西方文化(期终考试)天津大学2011年6月17日考试打印版.docxVIP

简答iv1. How many stories did the Tower of Babel have?﹥Seven.2. Who is Moses?﹥the Hebrew leader who received the Ten Commandments from God3. Where is Babylon?﹥Near today’s Baghdad of Iraq.4. Of how many books does the Bible consist?﹥Sixty-six.5. Is Star of David the same as Solomon’s Seal?﹥Yes, they are the same.6. When was Christianity broken into two big churches?﹥In the year 1054.v1. What did the Western Christians do with a return attack against the Moslems?﹥They undertook crusades.2. How were people of Western Europe divided under feudalism?﹥Into three classes mainly: clergymen, lords, and peasants.3. From what the western idea of good manners developed?﹥The noble qualities of an ideal knight.4. What do you know about the history of castles?﹥Castles were the strongholds (要塞) of the Middle Ages.5. Why was Jerusalem important?﹥Because it was a holy place for the big three churches: Judaism, Islam and Christianity.6. What is the function of tournaments in the medieval days?﹥For a knight to display his bravery and honor.vi1. What is the essence of the Renaissance?﹥Humanism.2. Where did Renaissance start with the flowering of paintings, sculpture and architecture?﹥In Florence, Italy.3. Among Leonardo da Vinci’s major works, which is the most famous of religious pictures?﹥The Last Supper.4. What style of art did Michelangelo create?﹥Documentary realism (强调情感和姿态的造型艺术).5. Who is looked up as the father of modern poetry?﹥Petrarch.6. What made Italy the birthplace of the Renaissance?﹥Its geographic position, contact with the East.vii1. What’s Newton’s contribution to the science?﹥He invented calculus, discovered the law of the universal gravitation and that white light is composed of all the colors of spectrum.2. Who first discovered four moons of Jupiter?﹥Galileo.3. What event was called the Glorious Revolution?﹥The Revolution of 1688 in England.4. How did Bacon attack on the unscientific thinking?﹥With his modern inductive method.5. Why Leibniz’ interest in China was of