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Zyg History Unit 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Axial | (everything is)revolving around one basic idea, The Axial Age |
| Philosopher | someone who question things and ponders about things and problems in society |
| Prophet | someone who can predict the future |
| Reformer | Somebody who wants to change the way something works, is set up, etc. Wants to change things from they way they are. |
| Assyrians | (blank) |
| Covenant | A sacred religious agreement, Abraham had a religious agreement with god, and god said in return would bless him, grant him life in the heavens, etc. |
| Monotheism | Only beliving in one god (YHWH) |
| Brahminism | a religion based around the brahmins and it gave them all this power because everyone relies on their sacrifices and rituals to keep the universe going and bountiful harvests |
| Brahman | their inner self not their souls cause those r jivis but it's like what they want to find within themselves, brahmans r like inner face of all ascetics like their true inner self |
| Samsara | the beleif that life is a cycle, you get reborn higher and higher up until you become a brahmin, your karma gets carried with you when you get reborn |
| Karma | It was belived if you fufilled your Dharma, then you would be given good karma, karma follows you in other lifes, good or bad |
| Dharma | fufilling your duty or role as a person |
| Moksha | being at one with brahman |
| Atman | (blank) |
| Ascetic/asceticism | Not warlike, were people who deticated their lives to complemlating ideas and situations, such as why are we here? they practice self denial and self mortification for religious and spiritual reasons |
| Upanishads | The books that the acetic's wrote, teaching |
| Jina/Jainism | jina is someone who has conquered himself and denied all temptations and pleasures and jainism is people who want to achieve that |
| Doctrine of Maybe | its basically saying that everything may be veiwed differently by everybody, i might see something differently than you |
| Jiva | there are jiva's in everything, they are like a soul, there are thousands in people and acestics concentrate on releasing the ones that represent things such as greed, in order to do this they take away all physical temptations |
| Ahimsa | (blank) |