AP World History CH#5 Flashcards

11323445856	Aspasia	A foreign woman resident in Athens (ca. 470-400 B.C.E.) and partner of the statesman Pericles who was famed for her learning and wit.	0
11323450004	Ban Zhao	A Chinese woman writer and court official (45-116 C.E.) whose work provides valuable insight on the position of women in classical China.	1
11323453241	Brahmins	Priests, at the top of the caste system which the Aryans made	2
11323460707	Caste	any of the hereditary social classes in Hindu society; social stratification	3
11323467879	Dharma	In Hindu belief, a person's religious and moral duties	4
11323475965	Greek and Roman slavery	In the Greek and Roman world, slaves were captives from war and piracy (and their descendants), abandoned children, and the victims of long-distance trade; manumission was common. Among the Greeks, household service was the most common form of slavery, but in parts of the Roman state, thousands of slaves were employed under brutal conditions in the mines and on great plantations.	5
11323490146	Helots	Spartan slaves	6
11323494892	Karma	(Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation	7
11323509059	Ksatriya	a member of the warrior class in ancient Hindu society	8
11323515282	Latifundia	huge estates bought up by newly wealthy Roman citizens	9
11323521531	Pericles	Aristocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens.	10
11323531219	Ritual Purity	The state of readiness to enter the presence of God	11
11323551572	scholar-gentry class	A term used to describe members of China's landowning families, reflecting their wealth from the land and the privilege that they derived as government officials.	12
11323566079	Sparticus	a gladiator who led a slave revolt; defeated several Roman armies	13
11323569538	sudra	member of the fourth-highest caste grouping, made up of farmers and people who did manual work	14
11323576102	the "three obediences"	In Chinese Confucian thought, the notion that a woman is permanently subordinate to male control: first to her father, then to her husband, and finally to her son.	15
11323583820	Untouchables	lowest class of people in the caste system of Hinduism, do all the dirty work of society	16
11323587763	Vaisya	The Indian social class that was originally defined as farmers but eventually comprised merchants.	17
11323593802	Wang Mang	A Han court official who usurped the throne and ruled from 8 C.E. to 23 C.E.; noted for his reform movement that included the breakup of large estates.	18
11323597888	Wu, Empress	The only female "emperor" in Chinese history (r. 690-705 C.E.), Empress Wu patronized scholarship, worked to elevate the position of women, and provoked a backlash of Confucian misogynist invective.	19
11323601159	Wudi	Han emperor (r. 141-86 B.C.E.) who began the Chinese civil service system by establishing an academy to train imperial bureaucrats.	20
11323604805	Yellow Turban Rebellion	A major Chinese peasant revolt that began in 184 C.E. and helped cause the fall of the Han dynasty.	21