AMSCO AP World History Chapter 5 Flashcards

10700640434	Provinces	Segments of land	0
10700640435	Council of Ministries	Assisted the Prince to help maintain order	1
10700640436	Districts	Divided sectors in provinces governed by Ministries	2
10700640437	Ashoka Maurya	Caused great peace, ruler of the Mauryan Empire 268-232 BCE. Used to be a brutal warrior.	3
10700640438	Kalinga	Eastern Indian kingdom brutally ruled, and took over Ashoka's empire	4
10700640439	Ceylon	Modern day Sri Lanka	5
10700640440	Bactria	Kingdom west of the Indus River	6
10700640441	Pataliputra	Capital city of Mauryan Empire; near the Ganges River	7
10700640442	Ganges River	River in India, and housed Pataliputra	8
10700640443	Rock and Pillar Edicts	A policy that informed people of the law; similar to Hammurabi's code	9
10700640444	Kushan Empire	Alongside Bactria, ruled India from 180 BCE-180 CE	10
10700640445	Gupta Dynasty	2nd/last dynasty in Classical India	11
10700640446	Mauryan Dynasty	Emerged during 4th century BCE	12
10700640447	Chandragupta Maurya	Conquerer who made Magdha kingdom expand to Mauryan Empire	13
10700640448	White Huns	Nomads from the Northwest, brought downfall to the the Gupta in 550 C.E.	14
10700640449	Han Dynasty	Rebel Qin general and his family started it; lasted 400 years	15
10700640450	Pax Sinica	Chinese peace	16
10700640451	Shihuangdi	First emperor of China	17
10700640452	Xiongnu	Nomadic peoples raiding Chinese villages. Defeated by Han Wudi	18
10700640453	Civil Service Examination	System under the Han Dynasty; People hired based on test taking skills rather than by blood	19
10700640454	Yellow Turban Rebellion	Peasant uprising during the Han Dynasty. Killed millions.	20
10700640455	Vedas Upanishads	Hindu texts that talked about Brahma	21
10700640456	Mahavir Jain	●Born in 500 BCE ●Founder of Jainism	22
10700640457	Ahisma	Non-violence	23
10700640458	Siddhartha Gautauma	Taught Buddhism (Founder), also known as Buddha	24
10700640459	Ascetic	Someone who rejects worldly pleasures, lives life of self dignity	25
10700640460	Enlightenment	Several realizations	26
10700640461	Four Noble Truths	Doctrines by Buddha: 1) Life= Suffering 2) Suffering comes from desires for pleasure and material things 3) Eliminating suffering = ending one's desires 4) Follow the Eight Fold Path	27
10700640462	Bhagavad Gita	Part of the most important writings in Mahabharata	28
10700640463	Mahabharata	Emphasized book that said one's duty is from birth, and to separate from attachment	29
10700640464	Nirvana	Peaceful state of afterlife	30
10700640465	Reincarnation	Being born again, and living life once more	31
10700640466	Monasteries	Religious buildings by the Buddhist	32
10700640467	Ramayana	Epic poem that told of Vedic lessons through heroism, romance, and adventure	33
10700640468	Gandhara Buddhas	Statues uniquely combining Greek and Roman artistic traditions with Indian arts	34
10700640469	Inoculations	Infecting people with with mild forms of viruses to build immunity (vaccinations)	35
10700640470	Arabic Numerals	Numerical symbols: 0-9 which was introduced in Europe by Arab peoples	36
10700640471	Nalanda	An ancient university in north eastern India	37
10700640472	Sarnath	North Central India, where there are universities for buddhist teachings.	38
10700640473	Confucius	551 BCE, founder of Confucianism	39
10700640474	Dao de Jing	teachings of daoism compiled by its disciples	40
10700640475	Caste System	System of social hierarchy in India	41
10700640476	Varna	Color	42
10700640477	Brahmins	People of priestly class of the Caste System	43
10700640478	Kshatriyas	Warrior Class of the Caste System	44
10700640479	Vaishyas	Merchants/artisan class	45
10700640480	Shudras	Peasant class of the Caste System	46
10700640481	Untouchables	Lowest in the Caste, given the work that no one wanted to do	47
10700640482	Dalits	Another name for Untouchables	48
10700640483	Jatis	Subcasts within the regular classes to house complex society	49
10700640484	Deccan Plateau	Land in Central Asia	50
10700640485	Indian Ocean sea lanes	Sea route that connected India, East Asia, and Indonesia	51
10700700363	Casta	Portuguese word meaning class	52
10700733147	Brahma	a larger soul that all creatures are a part of	53
10700748829	Buddha	"the enlightened one"	54
10700757115	Eight-fold path	practices to end desires by meditating, reflecting, and restricting to detach one's self from the world.	55
10700770696	Karma	What Hindus believed determined one's caste	56
10700840654	Monasticism	Monkhood (life in the monastery) spread with the spread of Buddhism	57
10700858464	Regionalism	Regional, not central rule/authority	58
10700869224	Analects	A book of Confucius's teachings compiled by his students	59
10700873267	Selected Sayings	Another name for Confucianism's analects	60
10700878506	Lunyu	person who said the quote "in a good government, a ruler is a ruler, a minister a minister, a father a father, and a son a son."	61
10700892171	Golden Rule	Do unto others as you would have them do unto you	62
10700896787	Fillial Piety	family must direct their needs and desires to correspond to that of their father	63
10700908926	Daosim	Yin and Yang, harmonize with nature religion Developed in Zhou dynasty (late 500s BCE)	64
10700930842	The Classic Way and Virtue	Another name for Dao de Jing	65
10700936172	Laozi	aka "Old Teacher" Founder of Daoism.	66
10700954686	Han Fei Zu and Li Si	led legalism during the Qin Dynasty chaos	67
10700964847	Qin Shihuangdi	overthrew the Zhou dynasty. made a very strict, centralized government.	68
10700975717	Shihuangdi	means "first emperor"	69
10700982435	Had Wudi	Most significant emperor of the han dynasty. ruled 141 - 87 BCE. made govt positions based on knowledge over status.	70
10701008391	Chang'an	capital of the Han empire, connected to the silk road	71
10701014693	Wang Mang	Han ruler who tried to redistribute land, but caused unrest instead	72