World History AP Chapter 4 Flashcards

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