Lost and Found
What's the Big Idea?
Words to Live By
Signs, Signs, Everywhere are Signs
I Knew That
100
These statuettes from the Abu Temple in Iraq from around 2800 BCE probably represent this significance in their ancient culture.
What is devotion and awe for the local deities?
100
This is word is made up of two words that, when separated, clearly show how the practice of regularly planting and harvesting food (with some domestic animals too) can actual affect the belief systems and customs of a people.
What is agriculture?
100
These words are from this book and culture: "You shall not bow down to them or serve them. For I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God and I punish a parent's fault in the children, the grandchildren, and the great grandchildren among those who hate me; but I act with faithful love towards thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments."
What is the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the Hebrew people.
100
This symbol from this belief system is best described this way.
What is the yin/yang from Taoism, and what is the balance and ultimate harmony between opposition that underlies all of nature and reality?
100
That is the definition for "prehistory".
What is history before the appearance of written records?
200
This structure is located here and is approximately this old.
What is Stonehenge (approximately 5000 years old) in England?
200
These are collections of stories that reveal truth even if they are not exactly literal.
What are myths?
200
These words are from this wise person of this country: "The Master said: To study without thinking is futile. To think without studying is dangerous."
Who is Confucius from ancient China?
200
In its original culture, this symbol generally means "good luck".
What is the swastika?
200
This definition of culture takes into account the two special powers of the human species also captured in the titles homohabilis and homosapien.
What is the manipulation of nature (tool user) and the formulation of symbolic language (meaning making).
300
These are from this dynasty in this country.
What are the Terracotta soldiers from the Qin Dynasty in China.
300
All culture arises from this (according to my teacher).
What is the human condition?
300
These words come from this country and belief system. "Therefore the Master acts without doing anything and teaches without saying anything. Things arise and she lets them come; things disappear and she lets them go. She has but doesn't possess, acts but doesn't expect. When her work is done, she forgets it. That is why it lasts forever."
What is the Tao te Ching?
300
Although they at first may not seem significant, the subtle differences in these, like on statues of the Buddha, mean something particular.
What are hand mudras (gestures)?
300
This is the idea that the forces of nature are inhabited by spirits, and it was a common belief among prehistoric and early nomadic peoples.
What is animism?
400
This pallete is called this, and the two lion heads intertwined represent this.
What is the Narmer Pallete, and what is the unity (through conquering) of north and south ancient Egypt.
400
This is one example of how geography and environment shape the culture of a people.
What is ...?
400
These words come from this ruler in this ancient civilization, and have this significance to the culture. "You rise in perfection on the horizon of the sky, living Aten, who started life. Whenever you are risen upon the eastern horizon, you fill every land with your perfection. You are appealing, great, sparkling, high over the land; your rays hold together the lands as far as everything you have made."
Who is Akhenaten of ancient Egypt, and what is the praise of one god above others which establishes a quasi-monotheism during the New Kingdom?
400
This widely used symbol means "eternal life".
What is the Ankh?
400
The belief that divine spirit pervades all things in the universe.
What is pantheism?
500
This statue comes from the ancient people that the Aryans eventually invaded and conquered when they went south into India from the Caucasus Mountains.
What is the Dravidian culture.
500
This is what your teacher hopes you will ultimately take away from this class.
What is the idea that we are not all that different than our ancestors/ that we should be curious about our mysterious past/ that all humans everywhere from all times grapple with the same questions/ something else?
500
These words are from this ancient text: "While speaking learned words, you are mourning for what is not worthy of grief. Those who are wise lament neither for the living nor the dead. Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be."
What is the Bhagavad-Gita?
500
This is sometimes referred to as the "Wheel of Law" and represents this belief in Buddhism.
What are the Four Nobel Truths?
500
Sometimes this notion is misinterpreted as meaning "payback for something stupid or mean you did recently."
What is karma? (Daily Double: what does it really mean?)
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