WESTERN CIVILIZATION 1 CLEP (ACTUAL 2025/2026)
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
Aristotle - ---Answers----The most widely read philosopher
in the medieval universities was:
The marriage of the rulers who governed the two largest
states in the Iberian peninsula. - ---Answers----Spain was
established as a centralized monarchy in the fifteenth century
because of:
Giotto - ---Answers----All of the following were influenced by
the artistic legacy of the Answers EXCEPT:
The Inferno (by Dante Alighieri) - ---Answers----The text that
best demonstrates the influence of the Latin classics on the
European imagination before the Answers is:
Lucretius - ---Answers----Who could NOT have written
poetry praising the reign of Augustus Caesar?
It first received a written form during the reign of Augustus
Caesar (27 B.C.E.-14 A.D.) - ---Answers----What is NOT true
of Roman Law?
, Macedon - ---Answers----The entire Greek world was
conquered, and thus unified, for the first time by:
The Phoenician alphabet - ---Answers----The system of
writing developed in Greece after the Dark Age (c.1100-800
B.C.), was based directly on:
Duchy of Saxony - ---Answers----Which territory was NOT
part of the Angevin Empire under Henry II Plantagenet (1154-
1189)?
County of Anjou, Duchy of Normandy, Duchy of Aquitaine and
Kingdom of England - ---Answers----What territories were
part of the Angevin Empire under Henry II Plantagenet?
Answers humanists - ---Answers----What do Marsilio Ficino,
Coluccio Salutati, Lorenzo Valla and Giovanni Pico della
Mirandola have in common?
Girolamo Savonarola - ---Answers----Dominican friar who
lived in Florence at the height of the Italian Answers, but he
urged asceticism and repentance of sins rather than the
humanistic studies that the others advocated as a path to
moral improvement. Denouncing the wealthy Medici family
who supported humanism, he succeeded in having them
temporarily exiled, but he ultimately failed to reform Florence
into the ideal Christian government that he hoped; his attempt
ended in his execution as a heretical fanatic.
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
Aristotle - ---Answers----The most widely read philosopher
in the medieval universities was:
The marriage of the rulers who governed the two largest
states in the Iberian peninsula. - ---Answers----Spain was
established as a centralized monarchy in the fifteenth century
because of:
Giotto - ---Answers----All of the following were influenced by
the artistic legacy of the Answers EXCEPT:
The Inferno (by Dante Alighieri) - ---Answers----The text that
best demonstrates the influence of the Latin classics on the
European imagination before the Answers is:
Lucretius - ---Answers----Who could NOT have written
poetry praising the reign of Augustus Caesar?
It first received a written form during the reign of Augustus
Caesar (27 B.C.E.-14 A.D.) - ---Answers----What is NOT true
of Roman Law?
, Macedon - ---Answers----The entire Greek world was
conquered, and thus unified, for the first time by:
The Phoenician alphabet - ---Answers----The system of
writing developed in Greece after the Dark Age (c.1100-800
B.C.), was based directly on:
Duchy of Saxony - ---Answers----Which territory was NOT
part of the Angevin Empire under Henry II Plantagenet (1154-
1189)?
County of Anjou, Duchy of Normandy, Duchy of Aquitaine and
Kingdom of England - ---Answers----What territories were
part of the Angevin Empire under Henry II Plantagenet?
Answers humanists - ---Answers----What do Marsilio Ficino,
Coluccio Salutati, Lorenzo Valla and Giovanni Pico della
Mirandola have in common?
Girolamo Savonarola - ---Answers----Dominican friar who
lived in Florence at the height of the Italian Answers, but he
urged asceticism and repentance of sins rather than the
humanistic studies that the others advocated as a path to
moral improvement. Denouncing the wealthy Medici family
who supported humanism, he succeeded in having them
temporarily exiled, but he ultimately failed to reform Florence
into the ideal Christian government that he hoped; his attempt
ended in his execution as a heretical fanatic.
