HIST 111 Week 3 review sheet (20 points) (Chapters 5 and 6)

Answer the following questions (1 point each). Your textbook will be helpful. You may
either fill in this sheet, or list each answer next to its number and call the page “Week 2 review
sheet”.

The map questions are worth one point each. If you answered a map question on the
review sheet itself, your answer would read, “1. Map Letter A: The White House is located in the
city of Washington, D.C..” The same answer typed in a list would read, “1. A; Washington,
D.C.” Answer the map questions and the other questions on the review sheet or in a list.

Submit your assignment as directed under “Evaluation Procedures” in the syllabus.

1. The other major class in Rome, the Plebeians, were less privileged and often
poorer than the patricians.

2. In Rome, Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March by leading senators convinced
his death would restore the Republic.

3. After defeating Antony, who then committed suicide, Octavian attained sole power and was
named Augustus.

4. The The Aenied, by Virgil, links ancient Rome to Greece and expresses Rome’s mission to
rule the world.

5. Widespread peace under Roman rule during the first and second centuries A.D. was called the
Pax Romana.

6. During the centuries of Roman history, from Republic to Empire, the head of a family, called
Paterfamilias, experienced decreasing authority.

7. Jesus was crucified in part because he represented a challenge to the Roman authorities and to
more radical Jews.

8. The first Christian Emperor of the Roman Empire was Constantine.

9. Archaeologists call the region in which the first New World civilizations began
Mesoamerica.

10. Chinampas were agricultural plots built on swampy islands.

11. The Aztec capital was called Tenochtitlan.

12. Most of the Aztec population belonged to large kinship groups called Calpallis.

(SEE PAGE 2.)

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13. The ruined and abandoned mountain community of the Incas, which is now a major historic
site, is called Machu Picchu.

14. The Quipa was a system of knotted strings used for record-keeping in
the Incan Empire.

15. Amerindians of North America who inhabited the present-day states of Pennsylvania and
New York as well as parts of southern Canada formed a group called The League of Iroquois.

16. The Anasazi community at Chaco Canyon in present-day New Mexico featured adobe houses
known as Pueblos.

17. Map Letter A:The patricians were the aristocratic governing class in the imperial city of
Rome.

(SEE PAGE 3.)

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18. Map Letter B:When Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., it buried the nearby town of Pompeil.

19. Map Letter C: The civilization of the Maya developed in the geographical feature called
Yucatan Peninsula.

20. Map Letter D: The Mexican ceremonial site of Teotihuacan featured the Pyramid of the
Sun.