CHAPTER 2 : EXPLORING THE AMERICAS VOCABULARY 1. CRUSADES – A series of 9 conflicts between Christians and __________________________ between 1095 and 1291 for control of the “Holy Land‚” or ________________________. These conflicts brought western Europeans into contact with the Middle East‚ as well as into contact with Arab merchants and ________________________ goods from as far away as India and China. 2. MARCO POLO – A _______________________________ adventurer from Venice‚ Italy
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(a stick submerged halfway into water looks‚ but is not‚ bent). They also fall prey to magical and mythical thinking: A child might believe that the sun was once a ball that someone tossed up into the sky‚ where it grew bigger and bigger. In fact‚ Piaget believed that children’s mental development progresses in the same way historians believe human thought progressed over historical time: from mythical to logical
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Introduction Author John N. Oswalt begins The Bible Among the Myths: Unique Revelation or Just Ancient Literature? with a concise and well-written introduction that whets the reader’s appetite‚ compelling one to continue reading. He begins by informing the reader that his novel has been in the works dating all of the way back to the 1960s‚ when he attended the Asbury Theological Seminary. Oswalt quickly points out that one of the main points that the book will focus on is determining if “the
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The Ggreat Terror‚ or also known as the Great Purge‚ was one of the few Genocides which killed over a million people‚ including political parties. The political purge was primarily an effort by Stalin to eliminate any challenge from past and potential opposition groups. iIn 1934‚ Stalin used the murder of Sergey Kirov as a pretext to launch the purge years later‚.I in which millions perished. The NKVD detained 1‚546‚366 people‚ of whome 681‚692 were shot‚ with almost 1‚000 executions a day. {In the
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passage for this is unmistakable allusion to the myth in which Theseus throws drugged honey-cake to Cerberus to gain entrance to gain entrance to Underworld. The West side rooming house‚ then‚ is Hell and Jerry’s adventurous with the dog symbolize mythical heroes or God’s descent into Hell. In the death scene Albee again makes his allusions so broad that it becomes ironic. Peter’s calling "oh‚ my God" operates so well on both symbolistic and and materialistic level that the one level becomes an ironic
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Amidst the ongoing witch trials‚ Reginald Scot‚ a member of parliament‚ produced a book called The Discoverie of Witchcraft in 1584 denouncing the executions of witches and questioning their existence as a whole. Due to societal pressure he had to rely on biblical references in presenting his arguments to avoid being called a heretic or a witch himself. Hence‚ Scot argued that the belief in witches is an act of heresy itself because this belief suggests that another entity other than God has powers
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Beowulf poem was passed down orally. The poem contains aspects of Christianity what form it takes in the story. It is also sort of a history of how the English language has changed in the many years from then until now. The poem also contains many mythical references and it contains a great hero. Beowulf is considered an artifact by many because "it is the oldest of the English long poems and may have been composed more than twelve hundred years ago."(Beowulf 19) It deals with events of the early
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The mythical creation story of our very own existence is characterized differently by cultures‚ but they all articulate the same meaning and that is God as creator and we as his people. They are two story lines according to the beliefs of creation of the Jewish people and the Babylonians. The different creation belief is seen in the books of Genesis‚ in the Old Testament and the creational myth of the Babylonians: Enuma Elish. In Genesis the meaning of our creation is written in a sense of myth
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SUMMARY OF JOHN N. OSWALT’S BOOK THE BIBLE AMONG THE MYTHS David Strickland Old Testament Introduction - OBST 590 June 1‚ 2013 Introduction The author‚ John N. Oswalt‚ was first introduced to the subject of this book in his seminary studies in the 1960s. Oswalt introduces his book with a narrative of the similarities and differences that exist between the Old Testament and the literature of the Ancient Near East. Prior to the 1960s scholars believed that the Old Testament was unique and did
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Folklore is the traditional customs‚ beliefs‚ and stories of a community‚ passed down through generations. Legends are traditional stories sometimes regarded as historical but unauthenticated. Myths are traditional stories‚ one concerning the early history of people or explaining some social or natural phenomenon. It typically involves supernatural beings or events. Fairy Tales are children’s stories about magical or imaginary beings and lands. Canadian Folklore is traditional material passed down
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