AP World History - Strayer Chapter 4 Vocabulary Flashcards

Chapter 3 - Eurasian Empires
Chapter 4 - Eurasian Cultural Traditions

10867972987	Legalism	A Chinese philosophy distinguished by an ADHERENCE TO CLEAR LAWS WITH VIGOROUS PUNISHMENTS.	0
10867972988	Confucius (Kong Fuzi)	The FOUNDER OF CONFUCISIM (551-479 B.C.E.); an aristocrat of northern China who proved to be the GREATEST INFLUENCE ON CHINESE CULTURE in its history.	1
10867972989	Ban Zhao	A major FEMALE Confucian author of Han dynasty China (45-116 C.E.) whose works give insight into the CONFUCIAN THINKING OF WOMAN.	2
10867972990	Daoism	A Chinese philosophy/popular religion that advocates SIMPLICITY and understanding of the WORLD OF NATURE, founded by the legendary figure LAOZI.	3
10867972991	Vedas	The EARLIEST RELIGIOUS TEXTS OF INDIA, a collection of ancient poems, hymns, and rituals that were transmitted orally before being written down ca. 600 B.C.E.	4
10867972992	Upanishads	Indian MYSTICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL works, written between 800 and 400 B.C.E.	5
10867972993	Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha)	The INDIAN PRINCE who turned ascetic (ca. 566-486 B.C.E.) who FOUNDED BUDDHISM .	6
10867972994	Mahayana	"Great Vehicle," the popular development of Buddhism in the early centuries of the Common Era, which gives a much greater role to SUPERNATURAL BEINGS and proved to be more POPULAR than original (Theravada) Buddhism.	7
10867972995	Bhagavad Gita	A great HINDU EPIC TEXT, part of the much larger Mahabharata, which affirms the performance of CASTE DUTIES as a path to religious liberation.	8
10867972996	Zoroastrianism	PERSIAN MONOTHEISTIC RELIGION founded by the prophet Zarathustra. (good vs. evil)	9
10867972997	Judaism	The MONOTHEISTIC religion developed by the HEBREWS, emphasizing a sole PERSONAL god (YAHWEH) with concerns with social justice.	10
10867972998	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.	11
10867972999	Theravada	"The Teaching of the Elders," the early form of Buddhism according to which the Buddha was a wise teacher but not divine and which emphasizes practices rather than beliefs.	12
10867973000	Socrates	The first great Greek philosopher to TURNED RATIONALISM TO QUESTIONS OF HUMAN EXISTENCE	13
10867973001	Plato	A DISCIPLE OF SOCRATES whose Dialogues convey the teachings of his master while going beyond them to express Plato's own philosophy.	14
10867973002	Aristotle	STUDENT OF PLATO and teacher of Alexander the Great.	15
10867973004	Jesus of Nazareth	RURAL SMALL TOWN WORKER from lower class family. Religion of Christianity grew from life teachings.	16
10867973003	Saint Paul	FOLLOWER TO JESUS. Highly NEGATIVE VIEWS TO WOMAN grew wholly to male hierarchy of church.	17
10867973005	Church of the East	PLANTED CHURCHES IN SHRUA AND PERSIAN that were distinct in theology and practice from the TOMAN CHURCH	18
10867973006	Perpetua	CHRISTIAN MAYTYR OF NORTH AFRICA. Educated and wealthy, spread christianity to roman empire.	19