Western Civilization I Test for 2024

Provide the name by which historians who study ancient civilizations refer to the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: - Answer-Mesopotamia What historians conventionally consider the principal, and one of the earliest, collection of laws in the ancient Near East was named for an old Babylonian King. Name him - Answer-Hammurabi One of the finest examples of ancient literature centers on a king of Uruk who, confronting the death of his friend Enkidu and the inevitability of his own death, comes t the realization that "there is no performance." The name of this ancient Mesopotamian literary work is the - Answer-The Epic of Gilgamesh Name the legendary lawmaker who was credited with eating the foundations of Spartan society in the 8th century b.c.___________ and the legislator of the early sixth century b.c whose economic and political reforms substantially diluted the power of the Athenian aristocracy and paved the way for the establishment of democratic: ____________ - Answer-Lycurgas, Solon The athenian victory over the Darius I's punitive expedition of 490 b.c. - Answer- Marathon The spartan stand against Xerxes' advancing army in 480 b.c. - Answer-Thermopylae the athenian naval victory over the Persians in 480 b.c - Answer-Salamis the final spartan-led victory over the Persian army in 479 b.c. - Answer-Plataea Name the Greek historian of the Persian Wars - Answer-HeroDotus Name the leading Athenian statesman at the beginning of the Peloponnesian Wars: - Answer-Pericles Name the greek physician who used detailed case histories to diagnose the cause and predict the course of disease and to whom, as a consequence, historians generally credit the rise of a naturalistic medicine: - Answer-Hippocrates Much of the early history of the Roman republic was taken up with the struggle of the orders. On one side of the struggle of the orders was an aristocratic elite of large landholders known as the___________. On the other side the Struggle of the Orders was the freeman majority. This group was known as the ________. - Answer- Patrician, plebeian Name the following elements of government of Republican Rome: the elected executive officers_______ the spokesperson(s) for popular interests______ the principal deliberative assembly_________ - Answer-Consuls Tribunate Senat