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| According to Peter Brook, the 3 essential elements of the theatre are actor, audience, and text. |
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| False. It's actor, audience, and space. |
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| Theatre operations that deal directly with actors and designers are called "front-of-house." |
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| False. The stage manager does. |
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| Most people who work in the theatre do so because most of the jobs are highly paid. |
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| False. Some don't get paid. |
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| The contribution of each person who works in the theatre is successful and valid only insofar as it is appropriate to the succuess of the entire production. |
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| The audience area of any theatrical space is called the house. |
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| The term "raked" means that the floor of the audience area or the stage is sloped. |
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| A facade is a background wall, found in a theatre space, that can suggest nearly any location, inside or out. |
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| Vomitories are entrances to elevated seating for the audience that run underneath the audience and come up to empty out into the seating area. |
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| A found space is one that was built originally for theatrical performance. |
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| The directions "stage right" and "stage left" are determined by the audience perspective as it faces the proscenium arch. |
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| False. It's to the actor's perspective. |
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| Theatre that is meant strictly as entertainment usually challenges the beliefs of the majority of its audience. |
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| Sophocles' play Oedipus the King is a good example of theatre meant strictly as entertainment. |
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| Historians believe that Western theatre had its beginnings in religious ritual associated with the Greek god Dionysus. |
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| Theatre has frequently been used to reinforce the status quo and build support for the government in power. |
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| Material specifically designed to advocate a particular point of view-whether to support or challenge the status quo- is known as propaganda. |
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| In arts therapy, the purpose of theatrical activity changes to individual development rather than audience communication. |
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| Plato feared that convincing acting and powerful language could help society if the theatre artists chose to present subversive material. |
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| The Puritans embraced theatre as a teaching tool. |
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| False. Probably religious. |
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| Shakespeare's Globe Theatre was built in a place of honor next to the queen's residence to show the place of honor theatre had in Elizabethan England. |
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| Commercial theatre in the U.S. can be found only in New York City. |
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| The designation "amateur theatre" means that the actors have no training in performance. |
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| A successful Broadway show runs as long as it is making money. |
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| Theatre as an art form does which of the following? |
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Entertains its audience.
Challenges its audience to confront uncomfortable truths.
Provides a more focused version of reality than life experience. |
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| the person who celebrates the past or invokes the gods by collaborating with both the deities and the audience of believers in Theatre as religious ritual. |
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| Roman writer Horace defined the function of theatre as... |
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| The fact that theatre is usually a live production of a previously written play makes it particularly effective as a means for... |
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| exploring life in other times |
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| casting actors of a different race than the character as written |
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| popular entertainment theatre examples |
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| Phantom of the Opera and The Lion King |
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| Broadway, Off-Broadway, Touring shows, and major resident |
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| Is a local place and that receives funding from a place like LORT |
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| Is within a community like the local college students, teachers, and locals |
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| Refers to a particular area of New York City, the size of the house, and commercial theatre. |
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| Can be professional, no individual or organization realizes a profit from the investment in production, and any money earned at the box office is funneled back into the arts organization to support other shows and programs. |
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| Major Expenses for Amateur Theatre |
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| maintaining or renting a space, materials for sets and costumes, and lighting equipment and other technical materials |
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| Is at any educational level. Primary, secondary, and college/university |
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| Students who have recently graduated and formed their own nonunion companies, holding down "day jobs" to support themselves while working toward a professional company, a summer stock theatre that hires well-trained students and experienced community members, and an Off-off broadway theatre producing experimental plays. |
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| Audience member experiences a sense of participation and emotional identification with a character on stage |
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| a feeling of emotional release at the end of a play |
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| Bertolt Brecht described the ideal experience of Theatrical performance as... |
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| intellectual engagement and social action |
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| Aristotle described the ideal experience as... |
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| emotional identification and release |
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| Production consists of 5 things: |
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| actors, sets, costumes, lighting, and props |
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| the audience is on only one side of the performance area |
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| the space immediately in front of the stage where the seats are on the floor in proscenium theatre |
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| spaces offstage left and right for actors, crew, and scenery that are not visible performance space in proscenium theatre |
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| the audience completely surrounds the performance |
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| small and features flexible seating for the audience |
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| actors and audience sharing the same space |
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| area of the stage farthest from the audience |
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| area of the stage closest to the audience |
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| artist who writes the words for the songs |
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| artist who creates original music for the theatrical production |
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| artist who works with singers and orchestra in learning music for a play |
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| artist who stages dancing or stylized movement |
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| Theatre must suspend your... |
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| Plot, Character, Spectacle, Theme, Language, and Sound |
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| written by Arthur Miller in the 1950s is an example of Theatre that subverts the status quo and offers a forum for dissent |
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| Greek word for artists process of imitation |
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| playwright who wrote Lysistrata |
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| Roman word refers to the mask, both literal and figuratively, that the actor wears |
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| person who "crafts" the play |
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| person in charge of the artistic aspects of production |
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| person who executes artistic decisions by the creative team and ensures things run smoothly on and backstage |
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| person responible for the safety and comfort of the audience members and everything open to the public |
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| Sound, Scenic, Costume, Lighting, Multimedia, Props, and Make-up |
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| person responsible for raising the funds, hiring the director and negotiating the rights to the play |
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| Greek name of the person generally considered to be the 1st actor |
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| Theatre movement that can trace its findings and ideas back to Henrik Ibsen |
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| Melodrama reflects the popular theatrical vision of what artistic theatrical movement? |
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| citywide plays during the Middle Ages that depicted last days of Jesus |
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| Unity and theatrical rules are the central concept of this type of theatre found in Italy and France in the late 1500s, 1600s, and most of the 1700s? |
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type of theatre in the 1800s that was about mood over character development and this was usually accomplished with the use of music and special effects.
