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| 5210293117 | Harijan | "Children of God", another name for the untouchables | 0 | |
| 5210300028 | professional civil service | a system of selecting administrators | 1 | |
| 5210304543 | Emperor Wu Di | this emperor established an imperial academy where potential officials were trained as scholars and immersed in Chinese classical texts dealing with history, literature, art, mathematics, and Confucian teachings | 2 | |
| 5210316720 | Po Chu-I | famous poet, wrote a poem called, "After Passing the Examination", shows the fame and fortune that awaited an accomplished student | 3 | |
| 5210330561 | Senior officials | these people were moved about in carriages and were bedecked with robes, ribbons, seals, and headdresses appropriate to their rank | 4 | |
| 5210341778 | Wang Mang | a high court official of the Han dynasty who usurped the emperor's throne and immediately launched a series of startling reforms; saw himself as re-creating a golden age with the peasants as the backbone of Chinese society | 5 | |
| 5210355913 | "scholar gentry" | members of this class lived luxuriously, and this term represented people's twin sources of privileges | 6 | |
| 5210368121 | Li Shen | this person wrote a poem on the hardships of peasant life | 7 | |
| 5210373716 | Yellow Turban Rebellion | a massive peasant uprising where the peasants wore yellow scarves around their heads; this movement found leaders, organization, and a unifying ideology in a popular form of Daosim | 8 | |
| 5210391865 | "Great Peace" | a golden age of complete equality, social harmony, and common ownership of property | 9 | |
| 5210396975 | merchants | in Chinese society, these people were labeled as greedy, luxury-loving, and materialistic; people tried to prevent these other people from gaining wealth | 10 | |
| 5210408395 | caste system | this term comes from the Portuguese word casta, which means "race" or "purity of blood". this was originally a system in India that divided people into different groups, ranking social status | 11 | |
| 5210422337 | Varna | an idea that society was forever divided into four great classes | 12 | |
| 5210426043 | Brahmins | the priest class; their sacrifices and rituals ensured the proper functioning of the world | 13 | |
| 5210434607 | Ksatriya | class of warriors and rulers charged with protecting and governing society | 14 | |
| 5210540908 | Vaisya | class of commoners who cultivated the land | 15 | |
| 5210551591 | "twice-born" | the three caste classes came to be called pure Aryans and were called ___________, for they experienced physical birth and formal initiation into their respected varnas and status as people of Aryan descent | 16 | |
| 5210572816 | the Sudras | native peoples incorporated into the margins of Aryan society in very subordinate positions | 17 | |
| 5210580075 | Purusha | the four classes were formed from the body of this god, and were therefore eternal and changeless | 18 | |
| 5210586056 | Indian Constitution of 1950 | this legally abolished "untouchability", but not carried out entirely | 19 | |
| 5210594101 | Dalits | the oppressed, the lowest group in the caste hierarchy, a new name for the untouchables | 20 | |
| 5245643822 | Untouchables | people who did the work that was considered most unclean and polluting, such as cremating corpses, dealing with the skins of dead animals, and serving as executioners | 21 | |
| 5245651359 | jatis | guilds or castes that regulated peoples affairs or jobs | 22 | |
| 5245654478 | karma | reflected the good or bad deeds of someone's past life by them being born into a certain caste | 23 | |
| 5245659630 | dharma | the faithful and selfless performance of one's present caste duties, resulting them in being born into a higher caste | 24 | |
| 5245676372 | ostracism | temporary suspension or exclusion form a society or group | 25 | |
| 5245679110 | patriarchal societies | a society where men sharply controlled or even owned women | 26 | |
| 5245682051 | slavery | ownership of a master, the possibility of being sold, working without pay, and the status of an "outsider: at the bottom of the social hierarchy | 27 | |
| 5245687538 | Hammurabi's law code | the law code of Mesopotamia, mainly regarding to slavery and their roles and rules | 28 | |
