Auburn History 1010 Final Exam 1
Questions and All Correct Answers
2025-2026 Updated.
BCE - Answer Before Common Era
CE - Answer Common Era
Ecumene - Answer the known world
"history" v. "the past" - Answer past doesn't change, however history may change due to new
discoveries
Revisionist history - Answer corrects what we "knew" as history
Primary sources - Answer official records, diaries, letters,
memoirs, newspapers, etc.
Secondary sources - Answer analysis, synthesis, or argument collected and
presented by a historian, based on primary sources, usually as a
monograph(book) or journal article.
Tertiary source - Answer generally large works like textbooks or grand histories of a
war or other phenomenon, based on a synthesis of secondary sources
Political history - Answer the focus on history of leaders and government
Social history - Answer the focus of the history of the common people
Complexity - Answer there is never one answer in history
, Change over time - Answer technology, laws, ethics
Continuity over time - Answer food, etc.
Homo habilis - Answer (man of skill) first to make stone tools, bipedal
Homo erectus - Answer large brain capacity and walked fully upright, cared for young, use of
fire, migrated out of Africa into SW Asia
Homo sapiens - Answer closest to what is known as "modern humans" bigger brain, more
agile, most advanced
hunter-gatherers - Answer People who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and
nuts to survive
Creation Narratives - Answer Narratives constructed by different cultures that draw on their
belief systems and available evidence to explain the origins of the world and humanity.
Rig Veda - Answer a collection of 1,017 Vedic Sanskrit hymns composed about 1500 BC or
earlier; Hinduism's oldest sacred text.
Genesis - Answer collated by Jewish redactors, part of authoritative scripture by the early
Christian community, God brings order from chaos over 6 days
Popul Vuh - Answer A Maya creation myth, taught that the gods had created humans out of
maize and water, the ingredients that became human flesh and blood.
River Basins - Answer The land area drained by a river and its tributaries.
City-States - Answer larger
territories based around a central city, started around rivers
Questions and All Correct Answers
2025-2026 Updated.
BCE - Answer Before Common Era
CE - Answer Common Era
Ecumene - Answer the known world
"history" v. "the past" - Answer past doesn't change, however history may change due to new
discoveries
Revisionist history - Answer corrects what we "knew" as history
Primary sources - Answer official records, diaries, letters,
memoirs, newspapers, etc.
Secondary sources - Answer analysis, synthesis, or argument collected and
presented by a historian, based on primary sources, usually as a
monograph(book) or journal article.
Tertiary source - Answer generally large works like textbooks or grand histories of a
war or other phenomenon, based on a synthesis of secondary sources
Political history - Answer the focus on history of leaders and government
Social history - Answer the focus of the history of the common people
Complexity - Answer there is never one answer in history
, Change over time - Answer technology, laws, ethics
Continuity over time - Answer food, etc.
Homo habilis - Answer (man of skill) first to make stone tools, bipedal
Homo erectus - Answer large brain capacity and walked fully upright, cared for young, use of
fire, migrated out of Africa into SW Asia
Homo sapiens - Answer closest to what is known as "modern humans" bigger brain, more
agile, most advanced
hunter-gatherers - Answer People who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and
nuts to survive
Creation Narratives - Answer Narratives constructed by different cultures that draw on their
belief systems and available evidence to explain the origins of the world and humanity.
Rig Veda - Answer a collection of 1,017 Vedic Sanskrit hymns composed about 1500 BC or
earlier; Hinduism's oldest sacred text.
Genesis - Answer collated by Jewish redactors, part of authoritative scripture by the early
Christian community, God brings order from chaos over 6 days
Popul Vuh - Answer A Maya creation myth, taught that the gods had created humans out of
maize and water, the ingredients that became human flesh and blood.
River Basins - Answer The land area drained by a river and its tributaries.
City-States - Answer larger
territories based around a central city, started around rivers
