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HIST 1301 Quiz 1
HIST 1301 Quiz 1
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1
Which of the Platonic solids, represented by the Cube, cannot be transmuted (changed) into the others?
Water
Air
Fire
Earth
2
The Presocratics were mostly Monists. What does Monist mean?
They believed in a single god.
They believed in a single reality.
The believed that the cosmos was made of a single material.
They believed in a single world.
3
According to Aristotle which classification of animals was highest on his biological hierarchy?
Viviparous Quadrupeds
Mollusks
Oviparous Quadrupeds
Testacea
4
What does Jared Diamond theorize is most important for civilizations to flourish and innovate?
Geographic Wealth
Imperialistic Might
Higher populations
5
If engineers and architects already knew about Pythagorean triplets what was new in what Pythagorus did?
You had to join his cult to learn it.
He wrote it down.
He proved it in an abstract and purely mathematical way.
He claimed credit for it and said earlier mathematicians didn't know it.
6
What three things did Ancient Philosophers need to use to convince people that they were correct?
Force, Power and Eloquence
Rationality, Mathematics and Logic
Reason, Logic, Observation
Debate, Logic and Reason
7
Which of the following was not an important prerequisite for the development of scientific thought?
Contact with other cultures
Democracy
Prosperity
Literacy
8
When society provides for individuals who then contribute with special skills, it is called:
Diversification
Apprenticeship training
Specialization
Education
9
What were the Presocratic 'Schools of Thought'?
Groups of students and teachers who thought about the same problems.
Groups of scholars who published their work together in collected works.
Physical Buildings that scholars studied in.
10
Who founded the Academy in Athens in 388?
Socrates
Plato
Empedocles
Aristotle
11
Plato called his supreme deity (the creator of the cosmos) the:
Demiurge
God
Zeus
Unmoved Mover
12
Fully alphabetic languages were developed by____ and widely in use by______.
3000 BCE & 2000 BCE
800 BCE & 500 BCE
100 BCE & 200 CE
1500 BCE & 800 BCE
13
When we talk about the Presocratics, we are referring to a period that stretched from
400 BCE - 146 CE
400-600 CE
3000 BCE - 400 CE
600-400 BCE
14
The Cosmos, according to Plato, is the product of:
Will of the gods
Reason and planning
Randomness
The Big Bang
15
Which Presocratic asserted that everything was made of atoms with voids in between?
Thales
Aristotle
Empedocles
Democritus
16
What is missing here from Aristotle's Epistemology?
Knowledge
Repeated Experience
Memory
Thoughtfulness
17
What is missing from this chart of Aristotle's qualities?
ice
fire
blood
hot
18
Plato believed that you could trust your senses.
False
True
19
The Civilizations that arose in Egypt, Mesopotamia, China and the Indus Valley are collectively called:
Antique Empires
Ancient River Valley Civilizations
Four River Civilizations
River Cities
20
According to Aristotle's system of biology what type of soul did humans, plants and animals all share in common?
Nutritive
Creative
Sensitive
Rational
21
Aristotle believed the cosmos to be divided into two realms, he called them:
Celestial and Terrestrial
Earth and Heavens
Wet and Dry
Starry and Earthy
22
When did the Neolithic Revolution occur?
10,000 BCE (Before Common Era)
12,000-10,000 years BP (Before Present)
12,000 BCE (Before Common Era)
2000 years BP (Before Present)
23
According to Aristotle's Theory of Levity, Fire will always:
Move away from the centre of the universe.
Balance between the celestial and terrestrial spheres.
Move toward the sun.
24
Which Presocratic proposed that the cosmos was made up of Earth, Water, Fire & Air?
Empedocles
Thales
Democritus
Anaximander
25
What is the purpose of a Cosmogony?
Understand how the universe works.
Explain the origins of the universe (cosmos).
Explain the basic laws of physics.
Pass on history of a people.
26
What school of thought, credited with being the first in Europe, was founded by Thales?
Pythagoreans
Thalesians
Neoplatonics
Milesians
27
What was the most important question for the Presocratics?
What is change?
What am I?
Where am I?
Who am I?
28
In Aristotle's Theory of Levity the man in the picture represents:
Natural Motion
Violent Motion
Resistance
Hercules
29
Which of Plato's treatises survived relatively intact in the West through the Middle Ages?
Theagues
The Republic
Timaeus
On Virtue
