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WH 1st 9 Weeks
World History 1st 9 weeks test review
| Question/Term | Answer/Definition |
|---|---|
| What was the Hindu Caste structure? | AKA. Verna, Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, Shudras, Untouchables |
| What did the Buddha teach and how did this challenge Hinduism? | He rejected the caste system, which allowed everyone to have the possibility of awakening, This challenged Hinduism because the caste system was religious justification. |
| Who founded the Mauryan dynasty? | Chandragupta |
| What was the major achievement of Ashoka Maurya? | He gained many land from conquest, he spread Buddhism, and he carved laws called rock edicts. After his death, his successors charged heavy taxes. |
| Who founded the Gupta Dynasty? | Chandra Gupta |
| Brahmin | High priests and scholars |
| Brahma | Creator god |
| Dharma | duty |
| karma | how a person lives this life determines what form a person takes in the next life |
| nirvana | a state of perfect spiritual independence, can be reached with 4 noble truths, 8 fold path and dharma |
| Caste | religious justification, social hierarchy |
| Untouchables | Outside caste system, the lowest of the low, no soul |
| Vedas | Brahmins collected written words into holy books |
| Four noble truths | Life is suffering, suffering comes from wanted what you don't have, people stop suffering by ridding themselves of desire, stop desire by 8 fold path |
| Eight fold path | middle path, right viewpoint, right thought, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right awareness, right concentration |
| Reincarnation | samsara, soul is reborn in different form after death |
| Verna | caste system, social hierarchy |
| Moksha | spiritual liberation |
| Siddhartha Gautama | prince from northern India, born in Kshatriyas, known as Buddha, founded Buddhism |
| Zhou | decentralized gov., led to period of warring states |
| Qin | unification of China, centralized gov., standardization, legalism, Great Wall of China, rebels overwhelmed Qin. |
| Han | Liu Bang, enforced peace, Confucian policies (civil service exams- wanted intelligent people), Pax Sinica- Chinese peace (400 years of prosperity and stability), silk road |
| Dynasty | a line of hereditary rulers of a country |
| Empire | a group of states under one single authority |
| Legalism | strict laws with harsh punishments, humans are evil, greed was the motive for all actions, ended the period of warring states |
| Daoism | religion, nature is perfect, meditation and tuning to nature are very important rituals, ambition and activism brought world to chaos. |
| Confucianism | Analects, five key relationships, relationships are foundation for society, was incorporated into China’s civil service exams, philosophy |
| Patriarchal | Society or government that is controlled by men |
| Social stratification | Categorizes a human or group based on what your wealth was |
| Philosophy | study of nature, knowledge, reality, etc. |
| Filial Piety | respect for elders and ancestors |
| Scholar Gentry | well educated civil servants |
| Bureaucracy | system of gov. where decisions were made by state officials rather than elected representatives |
| Period of the Warring States | city states fought each other- locked in struggle that ended Zhou era |
| what were the achievements of the Gupta Empire? | It was the greatest period of political stability. Their medicine, mathematics, astronomy, and education was strong, AKA the Golden Age of India |
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