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PARTICIPATION ASSIGNMENT
WESTERN CIVILIZATION I, Tyson
CHAPTER 1
EARLIEST HUMAN SOCIETIES
With what life events did ancient peoples associate with gods?
1.
2.
3.
4.
CIVILIZATIONS IN MESOPOTAMIA
For what groups did Sumerian scribes keep records?
1.
2.
3.
EGYPTIANS
What periods marked Egypt’s calendar?
1.
2.
3.
What items did Djed-amon-iu-ankh offer Ra?
1.
2.
2
CHAPTER 2
IRON AND EMERGENCE OF NEW STATES
What did Phoenicians establish along coastline?
1.
2.
What independent Nubian kingdom became powerful?
Who were Lebanon’s “purple people”?
HEBREWS
What is Judaism’s primary legal and ethical text?
What term signifies Jewish dietary laws?
ASSYRIA, MILITARY MONARCHY
Why was Assyria militarily successful?
1.
2.
EMPIRE OF PERSIAN KINGS
What Zoroastrian deities battle for humanity?
1.
2.
What Persian administrators controlled local governments?
3
CHAPTER 3
GREECE IN THE BRONZE AGE
What mythical king lived on Crete?
What were ancient Greece’s fundamental epics?
1.
2.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE POLIS IN THE ARCHAIC AGE
What were Greece’s primary city-states?
1.
2.
What term stresses rule by a few individuals?
What immediate actions did Solon take when elected?
1.
2.
3.
4.
CLASSICAL GREEK LIFE AND CULTURE
What are Plato’s two worlds?
1.
2.
4
CHAPTER 4
BUILDING A HELLENIZED SOCIETY
How was a Hellenized city limited?
1.
2.
3.
4.
What term indicates the spread of Greekness?
ECONOMY OF THE HELLENISTIC WORLD
What did Persian wealth finance?
1.
2.
3.
What products did Greek cities export?
1.
2.
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE HELLENISTIC WORLD
What Greek philosophy stressed contentment and pleasure?
What Greek philosophy stressed unity with man and nature?
What law did Zeno believe governed all humanity?
5
CHAPTER 5
ROMAN REPUBLIC
What eventually happened to debtors?
1.
2.
ROMAN EXPANSION
What did Sallust believe caused evil?
1.
2.
ROMAN SOCIETY
What negative habits did Hellenism encourage?
1.
2.
Why did entertainers move to Rome?
1.
2.
LATE REPUBLIC
Who were Sulla’s political heirs?
1.
2.
3.
6
CHAPTER 6
AUGUSTUS’ REIGN
On what objects did Augustus put his image?
1.
2.
Where does Ovid say a young man can meet women?
1.
2.
3.
AUGUSTUS’ SUCCESSORS
What did Hadrian’s Wall help regulate?
1.
2.
ROME AND ITS PROVINCES
What goods did Rome provide citizens?
1.
2.
3.
What did an aqueduct rely on for strength?
1.
2.
7
CHAPTER 7
BARBARIAN SOCIETY
Whom did a father have authority over?
1.
2.
3.
MIGRATION, ASSIMILATION, AND CONFLICT
What groups invaded Briton?
1.
2.
BYZANTINE EMPIRE
How did Eastern monasticism differ from Saint Benedict’s Rule?
1.
2.
What seas did Constantinople border?
1.
2.
How did Justinian improve a woman’s legal status?
1.
2.
8
CHAPTER 8
SPREAD OF ISLAM
What is Islam’s sacred book?
What are Islam’s holiest sites?
1.
2.
3.
What architectural styles influenced Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock?
1.
2.
INVASIONS AND MIGRATIONS
From where did Vikings obtain slaves [thralls]?
1.
2.
What groups increased disorder and violence?
1.
2.
3.
What was the purpose of Viking carvings?
1.
2.
9
CHAPTER 9
POLITICAL REVIVAL AND ORIGINS OF THE MODERN STATE
What does the Bayeux Tapestry reveal about Norman and Anglo-Saxons?
1.
2.
3.
LAW AND JUSTICE
What crimes/ acts led to banishment?
1.
2.
3.
PAPACY
What medieval groups consolidated power?
1.
2.
3.
MONKS, NUNS, AND FRIARS
What did Pope Boniface VIII consider the Church’s “swords”?
1.
2.
10
CHAPTER 10
VILLAGE LIFE
Who decided what to plant using an open-field system?
TOWNS AND ECONOMIC REVIVAL
What difficulties did European merchants confront?
1.
2.
What were key features of Lubeck, Germany?
1.
2.
3.
MEDIEVAL UNIVERSITIES
What religious questions did Summa Theologica address?
1.
2.
3.
