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CSTU 101 / CSTU101 QUIZ 1 What two concepts are the main focuses of our studies in CSTU 101? Legal standards had been developed in the past but none so practical as the Code of Laws that established the rule of law from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea. Who was the Code of Laws named after? The belief in and worship of many gods. Which cultures religion could be described as being pragmatic and self-serving? "The Heritage of the Past is the Seed that Brings Forth the Harvest of the Fu...

Exam (elaborations) CSTU 101 / CSTU101 QUIZ 8 He stressed the absurdity of human existence and the inability of our reason to understand the world. A passionate individualist, he proclaimed the will to power as the only value in a meaningless world. Lived from 1844-1900. From the Essay, “The Future of Western Culture.” Massive intellectual changes have shaped and reshaped our culture since the dawn of the Enlightenment. At the heart of this great intellectual shift is . Which is these is n...

Question 1 3 out of 3 points The most significant Sumerian literary work was Selected Answer: Epic of Gilgamesh  Question 2 3 out of 3 points Which system says “the sun is at the center of the universe”? Selected Answer: Copernic an  Question 3 3 out of 3 points Who said “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose” Selected Answer: Jim Elliot  Question 4 3 out of 3 points Who wrote these words for us to live by? “See to it ...

• Question 1 3 out of 3 points In the Early Modern World, who said that the mind, at birth, was a complete blank, a tabula rasa (Lat., “blank slate”). This contradicted royalists, clergymen, and others, who insisted that the natural inclination, at birth, was submission to authority. Selected Answer: Lock e • Question 2 3 out of 3 points From the Essay “Influence of Christianity on Western Culture”. Helped create what we now know as the Red Cross. ...

Displayed Submitted Answers, Feedback • Question 1 The term “pointed arches” best describes which style? 3 out of 3 points Selected Answer: Gothi c • Question 2 Who was not a Renaissance Author? 0 out of 3 points Selected Answer: Shakespe are • Question 3 The Carolingians also stimulated artistic activity. One of these was the 3 out of 3 points development by painters that involved pictures within manuscript pages...

During the 1200’s Popes would employ a military force to combat heresy and use this judicial process to eradicate heresy within the Western culture. Selected Answer: Inquisition Question 2 0 out of 3 points During this time period there was literature for town dwellers as well as country folks. This type of literature was satirical poems depicting ordinary people in events of everyday life with vigorous and coarse humor while ridiculing conventional morality. Selected Answer: ...

• Question 1 3 out of 3 points Plato’s student was Selected Answer: Aristotl e • Question 2 3 out of 3 points Which one of these is not in the Greek order of columns? Selected Answer: Athenia n • Question 3 3 out of 3 points Reality, for ___________, consisted of (Ideas) of all basic things, Forms that exist beyond the grasp of the senses or even the mind. Selected Answer: Plat o • Question 4 3 out of 3 points Who founded the school called the Academy in A...

□ Question 1 3 out of 3 points He stressed the absurdity of human existence and the inability of our reason to understand the world. A passionate individualist, he proclaimed the will to power as the only value in a meaningless world. Lived from 1844-1900. Selected Answer: Nietzsche □ Question 2 3 out of 3 points From the Essay, “The Future of Western Culture.” Massive intellectual changes have shaped and reshaped our culture since the dawn of the Enli...

Quiz 5 ● Question 1 3 out of 3 points The Torah consists of the first five books of the Bible called the Pentateuch, which is also known as Selected Answer: Books of Moses ● Question 2 If the early Christians had worshiped Jesus and Caesar, they would have gone 3 out of 3 points unharmed, but they rejected all forms of . Selected Answer: Syncretis m ● Question 3 Early Christian art was more 3 out of 3 points and less ...

□ Question 1 3 out of 3 points In the Early Modern World, who felt that mathematics was the “queen of the sciences, and was all anyone needed to explain a mechanical universe? Selected Answer: Descartes □ Question 2 3 out of 3 points In the Early Modern World, who said that the mind, at birth, was a complete blank, a tabula rasa (Lat., “blank slate”). This contradicted royalists, clergymen, and others, who insisted that the natural inclination, at bi...