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Humanities 251 Exam Prep Fall 2013
Part I: provide the missing information. One (1) point each, one minute each.
1. Peloponnesian War:
2. The historical battle of Troy:
3. Homer’s Illiad written to form:
4. thought water the essential ingredient of universe:
5. thought fire the essential ingredient:
6. That heated slime the essential ingredient:
7. Artaphernes:
8. Organized Attica in demes, thirds, and tribes:
9. Athens embraces full citizenship and fights for it:
10. Classical period dates:
11. Hellenistic period dates:
12. Three archaic period characteristics:
13. Cleisthenes
14. Leonidas:
15. Socrates dies and why:
16. Solon gives Athens a Democratic Constitution:
17. Lycurgus gives Sparta a Militarist Constitution:
18. Greek Goddess of Virginity, the Hunt, and the Moon:
19. Greek Goddess of grains and fields:
20. Greek God of War:
21. With whom were the Melians allied?
22. Which group in the Melian dialogue believed that hope was a luxury only the powerful could
afford?
23. Who was Menelaus?
24. Battle of Marathon fought?
25. In the Illiad, Hector’s son was afraid of what object:
Dates and Themes Part II: The Romans
26. Mythic Founding Date of Rome:
27. Fall of Western Rome
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Fall of Eastern Rome (Constantinople)
Promulgation of the 12 Tables
Punic Wars: 264-201
Destruction of Carthage, Africa and Greece become Roman Provinces: 146 BCE
First Triumvirate: 60 BCE: Pompey, Caesar, Crassus
Caesar’s Conquest of Gaul: 58-49 BCE
Battle of Pharsalus: Caesar defeats Pompey the Great in Greece, meets Cleopatra.
Caesar Sole Dictator of Rome: 46-44 BCE (assassinated March 15th-the Ides of March)
Second Triumvirate: 43 BCE Antony, Lepidus, Octavian
Battle of Actium, won by Octavian against Antony and Cleopatra
Octavian Augustus Caesar rules, the Pax Romana: 27 BCE-14 CE
Rome adopts Christianity
Propertius Elegies: (50-15 BCE, Elegies 29 BCE)
Tacitus Germania: Germania published 98 BCE
Suppression of Paganism, Christianity made state Religion: 392 CE
Vandals, Goths, Visigoths, Germanic Hordes invade 409-455 CE
Last Legionaire leaves the British isles 410 CE
Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor and its significance
Rome adopted Christianity this date and two reasons why
Western Rome falls this date
Name of Medea’s husband
Attila the Hun sweeps into Northern Europe and its effect
Clovis, King of the Franks, baptized
Ceasar defeats Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus
Octavian Augustus Caesar’s reign, referred to as the Pax Romana
Two contributions to the West made by Roman culture
Caesar defeats the Gauls
Name of Caesar’s German opponent in Gaul
Battle of Actium.
Eastern Rome falls this date, and to whom?
Caesar killed in the forum
Century in which Christianity and the West awoke
Gregory the Great sends Christian missionaries into Western Europe from Rome this century
What is a comitatus? How does it work?
What is mead?
Hellenistic period
Thought heated slime the primary substance
Parable of the Sparrow
800 CE, Christmas Day
Three adversaries of Beowulf
Sister Wife of Head of the Gods in Roman and Greek
Intellectual Goddess, Roman and Greek
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Goddess of Love, Roman and Greek
Head of the Gods, Roman and Greek
German weakness, according to Tacitus
Achilles and the Tortoise
Xenophanes’ rhetorical question
Wiglaf
Why the Dragon awakened in Beowulf
Unferth
Breca
Heorot
Illiad written:
Twelve tables the rule of law.
Punic Wars.
Hubris
Catharsis
Hamartia
Characteristics of archaic Greek statuary.
Grendel the spawn of whom?
contrapposto.
King of the Geats.
King of the Danes.
Beowulf’s Lord or King.
Year 1000 importance
490 BCE Darius and Persia defeated at Marathon. Democracy saved.
480. Xerxes leads second invasion; Thermopylae, sack of Athens, but complete loss in Naval
Battle of Salamis. War ends 479 BCE. Plataea
95. 431---404 BCE. Peloponnesian War ends with fall of Athens.
96. 146 BCE. Romans sack Corinth, Greece becomes Roman province.
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Mythical founding date of Rome
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Part II. Geography of the Ancient world: Identify places or bodies of water by name.
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Image Identification: Identify Period, dates for Period, and three distinct traits that confirm your
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Part IV Essay Questions
1. The Illiad, Medea, Caesar’s Gallic Wars, and Tacitus’ Germania tell the story of men at war, or of
cultures dominated by warring men. But there are also several women in the books. Based on
those whom we have met, what are the varied roles of women within the community of these
ancient Greeks, Romans, and Germans? How did those roles change over time and space, and
how do they differ from one another, and from the roles of women in contemporary American
society? What do you make of what has remained the same, and of what has so changed? What
are your predictions for the future role of women in American society, given its Greco-RomanGermanic past?
2. The Germanic peoples lived by a strict set of laws or cultural codes. In the literature, we see the
heroes judged in relation to what has come to be referred to as the Heroic Code for behavior.
Identify at least three aspects of this Heroic Code as you find evidence for them in Gallic Wars,
Germania, and Beowulf. Further, compare and contrast these character traits to generic traits
for both the Roman understanding of the heroic code, and our own understanding of Heroic
behavior for men and women today, living in the 21st century, in Minot, as you see them.
Speculate about the significance of what has changed, and what has remained the same. What
is more, as a culture that is always in the process of rewriting codes, where are we headed in
our future understanding of the heroic code? Be thoughtful, specific, and organized in your
response.