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10731609059China's Scholar-Gentry Classlived luxuriously, benefited from wealth and from power and prestige, located in both rural and urban areas, had multi-storied houses, fine silk clothes etc0
10731609062Yellow Turban RebellionA peasant revolt starting in 184 c.e. named for the yellow scarves the peasants wore on their head, unifying ideology of Daoism, goal of "Great Peace" a golden age of equality and harmony1
10731609063Varnafour social classes in India, relating to Caste system2
10731609064Jatidivisions within the varna, groups of similar people, sub-caste3
10731609065Ritual PurityIn Indian social practice, the idea that members of higher castes must adhere to strict regulations limiting or forbidding their contact with objects and members of lower castes to preserve their own caste standing and their relationship with the gods.4
10731609067SpartacusA Roman gladiator who led the most serious slave revolt in Roman history from 73 to 71 B.C.E.)5
10731609069Patriarchya form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line,6
10731609068The Three obediencesIn Chinese Confucian thought, the notion that a woman is permanently subordinate to male control: first to her father, then to her husband, and finally to her son7
10731609070Empress WuThe only female "emperor" in Chinese history (r. 690-705 C.E.), Empress Wu patronized scholarship, worked to elevate the position of women, and provoked a backlash of Confucian misogynist invective.8
10731609073HelotsThe dependent, semi-enslaved class of ancient Sparta whose social discontent prompted the militarization of Spartan society9

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