AP World History Strayer Chapter 5 Flashcards

10731609059	China's Scholar-Gentry Class	lived luxuriously, benefited from wealth and from power and prestige, located in both rural and urban areas, had multi-storied houses, fine silk clothes etc	0
10731609062	Yellow Turban Rebellion	A peasant revolt starting in 184 c.e. named for the yellow scarves the peasants wore on their head, unifying ideology of Daoism, goal of "Great Peace" a golden age of equality and harmony	1
10731609063	Varna	four social classes in India, relating to Caste system	2
10731609064	Jati	divisions within the varna, groups of similar people, sub-caste	3
10731609065	Ritual Purity	In Indian social practice, the idea that members of higher castes must adhere to strict regulations limiting or forbidding their contact with objects and members of lower castes to preserve their own caste standing and their relationship with the gods.	4
10731609067	Spartacus	A Roman gladiator who led the most serious slave revolt in Roman history from 73 to 71 B.C.E.)	5
10731609069	Patriarchy	a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line,	6
10731609068	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	7
10731609070	Empress Wu	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.	8
10731609073	Helots	The dependent, semi-enslaved class of ancient Sparta whose social discontent prompted the militarization of Spartan society	9