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World History: Unit3
Sydney Huynh
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Pilgrim | Some one wh journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion |
| Qin Dynasty | Unified China after the fall of Zhou Dynasty although short lived famous for starting the Great Wall project |
| 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" |
| 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 |
| 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 calculate 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 |
| 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 |
| Pictographs | pictures used in place of words |
| Silk road | a land trade route that linked China with Europe |
| Faxian | A Buddist monk from China that traveled to 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 |
| Mandate of Heaven | support that the power of heaven gave to a Chinese emperor who ruled well |
| Buddihism | Religion started by Siddhartha Gautama and adopted by Asoka |
| Ideographs | characters that combine two or more pictographs to represent an idea |
| Civil Service | government jobs to which people are appointed rather than elected |
| Bhaga Vadgita | A sermon by the god Krishna on the eve of battle as recorded in one of India's most famous books the Mahabharata |
| Zhou | The imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism |
| Pi | 3.14159265359 |
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