The World in JEOPARDY:
Points of View:
Characters:
Visual & Material Culture:
Terms:
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He was the first Roman to put his own image on a coin with fatal results?!
Who was Julius Caesar?
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The technique, taught to Christine by Lady Reason, allows her to interpret something that is negative in a positive light, or vice versa, no matter what the author’s original intention.
What is "antiphrasis"?
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His last name maybe translated as "speaker of nonsense."
Who was Raphael Hythloday?
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In the margins of medieval manuscript, these animals are often to be found taking violent revenge on greyhounds and other dogs.
What are Rabbits?
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This is the Sanskrit word for duty which in Arjuna's case requires him as a "warrior" to fight.
What is Dharma?
2000
St. Paul wrote an irate letter complaining that this community had fallen away from the gospel he had taught them.
Who are the Galatians?
2000
According to Aristotle, in the best kind of friendship, the friends pursue the noble, not the vulgar form of this.
What is Self-Interest/Self-Love?
2000
This goddess was the mistress of chaos and change.
Who is Inanna?
2000
The activity of the women featured here.
What is gleaning?
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A: This kind of compounding, used in Old English poetry, to make new words is still practiced by contemporary English speakers, as in whale-road to connote the sea.
What is a "kenning"?
3000
Martin Luther's controversial 1543 treatise "On the Jews and Their Lies" and his stance against the Peasants' Revolt of 1524 reveal these two major ethical failures in his legacy.
What are anti-semitism and betrayal of the peasants' cause?
3000
This concept, central to Guaman Poma's work and Critical Race Theory, involves reshaping the dominant accounts of history to highlight the lived perspective and experiences of marginalized communities.
What is constructing counter-narratives?
3000
Three C & E authors who present some form of themselves (or someone of the same name) as a main character or subject of their text.
Who are Christine de Pizan, Thomas More and Michel de Montaigne?
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Michel de Montaigne presented this example of Incan material culture as more magnificent than structures in Ancient Egypt, Greece, or Rome.
What is the Incan Road?
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This Latin phrase meaning "scripture alone" was one of Luther's core principles, rejecting Church tradition as a source of authority.
What is sola scriptura?
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Montaigne hates this character trait, putting it on his short list of “our ordinary vices” - one that has really put our world in Jeopardy.
What is cruelty?
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The following woman in The Iliad (also featured on Hofstra's campus), is looked at as a war prize. She sparks the central conflict between Achilles and Agamemnon, and yet her own point-of-view is entirely overlooked.
Who is Briseis?
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Can solidarity accommodate anamoly or disability? For an answer, name 3 characters, historical or imaginary, studied this semester who we might look to.
Who is Paul, Wife of Bath, the Loathly Lady, the Monstrous Child, Dhritarashtra, and possibly Grendel?
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The main Roman silver coin has given its name to many modern currencies such as the Dinar, and words for money, such as Dinero.
What is the Dinarius?
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This term names a resident alien in ancient Athens who qualifies for protection against seizure of their persons or property.
What is “metic”?
5000
Guaman Poma's world was in Jeopardy because of Spanish colonization, but before their rule, Quechua Indian society was sophisticated and thriving. Name 5 components of Quechuan and other Indian societies in Peru as chronicled by Guaman Poma.
What is quipos for recording items, illustrations, each group had their own dances, love songs, choral music, large hierarchical structures of government....
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These two early Confucian scholars had opposite feelings about human nature regarding whether we incline towards good or evil. Name the thinker and the philosophy of each.
Who is Mencius - inclining towards good; Xunzi - towards evil.
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These are four key objects and the women characters from this course that are associated with them.
Acceptable answers (must have 4): A camera - Yara; headdresses and robes, or a branch wrapped in wool, symbolizing a request for sanctuary - the Danaids; ten pounds of cloth or kerchiefs on her head - the Wife of Bath; Lady Reason - a mirror; Lady Rectitude - a rod of peace; Lady Justice - a cup.
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The monument featured here supposedly led to all places, at least all such places the Persians thought worth conquering.
What is the Gate of Nations?
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This study of ancient handwriting teaches us a great deal about the cultural values of a people.
What is paleography?