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? Charlemagne Pepin the Short Clovis Theodoric

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

3. Who is considered the first known monotheist? Moses Akhenaton Jesus 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 Gregory VII Urban II John XXIII

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

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

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

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? Euclid Aristarchos Aristotle Archimedes

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