Essential facts

Question 1

Liu Dapeng - village, province, diary

Answer 1

Chiqiao

Shanxi

400 diaries, kept for 50 years

Question 2

Man Awakened from Dreams

Answer 2

Man is a compulsive dreamer, who dreams he is rich and successful, but on his awakening Lu Dongbin (a Daoist immortal) tells him that all worldly achievement is merely an empty dream

Question 3

Licentiate studying and pass

Answer 3

Passed at the age of 21, having studied the texts since 8 and learned moral content

Question 4

Chongxiu Academy time

Answer 4

Came aged 24, spent 10 years failing 5 times the exams

Question 5

Tutoring and other exams

Answer 5

Tutored for 11 years - disliked it

Passed on 6th provincial exam

Failed national exam in 1895 and 1898

Question 6

Liu 1912

Answer 6

Elected head of the county assembly

Question 7

Liu 1937

Answer 7

Aged 80 - climbed onto roof to see family go and barricaded door

Question 8

Ottoman migration

Answer 8

Turkish reprisals for rebellions and mutual hostility between Muslims and Christians generated refugees

Up to 1912, Bulgaria received about 250,000 refugees, whilst Constantinople’s population doubled with Muslim refugees

Question 9

WW1 Russia migration

Answer 9

Advance of German armies in Russia led to mass evacuation (obligatory for Jews and factory/institution employees)

Up to 1916, over 3.15 million refugees registered in non-occupied Russia

Question 10

WW2 migration levels

Answer 10

60 million citizens were affected by the wartime migration in Europe

Over 20 million displaced in the aftermath of the war

Question 11

Great Mother Goddess fable

Answer 11

For Jacquetta Hawkes, that goddess was so omnipresent/omnipotent in Bronze Age Crete that she labelled it as a ‘predominantly feminine force’

Shattered by Peter Ucko’s book on figurines showing only 28 of 103 recovered could be identified as female, only two from any house and none from a shrine

Large breasts and buttocks (power) observed by Hawkes was entirely subjective

Question 12

First Wannapum expeditions

Answer 12

1805, 1811, 1814

Question 13

Smowhala birth

Answer 13

1815-1820

Question 14

Stewart - village name and size

Answer 14

Koronos - mountainous village of 500 people

Question 15

1800s dreaming timeline

Answer 15

1831 - 3 shepherds instructed by Panagia to dig up her icon

1835 - 2 visionaries started digging at Argokoili, found bones

1836 - Maggioros led to 3 icon finds

Question 16

1930 dream

Answer 16

Katerina Legaki and brother

Lived in Naxos and dreamed of icon on landlord’s icon stand