HIEU 201 Test 1 (LU) Quiz 7 Complete Answers New (2023/24) - Liberty University

HIEU 201 Test 1 (LU) Quiz 7 Complete Answers New (2023/24) - Liberty University 5 reasons to study history (Stearns article) - ANS 1) History helps us understand peoples & societies 2) Importance of History in our own lives 3) Contributes to Moral Understanding 4) History Provides Identity 5) Essential for Good Citizenship 4 reasons to care about History (Solomon's article) - ANS 1) Because the Bible Contains History 2) Because Jesus took history seriously 3) Because Christian beliefs are based on history 4) because history touches our lives The 3 traditions of Western Civilization (Kurth article) - ANS 1) The classical culture of Greece & Rome 2) Christianity 3) Modern Enlightenment Definition of Civilization: - ANS the intellectual, material, and cultural development of organized humane society the central force of the first civilizations was - ANS religion the first civilizations struggled with 3 main things: - ANS 1) surplus food 2) population 3) specialization Ancient Near East is now called - ANS Modern Middle East Mesopotamia - ANS greek word meaning "land between the rivers", this was where the first civilization began between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers Sumerians - ANS first to settle in Mesopotamia in 3000 B.C. Cuneiform - ANS created by the Sumerians, they were pictographs or signs for numbers that were engraved on clay tablets to represent ideas Ziggurats - ANS huge multi-leveled mounds on which temples were built Geography of Mesopotamia vs. Egypt - ANS Mesopotamia had NO natural barriers to invade unlike Egypt who were protected by deserts Civilization MUST include these 5 factors: - ANS 1) organized government 2) organized religion 3) cities 4) writing 5) monumental architectures