Sometimes referred to as "song drama" and "mood drama" |
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| trace its findings and ideas back to Emile Zola as its Founder |
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| written descriptions of physical or emotional action or physical appearance |
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| the organization or structure of the action of a play |
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| events of a drama progress forward and sequentially in time |
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| The heart of causal structure consists of... |
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| the conflict of opposing forces |
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| point in the story at which the playwright chooses to start dramatizing the action |
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| event in a play that destroys the uneasy balance and sets off the major conflict of forces |
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| small units of action that build in emotional intensity |
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| emotional high point of the action |
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| The climax of A Doll's House |
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| the point after the climax where the emotional intensity drops |
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| something found, learned, or realized during the action of a play |
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| Why was Oedius the King perfectly structured? |
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| the play's climax, discovery, and reversal happen in the same moment. |
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| stops at the climax and does not show the outcome of the conflict |
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| most scenes of a play progress forward in time but occasional scenes actually dramatize events taht occurred in the story before the point of attack |
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| dramatic work created after World War II that breaks down traditional causal structure |
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| work that is self-conscious in it presentation of theatre as theatre |
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| fictional persons that are created to perform the action of the play |
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| 3 Ways to give information about a character in a play: |
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| what characters say about themselves, what other characters say about them, and what the character does |
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| a character's job or profession, socioeconomic status, or religious or political affiliation |
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| Ways to create thought in a play: |
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| a speech is given by a character arguing a particular point, the protagonist escapes rather than being killed, and images of death and decay are repeated throughout the play |
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| Juliet is the sun is a type of what? |
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| Where was featured theatres that were built into a hillside? |
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| This playwright wrote farcical situation comedies during the Roman period? |
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| an emblematic background used to indicate place during the Middle Ages |
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| Systematic approach to playwriting based on interpretations of classical Greek and Roman models of plays and theory |
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| 3 unities of neoclassicism |
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| Universality in morality and characterization in neoclassical writing |
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| Elizabethan public theatre included: |
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| a proscenium arch and a 2nd performance level |
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| When did romanticism become the dominant style in both acting and playwriting? |
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| Preromantic playwrights who deliberately broke all the rules of neoclassicism and shocked their audience with violence and forbidden topics |
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| Romantics Fascinated with what? Dramatized what? Believed what? Modeled off who? |
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| Fascinated with the unexplainable, gothic, and mystical. Dramatized emotion triumphing over reason. Believed that form should be dictated by subject matter, not classical precedent. Modeled off of Shakespeare. |
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| Staging and design in the romantic period introduced: |
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| the box set and antiquarianism |
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| What important change in lighting was introduced to theatres during the reign of melodrama in the 1820s? |
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| Realism Rebellion against? Realization of What? Playwrights avoided what? Audiences? |
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| It was a rebellion against romanticism and melodrama. It was a realization of what romanticism and melodrama had approached visually. The subject matter of the plays was often disturbing to audiences and playwrights avoided using poetry for dialogue. |
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| Henrik Ibsen's A Doll House and Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard |
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| Romanticism was a rejection of nearly every aspect of neoclassicism. |
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| The dramatic genre that dominated the 19th century and continues to dominate in television and film is melodrama. |
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| The romantic playwrights were influenced by the work of Charles Darwin and were concerned with the importance of heredity and environment. |
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| Authors arguing for naturalism suggested throwing out traditional dramatic structure and creating a "slice of life" on the stage. |
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| Plays can be unified by idea, character, or image as well as action. |
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| An accomplished playwright will develop a character only to the extent needed to fulfill its function in the play. |
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| Shakespeare's plays are written largely in blank verse. |
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| The element of spectacle includes costumes and scenery but not lighting. |
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| The ancient Greek theatres were intimate spaces, seating between 100 to 300 spectators. |
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| The ancient Greeks developed free-standing theatres, traps, and vomitories. |
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| The Medieval Period was known for religious dramas. |
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| Neoclassicism began as an attempt to justify secular literature and to get official and church sanction for the creation of nonreligious plays. |
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| Shakespeare was the only popular playwright in England during the Elizabethan period. |
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| During the Elizabethan period, the English showed little interest in Italian neoclassicism or changeable scenery. |
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| Era of Theatre highlighted by Realism and Naturalism? |
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| Shakespeare wrote plays under 2 monarchs. They were? |
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| James I and Queen Elizabethan |
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| English court's "theatre czar" and official censor until the 1960s? |
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| William Shakespeare was born in where? |
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| This word means "rebirth" and is the central the Theatre of Ideas and the emergence of Shakespeare in the 1500s? |
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| famous type of metered verse that is known by 5 long/5 short syllables an unstressed/followed by a stressed |
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| post Roman Empire and before the Medieval Ages where theatre dies for centuries, and cultural centers are lacking |
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| 4 major European intellectuals |
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| Sigmund Freud, Fredrick Nietzcher, Charles Darwin, and Karl Max |
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| The Greeks 500 BCE to 200 BCE |
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| The Romans 200 BCE to 476 CE |
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| The Middle Ages, 900 CE to 1500 CE |
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