Chapter 1-2

Question 1

only reliable source of history

Answer 1

the Bible

Question 2

written record of what mankind has done with the time God gave them

Answer 2

history

Question 3

why is history important?

Answer 3

to help us make wise decisions now

Question 4

three characteristics that set man apart from everything else

Answer 4

1. language and thought
2. knowledge of right and wrong
3. freedom to make choices

Question 5

the focal point of all history is ______

Answer 5

Jesus Christ’s first advent to earth

Question 6

idea that man evolved from animals

Answer 6

evolution

Question 7

BC and AD stand for

Answer 7

Before Christ
Anno Domini “in the year of our Lord”

Question 8

three eras history is divided into

Answer 8

1. ancient
2. medieval
3. modern

Question 9

ancient history was from

Answer 9

4000 B.C. (the beginning of recorded history) - A.D. 500 (fall of the Roman empire)

Question 10

medieval history was from

Answer 10

A.D. 500 (fall of the Roman empire) - A.D. 1500 (the Protestant Reformation)

Question 11

modern history is from

Answer 11

A.D. 1500 (the Protestant Reformation) - present day

Question 12

worship of man; exalting man in the place of or above God

Answer 12

humanism

Question 13

the Flood (deluge) was around ______

Answer 13

2300 B.C. (within 1600 years of the Fall)

Question 14

the first foundational civil ordinance

Answer 14

capital punishment (the death penalty)

Question 15

an institution with the authority and power to control, direct, and rule in the action and affairs of others; these powers come from God

Answer 15

government

Question 16

supreme power over all nations, rulers, and individuals

Answer 16

sovereign

Question 17

the ark landed ______

Answer 17

Mount Ararat

Question 18

place where Noah’s family settled after the flood

Answer 18

Plain of Shinar

Question 19

a descendant of Ham, his name means “mighty hunter”

Answer 19

Nimrod

Question 20

the builder of the first world empire

Answer 20

Nimrod

Question 21

the city built under Nimrod’s leadership in Sumer was _____

Answer 21

Babel

Question 22

resulted in the confusion of languages and the dispersion of people into many nations

Answer 22

Tower of Babel

Question 23

a large group of people who think of themselves as one and act in history as a unit

Answer 23

nation

Question 24

groups of people mankind are divided into, differing by skin color, head shape, hair type, and other physical features

Answer 24

races

Question 25

3 factors of racial variety:

Answer 25

1. A rapidly changing environment 2. A small population 3. Extensive inbreeding

Question 26

Shinar, Modern Africa, Pakistan, India, Australia, Islands of the Aegean Sea and South Pacific were settled by ______

Answer 26

Ham's family

Question 27

earth divided

Answer 27

peleg

Question 28

Asia, Modern Arabs, Jews, Arctic Regions, Pacific Islands, Americas were settled by _____

Answer 28

Shem's family

Question 29

Europe, Russia, India, Parts of the Middle East were settled by _______

Answer 29

Japheth's family

Question 30

the common language of the Japhetic People

Answer 30

Indo-European

Question 31

the location of the Garden of Eden that is named for its characteristics

Answer 31

Fertile Crescent ("Cradle of Civilization")

Question 32

the two important rivers in the Fertile Crescent

Answer 32

Tigris and Euphrates

Question 33

Greek for “Between the rivers”

Answer 33

Mesopotamia

Question 34

the site of the first postdiluvian (post-flood) civilization was _____

Answer 34

Sumer

Question 35

the three oldest Sumerian settlements were _____

Answer 35

Eridu, Uruk, and Ur

Question 36

Sumerian agricultural contributions

Answer 36

1. Irrigation systems / flood control 2. The wheel / plow 3. Animal husbandry / crop-raising

Question 37

the Sumerians greatest contribution to civilization was ____

Answer 37

writing

Question 38

Sumerian writing

Answer 38

cuneiform

Question 39

broke the code of the trilingual cuneiform inscriptions

Answer 39

Sir Henry C. Rawlinson

Question 40

three parts of Sumer's history

Answer 40

1. Early Dynastic Age 2. Old Akkadian Period 3. Third Dynasty of Ur

Question 41

history's second great empire builder

Answer 41

Sargon of Akkad

Question 42

____ became king and led Ur to rule over the Sumerians during the Golden Age of Ur

Answer 42

Ur Nammu

Question 43

established the world's oldest law code

Answer 43

Ur Nammu

Question 44

way of life for a group of people

Answer 44

culture

Question 45

characteristics of civilization:

Answer 45

1. Control of food supply 2. Division of labor 3. Written language 4. Codified laws 5. Organized civil government 6. Art and sciences

Question 46

transmitting knowledge and cultural heritage to the next generation

Answer 46

education

Question 47

the first to use formal education

Answer 47

Sumerians

Question 48

the “tablet house” (school); trained them in cuneiform

Answer 48

edubba

Question 49

most important Sumerian commercial industry

Answer 49

textiles (fabrics)

Question 50

Sumerians most important architectural accomplishment were the ______

Answer 50

ziggurats

Question 51

false belief that heavenly bodies influence human affairs and destinies

Answer 51

astrology

Question 52

spreading of cultural traits and patterns

Answer 52

cultural diffusion

Question 53

the king of the Sumerian city-states

Answer 53

lugal

Question 54

four social classes of Sumer

Answer 54

Nobles: upper class rulers and priests Commoners: free, land-owning citizens Clients: craftsmen and other workers Slaves: enslaved captives from war

Question 55

belief in one God

Answer 55

monotheism

Question 56

worship of nature

Answer 56

naturalism

Question 57

worship of many gods

Answer 57

polytheism

Question 58

the world’s oldest work of literature outside the Bible

Answer 58

Epic of Gilgamesh

Question 59

long poem written in a dignified form which tells the story of a great fictitious or historical hero

Answer 59

epic