HISTORY V101

Dr. Powers

Sample Test

20 points

I. IDENTIFY AND GIVE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF FIVE (5) OF THE

FOLLOWING TERMS:

Hammurabi Paterfamilias

Pericles Sargon of Akkad

Akhenaten Cuneiform

Ahriman Marathon

Hesiod Archilochus

(5 points)

II. ANSWER ONE OF THE FOLLOWING ESSAY QUESTIONS, REVEALING IN

YOUR ANSWER YOUR MASTERY OF RELEVANT DETAIL:

A. Compare the effects of the environment on the development

of the civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia.

B. Trace the transformation of Rome from republic to empire.

C. Assert an Epicurian answer to the question "How should

man live?" Support your answer, then defend it from an

attack likely to be launched at it by a Platonist.

(5 points)

III. Explain and account for the "Fall of Rome." Make your thesis

clear and support it with relevant historical and

historiographical detail.

(10 points)

EXTRA CREDIT: Real executive power in Sparta was in the hands of five overseers elected from and by all the citizens. What were these five called?

(1 point)