In addition to his creative writings, Omar Khayyam was also influential in what intellectual field?
a. medicine
b. geography
c. mathematics
d. astronomy
e. agricultural mechanics
c
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What will be an ideal response?
Egyptian writing began as
a. an alphabetic language borrowed from the Phoenicians b. a late development, not appearing until after 2000 B.C.E. c. a way to record the process of mummification d. pictograms then evolved into stylized pictures e. an Indo-European language
Concerning motivation, Woodworth
A. rejected an S-O-R formulation in favor of the more parsimonious S-R model B. none of these-it was Thorndike, not Woodworth, who was interested in motivation C. believed that human behavior could not be fully understood without studying motivation D. believed that because motives were personal, they could not be studied scientifically
The moon god Nannar is a deity from which early civilization?
A. Sumer B. Greece C. Egypt D. Indus valley