Mediterranean World of Antiquity

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1. Where are Homer's "Pillars of Herakles?" Between Spain and Morocco At the mouth of the Nile Between Italy and Greece On the eastern coast of Crete

2. Where was King Minos' palace? Syracuse, Italy Troy, Turkey Sparta, Greece Knossos, Crete

3. There is no historical evidence for the Trojan War. True False

4. According to the Bible, Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt and into ...? Libya Canaan Babylon Syria

5. Who was the first king to capture Jerusalem? Cyrus the Great Leonidas Nebuchadnezzar Xerxes

6. What was the name of the Greek naval commander who defeated Xerxes at the Battle of Salamis? Miletus Pericles Themistocles Leonidas

7. Where did Alexander the Great die? Olympias Babylon Antioch In the Indus River Valley

8. Who was Rome's opponent in the Punic Wars? Germanic Tribes Greece Carthage Persia

9. Augustus Caesar demanded that his subjects worship him as a divinity. True False

10. Who wrote the Aeneid? Horace Virgil Cicero Homer