World History Midterm Study Guide (1-3)

Module 1

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Why were the Twelve Tables important for Rome?

• They allowed rulers to interpret laws for their own benefit.

• They established a process for foreigners to become citizens.

• They helped ensure that the protection of law was extended to any free citizen.

• They outlined how the different branches of government were organized

In what ways was the democracy in ancient Athens (Greece) limited?

• All children were citizens

• Only free adult males could be citizens

• Females were citizens

Which statement is not true?

• In ancient Greece, citizens directly participated in government

• In ancient Greece, citizens could propose laws to be debated and passed.

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  In ancient Greece, citizens elected leaders who then made the laws and governed.

• In ancient Rome, citizens elected leaders who then made the laws and governed.

Rome developed the theory of democracy. (True or False)

Which is not a type of government:

• Monarchy

• Aristocracy

• Aristocracy

•   Magna Carta

• Democracy

In ancient Athens, jurors were selected by:

•   Randomly selecting names from a basket

•   Interviewing potential jurors and then selecting them

What did Judaism contribute to democracy?

•   Due process

•   Church reform

• Laws

•   Charitable donations

What did Islam contribute to democracy? (select all that apply)

•   individual worth

•   equality of all persons

•   Tolerance of others

•   Reformed churches

What did Christianity contribute to democracy?

• Laws

•   Theory that people are equal

•   Charitable donations

•   Due process