7432014695 | Filial Piety | Honoring of one's parents and ancestors | 0 | |
7432014696 | Ban Zhou | (45-116 CE); A writer who expressed women's subordination to men in Lessons For Women. Paid more attention to education for girls so they would be prepared to serve their husbands. | 1 | |
7432014697 | Laozi | According to tradition he was a sixth-century BCE archivist, who was associated with Daoism and supposedly wrote a short poetic volume called the Daodejing before he disappeared into the wilderness to the west of China on his water buffalo | 2 | |
7432014698 | Chinese landscape painting | Paintings which focused on mountains and water and were influenced by Daoism | 3 | |
7432014699 | Yin and Yang | Chinese concept that expressed a belief in the unity of opposites | 4 | |
7432014700 | Vedas | A collection of poems, hymns, prayers, and rituals that express chiefdoms, describe ritual practices, and suggest patriarchal societies | 5 | |
7432014701 | Brahmin | Priests who compiled the Vedas | 6 | |
7432014702 | Upanishads | Ritual and highly philosophical works | 7 | |
7432014703 | Moksha | AKA liberation; a belief in Hinduism, described as the final goal of a humankind, the union with the Braham and an end to our perception of a separate existence | 8 | |
7432014704 | Samsara | Rebirth or reincarnation; the central idea or figure of Hindu thinking | 9 | |
7432014705 | Karma | A person's actions, in context with their own life which resulted in rebirth in a higher social position or caste | 10 | |
7432014706 | Hindu ascetics | Men who in their final stage of life were required by Hinduism to leave their ordinary ways of living and withdraw into nature to seek spiritual liberation of moksha | 11 | |
7432014707 | Nirvana | Nearly indescribable state when personal identity would vanish along with greed, hatred, and delusion-can be reached by following the Buddhistpath | 12 | |
7432014708 | Mahabodhi Temple | Marks the area where Buddha became enlightened. | 13 | |
7432014709 | Theravada Buddhism | Early version of Buddhism, portrayed Buddah as a wise teacher and model | 14 | |
7432014710 | Mahayana Buddhism | AKA the Great Vehicle; a modified form of Buddhism that took root in parts of India, stating that help was available for the voyage | 15 | |
7432014711 | Bodhisattvas | spiritually developed people who postponed their own entry into nirvana to assist those who were still suffering | 16 | |
7432014712 | Mahabharata | epic poems that expressed revived Hinduism; written during first millennium CE | 17 | |
7432014713 | Ramayana | epic poems that revived Hinduism indicated more clearly that action in the world and the detached performance of caste duties might also provide a path to liberation | 18 | |
7432014714 | Zoroastrianism | placed great emphasis on the free will of human kind and the necessity for each individual to choose between good and evil | 19 | |
7432014715 | Zoroaster | This is who Zarathustra is to the Greece | 20 | |
7432014716 | Abraham | led the early migrations from Mesopotamia to Canaan | 21 | |
7432014717 | Ya'hweh | the Jewish word for God | 22 | |
7432014718 | Ten Commandments | ten laws and teachings said to have been given to Moses by God | 23 | |
7432014719 | Mount Olympus | highest mountain in Greece; home of the Greek gods, according to myth | 24 | |
7432014720 | Socrates | (469-399 BCE); he was an Athenian philosopher who walked about the city engaging others in conversation about the good life, his preferred manner of teaching was a constant questioning of the assumptions and logic of his students' thinking | 25 | |
7432014721 | Hippocratic Oath | A medical oath created by Hippocrates. | 26 | |
7432014722 | Jesus of Nazareth | A young Jewish peasant and carpenter in the province of Judea in the Roman Empire began a brief three-year career of teaching and miracle working before he got in trouble with local authorities and was executed | 27 | |
7432014723 | Siddhartha Guatama | "The Buddha" he was born into royalty and luxury and instructed his followers in the practice of loving kindness or meta | 28 | |
7432014724 | St. Paul | (10-65 CE); an early convert whose missionary journeys in the eastern Roman Empire led to the founding of small Christian communities that included non-Jews | 29 |
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