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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. How does Greek society hold women?

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

3. To what does this lead?

4. By whom is society transformed?

5. In this type of freedom, an individual can do what he wants without the constraint of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the schools of thought among Hellenistic thinkers?

2. What are Patterson's three components of freedom?

3. 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?

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

5. What is the importance of Greek religion on freedom?

6. What does Plato say about the soul?

7. Describe the Imbangala people of Africa, regarding slavery.

8. From what do personal freedom and civic freedom awareness result?

9. Describe the slavery issue in the South Pacific.

10. What does the effect of the Peloponnesian War on Athens and Greece affect slavery?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As Europe emerges from the Middle Ages, there are similarities and, yet, conflicts between church and state.

Part 1) What are the similarities bet church and state? Why are the church and state in conflict?

Part 2) How is this conflict settled? How effective is this? Explain.

Part 3) How has conflict continued into modern times? How is this conflict handled today? Why is it handled this way?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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