Define
New Stone Age
Neolithic
Very large group of people (usually including many cities) who have in common the same land area and the same language
Nation
Difference between Primary sources and Secondary sources.
(not examples)
Primary sources are records produced during the time period being studied, usually by those involved in the events being studied. Secondary sources are records that explain or interpret primary sources
Three central truths that make up the Christian Perspective.
Creation, Fall and Redemption
The study of the record of the past acts of God and man on earth from its creation to the present, based on the best surviving evidence
History
Genesis 10: Table of Nations
Lists the descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japheth according to the nations that arose from their families
City in Shinar (probably located in southeastern Mesopotamia) that had a great tower; place where languages were born
Babel
Central Conflict in History - after Adam and Eve
Cain killing Abel
Translates to: this is a true story.
Genesis 1: 1: In the Beginning
Name the two ways God changed history in Genesis?
Great Flood and Tower of Babel
Seed of the Woman
Refers primarily to Christ but also includes future humans who are united to Him in faith
A form of language in addition to spoken language
Written Language
Came after Abel
Seth
First record of government in the Bible.
Genesis 9:6 - Whoever sheds the blood of man,
by man shall his blood be shed,
for God made man in his own image.
Most valuable historical reference and why
Written Records as they are complete and full information while Artifacts can be interpreted differently and Tradition changes over time.
Seed of the Serpent
Humans yet to be born who would prove to have the same deceptive, God-defying nature that Satan evidenced in the Garden of Eden
System of rules, regulations, and accountability that governs all who take part in the functions of a city
Organization
What is the one true God's name? Bonus points if you remember it's correct spelling.
Yahweh
YHWH
Describes why we learn from history according to the Bible.
Romans 15:4 For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Four themes of civilization:
Justice is a social condition in which people do right and respect the rights of others.
Power can be defined as the ability to bring things under one’s control.
Citizenship is the status a person has within a community that gives this person certain rights, privileges, and duties.
Environment is the physical geography in which civilizations are located.
Creation Mandate
First command from God revealing that man’s reason for being is to subdue the earth and exercise dominion over it; found in Genesis 1:28
A quality possessed by all humans that reflects part of God’s own personality
Image of God
To crush the sin in the world God caused this.
The Great Flood
The Golden Rule verse - love each other
Mark 12: 30 -31 - 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
The Christian worldview presented in the Bible is composed of three central truths:
1) God made the world and everything in it; (2) this world has fallen into a sad and broken condition because of human sin; and (3) God is working to redeem this world to Himself.
Worldview
A perspective from which we may examine and interpret the universe and everything in it
The historian studies ________ to learn about the background and culture of a people.
Artifacts
Secular believes in evolutionary prehistory - that we evolved from a form of Ape and the world is a big bang with no purpose. While Biblical God has a purpose and made us in his image.
Explains the wrath of God for not doing what you are supposed to do.
Romans 1:18 - 24 - For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,[g] in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
His mercy is also evident in the .....
decline and fall of great civilizations.