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Course Introduction
History of Ideas explores the development, transformation, and influence of key concepts, philosophies, and intellectual movements throughout history. The course examines the origins and evolution of foundational ideas in areas such as politics, science, religion, ethics, and the arts, tracing how these ideas have shaped societies and individual worldviews over time. Through an interdisciplinary approach, students analyze pivotal texts and thinkers, engage with cross-cultural perspectives, and reflect on the enduring impact of historical ideas on contemporary debates and cultural practices.
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Discovering the Humanities 3rd Edition by Henry
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Chapter 1: The Prehistoric Past and the Earliest Civilizations
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Q1) Which of the following terms refers to a religion that includes many gods and goddesses often associated with natural forces and realms?
A) monotheism
B) theocracy
C) henotheism
D) polytheism
Answer: D
Q2) Discuss the tradition of Japanese Shinto.
Answer: Essay responses should include these points:
Shinto is the indigenous Japanese religion.
Their tumultuous origins stems from fragmented regional dispute.
There is shared mythology wherein the gods formed the land (islands).
Amaterasu Omikami is the principle deity of early Shinto, with myths mirroring the Pueblo religions.
Q3) Which of the following best defines myth?
A) a religious parable
B) a factual recounting of origin
C) an intentional fabrication
D) a story that a culture assumes is true
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The Greek World
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Q1) Who is responsible for one of the most famous of all Greek dictums,"Man is the measure of all things"?
A) Democritus
B) Protagoras
C) Heraclitus
D) Leucippus
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following words is derived from the Greek word meaning "rule of the people"?
A) areté
B) eudaimonia
C) anarchy
D) democracy
Answer: D
Q3) Which of the following is the name for a Greek vase with two handles?
A) amphora
B) areté
C) labrys
D) pyx
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Empire
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Q1) Chinese unification under Qin Shihuangdi embraced the idea the state was required to exercise power over the individual,known as
A) Legalism.
B) communism.
C) a monarchy.
D) an oligarchy.
Answer: A
Q2) What was the political result of Ovid's writings?
A) Augustus did not approve of the writings and banished Ovid from Rome.
B) Augustus promoted Ovid to a state position, giving him the title of "laureate."
C) Augustus commissioned Ovid to write an epic in the Greek style specifically for the Roman people.
D) Ovid was tried for treason and Augustus ordered his execution by hanging.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: The Flowering of Religion
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Q1) Which Christian symbol is derived from the Greek word ichthys?
A) anchor
B) fish
C) alpha and omega
D) good shepherd
Q2) Describe the political circumstances that led to the spread of Buddhism from India to China.
Q3) Which of the following is the English translation of Hagia Sophia?
A) Holy Water
B) Holy Wisdom
C) Holy Family
D) Holy Peace
Q4) Discuss the impact of Paul on the spread of Christianity.
Q5) Which of the following terms refers to Muhammad's series of successors who assumed political and religious authority following the death of the Prophet?
A) madrasas
B) caliphs
C) muqarnas
D) minarets
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Chapter 5: Fiefdom and Monastery, pilgrimage and Crusade
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Q1) Who established a monastery on the Scottish island of Iona?
A) Augustine
B) Columba
C) Eadfrith
D) Patrick
Q2) Who composed Lancelot,which centered on the adventures of a knight in King Arthur's court?
A) Bernard de Ventadour
B) Chrétien de Troyes
C) Marie de France
D) Beatriz de Dia
Q3) Who is the author of On the Misery of the Human Condition,whose message was adopted as official doctrine of the Western Catholic Church?
A) St. Benedict
B) St. Augustine
C) Pope Innocent III
D) Odo of Cluny
Q4) Summarize the historical inaccuracies included in the Song of Roland.
Q5) Discuss the changes that occurred as a result of pilgrimages.
Q6) Discuss Charlemagne's contributions to literacy and the changes that resulted. Page 7
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Chapter 6: The Gothic and the Rebirth of Naturalism
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Q1) Which of the following is a collection of musical works created by many composers-a collection in which the pieces are arranged in cycles to provide music for all the feast days of the Church calendar?
