What is Jeopardy?

I did better than I thought I would during the jeopardy games. The majority of the questions that I was getting wrong had to do Islam and the majority of the questions that I got right had to do with China.

What Yerim Got Wrong: 

A: The two most important deities in the Hindu Pantheon.
Q: Who are Vishnu and Shiva?

A: The name of the ship that began to use the lateen sail (triangular sail).
Q: What is a dhow?

A: This administration used Persian techniques of statecraft.
Q: What is the Abbasid administration?

A: The Byzantine Empire used this since it placed an imperial province under the jurisdiction of a general because they provided military defense and handled civil administration.
Q: What is a 'theme' system?

A: This Frankish ruler is credited for saving the Roman Catholic church.
Q: Who is Clovis?

eggs benedict

"The Rule"
4. Monasteries that followed "Benedict's Rule" could be very useful institutions because enforcing the rules everyone is very controlled and tractable. Such strict rules such as 57. to apply oneself frequently to prayer and 63. to love chastity keeps the people under control. Another reason that the monasteries could be useful is because despite the harshness and lack of freedom the rules assert, the citizens are taught valuable lessons and live to be "good, model citizens". 3. then not to kill, 4. not to commit adultery, 5. not to steal, 6. not to covet, 7. not to bear false witness all encourage and pretty much forces one to become a moral citizen.

5. Socially, it is evident that these people lived in fear 24/7 365 days a year. Rules 44 & 45 (to fear the Day of Judgment & to be in dread of hell, respectively) exhibit such fearful behavior and the Rules definitely fostered this fear, perhaps to have greater control over the people. I can see the government using these rules to their full advantage and scaring the pants off of the people to coerce them into following orders. Economically, I think that the rules could have benefited society. With the fear and love for God that the monasteries encourage, everything is to be done for God. This could be motivational and make society work harder. The paragraph on "Of the Daily Manual Labor" frowns upon laziness and clearly these people were always out and about, getting things done. The Rules create a productive society who fear being lazy since if you are, you go to hell. oh, that's exciting.

The Fruit of the Gods

I liked the poems because I felt like that they flowed very well and was very rhymeish. I think that the poems reflected Indian society brcause they were very religious and reflected the caste system. "The Plums Tasted" talk about a poor girl who was in the bottom of the caste system. "The Pot is a God" talks about how the gods are one god.