Deck 1: The Wider World of Early Rome: Cultural Encounters

Question 1

Described by the geographer Strabo as "the wisest of the Iberians," the ______ inherited the Tartessian culture in ancient Spain.

A) Nabataeans
B) Sarmatians
C) Garamantes
D) Turdetani

Answer 1

D

Question 2

In around 300 BCE, a Greek sailor named ______ sailed up the Atlantic coast from Marseille as far as Britain, and, among other things, was the first Greek known to connect the tides with the motion of the moon.

A) Pytheas
B) Herodotus
C) Hippocrates
D) Pythagoras

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The ______ were a largely peaceful agricultural people who developed systems and strategies for living in Saharan desert landscapes that saw little rain.

A) Garamantes
B) Parthians
C) Scythians
D) Carthaginians

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The two chief divinities in the Carthaginian pantheon were a divine couple named ______.

A) Melqart and Tophet
B) Tanit and Tophet
C) Tanit and Ba'al Hammon
D) Ba'al Hammon and Melqart

Question 5

The ______ Age is defined as the period following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE through 31 BCE.

A) Hellenistic
B) Bronze
C) Archaic
D) Dark

Question 6

The center of Ptolemaic power was ______.

A) Anatolia
B) Rhodes
C) Egypt
D) Macedonia

Question 7

The most heterogeneous of the states that emerged after the death of Alexander the Great stretched from Anatolia in the west to the borders of India in the east, and was controlled by the ______ Dynasty.

A) Antigonid
B) Ptolemaic
C) Macedonian
D) Seleucid

Question 8

Petra was the capital city of the ______.

A) Jews
B) Nabataeans
C) Scythians
D) Sarmatians

Question 9

The Greeks generally regarded the Scythians as bloodthirsty and barbaric, but the Scythian philosopher ______ was numbered among the Seven Wise Men of the Greek world.

A) Antigonus
B) Mago
C) Judah
D) Anacharsis

Question 10

The "Silk Road" was a four-thousand-mile long trade route that connected ______, and went on from there to Syria.

A) Persia to Italy
B) China to Parthia
C) India to Italy
D) Persia to Greece

Question 11

Celtic warfare was strongly influenced by Greek tactics, in which tight, disciplined ranks of heavily armored men advanced together towards the enemy.

Question 12

Through its trade networks and the exploitation of its own considerable natural resources, Carthage became the most prosperous city in the ancient world.

Question 13

Antigonus I Monophthalmos' undermining of Jewish practices, including the notorious "abomination of desolation" in the Temple in Jerusalem, precipitated the successful revolt against him in 165 BCE and the liberation of Jerusalem.

Question 14

The wealth of the Scythians is attested by the variety of golden artifacts discovered by archaeologists.

Question 15

The most effective part of the Parthian army was its cavalry.