World Civilization to 1500
World Civilization to 1500
The second test in HST 114 will take place about 29 February 2008. It will be similar in format to the previous test and have 5 Short Answer, 10 Matching, and 15 Multiple-choice questions. Questions will be based on the following names/terms/events. To receive full credit, short answers must include responses to the who? what? where? why?, and when? questions, and they must include examples when appropriate and indicate the historical importance of the name/term/event identified. You are responsible for the assigned readings in Craig, etc., World Civilizations and the material covered in the lectures.
I. Short Answer Questions (5 questions; 25 points): In your
answer,
be sure to answer Who? What? Where? Why? and When? for each of the
following
terms; also give examples and indicate the historical importance of
each
term.
| Characteristics of Chinese Civilization Achuievements of the Ch'in Dynasty Confucius (ca. 551-478 BC) & Confucianism Classical Civilization Greek Religion Golden Mean Athenian Democracy Persian Wars Hellenic Sculpture Golden Age of Athens |
Hellenic Civilization Hellenistic Civilization Roman Civilization Carthage & the Punic Wars Roman Republic and Senate Augustan Principate (31BC-AD14) Roman Law Roman Succession Problem Late Antiquity (AD 284-610) The "Decline and Fall of Rome" |
II. Objective Questions [Matching and Multiple-choice] (25
questions;
75 points):
| Characteristics of the Shang Dynasty Mandate of Heaven Oracle Bones Pictograph, Ideograph, and Logograph Great Wall of China The Chinese Silk Road Characteristics of the Han Dynasty Tao Te Ching & Taoism Book of Lord Chang and Legalism Five Classics (Chinese Education) Mycenae Heinrich Schliemann & Troy The Iliad and The Odyssey Hoplites and the Hoplite Phalanx Cleisthenes (6th cent. BC) Polis, Athens, and Sparta Marathon (490 BC) & Thermopylae Greek Tragedy & Sophocles Herodotus and Thucydides Parthenon Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE) Kritios Boy (ca. 480 BCE) Sophists (Hellenic Philosophers) "Man is the Measure of all Things" Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle |
Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) Stoicism Epicureanism Hellenistic Sculpture Galen and Ptolemy Etruscans Roman Imperium Plebeians & Patricians Law of the Twelve Tablets (ca. 450 BC) Hannibal Crisis of the Late Republic The Gracchi Julius Caesar Battle of Actium (31 BC) The Roman Army Pax Romana Trajan’s Column Hadrian’s Wall Colosseum, Pantheon, & Aqueducts Five Good Emperors (AD 96-180) Vergil (70-19 BC) & The Aeneid Constantine & the Edict of Milan (AD 313) Crisis of the Third Century Germanic Tribes & AD 476 Theodoric (the Ostrogoth) & Ravenna |
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