Free Master of Humanities History of Ideas Questions and Answers

Question 1

Law and construction

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2 Things romans were good at

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Parmenides belief

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Earliest human civilization

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Three rationalities

Question 2

Uses the study of the humanities to communicate thoughts and ideas as well as the mind.

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Idealism

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Ambition

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Commerce

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Scholasticism

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The Nature of Things, one

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Lucretius wrote

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Thales principle:

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Tacitus's writings

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Thomas more wrote

Question 4

Half of Europe was decimated by a pandemic in the middle of the fourteenth century.

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The Black Death

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In the Prince

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Age Of Exploration

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The Crusades

Question 5

Relativist

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Heraclitus is a ______________

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Machiavelli writes The Prince to

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Plato was a(n) ___________

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Aristotle's 4 Causes of Being

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Golden: knowledge
Silver: bravery
Brass: moderation

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Plato's 3 types of souls

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The point of The Aeneid

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5 tenets of Democritus' atoms

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What is it that was reborn in the Renaissance?

Question 7

Stamping Mold: This tool was used to precisely cast type in big quantities.
He created an alloy by mixing lead, tin, and antimony. This alloy was used to cast the letters.
The printing press: He created the modern printing press.
His ink could be tinted because it is oil-based.

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4 Devices invented by Johann Gutenberg

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Plato's response to Thales problem

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Thomas Aquinas beliefs

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Erasmus goal

Question 8

Aztecs

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What civilization created the accurate calendar and irrigation system?

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Who was the famous medieval intellectual that translated Aristotle's Organon that was used in institutions for nearly 700 years?

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What emperor conducted the last and probably the most terrible persecution of Christians before Constantine ruled and eventually made it the official religion of the empire?

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What famous medieval intellectual wrote The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine and subsequently re-introduced Aristotle to the West?

Question 9

Upon realizing that the Vulgate was erroneous, he quickly started translating the Greek into Latin using manuscripts he was handed by Thomas More and located in monasteries.
His objective was to translate both Testaments faithfully so that they may be translated broadly.

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Erasmus most famous book

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Thales principle

Question 10

"Brahmans (priests) (priests)
Barons (warriors) (warriors)
Commoners (merchants) (merchants)
Sudras (artisans and laborers) (artisans and laborers)
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Caste System organization

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What was the first Empire that ruled for a long time?

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According to Augustine's work, City of God, when humanity is free from all wrong and misguided impulses, then _______ is what it naturally chooses.

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Thomas more wrote