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What is an epic poem?
Gilgamesh is an example of this type of poem
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What is Hinduism?
This is the religion most popular in India.Buddhism comes from this religion.
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Who is Homer?
He is the blind author of The Iliad
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Who is Doondari?
He was the creator of stone and all living things including humans.
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What is A piece of string
This is a French story written by Guy de Maupassant
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Who is Enkidu?
Gilgamesh tells the story of Gilgamesh and his best friend with this name.
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What is prayer?
Ancient Indian history is divided into several Vedic Ages, which is a word meaning this in Hindi
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Who are Spartan Women
these women were allowed much more freedom than their Athenian counterparts.
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What are earth, fire, water, air, and wind?
Doondari makes man out of these five things.
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What is a quest?
This is a word meaning a journey towards a goal.
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What are psalms?
this Greek word, meaning songs, were written by King David
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What is the Indus River?
Ancient Indian history begins with a civilization that grows up around this river
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Who are aristocrats?
This is a member of the nobility, the ruling, or the privileged class in society
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What is three?
This is the number of times Doondari descended on Earth?
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What is an anti-hero?
This is a person opposite of a classical hero.
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Who is Urshanabi?
This is the name of the boat maker in Gilgamesh who tells him the story of the flood
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Who are outcastes?
this is the lowest caste in the Indian caste system, sometimes not actually considered a caste
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Who are the common folk?
The group of people were made up of mainly farmers and merchants.
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What are he was hungry, physically weak, and exhausted mentally and physically.
These are reasons the younger brother gave as to why he couldn't continue on the fourth day in "The First Bard of the Soninke."
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What is Don Quixote?
This novel, written by Miguel Cervantes, is not just a quest, but a parody of a quest
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Who are Osiris and the dead man/mummy
These two people are the speakers of the Book of the Dead.
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What is religion?
Ancient Indian literature has its roots in this.
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What is a slave?
Aesop is thought to be this type of person.
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What is king?
This is the position in society that Sundiata's father held.
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What is Candide?
This novel, written by voltaire is the French Parody of the Quest
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