CSTU COMPREHENSIVE TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS REVIEW SHEET

CSTU COMPREHENSIVE TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
REVIEW SHEET

●● Arch
Answer: Rome


●● What is the Enuma elish?
Answer: Sumerian creation Myth - reflects the violence in the world
(Tiamat the mother goddess is slain by Marduk, forming the mountains
and rivers)


●● Which civilization had the first written language and what is it
called?
Answer: Sumerians; Cuneiform


●● Which two major texts were found from Sumerian culture?
Answer: The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Deluge Tablet (story of the
great flood)


●● Why did the Sumerian gods send a flood?

, Answer: The humans were too loud and out of control and they couldn't
sleep. (This shows their gods are selfish, angry, and not fully
authoritative)


●● An epic hero is what to a culture?
Answer: Ideal person


●● Character traits of Odysseus
Answer: wise, cunning, prideful


●● Fatalism is
Answer: Greek theology centering on fundamental injustice (can't
control what the gods are gonna do)


●● The Odyssey was written by __________________ and passed on
__________________.
Answer: Homer
Orally


●● Rationalism is
Answer: human reason/knowledge is the ultimate source of authority


●● Naturalism