Hellenistic world - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

intertestamental period - correct answer about 400 BC to 1 AD 2nd temple period - correct answer 530 BC to 70AD Gnosticism - correct answer material word is evil and said Jesus could not have been a person - correct answer taught that pleasure (in the sense of happiness, not necessarily sensual pleasure) was the chief good in life. This led to an advocacy of "hedonism," the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle. Stoicism - correct answer taught the dutiful a...

CLC 106 Midterm Exam Questions with Correct Answers Ritual - Answer-A traditional pattern of action Folktale - Answer-Ordinary folk, talking animals, strange creatures, giants, witches. Unspecified, generic Legend - Answer-Mortal heroes. Distant past, known places Myth - Answer-Immortal gods. In illo tempore, sacred space "at that (other) time." Etiology myth(origin myth) - Answer-Intended to explain the origins of cult practices, natural phenomenon, proper names. Aeschylus - Answer...

TX PACT 7-12 Social Studies (732 Composite)Which of the following bibliographic citations identifies a primary historical source? Alden, Michael. (1920). The Prime Minister and the Great War. London: Morebanks. Nash, Olivia, ed. (1936). Interpretations of Causality: Europe and the Onset of World War I1. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press. Connaught, Sir Lawrence. (1955). Collected Correspondence from the Foreign Office, 1914-to1918. London: Hamilton and Wiggins. Mayer, Arno. (1...

World History - Final CIA 1 Study Guide Questions and Answers | Latest Update | Rated A+ Define an Athenian Democracy direct vote by only adult male citizens Holy book of Christianity Bible Holy book of Islam Quran Holy book of Judaism Torah How can you describe Greece? isolated How did Christianity diffuse? roman trade routes and roads How did Hellenistic Culture spread? Through trade How long was Julius Caesar able to serve as dictator? For his full lifetime In w...

Tiberius Gracchus made himself a spokesman for - correct answer land reform Plebeian concessions during the Struggle of the Orders included all of the following EXCEPT - correct answer the institution of an Athenian-style democracy. Despite reforms made during the Struggle of the Orders, Rome remained an oligarchy because - correct answer patronage networks of wealthy families controlled the government The assassination of Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 B.C. - correct answer was carried ...

STS - Module A to D (True/False) 100% Correct As pertaining to all persons, with the capacity to think, everyone can have their own personal knowledge statement about the world. True An "illusion" as a phenomenon is real, but the subject or object of the "illusion" is not. True All knowledge statement taught to you by your discipline, including the contents of Module A&B, should be accepted as truth. False In any truly scientific discipline, it is acceptable that scientific statement sho...

Science and Technology and Society  an interdisciplinary course designed to examine the ways that science and technology shape, and are shaped by, our society, politics, and culture. Science  is an evolving body of knowledge that is based on theoretical expositions and experimental and empirical activities that generates universal truths. society  is the sum total of our interactions as humans, including the interactions that we engage in to understand the nature of things an...

Late Bronze Age correct answers aka Mycenaean Period BC all info from this period comes from palaces sources: linear B tablets, all writing is administrative info from palaces, including gods and goddesses Dark Age correct answers aka Geometric Period 1150-800 BC started with total collapse of society no known sources, no known writing marked by return on smaller, simpler village society Archaic Period correct answers 800-480 BC WRITING!! (changed greek forever) marked by the rise ...

CLC 106 Midterm Exam Questions with All Correct Answers A traditional pattern of action is a...? - Answer-Ritual Stories whose actors are ordinary people or animals...? - Answer-Folktale A story of the great deeds of humans, heroes, and heroines or the events of human past is a...? - Answer-Legend Traditional tales about gods and heroes is a...? - Answer-Myth A belief and the course of action that follows is...? - Answer-Religion Apollonius of Rhodes - Answer-Wrote the Argonautica abo...

Abeka 7th grade History Test 2 Already Graded A Who asked for wisdom to rule his kingdom Solomon Who was killed on the battlefield for disobedience Saul Who was the first human king of Israel Saul Who pushed Israel to its greatest extent David Israel split after whose reign Solomon When did the Peloponnesian War end 404 B.C. Who was king of all the Greek gods Zeus Who chose to drink poison instead of being exiled from Athens Socrates Who warned the city Nineveh of God's coming judgment ...