HIEU 201 Test 1 (LU) (100% correct answers)

5 reasons to study history (Stearns article) correct answers 1) History helps us understand peoples & societies 2) Importance of History in our own lives 3) Contributes to Moral Understanding 4) History Provides Identity 5) Essential for Good Citizenship 4 reasons to care about History (Solomon's article) correct answers 1) Because the Bible Contains History 2) Because Jesus took history seriously 3) Because Christian beliefs are based on history 4) because history touches our lives The 3 traditions of Western Civilization (Kurth article) correct answers 1) The classical culture of Greece & Rome 2) Christianity 3) Modern Enlightenment Definition of Civilization: correct answers the intellectual, material, and cultural development of organized humane society the central force of the first civilizations was correct answers religion the first civilizations struggled with 3 main things: correct answers 1) surplus food 2) population 3) specialization Ancient Near East is now called correct answers Modern Middle East Mesopotamia correct answers greek word meaning "land between the rivers", this was where the first civilization began between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers Sumerians correct answers first to settle in Mesopotamia in 3000 B.C. Cuneiform correct answers created by the Sumerians, they were pictographs or signs for numbers that were engraved on clay tablets to represent ideas Ziggurats correct answers huge multi-leveled mounds on which temples were built Geography of Mesopotamia vs. Egypt correct answers Mesopotamia had NO natural barriers to invade unlike Egypt who were protected by deserts Civilization MUST include these 5 factors: correct answers 1) organized government 2) organized religion