| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| On what Aegean island did Minoan civilization develop? | Crete Sardinia Cyprus Rhodes |
| The Etruscan culture arose in the central area of what modern country? | Italy Greece Anatolia Spain |
| Who developed the first alphabet? | Phoenicians Egyptians Akkadians Greeks |
| What is an example of the Greeks borrowing and adapting Phoenician cultural traits? | Greeks adopted the Phoenician alphabet. Greeks adopted the Phoenician fasces to symbolize power. Greeks adopted Phoenician deities to worship as gods. Greeks adopted Phoenician warfare tactics in their athletic competitions. |
| What likely set Athens on the path toward democracy as early as the eighth century BCE? | its growing prosperity the decline in literacy the decline in population a rising conflict with Phoenicia |
| What Athenian leader played an instrumental role in the founding of a democracy in Athens in the late sixth century BCE? | Cleisthenes Socrates Pericles Alcibiades |
| Though unsuccessful, the Spartans inspired the Greeks with their defense against the Persian army of what mountain pass in 480 BCE? | Thermopylae Salamis Mantinea Leuctra |
| What two Greek city-states led their respective alliances on either side in the Peloponnesian War? | Sparta and Athens Corinth and Thermopylae Athens and Corcyra Thebes and Syracuse |
| What Greek philosopher founded his own school at the Lyceum in Athens? | Aristotle Plato Socrates Democritus |
| At what battle did the forces of Philip of Macedon defeat the allied armies of Athens and Thebes in 338 BCE? | Chaeronea Thermopylae Leuctra Salamis |
| What land did Alexander the Great and the Macedonians conquer? | Egypt Italy Sicily Carthage |
| What Greek city was the largest in the Hellenistic period? | Alexandria Carthage Athens Sparta |
| Around what Persian sun god did a mystery religion form? | Mithras Zeus Isis Baal |
| In what branch of government was Rome’s Council of Elders? | Senate praetors censors tribunes |
| What Roman officials could veto the actions of Roman law courts, the popular assemblies, and the Senate? | tribunes consuls praetors censors |
| The common people of the Roman Republic were known as: | plebeians patricians optimates senators |
| With what group did Rome fight a war for control of the Mediterranean? | Carthaginians Latins Samnites Etruscans |
| What were private contractors called who constructed public works and collected taxes in Rome? | publicans equestrians populares proletariat |
| Who were the members of the First Triumvirate? | Caesar, Pompey, Crassus Lepidus, Caesar, Octavian Marc Antony, Octavian, Lepidus Pompey, Lepidus, Marc Antony |
| What event led to the establishment of the Second Triumvirate? | the assassination of Caesar the succession of Tiberius the retirement of Lepidus the suicide of Cleopatra |
| Julius Caesar won popularity among the Roman people for his successful military campaigns in ______. | Gaul Pontus Parthia Carthage |
| Octavian’s success in the civil war was due largely to support from ______. | Julius Caesar’s veteran soldiers Pompey’s veteran soldiers optimates Julius Caesar’s assassins |
| Octavian’s naval forces defeated those of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of ______. | Pharsalus Actium Philippi Zama |
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