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Dante's Inferno
China
Beowulf
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This figure was Dante's guide through Hell.
Who is Virgil?
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This was one type of Buddhism that flourished in Imperial China and was largely focused on meditation.
What is Zen Buddhism?
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The Huge monster Beowulf killed.
Who is Grendel?
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This word means "the punishment fits the crime"
What is Contra Passo?
100
A period of 40 days of fasting.
What is Lent?
200
This level was divided into ten different sublevels.
What is Simple Fraud?
200
This Chinese poet drowned in a lake under the moonlight.
Who was Li Bo?
200
This is another name for the Mead-Hall, the place where all the partying took place.
What is Heorot?
200
The literal translation of this word means "Fat Tuesday"
What is Mardi Gras?
200
The pilgrimage to this city is a cornerstone of the Islamic faith.
What is Mecca?
300
This demon ferried souls across the river Acheron.
Who is Charon?
300
She was the first and only female Empress in China's history.
Who is Empress Wu?
300
This place stored the Beowulf Manuscript and burned down in a fire on October 23, 1731.
What is the Ashburnham House?
300
The common folk etymology of this word is goodbye meat or "Carne Valel"
What is Carnival?
300
A system in which political power becomes represented by gifts (usually of property) from lords to vassals.
What is Feudalism?
400
This level was home to people who were filled with anger and wrath in life.
What is the fifth circle of Hell?
400
This Chinese poet grew up in poverty and failed the examination test his first try.
Who is Du Fu?
400
The king of the Danes Beowulf helps out by killing Grendel.
Who is Hrothgar?
400
This word comes from the French word Croisade, meaning "being marked with a cross"
What is Crusade?
400
This movie is based off Viking mythology and Gods.
What is Thor?
500
The demon of Fraud.
Who is Geryon?
500
This city was the trade and commerce center of Imperial China, covered about 30 square miles, and was laid out in a grid system.
What is the Tang Capital of Chang-An?
500
Manuscript Cotton Vitellius a. XV
What is the name of the Beowulf Manuscript?
500
A French term meaning "rebirth"
What is the Renaissance?
500
This term describes when monks went off to live by themselves.
What is eremitic monasticism?