Western Civ

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1. What Frankish king was crowned 'Emperor' in 800 AD, in a ceremony that underscored his desire to revive Roman culture in the west? Clovis Theodoric Pepin the Short Charlemagne

2. Who was both the pupil of Plato and the teacher of Alexander the Great? Aristotle Thales Socrates Aristophanes

3. Who is considered the first known monotheist? Akhenaton Jesus Moses Mohammed

4. What Pope excommunicated Emperor Henry IV, initiating a struggle between sacred and secular authority that changed the course of Western History? Innocent III John XXIII Urban II Gregory VII

5. Of the following four phases of Greek art, which was the last? Hellenistic Geometric Classical Archaic

6. What do we call a grant of land given a vassal in return for military service? a territoriale a castle a fief an homage

7. What Mesopotamian culture invented writing? Chaldean Assyrian Sumerian Babylonian

8. Who was the first Christian Roman Emperor? Marcus Aurelius Charlemagne Constantine Diocletian

9. What Greek thinker wrote 'The Elements'--the greatest mathematical text of antiquity? Aristotle Archimedes Aristarchos Euclid

10. Who emerged victorious at the Battle of Marathon? Sparta Athens Rome Carthage