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CSTU 101-Exam 4Materialism - correct answer The belief that science, technology, and industry can know all truth, solve all problems, and create human happiness Georg Hegel - correct answer reality is grounded in workings of mind and mind engaged in a creative struggle with history's materials and circumstances idealist/revolutionary philosopher What is Georg Hegel's coined term? - correct answer The real is rational and the rational is real What books did Karl Marx write? - corre...

CSTU 101-Quiz 4-Chp 11Roman Art - correct answer 1) Portraiture art 2) Narrative art 3) Landscape art (Roman art expresses materialistic perspective) 1) Portraiture art - correct answer ~Roman portrait= photorealistic in appearance. -literal and lifelike (remarkable) ~since Romans were practical people, the most practical thing you could do was make the portrait look like the person. -an expression of their religious values (worshiped their ancestors) Comparing Greek and Roman ar...

CSTU 101-QUiz 4-Chp 12Rise of Christianity - correct answer story of the rise of Christianity is inseparable from the story of the Roman Empire. beginning of persecution (sporadic periods of persecution) - correct answer ~as Christianity grew and flourished and as Christians gave expression to its values in their lives, that the differences became unavoidably clear to the Roman authorities. ~It was then that Christians began to be seen as a threat by the Romans and were persecuted. Why d...

CSTU 101-Quiz 5-Chp 14 Synthesis - correct answer Different cultural elements—values and institutions—will come together to synthesize something completely new, and the "something new" that's being created here is obviously medieval culture. 3 distinct backgrounds being synthesized in the Middle Ages: - correct answer 1) Christian Background 2) heritage leftover from fall of Roman Empire- political and legal institutions(same latin language) 3) the influx of Germanic and Celtic tr...

CSTU 101-Quiz 5-Chp 15The period of adjustment and synthesis in the early Middle Ages would lead inevitably to a period of cultural balance - correct answer We call this period the High Middle Ages or the late Middle Ages, from about 1000 A.D. to 1400 or 1500 "balance" - correct answer A period of balance is achieved when all of the institutions within that culture coalesce around a common worldview held by a majority of the population for a long period of time. Gothic Architecture - cor...

CSTU 101-Quiz 6-Chp 17Renaissance - correct answer -period of cultural "rebirth" (portal into modern age) -it was a great historical problem ~A historical problem is a set of circumstances so complex that it defies easy explanation. Textbook definition of *Renaissance* - correct answer The Renaissance was a great cultural movement that brought about a period of scientific revolution and artistic transformation at the dawn of modern European history. "Scientific Revolution" - correct...

CSTU 101-Quiz 6-Chp 18painting "The Birth of Venus" by Sandro Botticelli in 1482 - correct answer there is a revival of interest in classical themes (able to explore new styles and subject matter with a completely new set of ideas and values) -Venus is a classical goddess ~This is a depiction of a mythological birth, and here she emerges from the ocean riding onto land on an open clamshell. comparing Virgin Mary with Venus (similarities) - correct answer 1) oval shape to the head 2) sli...

CSTU 101-Quiz 7-Chp 19The Renaissance - correct answer The Renaissance was best understood as a kind of wave that swept from South to North over these 200 years. () -started in the South, with Italy (1400) -as we move North-started at 1600-see Shakespeare writing plays-Northern Re. occurs at dead end of the "Renaissance period" Comparison of North and South (Italy) Renaissance: 1) South - correct answer -Italian Renaissance=more secular in tone and nature, more humanistic, subject matter ...

CSTU 101-Quiz 7-Chp 20seventeenth century - correct answer The seventeenth century is sometimes called "a century of genius." ~This was the century of Milton and Galileo, Cervantes and Descartes. -Rise of the Scientific Revolution Scientific Revolution - correct answer -1550 (year Copernicus said we are just a planet going around the sun) "New Science" -1700- life of Isaac Newton (greatest scientist of western history along with Einstein) whole mechanical model of universe with phys...

CSTU EXAMWorld War I - correct answer Leaves over nine million dead The Russian Revolution and Communism - correct answer -Also called the Bolshevik revolution -the "Russian Social Democratic Party" -Led by Vladimir Lenin—succeeded by Joseph Stalin, who undertook a massive industrialization scheme World War II - correct answer -Marked by the rise of Adolf Hitler and Fascism in Germany -Leaves between 50-80 million dead -Leads to the lingering effects of Atomic warfare and the memory...