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World History Homework Two Answers - Student Two (view source)
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5. Aesop's Fables: pick one you like best and explain why, or comment on all of them as a group.
5. Aesop's Fables: pick one you like best and explain why, or comment on all of them as a group.
I find Aesop's fables fascinating because they show just how much wisdom and important cultural ideas can be conveyed through oral tradition. Now many of them (especially the Boy Who Cried Wolf, and the Tortoise and Hare) are parts of our culture.
6. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle: who impresses you most, and why?
6. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle: who impresses you most, and why?
7. Pick an ancient people other than the Greeks and briefly describe them.
7. Pick an ancient people other than the Greeks and briefly describe them.
The Celts were the people who inhabited the British Isles long before they were colonized by Rome, as well as parts of the European continent. Their burial mounds (barrows) still dot the British countryside. I wonder how they built Stonehenge, as many think they did.
H1. Do you think Jesus taught in Greek? Explain.
H1. Do you think Jesus taught in Greek? Explain.
I think Jesus probably taught in several languages, depending on what language his listeners understood, since that would be the most effective way to spread the Word. Most would have known Aramaic, some might have known Hebrew, some Greek, and maybe even the odd person knew Latin. If the Spiritual gift of tongues is the ability to speak foreign languages, he certainly would have had it.
H3. Greek mathematics, philosophy, drama, literature and architecture. Which do you like best, and why?
H3. Greek mathematics, philosophy, drama, literature and architecture. Which do you like best, and why?
I like the architecture most of all. Ever since the Greeks, we've used their style in our monuments, like the Parthenon in France and the Mall in Washington DC.
I like the architecture most of all. Ever since the Greeks, we've used their style in our monuments, like the Parthenon in France and the Mall in Washington DC.
H5. Write about anything related to the lecture.
I find it interesting that we still publish copies of the Iliad and Odyssey to this day, thousands of years after they were composed, and how parts of their stories, especially the Trojan Horse and Achilles' heel, are part of our culture. I wonder what other stories and poems like that were written in Ancient cultures but were long since lost, which could have been just as influential.
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