ENG 211 Midterm

Question 1

Gilgamesh

Answer 1

published - c. 1500 BC
author - unknown

Question 2

Genesis

Answer 2

published - c. 500 BC
author - JEP

Question 3

Hymn to the Sun

Answer 3

published - c. 1350 BC
author - Akhenaten

Question 4

The Leiden Hymns

Answer 4

published - c. 1250 BC
author - unknown

Question 5

The Koran

Answer 5

published - c. 600 AD
author - Mohammad

Question 6

Oedipus the King

Answer 6

published - c. 450 BC
author - Sophocles

Question 7

Antigone

Answer 7

published - c. 450 BC
author - Sophocles

Question 8

Caedmon’s Hymn

Answer 8

published - c. 660 AD
author - Caedmon

Question 9

The Dream of the Rood

Answer 9

published - c. 744 AD
author - anonymous

Question 10

c. 10,000 BC

Answer 10

agriculture in the fertile crescent (Mesopotamia)

Question 11

c. 3,000s BC

Answer 11

Sumerians conquered Mesopotamia

Question 12

c. 3,500 BC

Answer 12

invention of writing (cuneiform)

Question 13

c. 3,000 BC

Answer 13

massive flood (“world ending”)

Question 14

c. 3,000 - 2,800 BC

Answer 14

revolution of writing (phonological)

Question 15

c. 2,700 BC

Answer 15

Gilgamesh ruled Uruk

Question 16

c. 2,000 BC

Answer 16

stories about Gilgamesh appear (all orally)

Question 17

c. 1,300 BC

Answer 17

Sin-lequi-unninni made one big Gilgamesh story

Question 18

c. 600 BC

Answer 18

Nineveh; Ashurbanipal loses the palace (they have a really big library)

Question 19

c. 1840 AD

Answer 19

someone dug up Ashurbanipal and found the one big Gilgamesh story in the library

Question 20

1857 AD

Answer 20

cuneiform is translated

Question 21

1872 AD

Answer 21

“Noah’s flood happened” Gilgamesh proved this because it talked about the flood also

Question 22

c. 5,000s BC

Answer 22

Africans move to Egypt for the Nile River

Question 23

c. 3,100 BC

Answer 23

Egypt becomes a nation-state

Question 24

c. 2,800 BC

Answer 24

the date of the Great Pyramids being built

Question 25

525 BC

Answer 25

the Persians invaded Egypt

Question 26

332 BC

Answer 26

Alexander the Great invaded Egypt

Question 27

332 BC - 400 AD

Answer 27

Pharaoh’s were Greek instead of Egyptian

Question 28

1799 AD

Answer 28

the French dug up the Rosetta Stone

Question 29

c. 1820 AD

Answer 29

interpret the Rosetta Stone (Champollion)

Question 30

c. 570 AD

Answer 30

Mohammad is born in Mecca

Question 31

c. 595 AD

Answer 31

he marries Khadija (he was 25 and she was 40)

Question 32

c. 610 AD

Answer 32

Gabriel recites the Koran to Mohammad orally

Question 33

July 16th, 622 AD

Answer 33

Mohammad and his followers fled to Mecca to Medina

Question 34

624 AD

Answer 34

Battle of Badr - he takes Mecca back

Question 35

632 AD

Answer 35

Mohammad dies

Question 36

c. 650 AD

Answer 36

the Koran is written down

Question 37

c. 700 AD

Answer 37

the Koran is spread around the world

Question 38

c. 600 - 1066 AD

Answer 38

Old English Period

Question 39

c. 1066 AD - 1450 AD

Answer 39

Middle English Period

Question 40

1450 AD - current day

Answer 40

Modern English

Question 41

c. 1,000 BC

Answer 41

beginning of German culture

Question 42

43 AD

Answer 42

the Romans invade Britain

Question 43

98 AD

Answer 43

Tacitus “published” Germania

Question 44

c. 400 AD

Answer 44

the Romans withdrew from Britain

Question 45

c. 450 AD

Answer 45

Britain asked the Angles and Saxons for “protection”

Question 46

597 AD

Answer 46

England is evangelized

Question 47

871-899 AD

Answer 47

King Alfred ruled - fought off the vikings

Question 48

October 14th, 1066

Answer 48

Battle of Hastings (the French won)

Question 49

1450 AD

Answer 49

the printing press is invented