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101 Cards in this Set
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Han Solo
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Shapeshifter
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Obi-Wan Kenobi
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Mentor
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Princess Leia
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Herald
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Achilles
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the best warrior among the Achaians, leader of the Myrmidons, son of Peleus and Thetis
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Briseis
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Trojan captive girl, given as a prize to Achilles
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Menelaos
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King of Sparta, brother of Agamemnon, husband of Helen
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Homer
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wrote the Odyssey and the Iliad, "the poet"
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Priam
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King of Troy, father of Hector & Paris, husband of Hekabe
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Helen
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wife of Menelaos
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Paris
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son of King Priam and Queen Hekabe, brother to Hektor
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Agamemnon
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King of Mycenae, brother of Menelaos, leader of Greek expeditionary force
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Odysseus
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King of Ithaca, one of faves of Goddess Athena
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Patroklus
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companion of Achilles
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Hector
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son of King Priam, leader of the Trojans (their greatest fighter)
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Andromache
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Hector's wife
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Chryseis
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daughter of Chryses, captive girl given to Agamemnon as a prize
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Stock Epitephs
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adjective combo that allowed the reciter to describe an object/character quickly (in terms his audience would recognize)
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In Media Res
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"in the middle of things"
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Protagonist
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leading character or hero in a story
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Rising Action
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all events leading to the climax
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Falling Action
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events after the climax
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Setting
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time & place
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Theme
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message, moral, author's truth
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Resolution
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story is wrapped up
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Plot
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the storyline
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Antagonist
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person in a contest, conflict, or struggle w/ the protagonist
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Point of View
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standpoint
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Climax
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highest, most intense point; where the pro and ant duke it out
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Genre
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class or category that the story falls in
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Philosophy
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rational investigation of the truths & principles of being, knowledge, or conduct
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Laius
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King of Thebes, husband of Jocasta, father of Oedipus (who kills him and takes his throne)
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Jocasta
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wife and mother of Oedipus
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Teiresias
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Old Blind Prophet
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Creon
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Oedipus' brother in law, Jocasta's brother
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Epic Simile
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simile developed over several lines of verse (used in an epic poem)
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Levels of conflict (Man vs....)
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Man, Nature, Self, Supernatural, Technology, & Society
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Divine Causation
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God created the universe
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Elements of Literary
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plot, exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, & foreshadowing,
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Tragedy
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a form of art based on suffering that offers the audience pleasure
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Rhetoric
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art of speaking/writing effectively
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Ethos
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convincing by character of author
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Logos
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persuaing by appealing to the reader's emotions
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Pathos
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persuading by use of reasoning
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Ilium
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2004 sci-fi novel concerning the recreationsof the events in the Iliad on an alternate earth and mars
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Punic Wars
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a series of 3 wars fought between Rome and Carthage (264 BC-146 BC)
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Cithaeron
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a mountain range in central Greece
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City-States
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independent country whose territory consists of a city that's not run as part of another local govt; relies on the common interest in the function of the urban center
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Allegory of the Cave
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part of the Republic written by Plato, Socrates describes how ppl confuse an illusion w/ reality
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Hecuba
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King Priam's wife, mother of Hektor and Paris
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Socrates
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founder of Western philosophy, Plato's teacher/mentor
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Plato
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Socrates' student, influential thinker, his written work has survived practically undamaged
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Aristotle
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Greek philosopher, Plato's student, teacher of Alexander the Great, founder of formal logic
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The Apology
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Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defends himself against the charges of being a man "who corrupted the young into becoming ppl who question things"
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Peloponnesian Wars
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ancient Greek war, fought by Athens and its empire against the Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta.
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Pericles
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single statesman most closely associated w/ the Golden Age of Athenian democracy
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Aryans
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migrated into India from north & west, brought hymns and Rig Veda
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Castes
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a group into which someone is born in; diff classes in society
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Brahmin
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"the one universal soul", a giant soul to which your 'atman'/soul is a part of
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Sanskrit
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the language of the Rig Veda, one of the oldest Indo-Euro tongues
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Bhagavad-Gita
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"song of the lord", small part of the Mahabharata
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Sibi
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story of a king and a hawk that teaches about fulfilling one's dharma
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Rig Veda
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earliest surviving record of Indian religious thought, basis of Hinduism, collection of hymns
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Siddhartha
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Indian prince who fasted and studied to achieve Nirvana
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Nirvana
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a state of being in which the desire for earthly things has been quenched
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Himalayas
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a mountain range in Asia. In hinduism, the Himalayas have also been personified as the god Himavat, the father of Shiva's consort, Parvati,
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Humbaba
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giant who guards the cedar forest
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Ishtar
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goddess of love
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Utnapishtim
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the Mesopotamian Noah, survivor of the great flood
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Gilgamesh
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hero of the epic, King of Uruk
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Samsara
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the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth
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Sumeria
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name for the region of city-states known in ancient Mesopotamia
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Enkidu
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Gilgamesh's friend & advisor
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Joseph Campbell
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father of mythology
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Pastoral
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poem that deals w/ the pleasures of a simple rural life or treats the longing and desires of simple ppl
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Canaan
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the land promised to Abraham by God ;ancient region lying between the Jordan, the Dead Sea, and the Mediterranean; biblical name of Palestine
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Mesopotamia
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considered as the cradle of civilization, Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer, Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian empires. Modern Iraq
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Ishmael
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the illegitimate son of Abraham & Hagar, Arab son of promise
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Osiris
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ruler of the Egyptian underworld
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David
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the one that would become the king of Israel, a shepherd boy w/o military training
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Ruth
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Naomi's daughter in law, David's grandmother
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Boaz
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prince of the ppl in the Book of Ruth
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Naomi
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Ruth's mother in law
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Goliath
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champion of Gath
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Psalms
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songs, popular hymns/poems in Bible
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Archetypes
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symbols/images/patterns that appear in literature; visuals of diff ppl
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Mohammed
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Arab prophet who, according to Islam, was the last messenger of Allah
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Hagar/Sarah
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Hagar is Sarah's Egyptian slave girl. Sarah is Abraham's wife
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The Hero's Journey
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pattern of life, growth, & experience. It duplicates the stages of the Rite of Passage
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Dead Sea scrolls
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ancient scrolls hidden in the caves near the Dead Sea, found in 1947 by several shepherd boys
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Covenant
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solemn agreement
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Govinda
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"Krishna", it means cow herder in Sanskrit
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Isaac
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son of Abraham & Sarah, jewish son of promise
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Abraham
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father of jewish nation
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Mecca
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city in & capital of Hejaz in Saudi Arabia, birthplace of Mohammed, spiritual center of Islam
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Isis
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Goddess of motherhood, magic, & fertility
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Palestine
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Holy Land, "Canaan"
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Saul
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first king of Israel
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Judaism
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monotheistic religion of the Jewish ppl, foundation based on the Old Testament, taught by rabbis
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Book of the Dead
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ancient Egyptian belief of the afterlife, book of hymns/spells/instructions to allow the dead to pass through obstacles in the afterlife
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Horus
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God of the king/sky/vengeance
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Mummification
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process of embalment & drying of a dead body
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