LITERATURE AND ARCHITECTURE
What did Thomas Aquinas believe philosophy proved?
1.
2.
11
CHAPTER 11
PRELUDE TO DISASTER
On what groups did starving people focus their anger?
1.
2.
3.
HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR
What countries fought for French kingship?
1.
2.
What Hundred Years’ War armor gave knights greater mobility?
1.
2.
SOCIAL UNREST IN A CHANGING SOCIETY
How did Meister Eckhart believe one reached union with God?
1.
2.
What European countries experienced revolts during the 14th Century?
1.
2.
12
CHAPTER 12
WEALTH AND POWER IN RENAISSANCE ITALY
What banking family effectively ruled Florence?
INTELLECTUAL CHANGE
In what were 15th Century Florentine humanists interested?
1.
2.
What themes run through Erasmus’ work?
1.
2.
What are Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings?
1.
2.
Who was the first “Renaissance Man”?
Who was the primary Renaissance political theorist?
What humanist work described an ideal society?
ART AND THE ARTIST
What Renaissance sculpture depicts an idealized human form?
POLITICS AND STATE IN WESTERN EUROPE
What marriage united most of Spain?
13
CHAPTER 13
EARLY REFORMATION
In what languages was Luther’s 95 Theses initially published?
1.
2.
What spread Protestant ideas throughout Germany?
1.
2.
What religious practice did Luther criticized openly?
What did Protestant leaders believe remedied lust?
REFORMATION AND GERMAN POLITICS
What 16th Century Spaniard was Europe’s most powerful ruler?
SPREAD OF PROTESTANT IDEAS
What Geneva establishments closed during church services?
What Tudor Queen sought a middle course between Catholicism and Puritanism?
What prevented Philip II from restoring English Catholicism?
What city exemplified John Calvin’s ideal Christian society?
CATHOLIC REFORMATION
What Catholic work established a program for structured meditation?
14
CHAPTER 14
WORLD CONTACT BEFORE COLUMBUS
What were Mali’s primary trading goods?
1.
2.
What Italian cities were trade rivals?
1.
2.
EUROPEAN VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY
Why did men join an overseas expedition?
1.
2.
3.
What navigation devices help plot an accurate sea route?
1.
2.
What weakened the Inca Empire?
1.
2.
EUROPE AND WORLD AFTER COLUMBUS
What was the most important New World plantation crop?

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PARTICIPATION ASSIGNMENT
WESTERN CIVILIZATION I, Tyson
CHAPTER 1
EARLIEST HUMAN SOCIETIES
With what life events did ancient peoples associate with gods?
1.
2.
3.
4.
CIVILIZATIONS IN MESOPOTAMIA
For what groups did Sumerian scribes keep records?
1.
2.
3.
EGYPTIANS
What periods marked Egypt’s calendar?
1.
2.
3.
What items did Djed-amon-iu-ankh offer Ra?
1.
2.
2
CHAPTER 2
IRON AND EMERGENCE OF NEW STATES
What did Phoenicians establish along coastline?
1.
2.
What independent Nubian kingdom became powerful?
Who were Lebanon’s “purple people”?
HEBREWS
What is Judaism’s primary legal and ethical text?
What term signifies Jewish dietary laws?
ASSYRIA, MILITARY MONARCHY
Why was Assyria militarily successful?
1.
2.
EMPIRE OF PERSIAN KINGS
What Zoroastrian deities battle for humanity?
1.
2.
What Persian administrators controlled local governments?
3
CHAPTER 3
GREECE IN THE BRONZE AGE
What mythical king lived on Crete?
What were ancient Greece’s fundamental epics?
1.
2.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE POLIS IN THE ARCHAIC AGE
What were Greece’s primary city-states?
1.
2.
What term stresses rule by a few individuals?
What immediate actions did Solon take when elected?
1.
2.
3.
4.
CLASSICAL GREEK LIFE AND CULTURE
What are Plato’s two worlds?
1.
2.
4
CHAPTER 4
BUILDING A HELLENIZED SOCIETY
How was a Hellenized city limited?
1.
2.
3.
4.
What term indicates the spread of Greekness?
ECONOMY OF THE HELLENISTIC WORLD
What did Persian wealth finance?
1.
2.
3.
What products did Greek cities export?
1.
2.
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE HELLENISTIC WORLD
What Greek philosophy stressed contentment and pleasure?
What Greek philosophy stressed unity with man and nature?
What law did Zeno believe governed all humanity?
5
CHAPTER 5
ROMAN REPUBLIC
What eventually happened to debtors?
1.
2.
ROMAN EXPANSION
What did Sallust believe caused evil?
1.
2.
ROMAN SOCIETY
What negative habits did Hellenism encourage?
