Artificial Paradises

Question: What does the term “reverse colonialism” mean?

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שאלה #193475

		A) The imperial powers feared an “invasion” of Eastern/colonial subjects into the metropole, bringing drugs with them, which would supposedly “stupefy” the citizens of the imperial powers.
		B) The imperial powers feared that the colonies would take revenge for years of conquest and try to conquer them back.
		C) The imperial powers feared that migrant workers would make the imperial powers weaker because they are lazy workers due to drug use.
		D) The imperial powers feared that migrants would encourage the use of cheap drugs in the metropole instead of more expensive drugs, thereby “damaging” the imperial powers’ reputation.

Explanation: In the lectures, “reverse colonialism” describes an imperial anxiety that the colonial world would “come back” to the metropole—especially through migrants and intoxicants—so drugs were imagined as a threat imported from the colonies into Europe. (Lecture/Reading: Ram, Squaring the Circle; also reinforced in Kozma, Cannabis Prohibition in Egypt.)

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Question: Where did the British first discover cannabis?

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שאלה #193476

		A) China
		B) Turkey
		C) India
		D) Egypt

Explanation: In the lectures, cannabis is discussed in imperial terms as “Indian hemp,” with British knowledge and regulation emerging first through their presence in India before later debates and prohibitions expanded to places like Egypt. (Lecture/Reading: Breen, The Age of Intoxication; also discussed in Ram, Squaring the Circle.)

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Question: When and where did the French first discover cannabis?

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שאלה #193477

		A) In 1799, during Napoleon’s campaign in Egypt
		B) In 1789–1801 in Egypt, during Napoleon’s conquest, French soldiers discovered it in the absence of readily available alcohol.
		C) In 1822, in Egypt, when Silvestre de Sacy brought a sample to demonstrate its “use”
		D) In 1789, in France, during the French Revolution, in the king’s art

Explanation: In the lectures, the French “first encounter/discovery” of cannabis (hashish) is tied broadly to Napoleon’s Egyptian expedition, i.e., during the period 1789–1801 in Egypt, when the conquest and its scholars/soldiers brought back knowledge and representations of the substance. (Lecture/Reading: Ram, Hashishophobia; also connected to Guba de Sacy and the “myth of the Hashishin”.)

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Question: What was the reason for the French conquest in Egypt between 1798–1801?

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שאלה #193478

		A) To maintain control over hashish and the desire to sell it to France
		B) To reinforce the struggle between the Ottoman Empire and the global power
		C) To reinforce the desire to save the Orient from itself
		D) The desire to use Egypt as a land bridge to India in order to threaten the British in India

Explanation: The lectures frame Napoleon’s Egypt campaign (1798–1801) as a strategic move against Britain: controlling Egypt would help threaten British routes and influence to India, making Egypt a key “land bridge”/geopolitical hinge in imperial competition. (Lecture/Reading: Breen, The Age of Intoxication; also consistent with imperial strategy framing in Ram, Middle East Drug Cultures in the Long View.)

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Question: When were the terms “drugs” and “addiction” coined (invented)?

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שאלה #193479

		A) In the 16th century
		B) At the beginning of the 21st century
		C) In the 20th century
		D) At the end of the 19th century

Explanation: In the lectures, “drugs” and “addiction” are treated as modern categories that crystallized with 20th-century medical, bureaucratic, and regulatory frameworks—when states and experts began systematically naming, classifying, and governing substances and dependency. (Lecture/Reading: Breen, The Age of Intoxication; also aligned with Ram, Middle East Drug Cultures in the Long View on modern drug categories.)

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Question: What did the French occupation give in Egypt?

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שאלה #193480

		A) A huge push for hashish use in Europe
		B) A huge push for researching the Orient and for modernizing the Orient
		C) A huge push for imposing limits on drugs, because the French saw the “Egyptian life” as involving hashish sales
		D) A huge push for France in the struggle against Britain: controlling routes and threatening British interests in India (as Britain did)

Explanation: In the lectures, Napoleon’s Egypt expedition is presented as a catalyst for Orientalist knowledge production (scholars, reports, classifications) and for a “modernizing/civilizing” project directed at the Orient—beyond the purely military campaign. (Lecture/Reading: Ram, Squaring the Circle; also connected to Guba de Sacy and the myth of the Hashishin.)

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Question: When does hashish first arrive in Egypt?

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שאלה #193481

		A) In the 12th century
		B) In the 11th century
		C) In the 15th century
		D) In the 17th century

Explanation: In the lectures, hashish is described as appearing in Egypt by the 12th century, becoming part of regional patterns of consumption well before modern colonial regulation. (Lecture/Reading: Ram, Middle East Drug Cultures in the Long View; also discussed in Ram, Hashishophobia.)

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Question: To which religious stream in Islam did the “Hashish Brotherhood” belong?

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שאלה #193482

		A) Sunnis from the Ismaili stream
		B) The Kharijites
		C) Shi‘is from the Zaidi stream
		D) Shi‘is from the Ismaili stream

Explanation: In the course reading, the “Hashishin/Assassins” label is explicitly tied to the Shiʿi Nizaris (a branch within Ismaili Shiʿism), and the term Hashishiyyin is described as a hostile Sunni polemical label rather than a literal description of drug use.

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Question: What was the legend about the “Hashish Brotherhood” (the Hashishin/Assassins)?

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שאלה #193497

		A) The Brotherhood members needed hashish in order to gain special powers.
		B) The members were given a potion by the old man who led them (later linked to hashish), which made them believe they were in Paradise. After the “high” wore off, they realized they were not in Paradise, and the old man instructed them that to return to Paradise they had to kill and be captured.
		C) The Brotherhood members needed hashish in order to receive more “truth,” so they would not fear death (because they were always “high”).
		D) The Brotherhood members needed drugs in order to relax and enjoy life.

Explanation: The lectures treat this as a polemical/orientalist legend: an intoxicating “potion” (later associated with hashish) is used to create a Paradise illusion and motivate obedience and killing, rather than a reliable historical account. (Lecture/Reading: Guba de Sacy, “de Sacy and the myth of the Hashishin”; also Ram, Hashishophobia.)

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Who was the first to bring the story of the hashishin cult to Europe?

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שאלה #193500

		A) Napoleon
		B) Silvestre de Sacy
		C) Marco Polo
		D) Goethe

Explanation: In the lectures, the earliest major European transmission of the “Assassins/Hashishin” story is linked to Marco Polo’s travel narrative, while later scholars like Silvestre de Sacy helped systematize and popularize the “hashish” interpretation in European scholarship. (Lecture/Reading: Guba de Sacy, “de Sacy and the myth of the Hashishin”.)

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Discuss, Learn and be Happy דיון בשאלות

Question: What does the term “reverse colonialism” mean?

Question: Where did the British first discover cannabis?

Question: When and where did the French first discover cannabis?

Question: What was the reason for the French conquest in Egypt between 1798–1801?

Question: When were the terms “drugs” and “addiction” coined (invented)?

Question: What did the French occupation give in Egypt?

Question: When does hashish first arrive in Egypt?

Question: To which religious stream in Islam did the “Hashish Brotherhood” belong?

Question: What was the legend about the “Hashish Brotherhood” (the Hashishin/Assassins)?

Who was the first to bring the story of the hashishin cult to Europe?

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