The joining of the literary and scientific worldviews in Christ was the unique contribution of Medieval Christianity. ... A majority of citizens were of the literary/rhetorical tradition. ... By the time the church confronted the issue of education on an institutional level, several important events had already occurred: The Church had transferred from Jewish to Gentile soil, The standard of orthodoxy was moving in a more theological direction, The Judaic roots of Christianity were radically de-emphasized as the Gospel message was universalized, The Biblical wisdom tradition was discarded in ...

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This is because their literary works were not translated or preserved. ... I think that was a bad choice on Rome's part because that isolated them with all of the Mediterranean in terms or trade and commerce. ... These actions backfired and the Roman senate refused to negotiate peace terms as long as Pyrrhus remained in Italy. ...

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All these terms opened the door to think farther which resulted to enrich human existence with uniqueness. ... Aristotle also wrote important works, including Poetics, a masterpiece of literary criticism. ... These include lyric and epic poetry, philosophical essays and dialogues, tragic and comic drama, literary letters and critical and biographical history. ... Drama, especially tragedy, became the most important literary form. ...

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important to Caesar: is allied with competent ruler--used to gather power more control over bribery from R.empire--able to negotiate terms-bring peace/not subject to rivalry Asses the success of Cleopatra as a ruler of Egypt: Cleopatra was very successful as a ruler of Egypt is not in her plan to unite East with west. ... "In her conversations with the barbarians, she seldom needed an interpreter" (plutarch) Cleopatra is also accredited with several literary works on topics such as cosmeics, coins and alchemy. ...

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In all of their history, no great names in science or mathematics beckon to us from across the ages as those of their military geniuses or literary greats do. ... In non-engineering terms, a gradient is simply a slope expressed in numbers. ...

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