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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did Emperor Wu Di make? | An Academy to train potential Chinese officials. |
| How did large landowners acquire their land? | Impoverished peasants found it neccesary to sell it to them. |
| Scholar-gentry? | A term for people in the Chinese landlord class. Reflects their education and official status. |
| Yellow Turban Rebellion? | Peasant revolt in second century CE in china. |
| Why was the merchant class looked down upon? | They made a shameful profit from selling the work of others. |
| Casta? | "race"; "purity of blood" |
| Varna? | The idea that society was divided into four ranked classes. |
| What were the Brahmins? | Priests whose rituals and sacrifices ensured the functioning of the world. |
| Kshatriya? | Warriors and rulers who pretected society. |
| Vaisya? | Commoners who cultivate the land. |
| Sudras? | Native peoples who were put into very subordinate society positions. |
| Who was lower than the Sudras? | The Untouchables. |
| What did the Untouchables do? | Work considered most unclean or disrespectful. |
| What were the four stages of life in the caste system? | Student, Householder, Retirement, and a Wandering Ascetic (men only). |
| What is caste? | A combination of jatis and varna. |
| Why didn't India have an empire that encompassed the entire sub-continent? | Caste focused the attention of the people onto a particular region and lessened the appeal of a large governing state. |
| What's one difference between Greco-Roman slavery and American slavery? | American slavery was usually associated with racial features and "blackness". |
| Why wasn't India a prominent slave society? | Most work was done by free, lower-caste people. |
| How many slaves lived in Rome by the time of Christ? | 2 to 3 million; 33 to 40 percent of the population in the Roman heartland. |
| What did Saint Augustine think of slavery? | That "... it was God's punishment for sin." |
| Latifundia? | Large estates that produced grain, olive oil, and wine mostly for export. |
| What happens if a slave kills their master in Ancient Rome? | All the slaves under the ownership of that master are condemned to death. |
| What was off-limits to Roman slaves? | Military service. |
| Spartacus? | Led seventy other slaves in a school for gladiators to freedom in 73 BCE. |
| How big did Spartacus' movement swell to be? | Perhaps 120,000 at most. |
| When was another slave rebellion similar to that of Spartacus replicated? | The 1790s Haitian Revolution. |
| Was patriarchy ever similar from civilization to civilization? | No. Restrictions could be greater or less depending on the values of the civilization. |
| What was the difference between upper-class women and lower-class women? | Upper-class women were usually more restricted to the household, while in contrast lower-class women led a freer but more burdensome life. |
| Yang? | Masculine Chinese principle; related to heaven, rulers, strength, and rationality. |
| Yin? | Feminine Chinese principle; associated with earth, subjects, weakness, and emotion. |
| Three Chinese customs for a baby girl? | Placed below bed, given a piece of broken pottery to play with, birth was announced to ancestors as a continuation of ancestor worship. |
| Why were women viewed so harshly by Chinese officials? | They exercised much political power if close to the emperor, and blamed for the downfall of dynasties. |
| What loosened some of the strift patriarchal beliefs in China? | Fall of Han Dynasty. |
| Empress Wu? | Only female Chinese emperor ever. |
| What religion helped to weaken Chinese patriarchy? | Daoism |
| What is dao sometimes referred to as? | Mother. |
| Athens' view on women? | Negative and restrictive. |
| Sparta's view on women? | God-like; the greatest warriors come from them. |
| Democratic role for Athenian women? | None. |
| Aspasia? | Athenian woman who found a place in society as a noticed individual. |
| Helots? | Spartan prisoners of war. |
| What was the Spartan response to a possible helot uprising? | A constantly ready military regime. |
| What were spartan women allowed to do? | Just about anything, but main task was reproduction. |
| What helped strengthen spartan women? | Wrestling, running, throwing discus and javelin, and driving chariots. |
| What age men did spartan women marry? | Equal aged men. Around eighteen. |
| How did other greeks view spartan women's clothing? | It was immodest. |
| How did greeks view homosexuality? | As a matter of taste. |
| What was ironic about Athens? | For it to be a source of democracy, it severely limited its female citizens moreso than did its militaristic counterpart. |
| Impermanence? | The notion that nothing is ever the same. |
| Is impermanence completely true? | Not entirely. Some empire-like civilizations have grown today in this day and age. |
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