World History AP Chapter 5 Flashcards

7551734215	Scholar-gentry class	Had homes in both urban and rural areas and lived luxuriously. Multistoried houses, silk clothing, gleaming carriages, private orchestras, and gambling is all part of their life.	0
7551734216	Yellow Turban Movement	Bands of peasants joined together along the Yellow Turban River resulting in epidemics toward end of the second century CE. The Yellow Turban Rebellion emerged and was named because of the yellow scarves the peasants wore around their heads. By 184 CE the rebellion grew to about 360,000 armed people, found leaders, organization, and a unifying ideology in Daoism.	1
7551734217	Varna	The four ranked classes that society believed was forever divided into	2
7551734218	Untouchables	Men and women who did the work that was considered the most unclean and polluting, like cremating corpses, dealing with the skins of dead animals, and serving as executioners	3
7551734219	Jati	Occupationally based groups	4
7551734220	Roman Slavery	It was a defining element in Roman society. Slavery represented 33-40% of the population. Wealthy Romans could own many hundreds or even thousands of slaves. Slaves confirmed citizens as free people, demonstrated their social status, and expressed their ability to exercise power. Slaves and former slaves might also be slave owners. Most of Roman slaves were prisoners that had been captured in one of the many wars that were part of the creation of the empire. They regarded their slaves as "barbarians"-lazy, unreliable, immoral, and prone to thieving	5
7551734221	Latifndia	Huge estates which produced grain, olive oil, and wine, mostly for export	6
7551734222	Spartacus	A slave gladiator who led seventy other slaves from a school for gladiators in a desperate bid for freedom	7
7551734223	Ban Zhao	(45-116 CE) A Chinese woman writer and court official who observed that the ancients had practiced three customs when a baby girl was born	8
7551734224	Impermanence	AKA Anicca or Anitya is one of the essential doctrines and a part of three marks of existence in Buddhism	9
7551734225	Empress Wu	(Reign: 690-705 CE) A former high-ranking concubine in the imperial court, who came to power amid much palace intrigue and was the only woman ever to rule China with the title of emperor.	10
7551734226	Pompeii	A vast archaeological site located in southern Italy's Campania region, it was once a thriving and sophisticated Roman city but was destroyed after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD	11