Western Civilization II
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Western Civilization II examines the major political, social, economic, and cultural developments in Europe from the late seventeenth century to the present. This course explores the transformative events and ideas that shaped modern Western society, including the Enlightenment, revolutionary movements, industrialization, imperialism, the world wars, and the Cold War, as well as current issues facing Europe. By analyzing primary sources, critical debates, and the global impact of Western institutions and ideals, students gain a deeper understanding of how European history continues to influence the contemporary world.
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The Humanistic Tradition The Early Modern World to the Present 7th Edition Volume I by Gloria K.
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Chapter 1: Mesopotamia
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Q1) Which of the following geological features forms Mesopotamia?
A)the Nile and Euphrates rivers
B)the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
C)the Nile and Tigris rivers
D)the Indus and Tigris rivers
Answer: B
Q2) Who of the following led the Hebrew people out of Egyptian slavery?
A)Moses
B)Jesus Christ
C)Noah
D)Abraham
Answer: A
Q3) The beginning of the Hebrew history is personified by which of the following?
A)Moses
B)Jesus Christ
C)Noah
D)Abraham
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Africa
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Q1) Spatial depth in Egyptian art is achieved
A)with linear perspective.
B)by placing one figure above another.
C)by placing one figure behind another.
D)with the distance of separation between figures.
Answer: B
Q2) Egypt was conquered in 332 B.C.E.by which of the following invaders?
A)Alexander the Great
B)Marco Polo
C)Constantine
D)Attila
Answer: A
Q3) Which of the following does the text use to describe the musical poetry of the Egyptian New Kingdom?
A)Nubian
B)Trance
C)Chant
D)Lyric
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: India,China,and the Americas
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Q1) The joining of Atman (self)and Brahman results in which of the following?
A)yoga
B)nirvana
C)dharma
D)karma
Answer: B
Q2) In India,religion is grounded in ________,the belief in an all-pervading divine spirit.
A)polytheism
B)pantheism
C)omnicseism
D)animism
Answer: B
Q3) The earliest Neolithic Chinese peoples worked to produce which of the following?
A)canals
B)silk
C)giant ships
D)All these answers are correct.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Greece
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Q1) What were the unique characteristics of Athenian democracy?
Q2) Which of the following defines the term "hubris"?
A)bad intent
B)excessive pride
C)humbleness
D)shame
Q3) Explain the conflict between the individual and the community in Sophocles' Antigone.
Q4) Which of the following is the name given to the undeciphered Minoan writing that has survived?
A)linear B
B)linear A
C)hieroglyphics
D)sanskrit
Q5) The early Greek city-states were forced to unite against the rising threat of A)the Persians.
B)the Macedonians.
C)the Turks.
D)the Mongols.
Q6) Explain the general characteristics of pre-Greek or pre-Hellenistic culture.
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Chapter 5: The Classical Style
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Q1) The Greek philosopher ________ tried to demonstrate the order of nature by observing geometric and numeric proportion.
A)Socrates
B)Agamemnon
C)Euripides
D)Pythagoras
Q2) The great temple of Athena in Athens uses which of the following orders?
A)Ionic
B)Doric
C)Corinthian
D)Post and Beam
Q3) Which of the following peoples finally conquered the Greeks in 338 B.C.E.?
A)the Etruscans
B)the Romans
C)the Macedonians
D)the Persians
Q4) Explain the differences between Hellenic and Hellenistic culture.
Q5) Discuss the Parthenon as an example of High Classical culture in the ancient world.
Q6) What are the main features of Grecian poetry and music?
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Chapter 6: Rome
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Q1) The first dictator of Rome was
A)Octavian.
B)Mark Anthony.
C)Gaius Julius Caesar.
D)Claudius.
Q2) Multiple arches used architecturally in any sequence forms a(n)
A)apse.
B)vault.
C)cloister.
D)transept.
Q3) Which of the following was the vital North African port captured by Rome at the end of the Punic Wars?
A)Carthage
B)Macedonia
C)Athens
D)Syracuse
Q4) Explain the circumstances surrounding the fall of the Roman Empire and its primary causes.
Q5) Discuss art as a propaganda tool for the Roman government.Give examples.
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Q6) Discuss Rome's unique contributions to art and literature.
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Chapter 7: China
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Q1) The Han dynasty left a very thorough record of daily life via the visual medium of A)stained glasswork.
B)murals.
C)glazed terracotta.
D)sculpture.
Q2) According to the text,early Chinese coins featured which of the following?
A)images of ocean-going ships
B)ridged edges
C)square holes
D)images of livestock
Q3) The written collection of Confucius' teachings is called A)the Vedas.
