HIEU 201 TEST BANK UPDATED QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS EXAM SUCCESS
GUIDE
●● 4 reasons to care about History (Solomon's article)
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)
Answer: 1) The classical culture of Greece & Rome
2) Christianity
3) Modern Enlightenment
●● Definition of Civilization:
Answer: the intellectual, material, and cultural development of organized
humane society
●● the central force of the first civilizations was
Answer: religion
, ●● the first civilizations struggled with 3 main things:
Answer: 1) surplus food
2) population
3) specialization
●● Ancient Near East is now called
Answer: Modern Middle East
●● Mesopotamia
Answer: greek word meaning "land between the rivers", this was where
the first civilization began between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
●● Sumerians
Answer: first to settle in Mesopotamia in 3000 B.C.
●● Cuneiform
Answer: created by the Sumerians, they were pictographs or signs for
numbers that were engraved on clay tablets to represent ideas
●● Ziggurats
Answer: huge multi-leveled mounds on which temples were built
●● Geography of Mesopotamia vs. Egypt
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS EXAM SUCCESS
GUIDE
●● 4 reasons to care about History (Solomon's article)
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)
Answer: 1) The classical culture of Greece & Rome
2) Christianity
3) Modern Enlightenment
●● Definition of Civilization:
Answer: the intellectual, material, and cultural development of organized
humane society
●● the central force of the first civilizations was
Answer: religion
, ●● the first civilizations struggled with 3 main things:
Answer: 1) surplus food
2) population
3) specialization
●● Ancient Near East is now called
Answer: Modern Middle East
●● Mesopotamia
Answer: greek word meaning "land between the rivers", this was where
the first civilization began between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
●● Sumerians
Answer: first to settle in Mesopotamia in 3000 B.C.
●● Cuneiform
Answer: created by the Sumerians, they were pictographs or signs for
numbers that were engraved on clay tablets to represent ideas
●● Ziggurats
Answer: huge multi-leveled mounds on which temples were built
●● Geography of Mesopotamia vs. Egypt
