Question 1
Zoroastrianism is best described as
a. the Babylonian astrological system.
b. Egypt's experiment in monotheism.
c. the Persian religion that stressed ethics; envisioned a cosmic battle between good and evil; and promised eternity in paradise to those who chose good and eternal torment to those who chose evil.
d. the monotheistic religion whose god expelled humankind from paradise, nearly ended the world with a flood, and established a special relationship with one nation.
e. a dramatic departure from the political and cultural universalism of the Persian empire.
Question 2
What do the surviving works of the Greek historian Polybius demonstrate?
a. He followed Thucydides in seeking rational motives for historical events.
b. He focused on the growth of the Greek city-states from their origins to their collapse.
c. Ancient historians continued to fail to find accurate, firsthand sources.
d. He relied on the models of Herodotus and ascribed historical change to the intervention of gods.
e. He used oral sources and myth to supplement non-written documents.
The original Magdeburg hemispheres (lower left) used to demonstrate Otto von Guericke's vacuum
Greek Valerian
Gravity Works at All Scales
The Greek orders, from James Stuart, The Antiquities of Athens, London.
Your Body Works to Metabolize Alcohol
This is how a bullet works "anatomy of a bullet"