| 5245693786 | "slaves by nature" | Aristotle believed in the concept that slaves were _________ ____ _________ | 29 | |
| 5245698058 | Carthage | this North African city was destroyed and Rome obtained 55,000 people that they enslaved | 30 | |
| 5245703264 | "home-born" slaves | the children of slave mothers were referred to as __________. They were thought to be less trouble than those who had known freedom in their earlier lives | 31 | |
| 5245710304 | Saint Paul | this person used the metaphor of slavery to describe the relationship of believers to God | 32 | |
| 5245716789 | Saint Augustine | this person described slavery as God's punishment for sin | 33 | |
| 5245720648 | latifundia | huge estates where slaves provided much of the labor forcer in rural areas | 34 | |
| 5245726230 | Sparatcus | this man led 70 slaves from a school for gladiators in a desperate bid for freedom, and they succeeded, which encouraged others | 35 | |
| 5245732969 | Haitian Revolution of the 1790s | a revolution that sought to free all slaves from Rome, but none of the revolutions or rebellions had a great effect on the Roman slavery system | 36 | |
| 5245747287 | yang | this principle was viewed as masculine and related to heaven, strength, and light | 37 | |
| 5245763385 | yin | this principle was associated with earth, feminine qualities, weakness, and darkness | 38 | |
| 5245770541 | Ban Zhou | a Chinese woman writer and court official who said a woman was supposed to be "lowly and weak" and "humble herself before others" | 39 | |
| 5245777013 | active agents | some writers saw women as _______ _______ | 40 | |
| 5245778006 | dowry | this item gave a woman something to call her own and gave her some leverage in her marriage | 41 | |
| 5245785027 | nomadic people | these type of people allowed women to have more freedoms and to be less restricted since they were not native to the area they were in, mainly China | 42 | |
| 5245790449 | Tang dynasty (618-907 C.E.) | in this dynasty, writers and artists depicted elite women as capable of handling legal and business affairs on their own and on occasion riding horses and playing polo, bareheaded and wearing men's clothing | 43 | |
| 5245798697 | Empress Wu | a former high-ranking concubine in the imperial court, who came to power amid much palace intrigue and was the only woman who ever ruled in China with the title of emperor | 44 | |
| 5245812347 | "mother" | Daoist texts referred to the dao as ___________ and urged the traditionally feminine virtues of yielding and passive acceptance rather than the male-oriented striving of Confucianism | 45 | |
| 5245818649 | Athens and Sparta | two of the leading city-states of classical Greek civilization | 46 | |
| 5245822134 | Euripides | a Greek playwright that wrote in a play called The Trojan Women. "what causes a woman a bad reputation is not remaining inside." | 47 | |
| 5245832246 | Menander | a Greek writer that said it would be a terrible idea to teach a women to read and write, like feeding a vile snake more poison | 48 | |
| 5245837044 | Aspasia | she was born in the Greek city Miletus in a family that believed in educating their daughters. she went to Athens, and her foreign birth gave her a little more freedom, and she attracted Pericles (Athens's leading political figure. they lived together as husband and wife even though they were officially married. Pericles died. Aspasia proved to be very witty and smart | 49 | |
| 5245858926 | hetaera | a professional, educated, high-class entertainer and sexual companion, similar to a Japanese geisha | 50 | |
| 5245864130 | helots | this people were subject to permanent servitude, and were a threat of rebellion | 51 | |
| 5245872321 | Spartan | an ideal _________ male was a warrior, skilled in battle, able to endure hardship, and willing to die for his city | 52 | |
| 5245879422 | Plutarch | a Greek writer that observed that "the men of Sparta always obeyed their wives." | 53 | |
| 5245883086 | Xenophon | an Athenian writer who stated that Sparta's legendary founder LYCURGUS, "caused lovers to abstain from sexual intercourse with boys." | 54 | |
| 5245895432 | childbirth | death in _____________ was considered equivalent of death in battle | 55 |
