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QUOTE QUIZ
Q02
1. Herodotus
2. 420 BCE
3. Athens
4. History
5. 550-480 BCE, through the Persian Wars
6. a group of the Indians called Callatians, who eat their parents...
significance: cultural relativism, customs of remote Indians
7. As the Egyptians have a climate peculiar to themselves...
significance: diametrical opposition; balance of Nile and Danube
8. He touched the mare with his hand...
significance: folklore motifs, customs of tyrants
Q04
1A. In a fissure of the stone foundation, there were some gold-colored ants...
1. Xuanzang; 2. Chang‘an 650 CE; 3. Xiyu ji; 4. Chinese Buddhist monk's travel journal across deserts and mountains to the heartland of Buddhism In India; patronage of Taizong (Tang China) and Harsha (Vardan India); origin stories of reliquaries and monasteries
1B. In this sandy desert are ants, not so big as dogs but bigger than foxes...
1. Herodotus; 2. Halicarnassus > Athens, 420 BCE; 3. History; 4. account of the Persian Wars (ca.480 BCE); peoples in Xerxes' army; Greeks vs barbaroi; great & marvelous things
5. significance: accounts of marvelous gold and incredible animals at the edge of the world
2A. The first caste is formed by the collective body of the Philosophers...
1. Megasthenes; 2. Babylon 300 BCE; 3. Indica; 4. travel account of a Seleucid ambassador to Chandragupta of the Mauryan dynasty of india
2B. Brahmans particularly are noted on account of their purity and nobility...
1. Xuanzang; 2. Chang‘an 650 CE; 3. Xiyu ji; 4. Chinese Buddhist monk's travel journal across deserts and mountains to the heartland of Buddhism In India; patronage of Taizong (Tang China) and Harsha (Vardan India); origin stories of reliquaries and monasteries
5. significance: importance of cast system; primacy of the scholarly/priestly Brahmin caste
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