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| 8798441108 | Legalism | a Chinese philosophy that was devoted to strengthen and expand the state through increased agricultural work and military service. | 0 | |
| 8798441109 | Confucianism | chinese philosophy, all-encompassing way of thinking and living that entails ancestor reverence and a profound human-centred religiousness |  | 1 |
| 8798441110 | Ban Zhao | a Chinese woman writer and court official whose work provides valuable insight on the position of women in classical China. |  | 2 |
| 8798441111 | Daoism | chinese School of Thought: Daoists believe that the world is always changing and is devoid of absolute morality or meaning. They accept the world as they find it, avoid futile struggles, and deviate as little as possible from the Dao, or 'path' of nature. |  | 3 |
| 8798441112 | Vedas | ancient Sanskrit writings that are the earliest sacred texts of Hinduism. | 4 | |
| 8798443577 | Upanishads | a group of writings sacred in Hinduism concerning the relations of humans, God, and the universe. | 5 | |
| 8798443578 | Siddhartha Gautama | founder of Buddism; born a prince; left his father's wealth to find the cause of human suffering; also know as Buddha |  | 6 |
| 8798447183 | Theravada | (Hinayana), the "lesser vehicle". Earlier, stricter form of Buddhism. | 7 | |
| 8798447184 | Mahayana | the "greater vehicle," a more metaphysical and more popular northern branch of Buddhism. | 8 | |
| 8798447185 | Nalanda | an acclaimed Mahavihara, a large Buddhist monastery in the ancient kingdom of Magadha (modern-day Bihar) in India. |  | 9 |
| 8798449171 | Bhagavad Gita | a Hindu holy book where the god Krishna teaches the importance of selflessness, performing religious duties, and of devotion to God. "Song of God" | 10 | |
| 8798449172 | Zoroastrianism | Persian religion founded by Zoroaster; taught that humans had the freedom to choose between right and wrong, and that goodness would triumph in the end. | 11 | |
| 8798449173 | Judaism | a religion with a belief in one god. It originated with Abraham and the Hebrew people. Yahweh was responsible for the world and everything within it. They preserved their early history in the Old Testament. |  | 12 |
| 8798452122 | Greek rationalism | the thinking and questioning of established ideas that relied not on the gods for reference, claiming that human reason was adequate enough to come up with a rational answer. | 13 | |
| 8798452123 | Socrates | An Athenian philosopher who thought that human beings could lead honest lives and that honor was far more important than wealth, fame, or other superficial attributes. Is the father of Western thinking. |  | 14 |
| 8798452124 | Plato | Socrates' most famous student; described the ideal form of government in his famous book, The Republic. |  | 15 |
| 8798454613 | Aristotle | Greek philosopher and scientist. A student of Plato and tutor to Alexander the Great, he founded a school. His surviving works cover a vast range of subjects, including logic, ethics, metaphysics, politics, natural science, and physics. |  | 16 |
| 8798454614 | Jesus of Nazareth | First-century Jewish teacher and prophet; he founded Christianity and taught about kindness and love of God. His teachings spread through the Roman Empire and, eventually, the rest of the world. |  | 17 |
| 8798456335 | Church of the East | branch of the church concentrated in Persia and active in missions to China rejected the Chalcedonian Creed on the grounds that it did not accurately affirm the human nature of Jesus. | 18 | |
| 8798456336 | Perpetua | to cause to continue indefinitely. | 19 |
