CLCV 115 Exam #1 UIUC 2023-2024 (100% Correct Answers)
Hominids correct answers the group consisting of all modern and extinct Great Apes (that is, modern humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans plus all their immediate ancestors)
Paleolithic correct answers This is the Old stone age period group, they performed human burials, acquired fire, language, hand tools, belief in the great goddess emerges, cave paintings seen, and were around from 100,000-c.--> 12,500 BC
Mesolithic correct answers This is the Middle Stone Age, where people acquired improvements in hunting and fishing, smaller tools; bone and antler jewelry. These individuals lived from 12,500 to 8500 BC
Neolithic correct answers This is the New Stone Age, where we begin to see agriculture, domestication of animals; pottery, wheeled transportation, we see Jericho [Israel] (8500 BC) - stone fortifications, skull (ancestor) worship. We also see the city of Catalhoyuk [Turkey] (6000 BC) - bull shrine/bucrania (cow skulls). This period of the New Stone Age lasted from 8500-
3000 BC
Animism correct answers This is defined as people finding a spirit in something else, Anima "soul spirit", hence why the early gods are spoken of as stars, suns, etc, they are "animated to having souls"
Venus Figurines correct answers These great goddess venus figurines were found at 20,000 BC, and displayed anthropomorphic traits. We also found ones at 35,000 BC, and we believe that this
is when spirituality began to develop
The Great Goddess correct answers This goddess was believed to have been worshipped for the fertility of Humans/human fertility, crops fertility, domesticated animal fertility. There was not only 1 of these, every community had a different version, and it was as powerful as our concept of god is. Basically a female goddess of fertility
Anthropomorphic correct answers This term means having characteristics that are human like, if a god is possessing ______ traits, it means he/she has a human like form. "In the form or shape of a human".
Theriomorphic correct answers The Egyptians were especially fond of _________ gods, or gods in the shape of wild animals. They were especially fond of this in their hybrids, where we can see
animal heads on human bodies etc
Gynomorphic correct answers This term literally means having the shape of a woman, or female-
like shape. ________-woman, morph - shape
Bucrania correct answers Cow skulls Polytheism correct answers This means the belief in or worship of more than one god
Monotheism correct answers This means the belief that there is only one God
Parthenogenesis correct answers This term literally means Virgin birth. We see Night gives _____________ to day and Aether (brightness).
Variant correct answers A variant, in terms of mythology, means an alternative version of a myth, which happens quite frequently. Just know that these exist, and that there are various alternative interpretations
Syncretism correct answers The combination of different forms of belief or practice, or the fusion of two or more originally different religious belief systems into a new system
Personification correct answers This term literally means to make something into a person
Millennium correct answers This term is used to describe a period of a thousand years, or is an anniversary of a thousand years
Eponym/Eponymous correct answers This means literally "Named after", we see these for example in Greece, where the Greeks are ________ ancestors of Hellen, the first Greek
Etiological Myth correct answers These are myths that explain origins and causes, creation myths are __________, explaining how the universe or the world or life in the world came into being.
Teshub correct answers Hittite storm god, god of weather, sky, and storms. Main Hittite God.
Trickster correct answers This term was used to refer to trickster gods, who are tricky and deceiving. Prometheus is one of these, as he creates man and steals fire for them.
Patronymic, -id, ids, ides correct answers This means "Named after the father, or our father" ex Johannsen. The greeks used the endings id,ids,ides to show this "Son of, daughter of, child of, children of" Say Joshid Joshids Joshides, would be the "Son/daughter/children of Josh".
Cuneiform correct answers This was the Sumerian form of writing, used to control trade, tax, and
to deal with sophisticated social, governmental, economic structures. It used a stylus and piece of
soft clay.
Linear A correct answers This is one of two currently undeciphered writing systems used in ancient Greece, and is the origin of Linear B
Linear B correct answers This is a syllabic script that was used for writing in Mycenaean Greek and is the earliest attested form of Greek. It predates the alphabet by several centuries
