HIEU 201 TEST 1 (LU) EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
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
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, 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
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
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
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
, 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
2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
