AP world history chapter 4 Flashcards

10609681670	Legalism	Hardheaded and practical philosophy.	0
10609685312	Confucianism	Moral examples of superiors was the Confucian key to a restored social harmony. Emphasized education as the key to moral betterment.	1
10609697012	Ban Zhao	Woman writer who wrote "lessons for women".	2
10609700920	Vedas	Collections of poems, prayers, hymns, and rituals transmitted orally and were eventually reduced to writing in Sanskrit around 600 BCE.	3
10609715430	Uphanishads	Composed largely by anonymous thinkers between 800 and 400 BCE. Sought to probe the inner meaning of the sacrifices prescribed in the Vedas.	4
10609731796	Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)	A prince who set out on a six year spiritual quest to find enlightenment and found it at the age of 35.	5
10609743216	Theravada/ Mahayana	Mahayana is a modified version of Buddhism. Early version of the new religion, known as Theravada, portrayed the Buddha as an immensely wise teacher and model, but not divine.	6
10609758111	Bhagavad Gita	A much beloved Hindu text.	7
10609760325	Zoroasrtainism	New religion that rose to challenge the polytheistic ways of earlier times during the "glory years" of the powerful Persian Empire.	8
10609770716	Judaism	Born among one of the region's smaller and, at the time, less significant peoples-- the Hebrews.	9
10609783309	Greek Rationalism	Separated science and philosophy from conventional religion.	10
10609792035	Socrates Plato Aristotle	Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher and one of the founders of western philosophy. Plato was a classical Greek philosopher and the founder of the Academy in Athens. Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist.	11
10609810319	Jesus of Nazareth	A Jewish religious leader who became a central figure in Christianity.	12
10609816169	Saint Paul	An early convert whose missionary journeys in the Eastern Roman Empire led to the founding of small christian communities that included non-Jews.	13
10609834787	Church of the East	Church of the Byzantine Empire, including the patriarchates of Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria, and Jerusalem.	14
10609846911	Perpetua	To cause to continue indefinitely.	15