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Long poems about a hero's adventure.
What are epics?
100
Enterprise in which goods are manufactured from raw materials.
What is industry?
100
To bring honor, praise, and admiration to someone or something.
What is to glorify?
100
A person taken by force to make sure the taker's demands are met.
What is a hostage?
100
Given individual instruction.
What is tutored?
200
A group, especially of actors, singers, or dancers.
What is a troupe?
200
People who are in charge of a unit or group.
What are supervisors?
200
Pleasing balance of various parts of a whole.
What are proportions?
200
Legendary hero who founded Rome.
Who is Romulus?
200
The logical study of basic truths about knowledge, values, and the world.
What is philosophy?
300
In ancient Greece, to send someone away from the city-state for ten years.
What is to ostracize?
300
The Greek word for city-state?
What is polis?
300
A story that people tell to explain beliefs about their world.
What is a myth?
300
Enslaved people of Sparta.
What are helots?
300
A league of Greek city-states, led by Athens, formed for mutual protection.
What is the Delian League?
400
A temple for Athena on the acropolis of Athens.
What is the Parthenon?
400
Sculpture in which slightly raised figures stand out against a flat background.
What is bas-relief?
400
The branch of Christianity that developed in the Eastern Roman Empire.
What is Eastern Orthodox Christianity?
400
A Christian belief in the union of three divine persons-- the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit-- in one God.
What is the Trinity?
400
The bishop of Rome and the most important bishop in the Catholic Church.
Who is the pope?
500
Letters that became part of the New Testament.
What are Epistles?
500
A Roman stadium where Romans watched gladiator fights.
What is the Colosseum?
500
Closest followers of Jesus.
Who were the disciples?
500
People of Southwest Asia who began to trade around 1100 B.C.
Who were the Phoenicians?
500
People chosen to speak and act for others.
What are delegates?