athenian food supply through the Hellespont, and starved the Athenian people into submission.
Answer: Lysander
Q3) In 335 b.c.e., Alexander III (Alexander the Great), pursuing his father's goal, began his plan to conquer ________.
A) Thebes
B) Persia
C) Chalcis
D) Corinth
Answer: B
Q4) When the great Theban general ________ was killed at the Battle of Mantinea, Theban dominance died with him.
Answer: Epaminondas
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Chapter 4: Rome: From Republic to Empire
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Q1) Following the First Punic War, Sicily was settled as a province, meaning ________.
A) Sicilians paid tribute rather than served in the Roman army
B) Sicilians needed passports to visit the mainland
C) Romans retained the right to Sicilian marble
D) Sicilians were allowed to maintain self-governance
Q2) Enemies such as Hannibal knew that the key to a successful war against Rome would be to turn her allies against the Republic.How did Rome earn such loyalty from client states and provinces?
Q3) Tiberius Gracchus ran for reelection but ________.
A) was disqualified because his petition was submitted too late
B) he won without a single vote from the assembly
C) he lost
D) was killed in a riot during the election
Q4) The text suggests that Sulla's greatest legacy was his use of military power, not the constitutional reforms he enacted.Do you agree? Explain how Sulla influenced the politics of Rome in the decades following his rule.
Q5) Romans endowed their rulers with the power of ________, the power to command and to enforce those commands.
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Chapter 5: The Roman Empire
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Q1) Augustus's imperial reign is known as the "Principate" after his title princeps, meaning "first ________."
Q2) Because they denied the existence of the Roman gods, Christians were accused of
A) atheism
B) monotheism
C) pantheism
D) Zoroastrianism
Q3) Although differences in doctrine had the potential to splinter the early Christian church into dozens of sects, a unity of belief and ritual was maintained by a ________.
A) single religious leader known as the pope
B) group of secret nuns
C) network of bishops
D) regular publication of current thought
Q4) "Circuses" were named for their ________.
A) acrobatics
B) circular layout
C) clowns
D) 24-hour duration
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Chapter 6: Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages:
Creating a New European Society and Culture (476 1000)
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Q1) ________, with his wife Theodora at his side, expanded the Byzantine Empire and ruled it with a strong hand.
Q2) The end of the Byzantine Empire came with the conquest of ________ in 1453 by the Ottoman Turks.
Q3) The Frankish kings who defeated the Lombards gave the pope the lands surrounding Rome, to be known as ________.
A)Greater Metropolitan Rome
B)the Duchy of Benevento
C)Frankish Italy
D)the Papal States
Q4) Which of these marked a long-lasting split between the western and eastern Christian churches?
A) Pope Leo I took the title pontifex maximus.
B) Pope Damasus I claimed that he was a direct successor to Peter.
C) Cardinal Humbertus excommunicated the Orthodox patriarch.
D) Pope Gelasius I claimed the ruling clergy gave him more power than secular rulers.
Q5) In the fourth and fifth centuries, ________ barbarian tribes invaded the Roman Empire.
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Chapter 7: The High Middle Ages: The Rise of European Empires
and States
(1000 1300)
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Q1) Pope Urban endorsed the First Crusade because he ________.
A) saw the chance to remove feuding, idle, and restless noble youths from Europe
B) was hoping to gain control of Europe after a victory
C) wanted to end the power of the Eastern emperor
D) desired to drive all Muslims from Egypt
Q2) Pope Leo IX promoted regional synods to oppose clerical marriage and ________, the selling of spiritual things, especially church offices.
Q3) The Hohenstaufen Empire faced increasing problems with the papacy when Henry VI
A) divorced his wife
B) married an heiress to the kingdom of Sicily
C) made an alliance with the German princes
D) attempted to invade Rome
Q4) Louis IX died of a fever during the second of two French ________ against the Muslims.
Q5) Who was responsible for bringing an end to the Hohenstaufen dynasty?
A) Louis IX
B) Frederick II
C) Charles of Anjou
D) Philip II Augustus
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Chapter 8: Medieval Society: Hierarchies, Towns,
Universities, and Families (1000 1300)
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Q1) Entrance to a monastic life and marriage were alike for women in the Middle Ages because both ______.
A) required a dowry
B) could lead to divorce
C) were available only to upper-class women
D) were seen as preferable to the single life
Q2) The first recognizable university in Europe was at ________.
A) Paris
B) Oxford
C) Berlin
D) Bologna
Q3) Which of the following caused grievances and revolts of the peasantry throughout the High and later Middle Ages?
A) burdening taxes to support the lord's castles
B) attempts to rein in peasants who had found new opportunities
C) merchants' refusal to sell luxury items to the peasantry
D) the poetry of courtly love
Q4) How did economic and intellectual change introduce challenges to the traditional concept of medieval society? How did elites respond to these challenges?
