Cstu 101 quiz 1 | History homework help
Cstu 101 quiz 1 | History homework help.
Question 1
- Which artifact depicts the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt?
Rosetta Stone
Deluge Tablet
Obelisk of Ramses
Narmer Palette
3 points
Question 2
- Which artifact provided the key that allowed scholars to decode Egyptian hieroglyphics?
Narmer Palette
Luxor obelisk
King Tut’s tomb inscriptions
Rosetta Stone
3 points
Question 3
- The flux of change that we see in a culture is called
Cultural Modifications Theory
Cultural Epoch Theory
Cultural Positioning Theory
Cultural Movement Theory
3 points
Question 4
- Who is credited with inventing the first written language, a system called cuneiform?
Egyptians
Greeks
Sumerians
Pharaohs
3 points
Question 5
- Egypt was a __________ throughout its long history.
Democracy
Republic
Theocracy
Socialist
3 points
Question 6
- Who said “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose”
George Washington
Jim Elliot
Thomas Jefferson
Jim Henson
3 points
Question 7
- Sumerians were from which area.
Greece
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Africa
3 points
Question 8
- Known as the land between the Rivers.
Mesopotamia
Israel
Rome
Greece
3 points
Question 9
- Which president said “A nation must believe in three things: It must believe in the past. It must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.”
Lincoln
Reagan
Roosevelt
Washington
3 points
Question 10
- The Egyptian temples were the first structures in the ancient world to be built entirely of _____.
Bricks
Cement
Stone
Lumber
3 points
Question 11
- The Babylonian Captivity occurred closest to which date?
1010 BC
586 BC
452 BC
810 BC
3 points
Question 12
- What term describes the multiple perspectives we see in Egyptian art, especially in portraying the human body?
Frontal Plane
Canon
Foreshadowing
Contrapposto
3 points
Question 13
- The establishment of permanent agricultural communities marked the beginning of what?
Town
Culture
Community
Value
3 points
Question 14
- 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?
Hannibal
Hammurabi
King Tut
King Darius
3 points
Question 15
- Which cultures religion could be described as being pragmatic and self-serving?
Egypt
Mesopotamians
Assyrians
Greeks
3 points
Question 16
- The most significant Sumerian literary work was
Venus of Willendorf
Epic of Gilgamesh
Stonehenge
Hall of Running Bulls
3 points
Question 17
- Who said that “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child” when we do not have an understanding of the past?
Cicero
Cato
Goethe
Socrates
3 points
Question 18
- This was perhaps the best known sculpture of Egyptian art.
Queen Nefretete
Amenhotep
Pharaoh IV
Temple of Amon
3 points
Question 19
- Who wrote these words for us to live by? “See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy…”
Paul
John
Pharaoh
Socrates
3 points
Question 20
- The first written language was called
Cuneiform
Hieroglyphics
Phonics
Homonics
3 points
Question 21
- Technology involves the manipulation of raw materials to produce some benefit.
True
False
2 points
Question 22
- Egyptian culture’s life and religion were inseparable.
True
False
2 points
Question 23
- Sumerian sculptures mainly used granite for their statue.
True
False
2 points
Question 24
- The Iwo Jima Memorial is located in Japan, and is a tribute to their soldiers.
True
False
2 points
Question 25
- The Egyptian Culture was short lived and lasted only a few centuries.
True
False
2 points
Question 26
- The Egyptians did not have the technology of the wheel when they built the pyramids.
True
False
2 points
Question 27
- The Egyptian Culture was very concerned about the color of skin pigmentation and made a point to segregate those who were different.
True
False
2 points
Question 28
- Early Christian art showed a shepherd carrying a sheep? This symbolized their admiration for this occupation?
True
False
2 points
Question 29
- The “Men of Issachar” were located in a small town in Egypt, and directed the construction of the first pyramid.
True
False
2 points
Question 30
- Egyptian art depicts men and woman according to their most characteristic angle; that is the face and legs in profile but the eyes and torso as if viewed from the front.
True
False