History EPIC IMP 100 Exam 1 Questions With Correct Answers

Epic of Gilgamesh - Answer one of the earliest works of literature, important people of sumer involves heros, bad guys. Gilgamesh is a king, and an animal man is sent to him, Enkidu. There is a battle and after neither wins, they become "pals." after this friendship is kindled they go on adventures together. After defeated humbaba, the gods punish them, and sentences Enkidu to death. (the story is learned that they are not immortal). Code of Hammurabi - Answer Collection of laws. BCE. "principals of truth and equality" 3 parts: free people, commoners, and slaves. -laws written to protect property owners - laws displayed publicly on clay tables (meant for society) Sumerians - Answer were one of the earliest urban societies to emerge in the world, in Southern Mesopotamia more than 5000 years ago. They developed a writing system whose wedge-shaped strokes would influence the style of scripts in the same geographical area for the next 3000 years. Cuneiform - Answer wedge shape impressions wihch sumerians scribes covered their tablets. Became a script, but this was not a language. Adapted to write in other languages and spread throughout the middle east into the first century. Tablets provide much info about Sumerian religions. Yahweh - Answer if the Hebrews worshipped only yaweh, they would be led out of egypt to safety. Only under the conclusion that they only worshipped him and obey divine commands. (this was important because it was the start of MONOTHEISM. The Odyssey - Answer First major piece of Greek literature. Talked about competitions, athletic games, Arete, Competion between Odysseus and Poseidon. This was the sequal to Illiad. Reveals Greek world at the time it was composed. - values and customs Homer - Answer Assumed to be a man from the coast of Asia Minor - born in 800 BCE -oral story teller -said to be blind - Important because it kept stories told in the dark age to keep them from being forgotten -- tales of the trojan cycle illiad and Odyssey Written down in 550 BCE The Polis - Answer City state in ancient Greece, especially as considered in its ideal form for philosophical purposes. Polis created environment that nurtured the Hellenic Civilization -It was an experiment in social engineering -Using art, religion, education, sport, and entertainment Clestheness - Answer was a noble Athenian of the Alcmaeonid family. He is credited with reforming the constitution of ancient Athens and setting it on a democratic footing in 508/7 BC. - -" The father of Athenian Democracy" Horodotus - Answer (484-425 BCE) -Greek Historian -claimed greeks triumphed because they were free men fighting for their homeland - "The Father of History" Pythagoras - Answer -Mathematician and Philosopher -Concluded that from mathematics and relationships between objects and sounds that mathematics provided the key to unlocking the mysteries of the universe. -Pythagoeran theorem -everything is numbers Olympia - Answer -birthplace of the Olympic Games - Zeus' sacred place -cultivated ideals since ancient times. -Located in the western Peloponnese, Olympia