The Author of Your Textbook Makes All the Following Statements

question 29

Multiple Choice

The author of your textbook makes all the following statements about the view of the world held in ancient Near Eastern civilizations except

• A)Mesopotamians and Egyptians adopted prehistoric imagery, rituals, and tales to explain the origins of the universe, the workings of nature, and the meaning of human history.
• B)the mythopoeic world-view of these civilizations was based more on imagination and emotion than on reason.
• C)despite serious differences, both the ancient world-view and modern science hold that the world is governed by consistent, predictable laws.
• D)unlike modern science, the ancient world-view believed that all material objects (such as a river or wind) were alive and had a will of their own.
• E)while the ancients observed nature, recorded data, and developed technology, they did not develop logically deduced abstractions, hypotheses, and generalization that would be considered scientific today.

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