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| 7304088826 | China's Scholar-Gentry Class | lived luxuriously, benefited from wealth and from power and prestige, located in both rural and urban areas, had multi-storied houses, fine silk clothes etc |  | 0 |
| 7304088829 | Yellow Turban Rebellion | A 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 harmony |  | 1 |
| 7304088832 | Ritual Purity | In 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. |  | 2 |
| 7304088833 | Greek and Roman Slavery | In the Greek and Roman world, slaves were captives from war and piracy (and their descendants), abandoned children, and the victims of long-distance trade; manumission was common. Among the Greeks, household service was the most common form of slavery, but in parts of the Roman state, thousands of slaves were employed under brutal conditions in the mines and on great plantations. |  | 3 |
| 7304088835 | The Three obediences | In 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 son |  | 4 |
| 7304088840 | Helots | The dependent, semi-enslaved class of ancient Sparta whose social discontent prompted the militarization of Spartan society |  | 5 |
| 7304091529 | Kong Fuzi | Confucius | 6 | |
| 7304093576 | Upanishads | A series of religious writings in India which gave expression to classical Hinduism | 7 | |
| 7333867443 | The Five Relationships | A concept of social structure essential for social harmony in Confucian philosophy; Ruler to Ruled, Father to Son, Husband to Wife, Elder Brother to Younger Brother, Friend to Friend. | 8 | |
| 7333869040 | Filial Piety | The Confucian belief of respecting your ancestors, elders, and superiors, while also executing ceremonies and rituals correctly. | 9 | |
| 7333907118 | ren | the Confucian concept of having a heart of benevolence, humaneness, love. It is essential for becoming a "superior man". | 10 | |
| 7334015555 | Laozi | 6th century B.C.E archivist who started Daoism | 11 | |
| 7334021089 | Daodejing | book of writings authored by Laozi about the ways of Daoism | 12 | |
| 7334035059 | dao | moves around and around, but does not suffer. all life comes from it. it wraps everything with love as in a garment, and yet it claims no honor, for it does not demand to be lord. (a Daoist concept similar to Brahman in Hinduism) | 13 | |
| 7334107946 | The Vedas | collections of poems, hymns, prayers, and rituals used in Hinduism but rejected by Buddhism, compiled by priests called Brahmins (hence Brahman) | 14 | |
| 7334135749 | Why were the Brahmins controversial? | Because they required large sums of money in exchange for doing the rituals in the Vedas. | 15 | |
| 7334141808 | the Upanishads | mystical and philosophical works that sought to find the inner meaning of the sacrifices prescribed in the Veda, written anonymously. These philosophical undertones gave modern Hinduism a philosophical touch. | 16 | |
| 7334159396 | Brahman | a Hindu belief, the final and ultimate reality; a primal unitary energy or divine energy that infuses all things, similar to the Chinese concept of Dao. The individual human soul is part of brahman. | 17 | |
| 7334179451 | moksha | liberation, the final goal to make union with Brahman and end the illusory perception of a separate existence. Achieving this can take many lifetimes (Hindus believe in reincarnation). | 18 | |
| 7334204550 | karma | Depending on actions, the human souls migrate from body to body over different lifetimes. This is the law of karma. Good karma=priest/rich person=soon will achieve moksha, bad karma=poor person= farther away from achieving moksha | 19 |
