Copy of Western Civ_Brainscape 44_50

Question 1

Religion

Answer 1

the belief in a supreme being

Question 2

Polytheism

Answer 2

The belief in many gods

Question 3

Monotheism

Answer 3

The belief in a single god

Question 4

Old Testament

Answer 4

The religious text of ancient Israel written between 1200 and 100 BC

Question 5

Israelites

Answer 5

People from Israel who are Jewish

Question 6

Abraham

Answer 6

Father of the ancient Hebrew nation

Question 7

Exodus

Answer 7

When the Israelites wandered in the Sinai desert reaching Palestine

Question 8

Who founded Monotheism?

Answer 8

Abraham

Question 9

What are the three monotheistic religions?

Answer 9

Judaisn, Christianity, and Islam

Question 10

Who is called Father of the Faithful?

Answer 10

Abraham

Question 11

Covenant

Answer 11

An agreement between two parties to perform an act

Question 12

Prophet

Answer 12

God’s holy messenger and were very important!

Question 13

Thales

Answer 13

First Greek philospher who specualted that the world was Naturalistic and not Supernaturalistic

Question 14

Hippocrates

Answer 14

Leader of the school of medicine

Question 15

What did Hippocrates state?

Answer 15

Illness and disease were natural, not divine

Question 16

Thucydides

Answer 16

Said human behavior based on human nature and not the divine influence

Question 17

Xenophanes

Answer 17

Expressed opinion that humans think of the gods as resembling themselves

Question 18

Anaximander

Answer 18

Believed the world was made of an undefined substance

Question 19

Logos

Answer 19

The guiding principle that world is governed by reason

Question 20

Protagoras of Abdera

Answer 20

An agnostic who questioned the existence of gods

Question 21

Democratic State

Answer 21

Political areas where laws were made by man

Question 22

Parmenides and Empedeocles

Answer 22

Both felt reality was permanent and four elements could only be moved by attraction and repulsion

Question 23

What are the four basic elements

Answer 23

Fire, earth, water, and air

Question 24

What forces did Parmenides and Empedeocles think could move the four elements

Answer 24

Attraction and repulsion

Question 25

Where did the Israelites wander during the Exodus

Answer 25

The Sinai Desert

Question 26

Where did the Israelites end up after the Exodus

Answer 26

Palestine

Question 27

What two lands did Israel become when it broke up in 900 BCE?

Answer 27

Israel and Judah

Question 28

Who led the Egyptian Israelites to Palestine in 1400BCE?

Answer 28

Moses

Question 29

Who were the kings during Israel’s peak (1000-922BCE)

Answer 29

King David and King Solomon

Question 30

When was the destruction of Jerusalem?

Answer 30

586 BCE

Question 31

Why did Greek thinkers, beginning in the 6th century BCE produce an intellectual revolution

Answer 31

Because of the influences of Italy and Ionia

Question 32

How was the Hebrew of concept of God and religion distinctive

Answer 32

It was the first to focus one all-knowing, all-powerful God