Medival Flashcards
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Beowulf Author
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unknown
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Beowulf date
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9th century
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Beowulf Language
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Old English
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Historical stages of english
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Old English, Middle English, Early Modern, Modern English
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Dates Old English
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450-1150 AD
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Dates Middle English
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1150-1500 AD
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Dates Early Modern
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1500-1700
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Dates Modern English
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1700-the present AD
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when did the rome conquer the celtic peoples (Britons)
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1st century AD
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Celtic peoples also called
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britons
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When Rome adopts Christianity as its official language what does Britain do?
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adopt Christianity
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Rome abandons Britain because of trouble closer to home when
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5th century AD
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The angles and the Saxons are called
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germanic tribes
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Germanic tribes fill ____ left by Rome’s departure. They conquer the native ____
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power vacuum, celts
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Old English
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Anglish
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Old English is also known as ____ and was the language of these Germanic tribes
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Anglo-saxon
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The language of the germanic tribes
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old english, Anglo-saxon
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who brought the story of Beowulf
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germans
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the germanic tribes in beowulf have nothing to do with
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England or the Anglo-Saxon peopl
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Danes
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Denmark
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famous ancestor of hrothgar
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king of the danes
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southern sweden
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geats
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beowulf’s uncle (mother’s brother)
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Higlac
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beowulf’s father
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Edgethow
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Germanic tribes in beowulf
Danes, Geats
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name famous danes
shield, hrothgar
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name famous geats
higlac, edgethow, beowulf
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the dominant code of conduct in beowulf is that of
pagan Germanic warriors
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war chiefs whose job it was to reward their followers
ring-givers
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warriors of the ring giver
thanes
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financial compensation for death in order to avoid feuds
wergild
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boasting competitions
flytting
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originally beowulf was
an oral tale
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beowulf reflected the
pagan Germanic religion
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The written version of Beowulf was probably the work of
a monk which accounts for its Christian elements
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when was the written version of Beowulf written
centuries after the Anglo-Saxon invasions
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A singer, creator of poetry (In 868)
Scop
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the repetition of consonant sounds (kith and kin)
alliteration
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a metaphor (swan's road) (sleep of the sword)
Kenning
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an understatement (they decked his body no less bountifully)
Litotes
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___ is an Old English word meaning (fate)
Wyrd
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...fate denied him glory in battle
beowolf
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god who ordains who wins or loses
beowulf
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often when one man follows his own will many are hurt. this happened to us. nothing we advised could ever convince the prince we loved... not to vex the custodian of the gold
beowulf
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beowulf wants to fight the ____ alone
dragon
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Author canterbury tales
chaucer
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date canterbury tales
1390 AD
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language canterbury tales
middle english
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former archbishop of Canterbury, was murdered in his cathedral
Thomas a' Becket
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Since the murder of Thomas a' Becket the site of hes murder became
place of pilgrimage
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Canterbury uses the
frame narrative
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What is the frame of Canterbury tales
pilgrimage to Canterbury
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who proposes a storytelling competition to pass the time on the pilgrimage to Canterbury
Harry Bailey
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Each pilgrim should tell
two tales on the way to Cantebury, and two on the way back
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who will judge the competition
harry bailey
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How many pilgrims counting Harry Bailey and Chaucer
31
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How are most of the pilgrims identified
profession rather than name
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he has the highest social rank of all the pilgrims
the knight
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is the knight good or bad
good
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is a village priest
parson
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brother of the Plowman
parson
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parson good or bad
good
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brother of the parson
plowman
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plowman good or bad
good
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who works at a monastery
Abbot, Prior, men
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who works at a monastery
Abbess, Prioress (women)
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is second in authority at a nunnery (covent)
prioress
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many ____ were forced into monasteries as a career move.
