Buddhism
This branch of Buddhism uses koans like "what is the sound of one hand clapping?"
zen buddhism
The blind Greek's epic poems furnished plots for tragic dramatists like Euripides
Homer
Suetonius' book "The Twelve Caesars" begins with this man before covering 11 emperors
Julius Caesar
In Latin, John 8:32 reads, "veritas liberabit vos", or in the King James version, this "shall make you free"
the truth
the Nile
Category - Hellenistic World
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Philippic, meaning a bitter rant, comes from the speeches Demosthenes made against this kingdom's Philip II.
A Buddha with his arm supporting his head means he's resting. If his arm is beside his head, he has passed on and is entering this peaceful state that means "extinguishing"
nirvana
Alexander the Great's tutelage under this Greek ended in 336 BCE after the assassination of Alexander's dad
Aristotle
Hail this Caesar who boasted that he found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble
Caesar Augustus
Meaning 'bountiful mother', it's been used for centuries to refer to the school someone attended
alma mater
This European language is an official language of Chad and Burkina Faso, among other countries
French
In exile since 1959, he's the head of the Yellow Hat order of Tibetan Buddhists
Dalai Lama
This 200s BCE man demonstrated 467 propositions of plane and solid geometry from axioms and postulates
You can stand at this spot where in 69 CE, after 7 months in power, Galba was killed in this area of temples and shops
the Forum
Postmortem means after death; postbellum is after this
war
(Hard question) - In 1908, in Pretoria, South Africa, the Union buildings were designed to represent the unity of a once-divided people, with the two identical wings symbolizing these two then-official languages. Afrikaans and ____________.
English
Ficus religiosa is the fitting name of this type of common Asian tree under which Buddha gained enlightenment
the bodhi tree
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If he'd been emperor of Egypt his name would have been Nileius
Tiberius
A 2-word Latin term meaning "conversely"
vice-versa
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With 50 million speakers, this Bantu language is the most widely spoken native language on the continent
The name of this universal law of cause and effect is Sanskrit for "deed"
karma
This "Oretesia" man was the first to use 2 actors in a tragedy to create dialogue, instead of having one just play to the chorus
Aeschylus
In 85 CE Domitian gave himself a lifetime job as this --not stopping book publication but supervising Senate membership
censor
Caveat emptor is "let the buyer beware" and caveat lector is this
let the reader beware
The most-spoken Khoe language is Nama in Namibia; the other Khoe languages are mainly heard in this desert in Botswana
Kalahari