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Unit 3 Flashcards
India and China
Term | Definition |
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Pilgrims | Some one who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion. |
Pictographs | Pictures used in place of words. |
Silk Road | A land trade route that linked China with Europe. |
Qin Dynasty | Unified Chine after the fall of Zhou Dynasty although short lived famous for starting he Great Wall project. |
Faxian | A Buddhist monk from China that traveled o India in search of documents about Buddha. He recorded historical evidence about life in India during the Gupta empire. |
Legalism | People are basically bad; rule by strict laws; required obedience to strict laws and harsh punishments. |
Buddhism | Religion started by Siddhartha Gautama and adopted by Asoka. |
Qin Shiuangdi | First ruler and creator of the Qin Dynasty. In 1974, his clay army was found near his tomb. |
Dao | Or Tao is a philosophical construct that means "the way" |
Ideographs | Characters that combine two or more pictographs to represent an idea. |
Civil Service | Government jobs to which people are appointed rather than elected. |
Hinduism | A complex of beliefs and values and customs including worship of many gods especially the Trimurti composed of Brahma the Creator; Vishnu the preserver; and Shiva the destroyer |
Bhagavad Gita | A sermon by the god Krishna on the eve of battle as recorded in one of India's most famous books the Mahabharata. |
Asoka | Ruler of the Maurya empire who gave up war, converted to Buddhism, and vowed to rule peacefully. |
India's Golden Age | A time of classical civilization during the Gupta Empire in India when scientific and philosophical advances were achieved that are still used today. |
Aryabhata | India's first great astronomer understood how the earth moves on its axis and calculated pi to five digits. |
Daoism | Philosophical system developed by Lao-Tzu and Chuang-Tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events. |
Zhou | The imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism. |
Pi | 3.14159265359 |
Confucianism | The teachings of Confucius emphasizing love for humanity; high value given to learning and to devotion to family(including ancestors); peace; justice; influenced the traditional culture of China. |