HUM 345 SFSU Study Guide Questions with Answers

HUM 345 SFSU Study Guide Questions with Answers Let's keep events in order. Around 3100 BC, - Answer-Ur, in Sumer The area where the oldest city took shape, inventing the division of labor, writing, an army, laws is - Answer-All the following are correct: "the land between the rivers" near modern Babylon Sumer Mesopotamia The oldest real city, c 3100 BC, where Abraham comes from, is - Answer-Ur 2560 BC - Answer-Old Kingdom pyramids, Giza All three "Abrahamic" religions claim to descend from Abraham, in Genesis. His family's stories are set in the era, - Answer-Around BC Secular scholars consider Abraham and the Israelite fathers before the Exodus mythical, like King Arthur. They're called the - Answer-Patriarchs Many anthropologists believe that, based on certain passages in the Old Testament, and the name "Israel," that the Israelite tribes originally worshiped - Answer-El In return for obedience to the deity, Abraham and his tribe will receive - Answer-eternal life Civilization weakens in the Mediterranean. Indo-European and proto-Greek raiders, the Sea Peoples, establish beachheads on the coast. - Answer-1200s BCE At least one of the Israelite tribes fled slavery in Egypt around 1225 BC. That's the - Answer-Exodus One tribe may have fled slavery in Egypt, but the Biblical invasion is a myth. Archeology proves 10 or 11 of the other Israelite tribes were local Canaanite clans, and even a Greek tribe from the Sea Peoples, who began switching Primary allegiance to this god: - Answer-El, then Yahweh Like Americans adopting the Pilgrims as ancestors, all Israelites later adopt one tribe's Exodus from Egypt. It occurred around - Answer-1225 BC