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Systems week QUIZ REVIEW
Systems week QUIZ REVIEW
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Quiz on various systems used in studying history, civilization and religions.
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What is the purpose of historiography?
helps us listen to the music of the artist formerly known as Prince
helps understand why historical events have been interpreted in varied ways
helps us examine characteristics that shape the recording of history itself
help understand why astronomy is so important to NASA
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Polytheism refers to having multiple what?
dogs
gods
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The Fertile crescent/Middle east hosted the growth of what 2 things?
growth of mohawk-hair
growth of agriculture
growth of monotheistic religions
growth of slime
4
Representative democracy is the same as a republic
Uh huh
Nope
Yes
I don't understand
5
A Dictatorship is often synonymous (similar to)...
My cat rules my life
Totalitarianism
Complete control by a single human
Control by 1 person
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What is the most ancient form of belief? (of these)
Christianity
monotheism
ancestor worship
Zoroastrianism
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AD and CE were updated to BCE and CE because...
huh... come again...?
the new labels better represent non-Christians
no one remembers what AD means
there are non-Christians in the world
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The purpose of government systems is to avoid chaos as people live in neolithic civilizations
True
False
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When a king makes political decisions for a state...
oligarchy
republic
dynasty
kingdom
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The oldest monotheistic, Abrahamic religion is..........
Judaism
Islam
Christianity
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What is a deity?
a god or goddess (in a religion)
a higher power (in a belief system)
a cat or cat-ess (in a polytheistic religion).
a dog or dog-ess (in a polytheistic religion).
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Which came first in terms of belief systems: monotheism or polytheism?
polytheism
monotheism
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Most all belief systems try to do what?
Tell you what happens after you die
Tell you what happens before you were here
Tells you what mode of transportation you should use
Tell you how you should behave during life
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Government systems existed even before civilizations, in the form of...
Leaders and followers
Leaders of tribes/groups of people
No, they didn't exist
Crocodiles < Alligators
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On a western timeline, the numbers get bigger as they...
move away from the 0 (that represents the birth of Jesus)
go to the right only
move toward the 0 (that represents the birth of Jesus)
go to the left only
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What does HISTORIOGRAPHY mean?
graphs about history
studying the study of history
geology
the study of the method of writing history in a critical manner
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Zoroastrianism has a prophet, like other savior/salvation-based belief systems?
Yes it does and his name is Mohamed
Yes it does and his name is David
Yes it does and his name is Abraham
Yes it does and his name is Zarathustra
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What is the most ancient form of belief? (of these)
Zoroastrianism
monotheism
animism
Christianity
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What do BC, BCE, AD and CE represent?
periods of time
time periods
periods of color
.s
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The newst monotheistic, Abrahamic religion is..........
Christianity
Islam
Judaism
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Zoroastrianism is older than Judaism?
True
False
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Why are there arrows on both “ends” or “sides” of a timeline?
mauve
because we don't know when the first tortoise was born
because we don't know when time will end (to the right of the zero)
because we don't know when time began (to the left of the zero)
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AD stands for Anno domini, meaning "in the year of our _________"? (fill-in-the-blank with the literal translation)
deity
love
lice
Lord
24
What is the o (zero) on a western timeline depicting (representing_?
The division between white and red stripes on an American flag
an egg
The division between BCE and CE time periods
the birth of Christianity's deity, Jesus
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CE and BCE represent an older/Jesus-centric way of marking time...
No.
Yes.
I live in CE (I think?)
What's BCE?
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Where citizens truly vote on all matters...
direct democracy
representative democracy
republic
democracy
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The United states is a republic
False
True
28
The Christian/Jesus-centered time and calendar-keeping system is...
a piece of westernization
used around the world
a result of Christianity and westernization
one of many systems
29
Before monotheism was...
polytheism
x-ray machines
ancestor worship
animism
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Westernization is a system...
I don't understand the question
Yes
No
:D
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Christianity believes in
God
ALlah
The Holy Trinity
32
Poly is a suffix in a word like Polytheism?
No, it's a prefix
What's a suffix?
Yes
No
33
What term means "belief in one god"?
Christianity
monotheism
Torah
Allah
34
The Vatican is a theocractic dictatorship?
True
False
35
Where citizens choose representatives that truly vote on all matters...
republic
representative democracy
direct democracy
democracy
36
AD and BC represent an older/Jesus-centric way of marking time...
What's BCE?
I live in CE (I think?)
Yes.
No.
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How many deities are there in Zoroastrian worship?
Over 1 million
1
3
48
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Government system with religion as the main decision-maker/most powerful element...
democracy
republic
totalitarianism
theocracy
39
There are multiple calendar/time-keeping systems in the world, including...
Is it time to eat yet? calendar
The Gregorian calendar
The Muslim calendar, the Hijrī
The Lunar calendar
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Islam believes in
The Holy Trinity
Allah
Jehovah
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Zoroastrian worship has ________ as their single, monotheistic deity...
Ahura mazda
Hasta la vista
Toyota
Nike
