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Western Civilization Professor Orens REVIEW QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST, GREECE, ROME, CHRISTIANITY, AND THE MIDDLE AGES You will find the answers to these questions in your class notes, the textbook, and the Primary Sources.

1. How does the the story of Gilgamesh end?
2. What happened to Osiris after he was murdered?
3. How did Akhenaten try to reform the religion of Egypt?
4. What is the Hebrew name for God and what does that name mean?
5. What did the Greeks believe was the most important difference between themselves and barbarians?
6. Who were the principal rivals in the Peloponnesian War and who was the victor?
7. What were the alleged crimes for which Socrates was condemned to death?
8. What did Plato believe is ultimately real?
9. Who did Plato believe should control the government and what reasons did he give for his opinion?
10. What did Aristotle believe is the distinguishing characteristic of true forms of government?
11. According to Aristotle, who is usually best suited to control the government and why?
12. Against what powerful state did Alexander the Great lead the Greeks in a victorious campaign? What happened to Alexander’s empire after his death?
13. What were the principal differences between the Epicurean and Stoic conceptions of the good life?
14. How did Epictetus advise people to respond to the death of their loved ones?
15. According to Cicero, what virtues did the Epicureans emphasize?
16. What political role did patricians and plebeians play in the early days of the Roman republic?
17. What were the Punic Wars and what was their outcome?
18. Why was Julius Caesar assassinated?
19. Who was Augustus and what did his titles princeps and imperator mean?
20. What do the words “messiah” and “Christ” literally mean?
21. In the Sermon on the Mount, whom did Jesus call blessed and how did he tell his disciples to treat others?
22. What was the alleged crime for which the Romans crucified Jesus?
23. What did Paul do that helped spread the Christian faith?
24. What drew people in the Roman Empire to the Christian faith?
25. Why did the Roman authorities persecute the Church?
26. Who was the first emperor to grant Christians religious toleration? Which emperor outlawed the pagan religions of the empire?

27. What were the principle reasons for the decline and fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe?

28. Who was Charlemagne and what title did the pope bestow on him?

29. What was the reason for the dispute between Henry II and Thomas Becket? What was the investiture controversy between Henry IV and Gregory VII about?

30. What were the obligations of lords and vassals to one another? What were the obligations of lords and serfs, to one another?

31. According to the textbook, what was the most important principle of Magna Carta?

32. How did Bernard of Clairvaux distinguish between the new chivalry from ordinary chivalry?

33. According to Thomas Aquinas and other scholastic philosophers, how could people discover the truth about the world and about God? Why did Thomas believe that there are some truths about God that reason by itself cannot attain?

34. Why was the Mass so important to medieval Christians?

35. What did Julian of Norwich believe was the most important truth that her mystical experiences revealed about God?