HIEU 201 Test 1 (LU) Exam Questions
and Answers Graded A+
5 reasons to study history (Stearns article) - Correct answer-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 answer-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 answer-1) The
classical culture of Greece & Rome
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, 2) Christianity
3) Modern Enlightenment
Definition of Civilization: - Correct answer-the intellectual, material, and cultural
development of organized humane society
the central force of the first civilizations was - Correct answer-religion
the first civilizations struggled with 3 main things: - Correct answer-1) surplus
food
2) population
3) specialization
Ancient Near East is now called - Correct answer-Modern Middle East
Mesopotamia - Correct answer-greek word meaning "land between the rivers", this
was where the first civilization began between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Sumerians - Correct answer-first to settle in Mesopotamia in 3000 B.C.
Cuneiform - Correct answer-created by the Sumerians, they were pictographs or
signs for numbers that were engraved on clay tablets to represent ideas
Ziggurats - Correct answer-huge multi-leveled mounds on which temples were
built
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and Answers Graded A+
5 reasons to study history (Stearns article) - Correct answer-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 answer-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 answer-1) The
classical culture of Greece & Rome
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, 2) Christianity
3) Modern Enlightenment
Definition of Civilization: - Correct answer-the intellectual, material, and cultural
development of organized humane society
the central force of the first civilizations was - Correct answer-religion
the first civilizations struggled with 3 main things: - Correct answer-1) surplus
food
2) population
3) specialization
Ancient Near East is now called - Correct answer-Modern Middle East
Mesopotamia - Correct answer-greek word meaning "land between the rivers", this
was where the first civilization began between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Sumerians - Correct answer-first to settle in Mesopotamia in 3000 B.C.
Cuneiform - Correct answer-created by the Sumerians, they were pictographs or
signs for numbers that were engraved on clay tablets to represent ideas
Ziggurats - Correct answer-huge multi-leveled mounds on which temples were
built
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