A) Magnus Liber Organi
B) Sic et Non
C) Roman de la Rose
D) Viderunt Omnes
Q2) Why would conservative Christians be reluctant to accept Thomas Aquinas' writings on God?
A) Reason can never know God directly.
B) The summa was in conflict with the current papacy.
C) The political affiliations of Aquinas were in question.
D) The guild influence discredited Aquinas.
Q3) Which of the following was considered the "spiritual center" of the cult of the Virgin during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries?
A) Paris
B) Amiens
C) Reims
D) Chartres
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Chapter 7: The Renaissance
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Q1) Why was Lorenzo de' Medici given the nickname of il Magnifico?
A) He was a great champion of the city's arts and education.
B) He incited riots within the textile industry to change the guild regulations and raise wages
C) He endowed the city of Lucca with a university that became known for its course in practical "applied" skills
D) He reduced the taxation of the lower economic classes, creating more equal distribution of wealth.
Q2) Who is credited for having coined the term "Platonic love"?
A) Marsilio Ficino
B) Sandro Botticelli
C) Heinrich Isaac
D) Pico della Mirandola
Q3) Which Italian term means casual effortlessness,a characteristic appropriate for both men and women?
A) subito
B) l'uomo universale
C) sassi
D) sprezzatura
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Chapter 8: Renaissance and Reformation in the North
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Q1) Who created the Isenheim Altarpiece?
A) Albrecht Dürer
B) Hieronymus Bosch
C) Jan van Eyck
D) Matthias Grünewald
Q2) Martin Luther's argument stated that moral virtue is not measured in good deeds but through faith.How might this contradict the Church's view?
A) The Church encouraged works, deeds, and the sale of indulgences (monetary payment for remission of sinful acts).
B) The Church promoted the creation of visual art for didactic and liturgical purposes.
C) The Church openly encouraged philosophies that bolstered liturgical goals.
D) The Church promoted political agenda for the "godly" leadership of civic office.
Q3) Which of the following is among the hymns that Martin Luther composed?
A) "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God"
B) "Amazing Grace"
C) "Rock of Ages"
D) "Just As I Am"
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Chapter 9: Encounter and Confrontation
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Q1) Which of the following terms identifies a horseshoe-shaped copper or brass object,which served as the standard medium of exchange in the Benin culture?
A) oba
B) lyalode
C) manilla
D) bwoom
Q2) Discuss the role of the samurai during the Kamakura period.
Q3) Why was the apse of Santo Domingo built in its current location?
A) to intentionally impose the symbol of Christian power over the circular wall of the Coricancha, a site of Inca worship
B) to establish a place of Christian worship as the locals requested
C) to appease the local traditions of sacred ground
D) to use the land directed specifically from the Spanish monarchy
Q4) Who led the Spanish expedition that conquered the Inca Empire in Peru in 1533 with an army of only 180 men?
A) Francisco Pizarro
B) Hernán Cortés
C) Diego de Durán
D) Bernardino de Sahagún
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Chapter 10: The Counter-Reformation and the Baroque
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Q1) In Caravaggio's The Calling of Saint Matthew,what technique adds to the drama of the scene?
A) tenebrism
B) atmospheric perspective
C) chiaroscuro
D) foreshortening
Q2) What event caused Versailles to become the unofficial capital of France?
A) King Louis XIV permanently moved his court and government offices there.
B) His residence in Paris was in danger of siege from riotous crowds.
C) Louis's health required a bucolic setting.
D) Louis wished to establish his power and authority as king outside of Paris.
Q3) Contrast Bernini's David to Michelangelo's David.
Q4) Summarize the situation that resulted in a "name change" for Paolo Veronese's Last Supper.
Q5) Who served as the head of the Royal Academy of Music and created a new operatic genre known as tragédie en musique?
A) Nicolas Poussin
B) Peter Paul Rubens
C) Roger de Piles
D) Jean-Baptiste Lully
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Chapter 11: Enlightenment and Rococo
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Q1) Tattooing is most closely associated with the traditions of which of the following?
