Introduction to World Civilization

Yanıt Açıklaması: Diagnostic Handbook is the Babylonian text that introduced the methods of therapy and etiology.

Yanıt Açıklaması: It was not a place for public so ii-iii-iv are correct.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Their aim was to survive so the aim of making the best of its environment is correct answer.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Statements II-III and IV include true information about the ancient temple Ziggurat.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Ever since religion was transformed from beliefs in magic to beliefs in poly-gods and then to a monogod, the cultural civilization has applied religion as the main tool of cultural control. Religious and military forces were the foundations of the power apparatus that maintained the society as a governed entity. These forces civilized the society and moved it into higher levels of organization. Among cultural civilizations one can recognize about 16 cases , such as: • the Egyptian Civilization 3100 BCE, • the Minoan 2700 BCE, • the Sinic Civilization 2000 BCE, • the Mycenae Civilization 1500 BCE, • the Canaanite Civilization 1100 BCE, • the Hellenic Civilization 750 BCE, • the Hindu Civilization 600 BCE, • the Hellenistic Civilization 323 BCE • the Roman Civilization 31 BCE, • the Eastern Civilization 350 CE, • the Ethiopian Civilization 400 CE, • the Buddhist Civilization 600 CE, • the Islamic Civilization 632 CE. • the Sub-Saharan Civilization 800 CE, • the Western Civilization 800 CE, • the Maghrebian Civilization 1000 CE.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Mayan Civilization does not have a notable influence on the Egyptian civilization.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Horizontal religious order created outreach mechanisms so that spatial communication between religious leaders and villages, hamlets, and larger communities ( nomes ) were shepherded and served as faithful followers of the faith and obedient to the teachings of the clergy. Right answer is “B”.

Yanıt Açıklaması: An English historian Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975) published his greatest work in the twelve-volume A Study of History (1934- 1961). He compared the history of twentysix different civilizations, which everyone follows a similar pattern of evolution through a cyclical pattern of growth, maturity, and decay. He believed that societies thrive best in response to challenges and that a society’s most important task is to create a religion. He never defined civilization clearly. Though he saw the Western Civilization to be in its decay phase, he saw hope for the future formation of one spiritually oriented world community.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Menes was an innovator, traditionalist and nationalist ruler.

Yanıt Açıklaması: statements iii and iv are not correct becauce sumerian writing lasted very long and it consisted signs for numbers.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The Mesopotamian Civilization brought forth some of the most important developments in human history. The innovations of these industrious people included (quizlet.com): • the invention of the wheel, • the planting of the first cereal crops, • the development of cursive script, • mathematics, • astronomy, and • agriculture.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Their Diagnostic Handbook was based on a logical set of maxims and assumptions, including the modern view that through the examination and inspection of the symptoms of a patient, it is possible to determine: • the patient’s disease, • its etiology, • its future development, and • the chances of the patient’s recovery

Yanıt Açıklaması: except for the option C, the rest are common characteristics of pharaohs

Yanıt Açıklaması: Yarımburgaz Cave is the oldest inhabited place in Anatolia. Right answer is “A".

Yanıt Açıklaması: Abojinans lived in Australia

Yanıt Açıklaması: Authour of “Historical capitalism” is Immanuel Wallerstein. Right answer is “A”.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Egyptian pharaohs had come with their powerful fighting forces as far north, toward the Hittites, as the vicinity of the city of Kadesh (located in today’s Syria and at the time of the Egyptian moves a great Hittite center of commerce), in a general effort to repulse Hittite incursions upon what they considered Egyptian land.

Yanıt Açıklaması: cultural appropriation  means Egyptian civilization does not belong to Africa.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Immanuel Wallerstein understood this very well and offered the world-system concept as a new approach in analyzing human development. In The Modern World-System (1974), he offered a tool on how to recognize the most useful interpretation of what happened historically.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Mathematics and science were based on a sexagesimal (base 60) numeral system. This is the source of the contemporary 60-minute hour, the 24-hour day, and the 360-degree circle. The Sumerian calendar was based on a seven-day week. Mesopotamian astronomers worked out a 12-month calendar based on the cycles of the moon. The correct answer is E.