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Cultural Heritage I - Exam II
Cultural Heritage I - St. Louis College of Pharmacy - Sand
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Undergraduate 2
10/29/2006
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The date of the founding of the Roman Republic was 753 B.C.
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Roman writers and artists borrowed most from the Etruscans.
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False
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Vergil, Horace, and Ovid: three of the foremost literary figures of the “Golden Age” of Roman literature.
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True
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Tacitus: author of The Aeneid and revered epic poet of Roman literature.
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False
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Vergil: Roman historian of the “Silver Age” who wrote the Annals.
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False
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The religion of the Roman empire would become identified with emperor worship.
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True
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A Hebrew name for God was Allah.
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False
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Unlike the Greek writers, the Hebrew writers in biblical times viewed their God as the central figure in human history.
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The “Torah” refers to the first book of the Hebrew Bible.
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False
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The word “diaspora” refers to one's homeland.
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False
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Important Jewish scribal writings discovered near the Dead Sea in 1947 are known as the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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Despite their common heritage, there was to be no place in Judaism for the Christian message overall.
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The Messiah is a Hebrew word which means the “anointed one.”
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The Acts of the Apostles is not a part of the New Testament.
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The New Testament gospels are the main source for the life of Christ.
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True
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St. Paul's many acitivites excluded only the mission field.
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The earliest converts to Christianity included women and slaves.
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Early Christian art, for example, depicted a sheperd as a symbol of the Messiah.
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The Edict of Milan established Christianity as the state religion in 313.
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The Arian hersey was condemned by the Council of Nicaea in 325.
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True
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Constantine: Roman emperor who viewed Constantinople as a fully Christian city when it was dedicated in the year 330.
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True
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When Diocletian became emperor in 284 the Roman empire was at its zenith.
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An example of the basilica style of architecture was old St. Peter's in Rome.
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True
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St. Paul's epistles can be said to constitue Christianity's first theology.
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True
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The City of God by St. Augustine offered a theological interpretation of history.
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St. Ambrose was one of the early hymn writers of sacred song.
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Tertullian's Latin translation of the Bible was his lasting contribution to early Christianity.
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False
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The word “covenant” in Judaism refers to a solemn agreement between God and the Jewish people.
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True
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Under the emperor Theodosius I (379-95) paganism ceased to be officially tolerated.
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The Church found a new source of strength in the growth of monasticism in the early Middle Ages.
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The Alexiad: the first known historical work by a woman writer in the 11th century.
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Byzantium's iconoclastic controversy concerned the issue of portraying the human figure in religious painting.
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The word “Islam” means universal.
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The religion of Islam can be summed up in the statement that there is but one God, Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet.
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The Koran, the word, literally means “recitation.”
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The devout Muslim is expected to pray at least three times a day.
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False
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The mosque: the main architectural structure of Islamic worship.
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True
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A characteristic feature of Islamic art was the representation of all living creatures as dictated by the Koran.
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False
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Jihad: in radical Muslim thought this word, and the belief behind it, has come to mean a “Holy war.”
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The golden age of Islam coincided with the Abbasid dynasty between the 8th and the 13th centuries.
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Einhard: scholar of the early Middle Ages who wrote a biography of Charlemagne.
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Charlemagne had attempted to organize his vast kingdom in accord with the ideals of the Gospels.
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True
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A significant innovation in Byzantine architecture was the flying buttress.
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Hagia Sophia: perhaps the most representative of the Byzantine style built in Constantinople.
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True
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Alcuin: a leading figure in the founding of Charlemagne's palace school.
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True
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Ibn Khaldun: Arab historian who argued in favor of a cyclical theory of history.
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True
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Origen is regarded as the earliest historian of Church history.
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False
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Latin became the common language of both East and West following the fall of the Roman empire in 476.
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False
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Gregorian chant: official church music in the Latin West associated with pope Gregory the Great.
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True
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The Carolingian Renaissance may be described as a period of intellectual revival.
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