B)the Analects.
C)The Pearl of Much Price.
D)The Poetics.
Q4) What aspects of philosophy are the legacy of Confucius?
Q5) Explain the rationale behind the building of the Great Wall of China.
Q6) Speculate why many technological innovations of the Chinese were never seen in the West,despite some trade.
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Chapter 8: A Flowering of Faith
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Q1) Which of the following best explains a bodhisattva?
A)a god-like being that shows or divines something
B)one who has achieved enlightenment,but refrains from entering nirvana
C)a missionary of the emperor Asoka
D)a demonic creature
Q2) Who of the following is thought to be a chronological contemporary to Jesus Christ?
A)Mahatma Gandhi
B)Siddhartha Gautama
C)Confucius
D)Indira Gandhi
Q3) List the similarities and differences between early Christian and early Buddhist teachings.
Q4) Christianity is tied to all of the following backgrounds EXCEPT
A)the Near-Eastern.
B)the Greco-Roman.
C)the IslamiC.
D)the Hebraic.
Q5) Discuss the background out of which Christianity emerged.
Q6) Explain the contributions of Paul to the rise of Christianity.
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Chapter 9: The Language of Faith
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Q1) The Buddha's hand position represented in any given statue of him is called which of the following?
A)anta
B)venal
C)stupa
D)mudras
Q2) Explain the Christian identity as revealed in art,architecture,and music.
Q3) Interior spaces in early Christian churches were usually embellished with which of the following?
A)painted murals
B)relief sculpture
C)statuary
D)mosaics
Q4) In early Christianity,the number twelve was important symbolically,as it represented which of the following?
A)the day of Jesus' birth
B)the number of Jesus' wounds
C)the number of Jesus' disciples
D)the days of Christmas
Q5) List the unique features of Byzantine art and architecture.
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Chapter 10: The Islamic World
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Q1) What event marks year one of the Islamic calendar?
A)the birth of Christ
B)the hijra to Medina
C)the fall of the Roman Empire
D)the creation of the earth
Q2) Muhammad's designated successor was which of the following?
A)Ali
B)Sunni
C)Abraham
D)Muhammad left no designated successor.
Q3) Which of the following describes Muhammad's lifelong career?
A)clergyman
B)low-level bureaucrat
C)fisherman
D)caravan driver
Q4) Discuss some of the faith-based obligations particular to the Islamic religion.
Q5) Explain the effects of Islamic expansion on medieval world culture.
Q6) List the characteristics of Islamic art,architecture,music,and poetry.
Q7) Explain the contributions of Islam to global culture between ca.700 and 1400.
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Chapter 11: Patterns of Medieval Life
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Q1) The first monumental literary composition in a European vernacular language was A)the Song of Roland.
B)Beowulf.
C)the Bible.
D)the Magna Carta.
Q2) The Normans brought feudalism to which of the following?
A)France
B)England
C)Germany
D)Africa
Q3) Discuss the significance of Charlemagne and the Carolingian Renaissance.
Q4) The Normans traced their direct ancestry to the A)Ostragoths.
B)Vikings.
C)Greeks.
D)Franks.
Q5) Chart the changing temper of the High Middle Ages,as reflected in the romance and the literature of courtly love.
Q6) Chronicle the nature of Germanic tribal expansion and cultural expression.
Q7) Explain the dynamics behind the Christian Crusades and their consequences.
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Chapter 12: Christianity and the Medieval Mind
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Q1) Explain the "immortality ideology" as reflected in medieval literature such as Everyman and Dante's Commedia.
Q2) The intermediate step between Heaven and Hell was defined by the medieval church as
A)the Eucharist.
B)Hades.
C)Purgatory.
D)Lateran.
Q3) Which of the following was considered the greatest of the so-called Scholastics,a Dominican theologian and teacher,and author of the major treatise Summa Theologica?
A)Peter Abelard
B)Aristotle
C)Thomas Aquinas
D)Socrates
Q4) What is the role of mysticism in medieval culture?
Q5) Discuss the various mendicant orders within the Catholic Church and how these organizations affected their world.
Q6) Explain the centrality and significance of the Church in medieval society.
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Chapter 13: The Medieval Synthesis in the Arts
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Q1) Describe the role of music in medieval liturgical drama,religious ceremony,and secular life.
Q2) Explain the function and style of the abbey church and the pilgrimage church.
Q3) Name the functions (practical and symbolic)of the cathedral in medieval town life.
Q4) The stained-glass windows at Chartres are especially unique for their emphasis on which of the following colors?
A)blue
B)white
C)green
D)red
Q5) Discuss the unique features of-and differences between-the Romanesque and Gothic styles.
