Untitled Flashcards Set

T__1. Europe was the center of Western Culture in the Middle Ages.

___T___2. The Law of Moses is found in the Hebrew Scriptures.

___T___3. God’s immanence refers to his presence in creation.

___T___4. “Philosophy” literally means “love of wisdom”.

___T___5. According to Plato, the soul is immortal.

___T___6. The Greek polis referred to the common life of the inhabitants of a Greek city.

___F___7. Aristotle believed only virtue was necessary to live a happy life.

____T__8. Virtue must be habitual to be virtue.

____T__9. Marcus Aurelius was the last emperor of the Pax Romana.

_____T_10. Political instability contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire.

___T___11. “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church” means that the experience of 

religious persecution actually helped grow the Christian church.

___T___12. Christian teachings in ancient times were intellectually attractive.

___T___13. The baptism of Clovis is considered the beginning of the nation of France.

___T___14. The Renaissance began in Italy.

___T___15. Sola Scriptura was the Protestant principle that the Bible is the sole infallible authority for 

Christian belief and practice.

___T___16. Martin Luther was never executed for his beliefs.

___T___17. The Enlightenment emphasized the power of reason as a means of increasing knowledge.

___T___18. Descartes confirmed his own existence as certain from the fact that he could think.

___F___19. Protestants were united in a single denomination for the first 100 years of Protestantism.

___F___20. African Slavery was a major part of the English colonies from the moment of their founding.

___F___21. Slavery in America created a caste society that basically replicated what existed in Europe.

___T___22. Britain in the 1760s was a class society with minimal social mobility.

___F___23. Most adult males in eighteenth-century Britain had the right to vote.

T__24. A “court” government was one in which the king had placemen in Commons.

___T___25. The population of British North America was 2.1 million by 1770.

____T__26. The Industrial Revolution first occurred in Western culture.

___T___27. The pre-industrial shop was headed by a master craftsman.

___T___28. The industrial factory typically included machines and unskilled workers.

___T___29. Adam Smith asserted that human beings by nature wish to trade.

___F___30. Adam Smith asserted that division of labor produced many inefficiencies.

___T___31. Homo economicus seeks to maximize his wealth.

___F___32. Homo economicus is inconsistent and changeable in what he desires.

___T___33. Psychological man was on an inward quest for psychological happiness.

___T___34. The ego includes our reasoning faculty, according to Freud.

___F___35. The super-ego consists of our basic instincts and impulses.

___T___36. A teacher who focuses on developing students’ self-expression would be part of therapeutic culture.