AP World History Chapter 4 Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 10801792676 | Dao | The way of nature; an unchanging principle that governs natural phenomenons | 0 | |
| 10801792677 | Yin and Yang | A belief in the unity of opposites | 1 | |
| 10874289914 | Wu | Confucian physical and martial qualities | 2 | |
| 10874292673 | Wen | Confucian qualities of rationality and literacy | 3 | |
| 10874298669 | Laozi | 6th century bce archivist who wrote the beginnings of Daoism until his disappearance into the wild on a water buffalo | 4 | |
| 10892491174 | Saint Paul | An early convert to Christianity; a missionary; spread Christianity and established Christian communities throughout the Roman Empire | 5 | |
| 10893911652 | Zoroaster | Greek version of the name Zarathustra | 6 | |
| 10893932946 | Ahura Mazda | The one god in Zoroastrianism | 7 | |
| 10893985179 | Free-will | The ability to make choices and act on one's own voluntarily. | 8 | |
| 10894028555 | Yahweh | The Jewish name for their one and only God | 9 | |
| 10894028556 | Kosher | Food or food preparation methods that are in accordance with the Jewish law | 10 | |
| 10894042313 | Analects | Confucius's teachings written down by his students after his death. | 11 | |
| 10895197401 | Vedas | Sacred Hindu texts from about 600 B.C.E. that are made up of poems, hymns, prayers, and rituals. | 12 | |
| 10895201534 | Period of Warring States | A period in China after the fall of the Zhou Dynasty from 500-221 B.C.E. that was full of chaos, violence, and disharmony due to the lack of political unity. | 13 | |
| 10895206309 | Aristotle | Student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great; commented and wrote on everything | 14 | |
| 10895210582 | Socrates | Athenian philosopher who walked about the city | 15 | |
| 10895214594 | Plato | Sketched out the Republic design for good society | 16 | |
| 10895224639 | Jesus of Nazareth | A young Jewish carpenter who lived in the province of Judea in the Roman Empire; believed to be the Son of God; inspired the religion of Christianity | 17 | |
| 10897046270 | Confucius | A educated, ambitious aristocrat who spent much of life looking for a political position to put his ideas into practices. (551-479 B.C.E.) | 18 | |
| 10897061885 | Enlightenment | A state in which individual identity would be extinguished along with greed, hatred, and delusion | 19 | |
| 10897064396 | Monasticism | A religious way of life which involves leaving behind worldly pursuits and devoting oneself to spiritual activity | 20 | |
| 10897079293 | Diaspora | The scatter of the Jews outside of Israel and Palestine, after the Babylonian exile. | 21 | |
| 10898409944 | Deities | a god or goddess | 22 | |
| 10898413156 | Samsara | the cycle of life and rebirth in Hinduism | 23 | |
| 10898418726 | Karma | The belief that actions in this life, whether good or bad, will decide your place in the next life. | 24 | |
| 10898419439 | Moksha | The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths. | 25 |