Study Guide 1

Question 1

Relationship between kairos and chronos

Answer 1

God appoints the correct time in chronological time (He plans everything)

Question 2

6 Elements of Greek/Roman Information Superhighway of the Ancient World

Answer 2

• Universal language
• Vast and safe road network for travel and trade
• Pax Romana: peace for cultural pursuits and inquiry to flourish
• Roman citizenship to allies (Paul)
• Few hard national and cultural barriers
• Greek philosophy and mystery religions prepared mind for God’s move

Question 3

The Greek question and Jesus’s answer

Answer 3

Why? You find the truth through Jesus.

Question 4

The Roman Question and Jesus’s answer

Answer 4

How? You find the way through Jesus.

Question 5

The Hebrew question and Jesus’s answer

Answer 5

Does it work or function? You find out how through life lived through Jesus.

Question 6

What do CE and BCE mean? BC and AD? Their relationship?

Answer 6

1. Common era and Before the common era
2. Before Christ and After Christ (about)
3. • mean the same thing
   • scholarship/ academic/ research standard
   • creates common and neutral way of talking about the past

Question 7

Why does Bauer use epics and stories in her writing instead of just physical evidence like pottery?

Answer 7

The historian has to answer why and how. Knowing a little about the persons personality helps with this. Things like pottery only give out facts.

Question 8

What did the Semetic people teach the Sumerian people?

Answer 8

Civilization (settling down/ farming)

Question 9

Civilization

Answer 9

• beginning of cities

* not so much chaos

Question 10

Reasons for the rise of kings

Answer 10

• Allocation of scarce resources
• protection
• people started gathering in groups (rise and growth of cities)

Question 11

Relationship between city dwellers and farmers

Answer 11

Both thought the other was ridiculous and that their life was better. They both disliked each other.

Question 12

Common elements of the flood

Answer 12

• single survivor or family
• new beginning
• boat or other vessel

Question 13

Characteristics of cities and how they determined how people lived

Answer 13

• defense
• ability to tax
• countryside and city
• hierarchy (since they were arranged in importance, the higher classes could take things from the lower classes. In other words the gave more than they received.)

Question 14

Describe the trading of the Mesoptamian cities

Answer 14

• needed resources from different areas (cities)
• For example, Sumer had no wood so they received it from the Zagros Mountains
• whoever controlled the trade routes was in absolute control

Question 15

Aristocracy

Answer 15

A class born to rule

Question 16

How kingship became hereditary

Answer 16

People claimed the right to rule not by ability but by birthright

Question 17

5 areas of belief

Answer 17

1. What is the nature of God
2. What is the nature of man
3. What is the nature of the human condition
4. How to solve the human condition
5. The nature of truth.

Question 18

What new leadership structure radically changed the way humans lived?

Answer 18

Kingship

Question 19

What is unusual about the Semetic language?

Answer 19

It isn’t related to any other language in the world.

Question 20

With what is this term “Semetic” usually associated?

Answer 20

Jews/ Jewish

Question 21

What did the Semetic people contribute to Sumeria?

Answer 21

Language and farming/domestic skills

Question 22

What is the significance of the arrival of hereditary kings?

Answer 22

It created a new class of people.

Question 23

What is a ruling class called?

Answer 23

An aristocracy