CLCV 115 UIUC UPDATED Actual Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Hominids - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔the group consisting of all modern and extinct Great
Apes (that is, modern humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans plus all their immediate
ancestors)
Paleolithic - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔This is the Old stone age period group, they
performed human burials, acquired fire, language, hand tools, belief in the great goddess
emerges, cave paintings seen, and were around from 100,000-c.--> 12,500 BC
Mesolithic - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔This is the Middle Stone Age, where people acquired
improvements in hunting and fishing, smaller tools; bone and antler jewelry. These
individuals lived from 12,500 to 8500 BC
Neolithic - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔This is the New Stone Age, where we begin to see
agriculture, domestication of animals; pottery, wheeled transportation, we see Jericho [Israel]
(8500 BC) - stone fortifications, skull (ancestor) worship. We also see the city of Catalhoyuk
[Turkey] (6000 BC) - bull shrine/bucrania (cow skulls). This period of the New Stone Age
lasted from 8500-3000 BC
Animism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔This is defined as people finding a spirit in something
else, Anima "soul spirit", hence why the early gods are spoken of as stars, suns, etc, they are
"animated to having souls"
Venus Figurines - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔These great goddess venus figurines were
found at 20,000 BC, and displayed anthropomorphic traits. We also found ones at 35,000 BC,
and we believe that this is when spirituality began to develop
The Great Goddess - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔This goddess was believed to have been
worshipped for the fertility of Humans/human fertility, crops fertility, domesticated animal
fertility. There was not only 1 of these, every community had a different version, and it was
as powerful as our concept of god is. Basically a female goddess of fertility
, Anthropomorphic - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔This term means having characteristics that
are human like, if a god is possessing ______ traits, it means he/she has a human like form.
"In the form or shape of a human".
Theriomorphic - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The Egyptians were especially fond of
_________ gods, or gods in the shape of wild animals. They were especially fond of this in
their hybrids, where we can see animal heads on human bodies etc
Gynomorphic - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔This term literally means having the shape of a
woman, or female-like shape. ________-woman, morph - shape
Bucrania - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Cow skulls
Polytheism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔This means the belief in or worship of more than
one god
Monotheism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔This means the belief that there is only one God
Parthenogenesis - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔This term literally means Virgin birth. We see
Night gives _____________ to day and Aether (brightness).
Variant - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A variant, in terms of mythology, means an alternative
version of a myth, which happens quite frequently. Just know that these exist, and that there
are various alternative interpretations
Syncretism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The combination of different forms of belief or
practice, or the fusion of two or more originally different religious belief systems into a new
system
Personification - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔This term literally means to make something
into a person
Millennium - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔This term is used to describe a period of a thousand
years, or is an anniversary of a thousand years
