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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Society's economic infrastructure consists of what, in addition to larger landholder farms?

2. In earlier cultures, what was ultimately done with the captive slave?

3. What does the slave want?

4. The whole fabric of society exists around and is dependent on what?

5. On what is there greater reliance to produce the necessary revenues?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the role of slaves in this society?

2. How does Patterson view the development of freedom as a social value?

3. What is slavery? What is a slave-dominated society like?

4. Describe one group of intellectuals.

5. What is the importance of the significance on the development of freedom as a social value?

6. What do light and darkness symbolize used by the Greek dramatist?

7. The contemporaneous development of slavery and the concept of freedom characterize ancient Athens and Greece. How does Patterson again use Greek drama to support this point?

8. Describe the slavery issue in the South Pacific.

9. What does the Peloponnesian War do to Athens and Greece?

10. What are the living conditions of women?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The development of freedom as a social value can be traced to five revolutions that occurred in Athens.

Part 1) Describe these five revolutions. Why did they take place?

Part 2) How did these revolutions affect the countries and city-states surrounding the revolutions? How do they affect U.S. policies today?

Part 3) What would our society be like if these revolutions had never taken place?

Essay Topic 2

Three schools exist among Hellenistic thinkers.

Part 1) Who are Hellenistic thinkers? What are the three schools?

Part 2) How did these schools come about? What is the significance of these three schools?

Part 3) How have these schools been used and altered by various societies after the Hellenistic Period?

Essay Topic 3

By medieval times, Europe makes the transition from slavery to serfdom.

Part 1) Compare slavery to serfdom. Why does the end of the Roman Empire not end slavery?

Part 2) Why do historians down play the role of freedom during this period of time?

Part 3) Who controls freedom at this time? How do people at this time think of freedom? Why?

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