Q6) The first example of a true Gothic cathedral was the construction of ________ between 1122 and 1144.
A)the Duomo in Milan
B)Notre Dame
C)Chartres
D)Saint-Denis
Q7) Explain the importance of the flying buttress in architecture.
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Chapter 14: The World Beyond the West
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Q1) A particular melodic sequence in traditional Indian music would be called A)ragA.
B)sangeeta.
C)avatar.
D)sati.
Q2) Describe the arts of medieval Japan and their unified themes.
Q3) The word ________ is used to describe music in the Indian language and means both "sound" and "rhythm."
A)raga
B)sangeeta
C)avatar
D)sati
Q4) According to the text,a direct interpersonal contact with the Hindu godhead can be achieved
A)by self-denial acts such as starvation.
B)by chanting loudly.
C)by gazing steadily at a visual representation.
D)by making donations and gestures of giving.
Q5) Explain the basic ideas of Hinduism and Confucianism.
Q6) Discuss the cultural and technological achievements of Tang and Song China.
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Chapter 15: Adversity and Challenge
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Q1) Explain the origins of the Hundred Years' War.
Q2) Where did the Black Death originate?
A)in France along the River Seine
B)in Asia where it was spread by the Mongols
C)in Asia Minor among the remnants of the Eastern Empire
D)in Great Britain along the Thames
Q3) Describe social realism and its expression in medieval literature and art.
Q4) Which of the following cities produced the "third" pope at a 1409 ecumenical council designed to heal the Great Schism?
A)Milan
B)Pisa
C)Capri
D)Piacere
Q5) Discuss the medieval use of devotional realism in art and music.
Q6) The act of selling church leadership positions to the highest bidder regardless of qualifications is called A)simony.
B)indulgences.
C)parsimony.
D)extreme unction.
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Chapter 16: Classical Humanism
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Q1) Which one of the following established the then-modern educational ideal in the person of l'uomo univerale (the well-rounded individual)?
A)Alberti
B)Ficino
C)Pico della Mirandola
D)Castiglione
Q2) Which one of the following applied his vast study of ancient literature to defend free will and the unlimited potential of the individual?
A)Alberti
B)Ficino
C)Pico della Mirandola
D)Castiglione
Q3) The artistic and intellectual movement to recover,edit,and study ancient Greek and Latin manuscripts is called
A)humanistic Classicism.
B)secular humanism.
C)Classical secularism.
D)Classical humanism.
Q4) Explain the roles and viewpoints of the female humanists.
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Chapter 17: Renaissance Artists
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Q1) In the commercial cities of Italy and the Netherlands,the arts became tangible expressions of increased A)urbanization.
B)piety.
C)affluence.
D)crime and sin.
Q2) Which innovative musical instrument developed in the Renaissance used multiple quills fixed to a keyboard that would pluck pre-tuned strings when depressed?
A)clavichord
B)harpsichord
C)spinet
D)piano
Q3) The Venetian architect celebrated for having resuscitated the Classical ideals of symmetry and centrality in numerous buildings and villas throughout Northern Italy was A)Bramante.
B)Palladio.
C)Michelangelo.
D)Ghiberti.
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Chapter 18: Cross-Cultural Encounters
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Q1) Christopher Columbus,an Italian in the employ of ________,sailed west in search of an all-water route to China.
A)Spain
B)Portugal
C)Genoa
D)the papacy
Q2) Describe the unique features of literature,music,and sculpture in African culture.
Q3) The first of the great Meso-American empires,the ________ built civic centers with stone temples,palaces,and ball courts.
A)Aztec
B)Inca
C)Maya
D)Tua
Q4) Explain the factors that precipitated European overseas expansion.
Q5) Explain the impact of "encounter" in Africa,the Americas,and Europe.
Q6) List some specific characteristics of the African cultural heritage,as illustrated in the arts of West Africa.
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Chapter 19: Protest and Reform
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Q1) A Zurich-based radical wing of Protestantism called ________ rejected all seven of the Catholic sacraments,turning instead to individual acceptance of God.
A)Lutherans
B)Calvinists
C)the Anabaptists
D)Anglicans
Q2) The pioneer of Northern Realism in painting was the Flemish artist
A)Giovanni Nicolas Arnolfini.
B)Hieronymus Bosch.
C)Raphael.
D)Jan van Ecyk.
Q3) The most powerful form of literary expression to evolve in the late sixteenth century was secular
A)readings.
B)dance.
C)drama.
D)sermons.
Q4) Discuss the significance of Shakespeare's contribution to world literature.
Q5) Discuss the printing press and its impact on the Protestant Reformation.
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