REVIEW FOR TEST I
THIS REVIEW SHEET IS NOT MEANT TO BE EXHAUSTIVE OF ALL OF THE
TOPICS THAT WILL BE ON THE TEST. IT IS MEANT TO SERVE AS ONE COMPONENT
OF SOUND TEST PREPARATION, WHICH ALSO INVOLVES A CAREFUL READING OF
BOTH COURSE TEXTBOOKS AND A THOROUGH REVIEW OF CLASS NOTES. PS: Make
sure you bring a scan-tron for the test!!
Cro-Magnons
- When they lived
- What their artwork depicted
- Where can some of their artwork be found
- Why their artwork was created
- What happened around 8000 BC?
Mesopotamians
- What the word ‘Mesopotamia’ means
- What their system of writing was called
- The name and function of their towers to the gods
- Where Abraham came from
- Who is Gudea?
Babylonians
- Who was Hammurabi and when did he rule?
- What are some of the noteworthy things about his rule?
- What is a ‘stele’?
<>What does the Hammurabi stele reveal about the need/desire for
religious-based justice?
- What happened to the Jews after the Babylonians conquered them?
- What is the subject matter of Psalm 137: "By the rivers of
Babylon..."?
Gilgamesh (since we did not have the reading in yet, you need only
focus on the lecture points made about the last three questions...)
- Who are Ishtar, Gilgamesh, and Enkidu?
- Why is Gilgamesh distressed in the excerpt?
- Why is Ishtar upset with Gilgamesh?
- What view of women do you suspect the author has?
- In the story of the flood, why is Enlil upset with humans?
- What famous story famously resembles the story of the flood from Gilgamesh?
Israelites
- Who is the founder of Judaism?
- Why did their artwork/creativity center almost
exclusively around writing?
- What does 'diaspora' mean?
- What is the importance of the Jewish State for
their religion?
- How does this bear on the current Mid-East
crisis?
Egyptians
- Why was Egyptian society "like a pyramid"?
- Who was Khufu?
- What river made Egyptian farming possible?
- What is Amenhotep IV most remembered for?
- know the difference be/t trascendence, immanence, monotheism,
polytheism
- Was his contribution respected and continued by other Egyptian
pharaohs?
- Describe how monotheism in Egypt unifies the land and takes power
from the priests
- What are the distinctive features of Egyptian art?
- What is a Ka?
Minoans, Myenaeans
- Where is the Palace at Knossos and who is credited with
discovering it?
- The wall painting which shows boxing children was found
where?
- Where is the Lion Gate found? What does this
suggest about the civilization?
- What is the main difference between the videotape account and the
textbook account of the Minoans’ demise?
- What are the features of Minoan art?
Hellenic style
- Who was Pericles?
- What was the Delian League?
- Describe the idea of ‘citizen soldier’
- Compare the Athenian "way of life" as recounted by Thucydides to
the American way of life as articulated by George W. Bush in his
9/20/01 speech.
- What is Pythagoras remembered for?
- What is/was the acropolis?
- Where was the treasury of the Delian league held?
- Compare and contrast the Doric and Ionic orders and list the
major architecture that falls under each order.
- What three places were sculptures found in/on the Parthenon?
- What is ‘hubris’?
- How did Greek sculpture evolve from ~600 BC to ~350 BC?
- Discuss how reason and the emotions conflict in Sophocles’ Oedipus
Rex
- What are the essentials of tragedy, according to Aristotle?
- How many people could the Theatre of Dionysus hold?
- Why were masks necessary props in Greek drama?
- Who is the founder of Greek tragedy?
- What is catharsis [katharsis]?
- How does Socrates view the role of women in government?
- How does Socrates view the importance of the philosopher in
government?
- What is the Allegory of the Cave?
- Describe the views of Reason and Well-Being in Gligamesh,
Oedipus, and the Allegory of the Cave
- What are Rationalism, Idealism, and Humanism?