World History Chapter 1

Question 1

How should we study history?

Answer 1

From God’s perspective

Question 2

What are history’s two great time periods?

Answer 2

B.C. and A.D.

Question 3

What does B.C. mean?

Answer 3

“Before Christ “

Question 4

What does A.D. mean

Answer 4

“Anno Domini” in the year of our Lord

Question 5

What is a fabled process of progressive change, dependent on chance, and time with the origin of life on earth?

Answer 5

Evolution

Question 6

What is the focal point of all history?

Answer 6

Jesus’s incarnation, birth, life, death, resurrection, and ascension

Question 7

What are history three eras?

Answer 7

Ancient
Medieval
Modern

Question 8

Fall of the Roman empire - the beginning of the Protestant Revolution

Answer 8

Medieval history

Question 9

Another name for the Flood

Answer 9

Deluge

Question 10

What is an institution that has both authority and power to control, direct into rule in the actions and affairs of others?

Answer 10

Government

Question 11

4000 B.C. - A.D. 500

Answer 11

Ancient History

Question 12

What is The first foundational civil ordinance

Answer 12

Capital Punishment

Question 13

What are man’s three special characteristics?

Answer 13

• language and thought
• knowing the difference between right and wrong
• freedom to make choices

Question 14

Having supreme power over all nations, rulers, and individuals

Answer 14

Sovereign

Question 15

Post-flood

Answer 15

Postdiluvian

Question 16

We are descendants of Noah’s three sons

Answer 16

Shem, Ham, Japheth

Question 17

A large group of people who think of themselves as one

Answer 17

Nation

Question 18

Who was the builder of the first world empire, Babel?

Answer 18

Nimrod

Question 19

Another name for lower Mesopotamia?

Answer 19

Plain of Shinar

Question 20

What are the three key factors that give rise to new varieties within a species in a short period of time?

Answer 20

• a rapidly changing environment
• a small population
• extensive inbreeding

Question 21

What is the worship of man?

Answer 21

Humanism

Question 22

Descendant of Shem/ Means “division”, because in his days was the Earth divided.

Answer 22

Peleg

Question 23

Divisions of people based on the color of their skin, size and shape of their head, kind and color of their hair, and other physical features?

Answer 23

Races

Question 24

Mankind disobeyed God’s command to replenish what?

Answer 24

The Postdiluvian earth

Question 25

As people began to disperse, what was formed?

Answer 25

Nations

Question 26

What does Genesis record?

Answer 26

The beginning of things

Question 27

What is the language of the descendants of Japheth?

Answer 27

Indo-European

Question 28

What is the time between the fall of man and the Flood of Noah’s day?

Answer 28

1,600 years

Question 29

Who is the builder of the first world empire?

Answer 29

Nimrod

Question 30

What event marked the beginning of the worlds many languages, nations, and races?

Answer 30

The dispersion at the Tower of Babel

Question 31

Who were the builders of the first two great civilizations after the flood?

Answer 31

Peleg and Nimrod

Question 32

The regions where are the descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japheth migrated

Answer 32

Shem- Asia
Ham- Shinar
Japheth- Caucasus Mts.