Chapter 02 - Culture And Architecture

Question 1

Ch. 2: Define culture.

Answer 1

Culture is the single most distinctive quality separating humans form other beings.

Question 2

Ch. 2: Diffusion of culture is attained by what six means?

Answer 2

1. Trade 2. War 3. Travel/tourism 4. Colonization 5. Literature 6. Migration

Question 3

Ch. 2: In the modern age, the proliferation of information has been aided starting with what, and ending with what?

Answer 3

The telegraph to the Internet

Question 4

Ch. 2: What two theories posit that a new idea, thought, or cultural means of expression can be developed by one or more disconnected sources?

Answer 4

Dissemination and simultaneously discovery.

Question 5

Ch. 2: What 3 inventions of the Industrial Revolution served as a catalyst for civilizations? What two for the Second Industrial revolution? What tow for the Digital Age?

Answer 5

Railroad, steamship, and electricity. Cars and airplanes. The computer and the Internet.

Question 6

Ch. 2: What is meant by proto-historic?

Answer 6

A period in a culture’s history when a system of writing is not fully developed.

Question 7

Ch. 2: Until the 19th century, what where the most significant structures in most cities?

Answer 7

Religious structures such as temples, churches, cathedrals, mosques, etc.

Question 8

Ch. 2: What is the term for the myths, stories, and beliefs of a particular culture, civilization, or religious group?

Answer 8

Mythology

Question 9

Ch. 2: What term means the unification/consolidation of religions, cultures, or ideas?

Answer 9

Syncretism

Question 10

Ch. 2: The name of a hill in Ancient Rome called the Palatine, where the wealthy and imperial leaders lived, is where we get this term from.

Answer 10

Palace.

Question 11

Ch. 2: This term describes a fortified royal or aristocratic residence.

Answer 11

Castle.

Question 12

Ch. 2: The integration of art into works of architecture was preconditioned until what century?

Answer 12

Late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Question 13

Ch. 2: The House of Wisdom in Baghdad was a center for the study of the sciences and humanities - what period was it built in?

Answer 13

Islamic Golden Age

Question 14

Ch. 2: Which persons copied works of ancient literature thus preventing cherished tests of Greek and Roman writers from being lost forever?

Answer 14

Monks