Study Guide Units 1 & 2
Human Odyssey Sheppard/Smith
HINT: Study the reading guides given to you weekly and your notes. You
should also be able to identify and write a brief essay on the below:
C. P. Snow and the 'Two Cultures',
Jacob Bronowski,
Australopithecus,
Neanderthal man, Cro-Magnon man,
Mitocondrial Eve,
Reasons for bi-pedalism,
Human acquisition of Language
Cave paintings (Lascaus et. al.)
What is a Myth? -Mythos? (Can you outline prof. Beckwith's talk?)
Epic of Gilgamesh,
Rituals and Myth,
Jewish creation myth,
The development of Agriculture - reasons, advantages, disadvantages,
The 'Big Five' animals,
Discuss the reasons for faster development in Europe/Asia vs N&S America,
Invention of writing - why, where, apprx. when,
Ovid's "Metamorphoses"
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle,
Virgil - his poetic development,
The development of War, -why? when?
Human Odyssey STUDY GUIDES FOR OCT. 12 TEST
Thales
The search for the single universal principle of the material
universe: what did some philosophers think it was?
Democritus
Pythagoras
"music of the spheres"
form and matter in Platonic and Aristotelian theory (p. 41-42)
Trace the development of philosophy from Socrates to Plato to Aristotle
-- what they agreed on, what they disagreed on.
The fallacy of the consequent, p. 45 (or what Socrates called 'The
Royal Lie')
Difference in attitudes between Socrates/Plato and Aristotle toward
women
Marathon
Peloponnesian and Persian Wars
hubris
Aeschylus (p. 51), Sophocles, Euripedes (what common profession? What
contributions?)
Thucydides
'Thinking in the Greek way' (p. 56-58)
Contrast the Aenid and Odyssey (or Odysseus and Aeneas)
SPQR
Romulus and Remus
Alexander the Great
Via Appia
privileges of Roman citizenship
Epicurus
Cicero and/or Cicero's idea of 'the right thing'
Dark Ages, defined
Middle Ages, defined
the Hsiung-nu
origin of term 'vandalism'
Constantine
Augustine
City of Man v. City of God
reasons for rise of feudal system
theocracy: define, with principles
"Donation of Constantine," p. 104-105
great gift and loss caused by the monastic system, according to van Doren
the Children's Crusade
July 15, 1099 (p. 109)
Boethius
Psuedo-Dionysius (and his argument with Boethius' idea of man's
ability to understand the City of God)
Avicenna
Abelard and Heloise
Averroes
Thomas Aquinas and his definition of art
Contribution of St. Francis to scientific theory and practice
Explain how art/architecture in the Middle Ages signaled a shift in
belief of importance of the symbolic to the empirical
Study Guide for Human Odyssey Final Exam Units 5-6
Here is a list of names, people, places, issues and events to help you
see how deeply you should study for your cumulative final exam.
You have already been given a study sheet for Units 3 and 4. This is
intended to supplement it, but is not a comprehensive list of topics.
(In other words, questions may appear on the exam that weren't hinted at
here ... This is only a guide.)
NOTE: P. 4-5 of your Human Odyssey notebook contains a number of
definitions. Be sure you can answer questions about those.
The Renaissance (dates, reasons for, results and effects of, major
figures in) and Renaissance philosophy of man (see Pico della Mirandola,
Alioto)
A typical 'Renaissance man'
Leonardo da Vinci
Cardinal Nicolas of Cusa
Middle Ages (describe; be able to contrast to Renaissance)
Dante, in general
The Divine Comedy; the sins it does and does not mention
Paolo and Francesa in The Divine Comedy
Virgil, in general and in The Divine Comedy
Petrarch, in general and on Cicero in particular
Pico Della Mirandola
Montaigne, in general; major themes of "On Cannibals"
The Protestant Reformation (dates, reasons for, results and effects of,
major figures) and
Luther, in general and in his principles of faith
black magic vs. White magic
"the dignity of man"
universities, then (in 12th and 13th centuries) as compared to now
dialectics
Thomas Aquinas
Dominican and Benedictine orders
perspective, and its importance in Renaissance art
art's effect on culture and civilization (see Edgerton)
NeoPlatonism
"Knowledge is power"
polyphony
importance of measuring time
Ptolemaic universe
Copernicus
major themes of Montaigne's "On Cannibals"
Erasmus
Calvin
indulgences, transubstantiation (in the Catholic Church)
the Peace of Augsburg
The Scientific Revolution (dates, reasons for, results and effects of,
major figures)
the Scientific Method
Tycho Brahe
Kepler
Galileo
"Teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heavens go"
the phases of Venus, the orbit of Mars (why their discoveries are
important to science)
Descartes; major points in "Discourse on Method"
Pascal
Fermat
Pascal's wager
Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
William Harvey
traditional physiology and 'the vital spirit'
the three stages of circulation, according to Harvey
Arthur Coga
Jonathan Swift