HIEU 201 CERTIFICATION PAPER 2026
FULL SOLUTION GRADED A+
● 4 reasons to care about History (Solomon's article). Answer: 1)
Because the Bible Contains History
2) Because Jesus took history seriously
3) Because Christian beliefs are based on history
4) because history touches our lives
● The 3 traditions of Western Civilization (Kurth article). Answer: 1)
The classical culture of Greece & Rome
2) Christianity
3) Modern Enlightenment
● Definition of Civilization:. Answer: the intellectual, material, and
cultural development of organized humane society
● the central force of the first civilizations was. Answer: religion
● the first civilizations struggled with 3 main things:. Answer: 1) surplus
food
2) population
3) specialization
, ● Ancient Near East is now called. Answer: Modern Middle East
● Mesopotamia. Answer: greek word meaning "land between the rivers",
this was where the first civilization began between the Tigris and
Euphrates Rivers
● Sumerians. Answer: first to settle in Mesopotamia in 3000 B.C.
● Cuneiform. Answer: created by the Sumerians, they were pictographs
or signs for numbers that were engraved on clay tablets to represent
ideas
● Ziggurats. Answer: huge multi-leveled mounds on which temples were
built
● Geography of Mesopotamia vs. Egypt. Answer: Mesopotamia had NO
natural barriers to invade unlike Egypt who were protected by deserts
● Civilization MUST include these 5 factors:. Answer: 1) organized
government
2) organized religion
3) cities
4) writing
FULL SOLUTION GRADED A+
● 4 reasons to care about History (Solomon's article). Answer: 1)
Because the Bible Contains History
2) Because Jesus took history seriously
3) Because Christian beliefs are based on history
4) because history touches our lives
● The 3 traditions of Western Civilization (Kurth article). Answer: 1)
The classical culture of Greece & Rome
2) Christianity
3) Modern Enlightenment
● Definition of Civilization:. Answer: the intellectual, material, and
cultural development of organized humane society
● the central force of the first civilizations was. Answer: religion
● the first civilizations struggled with 3 main things:. Answer: 1) surplus
food
2) population
3) specialization
, ● Ancient Near East is now called. Answer: Modern Middle East
● Mesopotamia. Answer: greek word meaning "land between the rivers",
this was where the first civilization began between the Tigris and
Euphrates Rivers
● Sumerians. Answer: first to settle in Mesopotamia in 3000 B.C.
● Cuneiform. Answer: created by the Sumerians, they were pictographs
or signs for numbers that were engraved on clay tablets to represent
ideas
● Ziggurats. Answer: huge multi-leveled mounds on which temples were
built
● Geography of Mesopotamia vs. Egypt. Answer: Mesopotamia had NO
natural barriers to invade unlike Egypt who were protected by deserts
● Civilization MUST include these 5 factors:. Answer: 1) organized
government
2) organized religion
3) cities
4) writing
