Humanities Midterm
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Jared Diamond | professor of biology, bird watcher, and author |
| Cargo | abundant possessions of white men |
| Question Jared Diamond seeks to answer | why white men have so much and New Guineans have so little |
| Sago | important food source for New Guineans, not a good source of protein, great deal of work to produce so little |
| Wheat | first cultivated in MIddle East, fairly easy to cultivate, can be stored for long periods |
| Why New Guineans didn't domesticate animals for farming | they didn't have any |
| Regions 14 major domestic farm animals originate | Middle East |
| Civilizations that arose in Mesopotamia | Summerians, Asyrians, Babylonians |
| The Hebrew Bible contains laws which | resemble Hammurabi's Code |
| In the Book of Job | Job questions God |
| The Epic of Gilgamesh | world's first epic; precedes Hebrew Bible, details hero's search for eternal life |
| First man to form a covenant with Yahweh | Abraham |
| Hammurabi's Code | valuable index to life in Mesopotamia; comprehensive written code; not all criminals punished equally |
| Ziggurat | symbolized linking between heaven and earth, attended by priests and priestesses, cuneiform tablets |
| Gods sent the flood to destroy humanity in the Epic of Gilgamesh because | they were too noisy |
| Egytian social structure | permitted upward movement NOT rigid |
| Nile River | closely related to the god Osiris, annual inundation promoted ideas about resurrection, flows south to north |
| Best way to describe Egypt's political order | Theocratic Socialism |
| Produced no known epic literature | Ancient Egypt |
| Palette of Narmar | commemorates union of Upper and Lower Egypt, represents Lower Egypt with a severed head and papyrus, features falcon god Horus |
| Introduced monotheism to Ancient Egypt | Akhenaten |
| Greatest God of Egyptian Parthenon | Amon or Re |
| Hatshepsut | female pharoah who ruled for 22 years |
| Achilles prayed | to see his own men slaughtered |
| Patroclos was naked | because he was stripped after losing a battle |
| Priam | 50 sons |
| Jar in Zeus' hall | good things and bad things |
| Achilles first set of armor | Patroclos was killed in it |
| Achilles' spear | too big for any other warrior to wield successfully |
| Earliest Neolithic Chinese people worked to produce | silk |
| Atman + Brahmin | nirvana |
| Yin and Yang most closely associated with | Hindu ideas |
| Classic language of ancient India | sanskrit |
| China's oldest text | Book of changes |
| Most powerful personified spirits in ancient Chines world were | ancestors |
| Famous for bureaucracies and intricate testing systems | Zhou Dynasty |
| Olmecs named | after a tree |
| Ancient China did not produce any | epic literature |
| In India Religion is grounded in | pantheism |
| "rubber people" | Olmecs |
| Most ancient urban areas | Peru |
| Shang Dynasty | "Dragon Throne" |
| Dialectical Method | A question-and-answer style of inquiry made famous by Socrates |
| Psyche | that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings |
| Empirical Method | Gaining knowledge through the observation of events, the collection of data, and logical reasoning |
| Eudemonia | Greek word for "happiness."` |
| Sophists | traveling teachers that taught how to win an arguement; didn't believe in gods; refused the idea of an absolute right or wrong |
| Pre-Socratics | philosophers that preceeded Socrates; culmination was "the four basic elements of universe are fire, air, earth, water |
| Theory of Forms | A theory that proposes that all sensory objects are imitations of forms, which are perfect, ideal and eternal. |
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