A) the Tahitians
B) the Marquesas Islanders
C) the Maori
D) the Easter Islanders
Q2) Which of the following artists suggested the subject matter for The Swing?
A) Marie-Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
B) Jean-Antoine Watteau
C) Gabriel-François Doyen
D) François Boucher
Q3) What is the intended meaning behind Hobbes's Leviathan?
A) Humankind's only hope is to submit to a higher authority.
B) The monarchy is the only divinely ordained authority.
C) The independence of humans is based solely on intellect.
D) Industry is the only hope for the poor and disadvantaged.
Q4) Explain how the Great Fire of London can be viewed as both a curse and a blessing.
Q5) Contrast the philosophes and the aristocracy.
Q6) Discuss the characteristics of a typical English garden.
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Chapter 12: The Age of Revolution
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Q1) Who is the author of "Tintern Abbey"?
A) John Keats
B) John Constable
C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D) William Wordsworth
Q2) Discuss the significance and meaning of The Oath of the Horatii by Jacques-Louis David.
Q3) Who is specifically mentioned as being among those killed during the event captured in the engraving known as The Bloody Massacre?
A) Thomas Paine
B) George Mason
C) Crispus Attucks
D) Paul Revere
Q4) How was David's The Oath of the Horatii relevant to his day?
A) The story is a parable of loyal devotion to the state.
B) The subject only demonstrates the strength of the male figures.
C) The central figures are wealthy young men, pledging allegiance to the Protestant uprising.
D) The work is rebellious political progaganda, paid for secretly by a few nobles.
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Chapter 13: The Working Class and the Bourgeoisie
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Q1) Discuss European involvement in Egypt.
Q2) Who painted The Stonebreakers?
A) Honoré Daumier
B) Édouard Manet
C) Jean-François Millet
D) Gustave Courbet
Q3) Who painted Impression: Sunrise,which played a significant role in giving Impressionism its name?
A) Berthe Morisot
B) Claude Monet
C) Édouard Manet
D) Mary Cassatt
Q4) Which of the following works includes this line: "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist"?
A) Walden, or Life in the Woods
B) "Civil Disobedience"
C) Nature
D) "Self-Reliance"
Q5) Discuss several ways in which Henry David Thoreau proved himself a nonconformist.
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Chapter 14: The Modernist World
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Q1) Which of the following figures led the Bolsheviks,the most radical of Russian post-revolutionary groups?
A) Sergei Eisenstein
B) Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
C) Lazar Lissitzsky
D) Kasimir Malevich
Q2) Among the following,who was a trumpeter that formed two studio bands,The Hot Five and The Hot Seven,and recorded Hotter Than That,which features "scat"?
A) Bessie Smith
B) Zora Neale Hurston
C) Louis Armstrong
D) Duke Ellington
Q3) Who created Persistence of Memory?
A) Max Ernst
B) Salvador Dalí
C) Alberto Giacometti
D) Joan Miró
Q4) Discuss the tenets of Futurism.
Q5) Summarize the significant elements of Alain Leroy Locke's The New Negro.
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Chapter 15: Decades of Change
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Q1) Summarize the Guerrilla Girls' intentions and their methods for achieving them.
Q2) Who is the author of "Child of the Americas," which reflects on the distinctive culture group inside the United States and was created by North Americans of Hispanic descent?
A) Alejo Carpentier
B) Aurora Levins Morales
C) Gabriel García Marquéz
D) Isabel Allende
Q3) The term "Pop Art" came to refer to art that reflects
A) the political agenda of the industrial state.
B) consumer culture as its theme.
C) the dynamic wave of social protest movements.
D) the existential angst of the postwar era.
Q4) Who collaborated with Vlado Miluni on the Rasin Building?
A) Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
B) Robert Venturi
C) Bugsy Siegel
D) Frank Gehry
Q5) Discuss the relationship between Pop Art and its commercial sources.
Q6) Describe Jackson Pollock's method for creating an "action painting."
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