Star Play | Cosmos and Chronology

#1. Where did the system of Western astrology first originate around 500 B.C.E.?

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Babylon

Ancient Greece

Ancient China

#2. What ancient civilization is home to the Dendera Zodiac, the earliest known map of zodiac signs dating to the first century B.C.?

Rome

Mesopotamia

Egypt

Persia

#3. How did ancient Babylonians divide the path of the sun (the ecliptic) in the sky?

Into 4 elemental sectors

Into 12 equal segments

Into 36 lunar mansions

Into 7 planetary houses

#4. Astronomy and astrology were considered the same scientific and philosophical discipline for much of ancient and medieval history until?

The fall of the Roman Empire and the subsequent destruction of the Library of Alexandria.

The Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries

The introduction of the Gregorian calendar reform by the Catholic Church in 1582

The discovery of the telescope by Galileo Galilei

#5. Which famous Renaissance scientist and astronomer also cast horoscopes and practiced astrology?

Isaac Newton

Galileo Galilei (Kepler also practiced astrology to earn a living.)

Nicolaus Copernicus

Johannes Kepler

#6. Who was the first Pope in history to draw and interpret a personal horoscope?

Pope Gregory XIII

Pope Sixtus IV

Pope Leo X

Pope Julius II

#7. In ancient times, how many classical planets (including the Sun and Moon) were tracked by early astrologers as moving “wanderers”?

5

7

9

12

#8. Which monumental English writer frequently referenced astrological portents and planetary influences in plays like King Lear and Julius Caesar?

Geoffrey Chaucer

Dante Alighieri

William Shakespeare

Christopher Marlowe

#9. During which historical era did the popularity of printed almanacs and personal horoscopes experience a massive resurgence in Europe?

The Renaissance

The Middle Ages

The Early Bronze Age

The Industrial Revolution

#10. What major cultural shift in the 17th and 18th centuries caused astrology to separate from academic science and lose official university standing?

The invention of the printing press

The Scientific Revolution

The fall of the Roman Empire

The discovery of the Americas

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#1. Where did the system of Western astrology first originate around 500 B.C.E.?

#2. What ancient civilization is home to the Dendera Zodiac, the earliest known map of zodiac signs dating to the first century B.C.?

#3. How did ancient Babylonians divide the path of the sun (the ecliptic) in the sky?

#4. Astronomy and astrology were considered the same scientific and philosophical discipline for much of ancient and medieval history until?

#5. Which famous Renaissance scientist and astronomer also cast horoscopes and practiced astrology?

#6. Who was the first Pope in history to draw and interpret a personal horoscope?

#7. In ancient times, how many classical planets (including the Sun and Moon) were tracked by early astrologers as moving “wanderers”?

#8. Which monumental English writer frequently referenced astrological portents and planetary influences in plays like King Lear and Julius Caesar?

#9. During which historical era did the popularity of printed almanacs and personal horoscopes experience a massive resurgence in Europe?

#10. What major cultural shift in the 17th and 18th centuries caused astrology to separate from academic science and lose official university standing?

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#1. Where did the system of Western astrology first originate around 500 B.C.E.?

#2. What ancient civilization is home to the Dendera Zodiac, the earliest known map of zodiac signs dating to the first century B.C.?

#3. How did ancient Babylonians divide the path of the sun (the ecliptic) in the sky?

#4. Astronomy and astrology were considered the same scientific and philosophical discipline for much of ancient and medieval history until?

#5. Which famous Renaissance scientist and astronomer also cast horoscopes and practiced astrology?

#6. Who was the first Pope in history to draw and interpret a personal horoscope?

#7. In ancient times, how many classical planets (including the Sun and Moon) were tracked by early astrologers as moving “wanderers”?

#8. Which monumental English writer frequently referenced astrological portents and planetary influences in plays like King Lear and Julius Caesar?

#9. During which historical era did the popularity of printed almanacs and personal horoscopes experience a massive resurgence in Europe?

#10. What major cultural shift in the 17th and 18th centuries caused astrology to separate from academic science and lose official university standing?

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