ENGL 2332 Quizzes

What form did the earliest literature take

Oral Stories and Songs

Preliterate societies differ from literate

preliterate uses more repetition and cliches

What type of documents were the earliest written texts:

political and legal records

Writing system for The Epic of Gilgamesh

Cuneiform

Purpose Egyptian hieroglyphics most commonly used

produce inscriptions on monuments

make phoenican script effective for writing

symbols for vowel sounds

Tetragrammaton

the scared name of God

Nile valley and Tigris

The ease of agriculture

How could most ancient cultured beliefs be described

polytheistic

Empire ruled most of Asia Minor

Persian

Women in athens treated differently

cloistered in homes

What does sophist mean

tutor

took control of greek city states

alexander

nation roman empire defeat in punic wars

cathage

characterized the roman political system

separated political power

who narrates the bhagavad gita

sanjaya

what are arjuna and his people preparing for

a battle

why does arjuna not fight

he cant fight his relatives

terrible outcome from women who were corrupted during times of war

intermingling of the social castes

where is arjuna when he collapses

in his chariot

primary characteristic of a persons spirit

its eternally indestructible

A fate worse than death

falling into shame after being honorable

Only time violence is acceptable

when one is defending a righteous cause

Only way Arjuna will be able to attain discipline

mind must be meditative

what do human do to satisfy the gods

make sacrifices to gods

why does krishna engage action in the world

wants to lead people by example

highest power in a person

self

mentality of yoga

balance is maintained in thought and movement

what does arjuna ask krisha to reveal to him

celestial form

only way a person can truly know and be enjoed with krishna

through continual devotion

What was one of gilgamesh greatest acheivements

erected a massive wall

animal is gilgamesh mother

cow

why does aruru create enkidu

be gilgamesh equal, battle and create peace

what causes the beasts of the wilderness to reject enkidu

contact with a human woman

Enkidu first human meal

bread and beer

what does enkidu initally do to gilgamesh the first time they meet

refused to let gilgamesh into the wedding

why does gilgamesh want to kill humbaba

cut down cedar trees

humbaba lives under rule of which god

Shamash

what does ninsun do to enkidu before he and gilgamesh leave on their journey

she informs enkidu that he is now her adopted son

how do gods communicate with gilgamesh

dreams

why does shamahs urge gilgamesh and enkidu to attack humbaba immediatley

has not put on all 7 of his glories

what feature created between battle of humbaba, enkidu, and gilgamesh

the lebanon rift valley

what does gilgamesh refuse from ishtar

marriage

what creature is released to punish gilgamesh rejection of ishtar

bull

how does shamash allay enkidus grief

enkidu will be worshipped after death

how does enkidu die

unnamed disease

gilgamesh become post enkidu death

hunter

post tunnel of mount mashum

bejeweled garden of the gods

what does siduri think gilgamesh is when first meeting

a hunter

question gilgamesh asked repeatedly

why are your cheeks so starved, and your face so drawn

difficultuy when crossing sea to utanapishtim

breaks stones charms that protect ur shanabi

why does utnampishtim granted eternal life

survived great flood

how do utanapishtim prove gilgamesh slept for a week

baked bread everyday he slept

who steals the youth restoring flower

snake

what does gilgamesh order ur shanabi to do when he returns

examine walls of uruk

indian subcontinent cohesive

culture

indus harappan civilization have extensive contact

mesopotamian

indo aryans migrate

chechnya

indo aryan lifestyle

small family farming

gandhi characterize india

land of villages

primary language to produce indian literature

sanskirt

Differentiate Greek, Latin, Sanskirt

pronunciation

4 groups of origanized hymns

vedas

mantras differ from poetry

matras: divine origin

Poetry: created by humans

how do vedic reciters differ from bards

vedic: cant change text

bards: allowed to alter orations

Brahmi writing system featured

diacritical marks

earliest politcal arrangement on indian subcontinent

monarchial city state

hinduism characterized by

polytheism

subject of bhagavad gita

karmic dilemmas

alternative religious beliefs to hinduism

the jataka tales

how did china maintian unity for millennia

through peoples beliefs in cultural similarity

who developed classic of changes

fu xi

earliest chinese characters based

bird and animal tracks

most important trait for a successor

developed sense of virtue

compromises surviving texts of shang dynasty

divination rituals

mandate from heaven justifies

shifts in power from one dynasty to another

prompted zhou court to shift from west to east

threats from independent states

Masters literature during eastern zhou and han dynasties

collections of philosophical texts

legalist considered black sheep

believed in authoritarian rule

what event ended dynastic rule in china

republic revolution in 1911

Metamorphoses in greek

transformations

metamorphoses has one clear hero

false

First love of apollo

daphne

ovids metamorphoses called

mock epic

nature displayed a single aspect throughout cosmos named

chaos

religious from judaism

Christianity, islam

The first book of the Bible takes its name from

origin, birth

Cain dwelled in

Nod