Chapter 1

Question 1

Why do we begin our study of world history with the book of Genesis?

Answer 1

Genesis, the first book of the Bible, is the most reliable source for what we need to know about the beginning of world history.

Question 2

Why is man special to God?

Answer 2

Because man was created in the image of God.

Question 3

List three special characteristics of man?

Answer 3

1) Language and thought
2) awareness of the difference between right and wrong
3) freedom to make choices

Question 4

What is Genesis?

Answer 4

The first book of the Bible, is the most reliable source for what we need to know about the beginning of world history.

Question 5

Who was Adam?

Answer 5

First man created by God.

Question 6

Who was Eve?

Answer 6

First woman created by God.

Question 7

What was the first human sin?

Answer 7

Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Question 8

What effect did sin have on world history?

Answer 8

Paradise was lost, and the world took on many characteristics familiar to us like violence and death.

Question 9

What is a culture?

Answer 9

A culture is the way of life of a group of people

Question 10

What is the most important part of a culture?

Answer 10

The most important part of a culture is how people relate to God.

Question 11

Which culture tends to be stronger in world history: Cain’s or Seth’s?

Answer 11

Cain’s

Question 12

What is evolution?

Answer 12

The story that man was not created by God but instead “evolved” from the animals.

Question 13

What is humanism?

Answer 13

Humanism is putting man in place of or above God.

Question 14

Who is Cain?

Answer 14

Cain was one of the first two sons of Adam and Eve. Cain killed his brother Abel.

Question 15

Who is Abel?

Answer 15

Abel was one of the first two sons of Adam and Eve.

Question 16

Who is Lamech?

Answer 16

Lamech was a descendant of Cain. He bragged openly of killing a man who had wounded him and a boy who had merely struck him.

Question 17

Who is Seth?

Answer 17

After the murder of Abel and God’s banishment of Cain, Adam and Eve had another son named Seth.

Question 18

Who is Noah?

Answer 18

Noah became the only hope for the continued existence of the human race.

Question 19

Why did God send the Flood?

Answer 19

The earth was so filled with evil that God in His justice could no longer tolerate it.

Question 20

How much did man learn from the Flood?

Answer 20

Men had learned little from the Flood

Question 21

What are the two names for the place where the survivors of the Flood settled?

Answer 21

Shimar and Sumer

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Tower of Babel

Question 23

What is a nation?

Answer 23

A nation is a large group of people who think of themselves as one and act in history as a unit.

Question 24

Who is Shem?

Answer 24

Son of Noah.

Question 25

Who is Ham?

Answer 25

Son of Noah.

Question 26

Who is Japeth?

Answer 26

Son of Noah.

Question 27

Who is Nimrod?

Answer 27

Nimrod is a descendant of Noah’s son Him emerged as a leader. He had a reputation as a mighty hunter and as a rebel against God.

Question 28

What is Babel?

Answer 28

A city, later known as Babylon.

Question 29

What is capital punishment?

Answer 29

The death penalty, God established to teach the sanctity.