young noblemen
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The ____ in this story was probably forced into a monasterie
monk
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he serves five tradesmen
cook
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she was a professional wife
wife of bath
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wife of bath had ___ husbands and is looking for a ___
five, sixth
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he sells indulgences
pardoner
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pardoner good or evil
evil
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what are indulgences
pardons for sin
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ran mills where wheat was processed
miller
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miller good or evil
evil
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a steward (overseer) of an estate
reeve
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reeve good or evil
evil
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St. Francis founded
the order of Franciscan friars
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____ are not supposed to own any property. They were originally wandering preachers who survived by begging
friars
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Friar good evil
evil
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Wife of Bath's name
alison
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The first three husbands were
old and rich
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the 4 th and 5th husbands were
young
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husband number ___ cheated on her, and she worried him to ____ by
4, death, pretending to cheat on him
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her __ husband struck her in the ear and made her deaf
5th
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what was her fifth husband name
jenkins
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did she eventually gain mastery over her fifth husband
yes
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the paroner's tale is a ____
exemplum
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a sermon-like story that models good behavior (to be followed) or bad behavior (to be avoided)
exemplum
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radix malorum est cupiditas
the root of all evil is avarice
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who uses avarice in the theme that he employs in all his sermons
pardoners
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in addition to indulgences the pardoner sells
fake holy relics
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____ like indulgences, were thought by some to impart holiness to their owner
relics
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were often the focus of pilgrimages and brought a great deal of revenue to the towns that possed them
relics
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Middle Ages dived from Ancient World by
fall of Roman empire 476 AD
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Who was the first Emperor to officially recognize Christianity
Constantine
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Confessions Author
St. Augustine
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Confessions Date
400 AD
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Confessions Launguage
Latin
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The Confessions of Augustine was ___
first autobiography in western literature
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Augustine's model for Confessions was
Biblical book of Psalms
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teacher of rhetoric
Augustine
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Who was Augustine's Mother
monica
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what did Monica believe
Christian
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Augustine went through a series of philosophies and religions before accepting
Christianity
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dualistic religion which saw all matter as evil
Manicheism
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ascetic philosophy/religion inspired by renewed interest in Plato's idea
Neoplatonism
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Augustine accepted Christianity ____ before actually becoming a Christian
intellectually
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Augustine died as the ____ of the city of _____ while it was under siege.
bishop, Hippo
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when did Augustine died
5th century AD
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Inferno author
dante
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Inferno language
Italian
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Inferno Date
1320 AD
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The Inferno is part of a larger work called
the divine Comedy
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inferno prologue
1 canto
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inferno hell
33 cantos
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inferno Purgatory
33 cantos
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inferno paradise
33 cantos
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the define comedy is what kind of work
allegory
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a story whose characters and events have symbolic as well as narrative significance
allegory
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how many circles of Hell are represented
9
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three creatures that bar Dante from the sunlit hill
she wolf, lion, leopard
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she wolf
incontinence
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lion
violence
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leopard
fraud
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In Dante's Hell people are condemned to
circle that corresponds with the sin that dominated their lives
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Criminals and their punishments are ______ worse the ____ one goes into Hell
increasingly, deeper
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Dante has ___ guides who lead him through the Divine Comedy
2
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Just as Aeneas had the Sybil as his guide to the Underworld in Virgils Aeneid, Dante has
Virgil
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Dante's first love, is
Beatrice
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Beatrice is Dante's guide through
Paradise
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The 1st circle of hell holds
those who were virtuous but unbaptized
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the punishment in the first circle of hell
abiding sense of longing
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what circle does Virgil live in
1st circle
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I was a novice in this place when I saw a mighty lord descend to us
Inferno
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For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. 19 After being made alive,[a] he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits— 20 to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water,
1 Peter 3:18-20
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Those condemned to the Vestibule of Hell are
opportunists
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they went with whichever side would benefit them the most at a given moment
opportunist
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the Vestibule of hell
antechamber
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The inferno believes that Ulysses
died sailing into the atlantic
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Ulysses came within sight of ____ _____ before ____
Mount Purgatory, dying
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Ulysses is sent to what circle, where ___ are sent
8th circle, frauds
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The lake at the bottom of Hell is _____ because it is the ____ point from God
ice, farthest
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Satan's three faces are
inversion of the Divine Trinity
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Dante escapes Hell
by going through the earth and going out the other side
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Dante knew the earth was round and understood gravity in
1320 AD
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Kebra Nagast
the glory of Kings
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Kebra Nagast author
unknown
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Kebra Nagast Date
14th century
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Kebra Nagast Language
Ge'ez
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Fate of the Ark according to Jeremiah
no one knows
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“In those days, when your numbers have increased greatly in the land," declares the LORD, "men will no longer say, 'The ark of the covenant of the LORD.' It will never enter their minds or be remembered; it will not be missed, nor will another one be made.”
Jeremiah 3:16
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He carried off the treasures of the temple of the LORD and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made.
