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Mycenean |
Forerunners for greek |
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Greek myth counterpart to eve |
Pandora |
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Earliest form of writing |
Cuneiform |
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What allowed scholars to translate egyp. Hierarchy |
ROSETTA stone |
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In ancient world, most important city |
Alexandria |
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What is oldest ex. Written law |
Code of hammurabi |
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In descent of inanna why does ereshkigal cause her to give up her decor? |
Humble her |
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In epic of gilgamesh, why do make inkidu? |
Challenge gilgamesh |
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According to Gilgamesh, what is ishtar? |
Femme fatale |
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In the illuiad why does agememnon want replacement chryseis? |
Loses honor |
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What is last thing achilles offers to priam? |
Delay in fighting |
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In odyssey, what is Odysseus doing when introduced ? |
Weeping with nymph |
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Which best summarizes Athena advice to telemecus? |
Grow up |
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Why does madea claim Jason wants separation from her? |
She's foreign |
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Initially who does madea wanna kill? |
King and princess and jason |
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According to lysistrata, what are women best at? |
Lies |
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According to lysistrata, how should Athenian treat city? |
Like fleece |
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What was Socrates goal in life? |
Disprove orocale |
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Acc. To Socrates, why was he being persecuted? |
Conforming |
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Acc to Dao de jing, what is way of nature? |
Nature is one of return |
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Bhagauad gita, Chrishna compares death to ? |
Changing clothes |
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During mid ages, standard language is |
Latin |
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Religion in Mid ages fighting to est. Self |
Christ. Islam |
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Doesn't happen in mid ages |
Disc. America |
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Which one of authors exiled from homeland for rest of life |
Dante |
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Which author engaged in diplomatic adventures from mid ages? |
Chaucer |
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Which auth. Dedicated work to beatrice? |
Dante |
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Which auth. Threw writings into well? |
Rumi |
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In song of roland, king Marcellion says what is more important than life |
Honor |
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3 creatures struck pilgrim in dantes inferno? |
Wolf, lion, leopard |
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What indicates to pilgrim journey is over? |
Sees the stars |
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Decameron, what benefit will women receive from moving? |
Less misery |
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Why does knight think sovereignty is good idea? |
He was told to |
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Acc. To rumi, where should one seek source of nourishment ? |
Inside self |
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What count. Did renaissance begin |
Italy |
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Phil. Arise in early modern |
Humanism |
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Invented printing press |
Guttenberg |
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Which didn't happened to cervantes |
Didn't become priest |
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Who inv. Modern essay |
Montaigne |
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Invented sonnet |
Petrarch |
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Father of novel |
Cervantes |
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Who died with head on book of virgil |
Petrarch |
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Don quixote lady love |
Dulcinea |
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Narrartive of Don quixote death testifies to |
True account of his madness |
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Which God is hephaestus |
Greek God of forge |
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Why did cerv. Publish part 2 |
Fake sequel |
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Petrarch wrote many sonnets for |
Laura |
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Which died in knife fight? |
Marlowe |
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Acc. To Michel de montaigne, what is natural |
What nature produces |
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Acc. To montaigne what barbaric |
Anything not practised |
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Acc to montaigne where does real honor lie |
♡ and will |
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Petrarch choses brother and interesting bc |
Takes path petrarch didn't |
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Acc to chorus, Faustus sin is |
Hubris |
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Egyp. Sun god |
Ra |
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Egyp. Serpent of underworld |
Apophis |
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Egyp. God of underworld |
Osiris |
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Egyp. God love and marriage |
Isis |
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Apsus |
Baby. God of fresh water |
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Tiamat |
Baby. Goddess of salt water |
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Marduk |
Baby. Storm god |
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Who is set? |
God of desert, heat |
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Horus |
Sun of isis and Osiris |
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Uranos |
Greek God of sky |
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Gaia |
God of earth |
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Kronos |
God of time |
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Rhea |
Greek. Titan |
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Who sends the mind to wander afar? Who first drives life to start on its journey? Who impels us to utter these words? Who is the Spirit behind the eye and the ear? It is the ear of the ear, the eye of the eye, and the Word of words, the mind of mind, and the life of life. Those who follow wisdom pass beyond and, on leaving this world, become immortal |
Upanishads |
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Believe me, my son, an invisible and subtle essence is the Spirit of the whole universe. That is Reality. That is Atman. THOU ART THAT |
Upanishads |
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You grieve for those beyond grief, and you speak words of insight; but learned men do not grieve for the dead or the living |
Bhagavad gita |
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Death is certain for anyone born, and birth is certain for the dead; since the cycle is inevitable, you have no cause to grieve |
Bhagavad gita |
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Perform necessary action; it is more powerful than inaction; without action you even fail to sustain your own body. Action imprisons the world unless it is done as sacrifice . . . . |
Bhagavad gita |
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When his mind is tranquil, perfect joy comes to the man of discipline; his passion is calmed, he is without sin, being one with the infinite spirit. . . . Arming himself with discipline, seeing everything with equal eye, he sees the self in all creatures and all creatures in the self. |
Bhagavad gita |
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Then he sat down on his hams in a posture, immovably firm and with his limbs gathered into a mass like a sleeping serpent’s hood, exclaiming, “I will not rise from this position on the earth until I have obtained my utmost aim. Then the dwellers in heaven burst into unequalled joy; the herds of beasts and the birds uttered no cry; the trees moved by the wind made no sound, when the holy one took his seat firm in his resolve |
Buddhist texts |
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But the great sage having beheld that army of Mara thus engaged in an attack on the knower of the Law, remained untroubled and suffered no perturbation, like a lion seated in the midst of oxen |
Buddhist texts |
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And having remembered each birth and each death in all those various transmigrations, the compassionate one then felt compassion for all living beings. |
Buddhist texts |
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Develop a state of mind, Rahula. For on the earth men throw clean and unclean things, dung, and urine, spittle, pus and blood, and the earth is not troubled or repelled or disgusted. And as you grow like the earth no contacts with pleasant or unpleasant will lay hold of your mind or stick to it. |
Buddhist texts |
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When you know a thing, to recognize that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to recognize that you do not know it. That is knowledge. |
Confucius |
