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Question

1. What do the Ten commandments have to do with the promotion of Islamic calligraphy as an outlet for artistic creativity?

2. What impact did The Mali Empire's ruler, Mansa Moussa, have on the Egyptian economy as he passed through the country?

3. In Plato's "Allegory of the Cave," what does he suggest is the tendency among humans when they are exposed to new ideas that conflict with what they've always known?

4. The character Oedipus is a man who kills his father and then marries his mother before he eventually gouges his own eyes out, loses his wife/mother to suicide, and enters a voluntary exile, never to see his home and children again; what is the underlying tragedy we discussed in class?

5. Why might it seem a disingenuous to suggest that the tomb of Tutankhamen was never "looted?" Who looted the tomb and when?

6. During the Song Dynasty in China, how did painters depict the ancient Chinese belief about the relationship between humans and nature, and how does this belief differ from the perception of humanity in nature in European Christianity?

7. How does the concept of "psychological realism" account for the fact that it is possible to identify the apostle Peter as the figure who grabs a knife and Judas as the figure who turns away from Jesus in Leonardo Da Vinci's painting, The Last Supper? What do any of them do in the Bible to justify their behavior in the painting?

8. How did the British East India company manage to convince the rulers of India to hand over their mineral, manufacturing and trade rights to the British government, and what were the consequences of that "bargain"? What benefit did they offer?