Semester 1 Global Connection Final

Question 1

What is the term for excellence, honor, fame, and courage in Ancient Greece?

Accepted Answer

arete

Question 2

How did Sumerians solve farming problems?

Accepted Answer

irrigation

Question 3

What are behaviors that are so terrible that they are unthinkable?

Accepted Answer

taboo

Question 4

What is a patrician?

Accepted Answer

a member of the privledged, upper class

Question 5

What did Socrates teach his students to do?

Accepted Answer

to ask questions

Question 6

What is a plebian?

Accepted Answer

an ordinary citizen in the ancient Roman republic

Question 7

Roman Senators were usually chosen from what group of people?

Accepted Answer

patricians

Question 8

What is the 207 year period of peace in Ancient Rome?

Accepted Answer

Pax Romana

Question 9

What are the norms deemed highly necessary to society and crimes?

Accepted Answer

Mores

Question 10

What are informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequences?

Accepted Answer

Folkway

Question 11

Why did city-states occur in Greece?

Accepted Answer

rugged mountains

Question 12

What was the type of government of the Roman Republic?

Accepted Answer

citizens with the right to vote chose the leaders

Question 13

Who believed it was better to be feared than loved?

Accepted Answer

Machiavelli

Question 14

What is the story that teaches individuals to educate people who are reluctant to learn?

Accepted Answer

Allegory of the Cave

Question 15

What is the spread of cultural elements from one society to another?

Accepted Answer

Cultural Diffusion

Question 16

Why was Julius Caesar assassinated?

Accepted Answer

the Senate feared his power and popularity

Question 17

What was one of Greece's contributions to Western Civilization?

Accepted Answer

architecture

Question 18

What is the belief of being reborn until one reaches enlightenment?

Accepted Answer

reincarnation

Question 19

Which of the following are not one of the 3 values of the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

art

Question 20

What was the main idea of Plato's allegory, The Ring?

Accepted Answer

humans are naturally evil and selfish

Question 21

What is the term used for the "total way of life of a group of people"?

Accepted Answer

culture

Question 22

All of the following are ways the printing press was such an important invention except....

Accepted Answer

people were very angry they no longer could be copyists

Question 23

What was Athen's type of government?

Accepted Answer

democracy

Question 24

What is the belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group?

Accepted Answer

Ethnocentrism

Question 25

What are the 3 values of the Middle Ages?

Accepted Answer

God, Survival, & Protection

Question 26

What is a government in which power is in the hands of nobility (usually wealthy)?

Accepted Answer

aristocracy

Question 27

What is one major similarity between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?

Accepted Answer

all are monotheistic

Question 28

What is the code that believed in an "eye for an eye"?

Accepted Answer

Hammurabi's Code

Question 29

Which is not one of the 5 Pillars of Islam?

Accepted Answer

Feasting

Question 30

What is the meaning of the word Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

rebirth

Semester 1 Global Connection Final

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Semester 1 Global Connection Final

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