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Ancient Greeks

These people are among the founders of Western civilization as it is now known.

Christians

These people believe in creation by a single, omnipotent Creator.

Egyptians

These people built the pyramids in 2700 B.C.

Muslims

These people believe in Inlibration, the embodiment of God in a book.

Dante

This person created the epic of every man's exile from life to death.

Boccaccio

This person used the horrors of the plague to write stories of human adventures and misadventures without morals.

Geoffrey Chaucer

This person used the pilgrim metaphor to add to the human comedy.

Rabelais

This person wrote five volumes about a character luxuriating in vulgarity.

Cervantes

This person wrote the first modern novel, which was born as a kind of anti-novel.

William Shakespeare

This person produced his own version of the human comedy for a new audience in a newly flourishing art form of drama...

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