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7432014695Filial PietyHonoring of one's parents and ancestors0
7432014696Ban 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
7432014697LaoziAccording 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 buffalo2
7432014698Chinese landscape paintingPaintings which focused on mountains and water and were influenced by Daoism3
7432014699Yin and YangChinese concept that expressed a belief in the unity of opposites4
7432014700VedasA collection of poems, hymns, prayers, and rituals that express chiefdoms, describe ritual practices, and suggest patriarchal societies5
7432014701BrahminPriests who compiled the Vedas6
7432014702UpanishadsRitual and highly philosophical works7
7432014703MokshaAKA 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 existence8
7432014704SamsaraRebirth or reincarnation; the central idea or figure of Hindu thinking9
7432014705KarmaA person's actions, in context with their own life which resulted in rebirth in a higher social position or caste10
7432014706Hindu asceticsMen 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 moksha11
7432014707NirvanaNearly indescribable state when personal identity would vanish along with greed, hatred, and delusion-can be reached by following the Buddhistpath12
7432014708Mahabodhi TempleMarks the area where Buddha became enlightened.13
7432014709Theravada BuddhismEarly version of Buddhism, portrayed Buddah as a wise teacher and model14
7432014710Mahayana BuddhismAKA the Great Vehicle; a modified form of Buddhism that took root in parts of India, stating that help was available for the voyage15
7432014711Bodhisattvasspiritually developed people who postponed their own entry into nirvana to assist those who were still suffering16
7432014712Mahabharataepic poems that expressed revived Hinduism; written during first millennium CE17
7432014713Ramayanaepic 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 liberation18
7432014714Zoroastrianismplaced great emphasis on the free will of human kind and the necessity for each individual to choose between good and evil19
7432014715ZoroasterThis is who Zarathustra is to the Greece20
7432014716Abrahamled the early migrations from Mesopotamia to Canaan21
7432014717Ya'hwehthe Jewish word for God22
7432014718Ten Commandmentsten laws and teachings said to have been given to Moses by God23
7432014719Mount Olympushighest mountain in Greece; home of the Greek gods, according to myth24
7432014720Socrates(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' thinking25
7432014721Hippocratic OathA medical oath created by Hippocrates.26
7432014722Jesus of NazarethA 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 executed27
7432014723Siddhartha Guatama"The Buddha" he was born into royalty and luxury and instructed his followers in the practice of loving kindness or meta28
7432014724St. 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-Jews29

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