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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: The Sun Worshipers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to the region of city-states in ancient Mesopotamia?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Sumeria.
(c) Lemuria.
(d) Indochina.

2. The reawakening of interest in the cosmos was sparked by the age of exploration, beginning with whose travels to China in the thirteenth century?
(a) Eudoxus'.
(b) Claudius Ptolemy's.
(c) Marco Polo's.
(d) Plato's.

3. The decline of Rome occurred over a period of four centuries, culminating in what year, when Romulus Augustus, the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, was deposed by Odoacer?
(a) 90 A.D.
(b) 476 A.D.
(c) 12 B.C.
(d) 123 A.D.

4. Copernicus studied the great astronomers, and particularly admired whom?
(a) Aristarchus.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Claudius Ptolemy.
(d) Archimedes.

5. Eudoxus went on to establish his own observatory where?
(a) The Nile.
(b) Athens.
(c) China.
(d) Alexandria.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Aristotle born?

2. Aristotle created a model of the universe based on whose work?

3. Approximately when was Eudoxus of Cnidus born?

4. When was Isaac Newton born?

5. When was Galileo Galilei born?

(see the answer key)

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