Test Bank for Cultures and Values: A Global View of the Humanities Volume I 10th Edition Fichner-Rathus
Test Bank for Cultures and Values: A Global View of the Humanities Volume I, 10th Edition, Lois Fichner-Rathus, ISBN: 9780357640098
Table of Contents
CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1: 2,500,000–3000 BCE
Before Writing
The Stone Age
The Paleolithic Age: Neanderthals and Modern Humans
Paleolithic Technology and Material Culture
Climate and the Mesolithic Age
Connections: Climate Change and Climate Refugees: Then and Now
The World in the Neolithic Age
The Middle East
Western Asia
Africa
The Mediterranean
Megalithic Europe
East Asia
Connections: Mystery Ladies of the Ancient World
The Americas
The Big Picture: 2,500,000–3000 bce
CHAPTER 2: 3000–1000 BCE: PART 1
Rivers, Irrigation, and the Earliest States
Mesopotamia: The Fertile Crescent
Sumer
Writing
Religion and Temple Life
Connections: Mesopotamia: Tycoons of Trade
Political Power: From Temple to Palace
The Beginnings of Literature
Akkadian and Old Babylonian Culture
Akkadia
Old Babylonia
Egypt: The Nile Ribbon
Kingdoms and Dynasties
Egyptian Religion
Ideas + Ideals: Righteousness as the Path to Rebirth
The Predynastic Period
The Old Kingdom
The Pyramid Complex of Gizeh
The Middle Kingdom
Middle Kingdom Art and Mortuary Architecture
The New Kingdom
New Kingdom Art and Architecture
The Amarna Period of the New Kingdom
The New Kingdom after the Amarna Period
Connections: The Rosetta Stone
The New Kingdom, Recovered
New Kingdom Literature
South Asia: The Indus River Valley
The Harappans
Mohenjo-daro
Harappan Art and Crafts
The Aryans
Religion in the Vedic Age
East Asia: The YellowRiver Valley
The Shang Dynasty
Shang Belief, Ritual, and Religion
Shang Dynasty Art
The Big Picture: 3000–1000 bce
CHAPTER 3: 3000–1000 BCE: PART 2
The Settlements, Cities, and Cultures of the Aegean Sea
The Cycladic Islanders
Cycladic Art
The “Minoans” of Crete
Life on Crete: Real and Imagined
Linear A and Linear B
The Myth of Minoan Demise
The Mycenaeans
Heinrich Schliemann, Frank Calvert, and the World of Homeric Epic
Mycenaean Material Culture
The Collapse of Mycenaean Society
The Levant
The Phoenicians: Canaanite Merchants of Lebanon
Language and Writing: The Phoenician Alphabet
Phoenician Religion
The Philistines
Hebrews
Intertwined: Hebrew History, Religion, and Identity
Connections: Mesopotamia and the Levant: Shared Cultural Narratives
The Bible as Literature
Connections: William Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job
Mesoamerica: The Gulf of Mexico
The Olmecs
San Lorenzo
Olmec Ceramics and Figurines
Olmec Beliefs and Rituals
Connections: Feeling the Divine: Mind-Altering Drugs and Religious Experience
Olmec Writing
The Big Picture: 3000–1000 bce
