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Global Midterm Revie
Global Studies Midterm REview
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| filial piety | the virtue of exhibiting the proper love and respect for one's parents, elders, and ancestors |
| Confucius | the importance of having a good moral character |
| Relationships | those between ruler and subject, father and son, elder brother and younger brother, husband and wife, and friend and friend. |
| Legalism | excessive adherence to law |
| Shi Huangdi | Qin Shi Huang was the founder of the Qin dynasty and the first emperor of a unified China. Rather than maintain the title of "king" borne by the previous Shang and Zhou rulers, he ruled China from 221 to 210 BC as the first "emperor |
| Qin dynasty | China's first unified state whose power was centralized instead of spread among different kingdoms in the north and south |
| Gupta Empire | Science, Tech, Engineering, art, dialectics, laterature, logic, mathematics, astronomy, religion, and philosophy. |
| Ashoka | Ashoka, popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was the third Mauryan Emperor of Magadha in the Indian subcontinent |
| Christianity | Christianity went into rome |
| Silk Road | trading place foir silk |
| Alexander the Great | king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He succeeded his father Philip II to the throne in 336 BC at the age of 20 and spent most of his ruling years conducting a lengthy military |
| Hellenism | system of thought and spirituality with a shared culture and values, and common ritualistic, linguistic and literary tradition |
| Socrates | He was a Greek philosopher |
| Democracy | A state is ruled by citizens The majority rules |
| Greek Alphabet | The Greek alphabet had 24 letters that stood for different sounds. |
| maps | Rugged mountains covered three-fourths of ancient Greece. Mountains divided the land into a number of different regions. This influenced Greek political life. |
| philosophy | the study of the basic ideas about knowledge, truth, right and wrong, religion, and the nature and meaning of lifeA Greek philosopher who was accused of urging young people to revolt. He was sentenced to death. Politically remained a moderate and took n |
| Trojan War | Trojan War |
| 12 Tables | 1. If the plaintiff summons the defendant to court the defendant shall go. If the defendant does not go the plaintiff shall call a witness thereto. Only then the plaintiff shall seize the defendant. 2. If the defendant attempts evasion or takes flight th |
| 12 tables prt2 | 3. If sickness or age is an impediment he who summons the defendant to court shall grant him a vehicle. If he a does not wish he shall not spread a carriage with cushions. 4. For a freeholder' a freeholder shall be surety; for a proletary anyone who |
| 12 tables prt3 | 4. For a freeholder' a freeholder shall be surety; for a proletary anyone who wishes shall be surety. 5. There shall be the same right of bond and of conveyance with the Roman people for a steadfast person and for a person restored to allegiance. |
| 12 tables prt4 | 7. If they agree not on terms the parties shall state their case before the assembly in the meeting place or before the magistrate in the market place before noon. Both parties being present shall plead the case throughout together. |
| Pax Romana | roman peace lasted 27 B.C.E. to 180 C.E. |
| Plebeians and Patricians | Patricians would be the upper class, people such as wealthy land owners would be in the patricians group. Plebeians would be the lower class which would be normal people in Rome |
| Indian Ocean Complex | An Indian Ocean trade network |
| Abraham | patriarch of Judaism– Abraham is said to have migrated from Mesopotamia to Canaan around 1800 BCE. His story, as narrated in the Hebrew Bible, emphasizes faith in one God and the establishment of a covenant between God and Abraham's descendants |
| global regents review hinduism and buddhism | |
| Caste System | the social hierarchy of India in which people were born into a social class (called a caste) and remained in that class for the remainder of their lives |
| Caste names | The four main castes were Brahmins (priests), Kshatriyas (warriors), Vaisyas (merchants and artisans), and Sudras (laborers). The lowest group Untouchables (had the worst jobs) |
| Brahmins | priest cast in hinduism |
| reincarnation | the hindus believed that after you die you get reborn baste on what your cast system is it depends what cast you will be in when you get reborn |
| samsara | the cycle of life, death, and rebirth |
| moksha | freedom from the eternal cycle of life, death, and rebirth |
| The Vedas | religious texts |
| Siddhartha Gautama | wandering ascetic and religious teacher |
| Buddha | wandering ascetic and religious teacher |
| The Four Noble Truths | the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering |
| The Eightfold Path | |
| Enlightenment | the experience of true reality, an “awakening” through which one could comprehend the true nature of things |
| nirvana | the goal of the 8 fold path |
| Tripitaka | Buddhism's sacred scriptures |
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