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Chapter 9: The Late Middle Ages: Social and Political
Breakdown (1300 1453)
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Q1) Which of these provoked the Hundred Years' War?
A) a French claim to the English throne
B) an English claim to the French throne
C) disputes over Flanders
D) English possession of French land
Q2) Generally speaking, the Black Death moved ________ through Europe.
A) slowly
B) north and west
C) from north to south
D) from rural to urban areas
Q3) Joan of Arc was executed on May 30, 1431 for the crime of ________.
A) treason
B) heresy
C) murder
D) kidnapping
Q4) The work of John Wycliffe most resembled that of _______.
A) Thomas Aquinas
B) John Huss
C) John of Arc
D) Marsilius of Pauda
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Chapter 10: Renaissance and Discovery
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Q1) How did the Spanish conquerors create a Spanish world empire? Cortés took over the Aztecs in Mexico.Pizarro conquered the Incas in Peru.How were they able to take over these powerful people in such a short amount of time? Explain.
Q2) During an assembly in Worms in 1495, Emperor Maximilian allowed the members to create ________.
A) a permanent representative body
B) the Golden Bull agreement
C) a seven-member electoral college
D) a Supreme Court of Justice
Q3) Most scholars agree that the ________ (literally "rebirth" in French) was a time of transition from medieval to modern times.
Q4) What occurred in 1378 as a result of the unbearable conditions for those at the bottom of society and the disruption caused by the Black Death?
A) the Jacquerie
B) Ciompi Revolt
C) French Revolution
D) signing of the Treaty of Lodi
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Chapter 11: The Age of Reformation
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Q1) Which of these best summarizes changing notions about women resulting from the Protestant Reformation?
A) Women gained greater legal rights and much greater autonomy.
B) Education was thought unimportant, given the emphasis on women as mothers.
C) Women were increasingly associated with Eve more than the Virgin Mary.
D) Women's roles were more esteemed, though not greatly expanded.
Q2) In 1532, the English Parliament passed the ___________, which effectively placed canon law under royal control and thereby placed the clergy under royal jurisdiction.
Q3) Marriages in the early modern period were arranged in the sense that they were
A) dictated by the bride's parents
B) dictated by the groom's parents
C) planned
D) determined when the bride reached the age of fifteen
Q4) Luther's ninety-five theses ________.
A) earned him a position teaching at Wittenburg University
B) had little real impact
C) sparked the Reformation in Germany
D) expressed his belief that salvation could be bought and sold
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Chapter 12: The Age of Religious Wars
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Q1) Which writer advised people to look within themselves for religious truth and no longer to churches and creeds?
A) William Shakespeare
B) John Calvin
C) Valentin Weigel
D) Martin Luther
Q2) Henry IV converted to Catholicism, motivated by ________.
A) faith
B) expediency
C) fear of Catholic power
D) a guarantee he had made to the pope
Q3) During the first half of the sixteenth century, religious conflict had been confined to central Europe and was primarily a struggle between Lutherans and _________ to secure rights and freedoms for themselves.
Q4) The Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis ended the ________.
A) Habsburg-Valois wars
B) Thirty Years' War
C) conflict between Spain and the Netherlands
D) Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre
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Chapter 13: European State -Consolidation in the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth
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Q1) Poland is an example of a state that was weak because of _______.
A) its small territory
B) the ascendancy of its nobility
C) religious division
D) larger neighbors
Q2) Poland can be seen as an extreme example of the political model represented by _______.
A) England
B) France
C) Russia
D) Spain
Q3) Russian victory in the Great Northern War led to ________.
A) the decline of Poland
B) a permanent Russian influence on European affairs
C) an alliance with England
D) an alliance with Finland
Q4) The ________ dynasty ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917.
Q5) King Louis XIV won the support of the French ________ by supporting their local influence and social status.
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Q6) When James II became king, he immediately demanded the repeal of the
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Chapter 14: New Directions in Thought and Culture in the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
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Q1) The book on astronomy by Maria Cunitz was ________.
A) initially rejected by the scientific world
B) recognized as her own work only after her husband added a preface
C) considered an important accomplishment for a woman of her day
D) widely read and distributed in universities
Q2) In the sixteenth century, midwifery was a trade often pursued by ________.
A) noble women
B) merchant's wives
C) elderly or widowed women
D) male barbers
Q3) Francis Bacon believed that________.
A) the study of nature began with the articulation of general principles
B) knowledge of nature should be used to improve the human condition
C) knowledge of nature was primarily useful for what it told us about the divine
D) the best era of human history lay in antiquity
Q4) What ends, religious or secular, did baroque art meet? How does the artwork of the time coincide with the natural sciences and changes in culture that existed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Explain.
Q5) Bernini was hired by Urban VIII to decorate ________.
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