AP World History 5 Flashcards

5004124977	Ahura Mazda	In Zoroastrianism, the good god who rules the world	0
5004140686	Angra Mainyu	In Zoroastrianism, the evil god, engaged in a cosmic struggle Ahura Mazda	1
5004154512	Aristotle	a Greek polymath philosopher; student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great	2
5004181071	atman	the human soul, which in classic Hindu belief seeks union Brahman	3
5004253321	Ban Zhao	a major female Confucian author of Han dynasty China whose works give insight into the implication of Confucian thinking of women	4
5011230310	Bhagavad Gita	A great Hindu epic text, part of the much larger Mahabharata, which affirms the performance of caste duties as a path to religious liberation	5
5011230311	bhakti movement	An immensely popular development in Hinduism, advocating intense devotion toward a particular deity	6
5011230312	Brahman	The "World Soul" or final reality in upanishadic Hindu belief	7
5011230313	Brahmins	The priestly caste of India	8
5011230314	Buddhism	The cultural/religious tradition first enunciated by Confucius, advocating the moral example of superiors as the key to the element of social order	9
5011230315	Confucianism	The Chinese philosophy first enunciated by Confucius, advocating the moral example of superiors as the key element of social order	10
5011230316	Confucius (Kong Fuzi)	The founder of Confucianism; an aristocrat of northern China who proved to be the greatest influence on Chinese culture in history	11
5011230317	Constantine	Roman Empire whose conversion to Christianity paved the way for the triumph of Christianity in Europe	12
5011230318	Daodejing	The central text of Daoism; translated as The Way and Its Power	13
5011230319	Daoism	A Chinese philosophy/popular religion that advocates simplicity and understanding of the world of nature, founded by the legendary forgive Laozi	14
5011230320	Filial piety	The honoring of one's ancestors and parents, a key element of Confucianism	15
5011230321	Greek rationalism	A secularizing system of scientific and philosophic thought that developed in classical Greece in the period 600 to 300 B.C.E.; it emphasized the power of education and human reason to understand the world in nonreligious terms	16
5011230322	Hinduism	A world derived from outsiders to describe the vast diversity of indigenous Indian religious traditions	17
5011230323	Hippocrates	A very influential Greek medical theorist; regarded as the father of medicine	18
5011230324	Isaiah	One of the most important prophets of Judaism, whose teachings show the transformation of the religion in favor of compassion and social justice	19
5011230325	Jesus of Nazareth	The prophet/God of Christianity	20
5011230326	Judaism	The monotheistic religion developed by the Hebrews, emphasizing a sole persona God with concerns for social justice	21
5011230327	Karma	In Hinduism, the determining factor of the level at which the individual in reincarnated, based on purity of action and fulfillment of duty in the prior existence	22
5011230328	Laozi	A legendary Chinese philosopher of the sixth century B.C.E.; regarded as the founder of Daosim	23
5011230329	Legalism	A Chinese philosophy distinguished by an adherence to clear laws with vigorous punishments	24
5011230330	Mahayana	"Great Vehicle," the popular development of Buddhism in the early centuries of the Common Era, which gives a much greater role to supernatural beings and proved to be more popular than original Buddhism	25
5011230331	Moksha	In Hindu belief, liberation from separate existence and union Brahman	26
5011230332	Nirvana	The end goal of Buddhism, in which individual identity is the "extinguished" into a state of serenity and great compassion	27
5011230333	Plato	A disciple of Socrates whose dialogues convey the teaching of his master while going beyond them to express Plato's own philosophy	28
5011230334	Pythagoras	A major Greek philosopher who believed that an unchanging mathematical order underlies the apparent chaos of the world	29
5011230335	Saint Paul	The first great popularizer of Christianity	30
5011230336	Siddhartha Gautama	The Indian prince turned ascetic who founded Buddhism	31
5011230337	Socrates	The first great Greek philosopher to turn rationalism toward questions of human existence	32
5011230338	Thales of Miletus	A Greek natural philosopher, noted for his application of reason to astronomy and for his questioning of the fundamental nature of the universe	33
5011230339	Theodosius	Roman emperor who made Christianity the official religion of the Roman state, banning all polytheistic rituals	34
5011230340	Theravada	" The Teaching of the Elders," the early form of Buddhism according to which the Buddha was Swiss teacher busy not divine and which emphasizes practices rather than beliefs	35
5011230341	Upanishads	Indian mystical and philosophical works, written between 800 and 400 B.C.E.	36
5011230342	Vedas	The earliest religious texts of India, a collection of ancient poems, hymns, and rituals that were transmitted orally before being written down	37
5011230343	Warring States period	Period in China from 403 to 221 B.C.E. That was typified by disorder and political chaos	38
5011230344	Yin and Yang	Expression of the Chinese belief in the unity of opposites	39
5011230345	Zarathustra	A Persian prophet, traditionally dated to the sixth or seventh century B.C.E., who founded Zoroastrianism	40
5011230346	Zhuangzi	A Chinese philosopher who spelled out the teaching of Daoism	41
5011230347	Zoroastrianism	Persian monotheistic religion founded by the prophet Zarathustra	42