BJU HI101 TEST 1 | COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY STUDY GUIDE,
PRACTICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2026/2027
Dies, consequences, patient - correct answer ✔✔The three General lessons of History.
1. Everyone ________.
2.Actions have ________________________.
3. God is ___________
change, Context, causality, Contingency, Complexity - correct answer ✔✔The 5 C's of historical thinking
are _____________ over time, _______________ The surroundings of the event, _________________
ask why the event happened, ___________________________ The prerequisite events,
__________________ do not see the event as 2D.
Primary - correct answer ✔✔A __________________ source is an account of the words, thoughts,
experiences of someone present at an event. (Wills, Journals, letters, court, and church records are
examples of this type of source)
Secondary - correct answer ✔✔A ________________________ source is a collection and explanation of
an amalgamation of primary sources. (Monographs/Journal articles)
Tertiary - correct answer ✔✔A ______________________ source is any other than a primary or
secondary source.
Wrote, Whom, Why, Context - correct answer ✔✔When reading a primary source it is important to
know who _______________ it? For _______________ was it written? _______ did the author write it?
What is the __________________ in the world around the source.
Physical - correct answer ✔✔_________________ remains consist of human, and animal bodies
preserved through history.
Material - correct answer ✔✔___________________ remains consist of household goods, buildings,
tools, pottery, cookware, etc, preserved throughout history.
cuneiform - correct answer ✔✔A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped
stylus and clay tablets. (Not a language)
Chonology - correct answer ✔✔A construct for maintaining a periodized record of historical events.
periodization - correct answer ✔✔A historical thinking skill that Explain ways historical events and
processes can be organized into discrete, different, and definable historical periods. Evaluate whether a
particular event or date could or could not be a turning point between different, definable historical
periods, used in particular historical evidence.
Paleolithic - correct answer ✔✔The time period from the ________________ age to 10,000 BC was
primarily defined by the use of stone tools, and hunting/gathering.
, Neolithic - correct answer ✔✔The time period from 10,000 to 3,100 BC is known as the
____________________ age is characterized by shifts from food collection to food production, and the
invention of pottery, and weaving.
Bronze - correct answer ✔✔The time period from 3,100 to 1200 bc is known as the ____________ age
and is characterized by town formation and metal tools.
Iron - correct answer ✔✔The time period after 1100 BC is known as the ___________ age and is
characterized by the discovery of how to smelt metals.
Judaism - correct answer ✔✔The Monotheistic traditional beliefs of the Jewish nation is known as
_________________. (A Holy, Single creator with a set of instructions for it's followers rooted in the
covenants made between the patriarchs and God.)
Monotheism - correct answer ✔✔Belief in one God is known as _______________________________.
Polytheism - correct answer ✔✔Belief in many gods is known as __________________________.
Abraham, Isaac, jacob - correct answer ✔✔The Patriarchs of Israel are ____________________,
__________________, and _________________.
Hebrew - correct answer ✔✔The word _________________________ comes from a verb that means 'to
pass over' and an adjective that means 'dusty/dirty' (with the context of a roving, wandering or lawless
people.)
Levant - correct answer ✔✔The eastern Mediterranean region from western Greece to western Egypt
also known as the fertile cressant.
Prophets - correct answer ✔✔Israels major influence on history is not political through the kings, but
rather cultural through the _______________.
722 - correct answer ✔✔Assyria conquers Israel and deports the people through the empire in the year
_________ BC.
587 - correct answer ✔✔Babylon captures the southern kingdom of Israel and deported the people
across the empire after sacking the temple in ________ BC.
Maccabean Revolt - correct answer ✔✔The Jewish uprising against the Syrians and their king, Antiochus
Epiphanes, starting in 168-164 B.C.., in protest against the forced imposition of Hellenistic culture.
synagogue - correct answer ✔✔This Jewish institution stood in place of the temple for worship, served
as a school for studying torah, unified a scattered people, and often governed the people
Pharisees - correct answer ✔✔A Jewish sect at the time of Jesus known for its strict adherence to the
Law.
PRACTICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2026/2027
Dies, consequences, patient - correct answer ✔✔The three General lessons of History.
1. Everyone ________.
2.Actions have ________________________.
3. God is ___________
change, Context, causality, Contingency, Complexity - correct answer ✔✔The 5 C's of historical thinking
are _____________ over time, _______________ The surroundings of the event, _________________
ask why the event happened, ___________________________ The prerequisite events,
__________________ do not see the event as 2D.
Primary - correct answer ✔✔A __________________ source is an account of the words, thoughts,
experiences of someone present at an event. (Wills, Journals, letters, court, and church records are
examples of this type of source)
Secondary - correct answer ✔✔A ________________________ source is a collection and explanation of
an amalgamation of primary sources. (Monographs/Journal articles)
Tertiary - correct answer ✔✔A ______________________ source is any other than a primary or
secondary source.
Wrote, Whom, Why, Context - correct answer ✔✔When reading a primary source it is important to
know who _______________ it? For _______________ was it written? _______ did the author write it?
What is the __________________ in the world around the source.
Physical - correct answer ✔✔_________________ remains consist of human, and animal bodies
preserved through history.
Material - correct answer ✔✔___________________ remains consist of household goods, buildings,
tools, pottery, cookware, etc, preserved throughout history.
cuneiform - correct answer ✔✔A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped
stylus and clay tablets. (Not a language)
Chonology - correct answer ✔✔A construct for maintaining a periodized record of historical events.
periodization - correct answer ✔✔A historical thinking skill that Explain ways historical events and
processes can be organized into discrete, different, and definable historical periods. Evaluate whether a
particular event or date could or could not be a turning point between different, definable historical
periods, used in particular historical evidence.
Paleolithic - correct answer ✔✔The time period from the ________________ age to 10,000 BC was
primarily defined by the use of stone tools, and hunting/gathering.
, Neolithic - correct answer ✔✔The time period from 10,000 to 3,100 BC is known as the
____________________ age is characterized by shifts from food collection to food production, and the
invention of pottery, and weaving.
Bronze - correct answer ✔✔The time period from 3,100 to 1200 bc is known as the ____________ age
and is characterized by town formation and metal tools.
Iron - correct answer ✔✔The time period after 1100 BC is known as the ___________ age and is
characterized by the discovery of how to smelt metals.
Judaism - correct answer ✔✔The Monotheistic traditional beliefs of the Jewish nation is known as
_________________. (A Holy, Single creator with a set of instructions for it's followers rooted in the
covenants made between the patriarchs and God.)
Monotheism - correct answer ✔✔Belief in one God is known as _______________________________.
Polytheism - correct answer ✔✔Belief in many gods is known as __________________________.
Abraham, Isaac, jacob - correct answer ✔✔The Patriarchs of Israel are ____________________,
__________________, and _________________.
Hebrew - correct answer ✔✔The word _________________________ comes from a verb that means 'to
pass over' and an adjective that means 'dusty/dirty' (with the context of a roving, wandering or lawless
people.)
Levant - correct answer ✔✔The eastern Mediterranean region from western Greece to western Egypt
also known as the fertile cressant.
Prophets - correct answer ✔✔Israels major influence on history is not political through the kings, but
rather cultural through the _______________.
722 - correct answer ✔✔Assyria conquers Israel and deports the people through the empire in the year
_________ BC.
587 - correct answer ✔✔Babylon captures the southern kingdom of Israel and deported the people
across the empire after sacking the temple in ________ BC.
Maccabean Revolt - correct answer ✔✔The Jewish uprising against the Syrians and their king, Antiochus
Epiphanes, starting in 168-164 B.C.., in protest against the forced imposition of Hellenistic culture.
synagogue - correct answer ✔✔This Jewish institution stood in place of the temple for worship, served
as a school for studying torah, unified a scattered people, and often governed the people
Pharisees - correct answer ✔✔A Jewish sect at the time of Jesus known for its strict adherence to the
Law.
