Personal Significance
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Personal Significance: Classical
First, look through all of the items listed to get an overall sense of the options. Then, select 15 items that have the most personal significance to you.
The humanities
Traditional disciplines that express the meaning of human life
Visual arts
Drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, architecture
Performing arts
Music, dance, acting, theatre, film
Discursive arts
Writing, literature, poetry
Religion
Revelation, ritual, sacrament, community
Philosophy
Knowledge, reality, logic, ethics, law
Stone tools
Carefully crafted pre-historic blades and weapons
Megaliths
Pre-historic stone constructions on a monumental scale
Akhenaten and Nefertiti
Egyptian rulers who promoted monotheistic religion
Hammurabi
Codified a written law governing Babylonian life
Olmecs
Meso-American civilization governed by priests
Dharma
Account of right conduct in Hindu culture
Daoism
Chinese practice focused on harmony in life
Classicism
Clarity, simplicity, harmony, moderation, dignity
The Iliad and The Odyssey
Homeric epics describing the heroic age of Greece
Greek tragedy
Dramatic depictions of life, arousing pity and fear
Allegory of the Cave
Platonic image of the relation between appearance and reality
Aristotle’s doctrine of the mean
Aristotle’s account of virtue as moderation in all things
Doric column
Characteristic feature of Greek architecture, as in the Parthenon
Rule of law
Roman tradition of providing written codes for administration
Arch and vault
Architectural method for enclosing large volumes of space
Pantheon
Domed building preserving the achievements of Roman architecture
Han literature
Neo-Confucian writings to preserve ancient Chinese traditions
Public space
Architectural design of indoor and outdoor space for public use
Realistic sculpture
Three-dimensional representation of human figures
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Personal Significance: Medieval
First, look through all of the items listed to get an overall sense of the options. Then, select 15 items that have the most personal significance to you.
Revelation
Divine disclosure of sacred knowledge
Ritual
Repeated activity intended to evoke religious feeling
Supernatural
Experience of reality that transcends observations of the natural world
Judaism
Monotheistic religion of the Hebrew nation
Covenant
Contractual agreement between a community and their deity
Canon
Body of literature selected as religious scripture
Buddhism
Belief in self-renunciation as a method of escaping human suffering
Siddhartha Gautama
Indian prince who sought enlightenment
Christianity
Religion founded on the life and teachings of Jesus
Paul
Developed a theological structure for Christianity
Monasticism
Ascetic withdrawal from the secular world
Islam
Religion focused on the relationship between a community and Allah
Muhammad
Arab merchant whose teachings form the basis for Islam
Qur’an
Islamic scripture of the teachings of Muhammad
Beowulf
Epic poem in vernacular Old English
Charlemagne
Frankish king who established the Holy Roman Empire
Feudalism
Medieval economic structure with serfs and nobles
Norman conquest
French invasion of Anglo-Saxon England
Church and state
Medieval coordination of religious and secular interests
Polyphony
Musical performance with multiple melodic lines
Romanesque and Gothic
Medieval styles of Christian architecture
Dante
Italian author of an account of the afterlife in the Divine Comedy
Francis of Assisi
Early humanist who founded an order of mendicant friars
Porcelain
Translucent ceramic ware perfected by the Chinese
Iconography
Use of religious symbols by medieval Christians, Hindus, and Buddhists
