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26 Cards in this Set
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He was a great Roman orator, who ultimately gave his life for his beliefs
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Cicero
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Roman writers and artists borrowed most from what whom?
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Greeks
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The Silver Age produced Rome's greatest historian. His name?
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Tacitus
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Who wrote the Aeneid?
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Vergil
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In the Aeneid, the gods instruct Aeneas to found what city
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Rome
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The oldest copies of the Jewish scriptures are what?
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Dead Sea Scrolls
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"Matthew" in the Bible is a source for whose life?
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Jesus
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She is turned into a tree to save her from a god. Who is the girl, and who is the god?
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Daphne and Apollo
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He goes into the Underworld to consult his father.
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Aeneas
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She leads the above character into the Underworld.
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Sibyl
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How does the message in your excerpt from "Ecclesiastes" relate to the message in Gilgamesh?
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They both say that humans are destined to die
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He took the Christian gospel to the gentiles.
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Paul
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He translated the Bible into Latin.
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Jerome
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His writings cast women as temptresses and influenced their lack of power in the Church.
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Boethius
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He wrote The City of God.
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Augustine
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In the above book, what two cities does he describe?
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City of God and City of Man
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He wrote The History of the Church.
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Eusebius
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Your excerpt tells of the martyrdom of what two people?
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Peter and Paul
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What emperor stopped the persecution?
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Diacletian
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According to Islam, there is one what? Name? Who is his prophet?
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God, Allah, Muhammad
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She wrote The Alexiad.
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Anna Comnena
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In what century did she live?
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11/12 Century
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Who is the subject of her history?
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Alexius
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Boethius claims that happiness equals what?
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Happiness to Good to God
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He was a Roman emperor who followed the stoic philosophy and wrote his "Meditations."
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Marcus Aurelius
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Einhard wrote a history of what ruler?
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Charlemagne
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