CTSU 101 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
Core Beliefs - Correct Answers -Deeply-held assumptions about reality
Ex: Existence of God, afterlife, etc.
Values - Correct Answers -Assumptions about what is important
Ex: Family > Career
Morals - Correct Answers -assumptions about what is right and wrong
ex: wrong to steal
Traditions - Correct Answers -forms of behavior associated with communal history
Ex: Bride throwing bouquet
Customs - Correct Answers -practices considered "normal" within a particular culture
Epistemology - Correct Answers -The study of how we know
Expressive Art - Correct Answers -Visual, performing, literary
Reflective Art - Correct Answers -Philosophy, religion, history
Mesopotamia - Correct Answers -Birthplace of the World
Oedipus the King - Correct Answers -Greek Tragedy written by Sophocles
Period of relative peace and prosperity (27bc to 180ad) - Correct Answers -Pax
Romana (roman peace)
T/F: Roman Empire and Imperialism must be discussed hand in hand - Correct Answers
-True
What is the name of the first civilization that occupied Mesopotamia? - Correct Answers
-Sumeria
What are the name of the first stepped pyramids in Mesopotamia? - Correct Answers -
Ziggurats
The Urban Revolution - Correct Answers --Around 4200 BC
-Transition from hunter-gatherer to innovations, agriculture, trade routes, leisure class
, Sumerians - Correct Answers --First to use writing called cuneiform
-First to construct monumental buildings
-Rich and growing ruling class
Babylonians - Correct Answers --Code of Hammurabi
-The Ishtar Gate
Persian - Correct Answers -The Palace at Persepolis
Cuneiform - Correct Answers --Written language and development of record keeping
-The Epic of Gilgamesh
-The Deluge Tablet
Ziggurats - Correct Answers --Sites of religious worship and sacrifice to violent and
unpredictable Mesopotamian gods
-Ziggurat at Ur-Nammu: their central achievement
Hammurabi - Correct Answers -Sixth King of Babylon, created Code of Hammurabi
Code of Hammurabi - Correct Answers --Roughly 780 laws
-Eye for an eye
-Regulated exchange, government, and private action
-Earliest example of demonstrating the presumption of innocence
Ishtar Gate - Correct Answers --Constructed by Nebuchadnezzar II
Persia and Persepolis - Correct Answers --City plundered and ruined by the Alexander
the Great
Egyptians and Stability - Correct Answers --Pyramids; lasting monuments
-Mummies; making the body last
-Art; preserving individuals
(Frontality Perspective)
What is the type of religion for believing in many gods? - Correct Answers -Polytheism
Early Grecian Philosophy, Grecian Politics, and Greek Religion - Correct Answers -Day
5
Rationalism - Correct Answers -belief that human reason is the surest source of truth in
the world
Monism - Correct Answers -search for basic, primal substance
Greek Religious Value - Correct Answers --Polytheistic
CORRECT ANSWERS
Core Beliefs - Correct Answers -Deeply-held assumptions about reality
Ex: Existence of God, afterlife, etc.
Values - Correct Answers -Assumptions about what is important
Ex: Family > Career
Morals - Correct Answers -assumptions about what is right and wrong
ex: wrong to steal
Traditions - Correct Answers -forms of behavior associated with communal history
Ex: Bride throwing bouquet
Customs - Correct Answers -practices considered "normal" within a particular culture
Epistemology - Correct Answers -The study of how we know
Expressive Art - Correct Answers -Visual, performing, literary
Reflective Art - Correct Answers -Philosophy, religion, history
Mesopotamia - Correct Answers -Birthplace of the World
Oedipus the King - Correct Answers -Greek Tragedy written by Sophocles
Period of relative peace and prosperity (27bc to 180ad) - Correct Answers -Pax
Romana (roman peace)
T/F: Roman Empire and Imperialism must be discussed hand in hand - Correct Answers
-True
What is the name of the first civilization that occupied Mesopotamia? - Correct Answers
-Sumeria
What are the name of the first stepped pyramids in Mesopotamia? - Correct Answers -
Ziggurats
The Urban Revolution - Correct Answers --Around 4200 BC
-Transition from hunter-gatherer to innovations, agriculture, trade routes, leisure class
, Sumerians - Correct Answers --First to use writing called cuneiform
-First to construct monumental buildings
-Rich and growing ruling class
Babylonians - Correct Answers --Code of Hammurabi
-The Ishtar Gate
Persian - Correct Answers -The Palace at Persepolis
Cuneiform - Correct Answers --Written language and development of record keeping
-The Epic of Gilgamesh
-The Deluge Tablet
Ziggurats - Correct Answers --Sites of religious worship and sacrifice to violent and
unpredictable Mesopotamian gods
-Ziggurat at Ur-Nammu: their central achievement
Hammurabi - Correct Answers -Sixth King of Babylon, created Code of Hammurabi
Code of Hammurabi - Correct Answers --Roughly 780 laws
-Eye for an eye
-Regulated exchange, government, and private action
-Earliest example of demonstrating the presumption of innocence
Ishtar Gate - Correct Answers --Constructed by Nebuchadnezzar II
Persia and Persepolis - Correct Answers --City plundered and ruined by the Alexander
the Great
Egyptians and Stability - Correct Answers --Pyramids; lasting monuments
-Mummies; making the body last
-Art; preserving individuals
(Frontality Perspective)
What is the type of religion for believing in many gods? - Correct Answers -Polytheism
Early Grecian Philosophy, Grecian Politics, and Greek Religion - Correct Answers -Day
5
Rationalism - Correct Answers -belief that human reason is the surest source of truth in
the world
Monism - Correct Answers -search for basic, primal substance
Greek Religious Value - Correct Answers --Polytheistic