1.
2.
Why did entertainers move to Rome?
1.
2.
LATE REPUBLIC
Who were Sulla’s political heirs?
1.
2.
3.
6
CHAPTER 6
AUGUSTUS’ REIGN
On what objects did Augustus put his image?
1.
2.
Where does Ovid say a young man can meet women?
1.
2.
3.
AUGUSTUS’ SUCCESSORS
What did Hadrian’s Wall help regulate?
1.
2.
ROME AND ITS PROVINCES
What goods did Rome provide citizens?
1.
2.
3.
What did an aqueduct rely on for strength?
1.
2.
7
CHAPTER 7
BARBARIAN SOCIETY
Whom did a father have authority over?
1.
2.
3.
MIGRATION, ASSIMILATION, AND CONFLICT
What groups invaded Briton?
1.
2.
BYZANTINE EMPIRE
How did Eastern monasticism differ from Saint Benedict’s Rule?
1.
2.
What seas did Constantinople border?
1.
2.
How did Justinian improve a woman’s legal status?
1.
2.
8
CHAPTER 8
SPREAD OF ISLAM
What is Islam’s sacred book?
What are Islam’s holiest sites?
1.
2.
3.
What architectural styles influenced Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock?
1.
2.
INVASIONS AND MIGRATIONS
From where did Vikings obtain slaves [thralls]?
1.
2.
What groups increased disorder and violence?
1.
2.
3.
What was the purpose of Viking carvings?
1.
2.
9
CHAPTER 9
POLITICAL REVIVAL AND ORIGINS OF THE MODERN STATE
What does the Bayeux Tapestry reveal about Norman and Anglo-Saxons?
1.
2.
3.
LAW AND JUSTICE
What crimes/ acts led to banishment?
1.
2.
3.
PAPACY
What medieval groups consolidated power?
1.
2.
3.
MONKS, NUNS, AND FRIARS
What did Pope Boniface VIII consider the Church’s “swords”?
1.
2.
10
CHAPTER 10
VILLAGE LIFE
Who decided what to plant using an open-field system?
TOWNS AND ECONOMIC REVIVAL
What difficulties did European merchants confront?
1.
2.
What were key features of Lubeck, Germany?
1.
2.
3.
MEDIEVAL UNIVERSITIES
What religious questions did Summa Theologica address?
1.
2.
3.
LITERATURE AND ARCHITECTURE
What did Thomas Aquinas believe philosophy proved?
1.
2.
11
CHAPTER 11
PRELUDE TO DISASTER
On what groups did starving people focus their anger?
1.
2.
3.
HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR
What countries fought for French kingship?
1.
2.
What Hundred Years’ War armor gave knights greater mobility?
1.
2.
SOCIAL UNREST IN A CHANGING SOCIETY
How did Meister Eckhart believe one reached union with God?
1.
2.
What European countries experienced revolts during the 14th Century?
1.
2.
12
CHAPTER 12
WEALTH AND POWER IN RENAISSANCE ITALY
What banking family effectively ruled Florence?
INTELLECTUAL CHANGE
In what were 15th Century Florentine humanists interested?
1.
2.
What themes run through Erasmus’ work?
1.
2.
What are Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings?
1.
2.
Who was the first “Renaissance Man”?
Who was the primary Renaissance political theorist?
What humanist work described an ideal society?
ART AND THE ARTIST
What Renaissance sculpture depicts an idealized human form?
POLITICS AND STATE IN WESTERN EUROPE
What marriage united most of Spain?
13
CHAPTER 13
EARLY REFORMATION
In what languages was Luther’s 95 Theses initially published?
1.
2.
What spread Protestant ideas throughout Germany?
1.
2.
What religious practice did Luther criticized openly?
What did Protestant leaders believe remedied lust?
REFORMATION AND GERMAN POLITICS
What 16th Century Spaniard was Europe’s most powerful ruler?
SPREAD OF PROTESTANT IDEAS
What Geneva establishments closed during church services?
What Tudor Queen sought a middle course between Catholicism and Puritanism?
What prevented Philip II from restoring English Catholicism?
What city exemplified John Calvin’s ideal Christian society?
CATHOLIC REFORMATION
What Catholic work established a program for structured meditation?
14
CHAPTER 14
WORLD CONTACT BEFORE COLUMBUS
What were Mali’s primary trading goods?
1.
2.
What Italian cities were trade rivals?
1.
2.
EUROPEAN VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY
Why did men join an overseas expedition?
1.
2.
3.
What navigation devices help plot an accurate sea route?
1.
2.
What weakened the Inca Empire?
1.
2.
EUROPE AND WORLD AFTER COLUMBUS
What was the most important New World plantation crop?