Midterm-Matching

Question 1

1. Egyptians

Answer 1

Osiris- ruler of the underworld and god of the dead
Isis- Osiris’ wife, Queen of Heaven
Horus- sky god and god of war and hunting
Ra- sun god
Anubis- god of dead
Religion- Book of the Dead-collection of funerary prayers

Question 2

1. Sumerians

Answer 2

Tiamat- the Great Mother of the primeval waters
Marduk- hero-god, offspring of Wisdom
deities of nature
Religion- The Babylonian Creation-birth of gods and order of creation

Question 3

1. ancient China

Answer 3

local spirits associated with natural forces, rivers, mountains, and crops. Most powerful of the personalized spirits were those of deceased ancestors. The spirits of deceased ancestors continued to exist in heaven, assumed their role as mediators between heaven and earth. The dead and the living shared a cosmos animated by spirits and regulated by the natural order
Yin/yang
The natural order was also worshipped in the form of nature spirits and celestial deities
Lord on High (Shang-di)
heaven (Tian) they regulated the workings of the universe and guided the destines of the people
marriage of Tian (the creative principle, or heaven) and Kun (the receptive principle, or earth)
I jing (The Book of Changes)-interprets operations of the universe

Question 4

1. Indus Valley

Answer 4

Brahman- single, all-pervading cosmic force
Vishnu-manifestation of Brahman
Vedas, Upanishads

Question 5

Catullus

Answer 5

wrote on friendship, love, and sex. passion, personal feeling, Poems of Lesbia

Question 6

Ovid

Answer 6

Metamorphoses-collection of stories about Greek and Roman gods develops the theme of supernatural transformation, poetry and love, art of seduction. The Art of Love, antifemale

Question 7

Virgil

Answer 7

wrote the semilegendary epic that immortalized Rome’s destiny as world ruler. The Aeneid was a literary epic, undertaken to rival the epics of Homer. The hero is Rome’s mythical founder, the Trojan-born Aeneas.
the primacy of duty-of the citizen, the warrior, and the state, became the foundation for education in Latin language

Question 8

Lucretius

Answer 8

describe the world in purely physical terms

Question 9

Horace

Answer 9

critical view of Roman life, wrote verses that exposed various types of human folly-self-indulgence, vanity, ambition, and greed by pointing up the contradictions between practical realities and abstract ideals,
satire-humor- war, patriotism, and everyday conduct, celebrates life and laments its brevity

Question 10

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Answer 10

produced more than 900 letters and more than 100 speeches and essays, clarity and eloquence, political realities

Question 11

Feudalism

Answer 11

the system of political organization prevailing in Europe between the ninth and fifteenth centuries and having as its basis the exchange of land for military defense

Question 12

investiture

Answer 12

the procedure by which a feudal lord granted a vassal control over a fief

Question 13

manorialism

Answer 13

the economic basis of medieval feudalism involving mutual obligations between feudal lords and serfs

Question 14

serf

Answer 14

an unfree peasant

Question 15

vassal

Answer 15

any member of the feudal nobility who vowed to serve a lord in exchange for control of a fief (land)

Question 16

Pillar 1. Testimony of Faith

Answer 16

There is no true god but God and Muhammad is the Messenger of God

Question 17

Prayer

Answer 17

perform prayers 5 times a day (dawn, noon, mid-afternoon, sunset, night)

Question 18

Giving Zakat (Support of the Needy)

Answer 18

give two and a half of possessions away

Question 19

Fasting the Month of Ramadan

Answer 19

fast from dawn until sundown, abstaining from food, drink, and sexual relations

Question 20

The Pilgrimage to Makkah

Answer 20

hajj (journey) to Makkah