1 Kings 14:26 Shishak
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is the biblical Hebrew form of the first ancient Egyptian name of a pharaoh mentioned in the Bible.
Shishak
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Israel defeated Judah, and every man of Judah ran away to his home.13 At Beth Shemesh Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah. (Amaziah was the son of Joash, who was the son of Ahaziah.) Jehoash went up to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, which was about six hundred feet.14 He took all the gold and silver and all the utensils in the Temple of the Lord, and he took the treasuries of the palace and some hostages. Then he returned to Samaria.
2 Kings 14:12-14 Jehoash
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“The eleventh year” since Jehoiakin’s exile (Greenberg 529, Zimmerli 33). In the fifth month (Keil 371) of the eleventh year after Jehoiakin’s exile, Jerusalem and the temple were destroyed.
587-586 BC Nebuchandnezzar
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Is the queen of the South
Queen of Sheba
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Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means “queen of the Ethiopians”). This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship, and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the Book of Isaiah the prophet.
Acts 8:26-28
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Makeda
Candace
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_____ is the name of Haile Selassie before his coronation
ras tafari
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Rastafarians believe that he is another manifestation of
God
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Al-Koran Author
Muhammad
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Al-Koran Date
632 AD
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Al-Koran Language
Arabic
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Belief that there is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet
1st Pillar
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Prayer five times daily
2nd Pillar
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times of prayer
morning, noon, evening, sunset, late night prayer
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fasting during the month of Ramadan
3rd Pillar
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Muhammad claims that he recieved his 1st revelation of Koran during the month of
Ramadan
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Charity towards the poor
4th Pillar
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The Hajj (Pilgrimage) to the Kaaba in Mecca
5th Pillar
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means "Peace" in Arabic
Islam
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means "struggle" in Arabic and refers to internal (spiritual) war as well as external war against other people
Jihad
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slay the idolaters wherever you find them and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them…then if they repent…leave their way free to them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.”
The Koran, Sura 9:5
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the last prophet, founder of Islam
Muhammad
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Muhammad claims that the angel ____ delivered the Koran to him in a series of revelations stretching over ____ yrs.
Gabriel, 22
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Muhammad claimed to receive the earlier revelations while in _____ and later in ___
Mecca, Medina
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In _____ Mohammad fled to Medina as a result of religious persecution. Muslims count time from this yr.
622 AD
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Kaaba
cube
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Kaaba is located in
Mecca
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Muslims believe the original structure was built by
Abraham and Ishmael
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After Muhammad's death his successors were called
califs
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The great split in Islam forming
Shi'ites and Sunnis
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_____ believe the califs should be descendants of Ali
Shi'ites
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SG and the GK Author
unknown
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SG and the GK Date
14th Century AD
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SG and the GK Date
Middle English
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Germanic tribes migrated to Britain to fill the power vacuum left by
Rome
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When did the Germanic tribes migrate
5th century AD
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Who did Germanic tribes conquered
native Celts
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The historical King Arthur was a _________
Celtic Christian
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who valiantly resisted the pagan Anglo-Saxons, but lost
King Arthur
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The legend of King Arthur was popular among the
Anglo-Saxons
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The celts migrated to _____ carrying the stories of Arthur with them
Northern France
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The French introduced the idea of
courtly romance into the Arthurian legends
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Characters are from the nobility
courtly romance
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Ideal love is unattainable or unlawful (adulterous)
Qualities of a Courtly Romance
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The woman is adored with almost idolatrous devotion and is in a higher social class than the man
qualities of courtly romance
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The French conquer England in
1066 AD (Battle of Hastings)
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After the Battle of Hastings, French culture introduces the elements of
courtly romance into the Arthurian legends circulating in England
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SG and the G K is an
anti-romance
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SG and the GK is an Anglo-Saxon rejection of
French influence in the legends of King Arthur
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Gawain's symbol is the
Pentangle
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It represents Gawain's devotion of the truth
pentangle
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two elements which mark Sir Gawain as an Anti-romance
comical encounter with Bercilak's wife, childish nature of Arthur's court
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According to Bercilak, the three blows of the axe symbolize
each day of the game
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Day 1 axe
gawain is truthful
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Day 2 axe
Gawain is truthful
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Day 3 axe (cuts Gawain a little)
Gawain is not completely truthful
212
By the story's end Gawain adopts a second symbol
the green garter
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The Green Garter is a reminder of his
imperfection
