WHY STUDY HISTORY?
Name one reason Notgrass gives for studying history.
History is our story
It helps us understand the present
It helps us learn from the past
God teaches us that history is important.
Explain how Bill Clinton was an example of a mixture of good and bad leadership.
He oversaw unprecedented economic growth but he was a moral failure.
Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were demonstrating what type of talents that went far beyond those that had come before them?
Artistic talents
This country sponsored Christopher Columbus’s first voyage.
Spain
This is a person’s understanding of the world in which he or she lives.
Worldview
This philosopher said that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
Name one of the four ways America has expanded.
Geographic, cultural, intellectual, or personal-rights expansion.
This was the most powerful agent for control in Medieval Europe.
Religion
Columbus made two major miscalculations when planning his voyage. Name one.
He thought the earth was smaller than it really was, or he did not know another land mass lay between Europe and Asia.
Name three factors Notgrass identifies as influencing a person’s worldview.
culture, training, experiences, family background, political persuasions, faith in God (or lack thereof)
History helps us understand the present by helping us to discern what?
What is nonsense and what is lasting truth
Why do many of the same issues appear repeatedly throughout history?
Because people are essentially the same as they have always been.
This period of change and artistic expression followed the Middle Ages.
The Renaissance.
This explorer was wrongly credited by a mapmaker for discovering South America.
Amerigo Vespucci
Two different world views about how humans came into existence.
evolutionary chance - atoms and molecules come together
Biblical - God made man in His image
History can help us evaluate today’s crises because today’s events are not necessarily this.
New - they have been done or existed before
This is the tendency to see one’s own ways as better than those of other people.
Ethnocentricity
Name two reasons Europeans wanted a water route to the East.
To obtain spices and other luxuries and to avoid dealing with the Arabs.
This Spanish explorer led the conquest of the Aztecs.
Hernan Cortes
Name two elements of a God-centered worldview.
Examples include:
God created and sustains the world
humans are made in God’s image
God guides history
we should honor Christ
God has standards of right and wrong
people face God’s judgment
God’s ultimate will will be accomplished.
DAILY DOUBLE
Name three examples from Scripture that show God considers history important.
Examples include
Moses reminding Israel of its history
Joshua reminding Israel of its history
the Levites’ prayer after the return from captivity
Stephen’s defense before the Jewish leaders.
History does not literally repeat itself because every historical situation is this.
Unique/Different in some way
DAILY DOUBLE
Explain the “push and pull” forces that cause people to move. Give one example of each.
Push forces drive people away, such as war or famine.
Pull forces attract people to a new place, such as opportunities for land or wealth.
Name three goals of Spanish exploration in the Western Hemisphere.
To control the region
extract gold and other riches for Spain
find a water route to Asia.
Name the four worldview elements that help determine what you think is right in a particular situation.
What you value
what you believe to be true
the worth you give to people
what you believe is God’s will.