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a little history tes
world history
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what did the author intend when he said wells and mirrors were like the nature of history | .mirrors stacked next to eachother:goes back forever .a burning peice of paper going down a well reflects off the edges at first (you can see history that wasnt tooo long ago) but as it goes farhther you could hardly see it any more |
| cavemen: what were their advances in history that helped us... and what did it mean | fire,speech,pics,planting grasses,bread,tents,pile dwellings or rivers and lakes, tools,metals,clay pots,taming animals.....they learned to tame their envirement. |
| how did egyptian politics and religon intertwine together | .pharos decended from the sun god Amon (which made him alway right and perfect .pyrimids were giant tombs symbolizing the power of pharos . pharos were mumified to preserve the body for the spirit |
| what was the perpose of the summerian and babylon ziggurats? | ziggurats were towers constucted by piling terraces one upon the other in order to observe the moon,stars,and planests better. the stars (planets) held great astrological power power over the destinies of the people |
| could the tower of babel be represtented in the world today? | people attempted to build a tower that would reach the heavans. god got angry @ their pride & stopped them from making it any higher by making everyone speak different languages.parel today: people have dif culture & beiliefs, makes it hard 2 cooperate |
| how does the story of exedous & creatio | |
| cavemen: what were their advances in history that helped us... and what did it mean | fire,speech,pics,planting grasses,bread,tents,pile dwellings or rivers and lakes, tools,metals,clay pots,taming animals.....they learned to tame their envirement. |
| how did egyptian politics and religon intertwine together | .pharos decended from the sun god Amon (which made him alway right and perfect .pyrimids were giant tombs symbolizing the power of pharos . pharos were mumified to preserve the body for the spirit |
| what was the perpose of the summerian and babylon ziggurats? | ziggurats were towers constucted by piling terraces one upon the other in order to observe the moon,stars,and planests better. the stars (planets) held great astrological power power over the destinies of the people |
| could the tower of babel be represtented in the world today? | people attempted to build a tower that would reach the heavans. god got angry @ their pride & stopped them from making it any higher by making everyone speak different languages.parel today: people have dif culture & beiliefs, makes it hard 2 cooperate |
| how does the story of exedous & creation of jewish kingdom parellel to modern isreal | a story of moses leading jews out of egypt. the middle east was a battle field as varios group/tribes in search of better land. isreal continues to fight for survival in a regon hostile to existance |
| how r phosicians linked to literacey | they created a 26 letter alphebet to write their language. they were active traders on the mediteranien sea. they 2 introduced their alphebet and there business |
| explain the development of early greece | early greeks traveled throught the mediteranian sea. they created many city-states.they absorbed new ideas from other cultures on the mediteranean, wich made the dominant on the mediteranean sea |
| explain thekey elements in the greek victory over the persian empire | expanded east to india,wst to turkey,ultimately encounteringgreek city states . persains wanted tribute, the greeeks refused. the greeks won although out numered |
| what were spartans like | dorian invaders , who bult a milliteristic sociaty based on slavery. cheif goal:defence, boys were treated harshly and raised to be solers @ the age of 7, men lived in barracks |
| what were athhenians like | base on economy of trade. outward looking. based on economy of citizens. debate was encouraged. cultural deveopments :philophy,drama,history,science& rhetoric |
| explain buddas middle way $&biographical info on the enlightment of guatama | buddah: as a child was sheltered, he leaves his dad's palace and sees 1.an old man 2.a sick man 3.a dead man, experiencing suffering he becomes a hermit. he discovers want=suffering. so he gives up hisdesires,and acheveded the iner calmness(enlightened 1 |
| explain what confucios ment when he was identifying the root of humanity. why does h.h gombrich like gombrich better than lao tzu | confusious wanted his government to be a family(concern for one another) lao tzu wanted to meditate and let the tao come to him. |
| explain a story between alex the great and diogenese | alex sees old diogenes in the street and grants him a wish, diogenese wish is for alex to move from the sunlight. alex said "i choose toto be diogenese"..... encountering a gourdan knot( unraveling=kink of kings) alex cut it with his sword |
| contast romans with athenieans | romans were pesants, they cared little for travel and valuued their cattle and native land,the loved their native city and would fight &die to see it become more powerful |
| was rome justifed in the destroying of carthage | hananble and carthage directly attacked rome |
| shishang hated history, should governments control history? | emporer shi shung 's reson fo hating history was to wipe out evry of how things have been done before he could build on entire new china |
| is slavery natural in a society based on warfare & class distintion | in rome as the empire expanded the rich became richer, and they got farms, which needed slaves.they looked down on the people the conquared |
| comment on neros' scapegoating on the christians to deflect criticism against himself for burning rome | nero wrote a poem about troy while a neiborhood in rome was burning down, some accused him of the fire, but he blamed it on the christians (they rejected emporer worship,they worshiped god) |
| discribe the general circumstances that explain the scattering jews (the diaspora) | in the last century BC, jews rebeled against the roman empire. romans starved and crushed jews and demolished jerusilum. from this point to the end of ww1 the jews wandered in small communities across the world facing procecution. |
| what did monks contribute to us and there peirs | .they made and gathered scroles and ancients texts for us to read .scroll went from them to scollors to middle ages to renecauns to u.s monks . they taught an illiterate pop. |
| compare mahamuds life to jesus | simaler; dovotion to god, old testamate,bothe served as a voice for god diff;M claimed to be the only prophet having the truth from god comeues him through gabriel, J claimed to be the son of god |
| compare and contast the spead of islam with the spread of christianity around europe | similar:both by war |
| what wer the methods that charlemagne the great used to forge the european empire | war,forced noncathololics to convert he used messengers to unite his country, he allied himself with the pope |
| overview the history behind the phrase "going to conosa" intertwine this with your comentry | the investiture controvercy was a stuggle between the pope and the secular rulersof europe overthe latters apointmentof the church officials.european kings who apointed church officials , angered the pope @ he ex comun.the kings:they went for forgiv. &pol |
| summerize the code of chivalry and contrast it with the atrrocities of jurusalim | code of chivalry: required a knight to be good, fair,and honorable, however in practice masacred innocent people |
| discribe charecteristics that not only made fred 2 a shining example of chivalry | wordly and wise from living in sicaly , knowledgeamle of religons, a good diplomate , ingenios and practical |
| how was the babylon captivity of the pope symbolkic of a changing order later in the middle ages | the king of fance became more powerful than the pope. from rometo france popes were forced to live in france life was becoming more ... in cities |
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