CSTU 101 Quiz 1 Western Culture
CSTU 101 Quiz 1 Western Culture and Values
Covers the Learn material from Module 1: Week 1.
- 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?
- Which cultures religion could be described as being pragmatic and self-serving?
- Greek historian and writer who described Egypt as “all the country covered by the inundations of the Nile”
- Who said “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose”
- Sumerians were from which area.
- “The Heritage of the Past is the Seed that Brings Forth the Harvest of the Future.” Is located on which building in Washington?
- The establishment of permanent agricultural communities marked the beginning of what?
- What could justly be described as the study of how people process and document their human experience?
- The first written language was called
- What were the two main rivers in Mesopotamia?
- Which system says “the sun is at the center of the universe”?
- 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.”
- Who is credited with inventing the first written language, a system called cuneiform?
- The belief in and worship of many gods.
- The Egyptian temples were the first structures in the ancient world to be built entirely of _____.
- Who wrote these words for us to live by? “See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy…”
- This word is defined as the sum total of the collective beliefs, behaviors, and values that connect a group within a society.
- Egypt was a __________ throughout its long history.
- Which artifact depicts the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt?
- Known as the land between the Rivers.
- We can think of a paradigm shift as a change in the way that we do mathematics.
- The Mesopotamians built their ziggurats and temple from the available stone, while the Egyptians built their tomb, temples using sun-dried bricks.
- Egyptian culture’s life and religion were inseparable.
- Nebuchadnezzar has been discovered to be just a fictional king.
- The Egyptian Culture was short lived and lasted only a few centuries.
- The visual arts used within a culture are usually self-explanatory.
- Sumerian civilization was ancient, but not very advanced in learning.
- Technology involves the manipulation of raw materials to produce some benet.
- The pyramids of Egypt were built to represent the wealth of the Egyptians, with no religious or meaning of permanence whatsoever.
- The Egyptian Culture was very concerned about the color of skin pigmentation and made a point to segregate those who were different.