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