1. Which of the following statements describes the new class that arises?
(a) It is more powerful than the aristocracy.
(b) It is not dependent on the aristocracy.
(c) It is a new aristocracy.
(d) It is dependent on the aristocracy.

2. Among the Tupinamba, why does the slave exist?
(a) To provide an income for the slave master.
(b) For the honor and dignity of the slave master.
(c) To be a family member for the slave master.
(d) For protecting the slave master's family.

3. How is the cult of Christianity similar to other cults of the time?
(a) It is polytheistic.
(b) It preaches the coming of the apocalypse.
(c) It is monotheistic.
(d) It contains a savior.

4. Freedom becomes associated with what in the minds of the populace?
(a) Victory over the Persians.
(b) Pesonal freedom.
(c) Sovereignal freedom.
(d) Civic freedom.

5. With _____________ freedom, the individual is not dominated by another human.
(a) Social.
(b) Personal.
(c) Sovereignal.
(d) Formal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a second factor have to do with, which Patterson sees as "a strategic class error" (p. 65) because it results in a standard against which things can be measured?

2. Augustus uses his sovereignal power for the______ of the populace.

3. The financial welfare of the slaveholder is now becoming dependent on what?

4. He extols the virtue of the ruler as what for the populace?

5. Who did the women confined to home have for company?

(see the answer key)

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