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7: Flashcards

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The Bronze Age

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3300bc to 1200bc

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2
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Where did literature first appear

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Ancient Greece and Sumerian Empire

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What is considered the most famous Bronze Age piece?

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Epic of Gilgamesh

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The Iron Age

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1200bc to 1st Century BC

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5
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Homer

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8th Century BC Epic Poems
Iliad (Siege of Troy)
Odissey

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6
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Who were the 3 main philosophers in Ancient Greece

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4-5 Century BC

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

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7
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Who opened the first Western Higher Education Institution? What was it called.

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Plato,

“Academy”

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8
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Middle-Age in France

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5th-15th Century
Mostly religious
For Aristocrats & Clergymen
Oral tradition prevalent amongst population

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9
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Courtly Literature

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First French Epics and Poems
Middle-ages
Feelings, thoughts, love

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Renaissance Period

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15th-17th Century
End of obscurantism
Birth of humanist principles, science and philosophy
Poetry, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture

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11
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Classic vs Baroque

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Classical: Seeking perfection
Baroque: Emotions instead of reason

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Age of Reason

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17th Century
Individuality, Freedom
Descartes and Rationalism

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Theatre

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Changed in 17th Century by Molière
Burlesque and Satirical comedy
Criticized nobility and social constructs

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Age of Enlightenment

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18th Century
Rejected oppression
Liberty and Equality
Wanted society based on merit and talent, not heredity

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Main literary works of Enlightenment

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Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu

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16
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The Encyclopaedia

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Diderot
Jesuits made it illegal at first
Pope ordered them burned
Finished in 1772 after 20 years

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19th Century

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Realism to Romanticism
Government changed 5 times
People more educated, literature more influential than ever

18
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Realism

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19th Century - 1/2
Balzac, Zola
Ernest depictions of life, society
Naturalism: More sever, science-like investigation

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Romanticism

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19th Century - 2/2
Feelings, emotions, imagination
Victor Hugo, Dumas

20
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Surrealsim

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20th Century
Dictated by free though, without censorship
Camus, Sartre

21
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21st Century

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Multicultural
Entertainment more popular than political
Minimalism - Hemmingway
Travel
Science-Fiction

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