Chapter 4 AP World History Vocab Flashcards

10649960341	Legalism	Chinese philosophy developed by Hanfeizi; taught that humans are naturally evil and therefore need to be ruled by harsh laws	0
10649965820	Confucianism	The system of ethics, education, and statesmanship taught by Confucius and his disciples, stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct.	1
10649973653	Ban Zhao	A major female Confucian author of Han dynasty China (45-116 C.E.) whose works give insight into the implication of Confucian thinking for women.	2
10649976421	Daoism	A religion in China which emphasizes the removal from society and to become one with nature.	3
10649979278	Vedas	Ancient Sanskrit writings that are the earliest sacred texts of Hinduism.	4
10649981503	Upanishads	A group of writings sacred in Hinduism concerning the relations of humans, God, and the universe.	5
10649984014	Siddhartha Gautama	The prince who is said to have founded Buddhism.	6
10649990499	Theraveda and Mahayana	Two major branches of Buddhism	7
10649995028	Nalanda	a famous Buddhist university and monastary located in the eastern Ganges Valley	8
10649998115	Bhagavad Gita	A book in popular Hinduism that was a response to Buddhism and made reaching moksha way easier.	9
10650002022	Zoroastrianism	One of the first monotheistic religions, particularly one with a wide following. It was central to the political and religious culture of ancient Persia.	10
10650004184	Judaism	the monotheistic religion of the Jews.	11
10650009989	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.	12
10650011544	Socrates	(470-399 BCE) An Athenian philosopher who thought that human beings could lead honest lives and that honor was far more important than wealth, fame, or other superficial attributes. NO BOOK	13
10650014004	Plato	(430-347 BCE) Was a disciple of Socrates whose cornerstone of thought was his theory of Forms, in which there was another world of perfection.	14
10650015596	Aristotle	A Greek Philosopher, taught Alexander the Great, started a famous school, studied with Plato	15
10650022136	Jesus of Nazareth	a teacher and prophet born in bethlehem and active in nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity	16
10650026345	Saint Paul	The first great popularizer of Christianity (10-65 C.E.).	17
10650029418	Church of the East	A theologically and organizationally distinct Christian church based in Syria and Persia but with followers in southern India and Central Asia.	18
10650036813	Perpetua	Christian martyr (one who was killed for their beliefs) from Carthage. Educated and wealthy, she died being fed to leopards.	19