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Chapter 3 AP WH
study cards for chapter 3 in AP world history
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Academy | The school founded by Plato; Aristotle is its most famous student. |
| Ahimsa | Hindu, Buddhist, and Jane doctrine of not harming living creatures. |
| Ananlects | The body of writing containing conversations between Confucius and his disciples that preserves his worldly wisdom and pragmatic philosophies |
| Babylonian Captivity | The transportation of many Jews to exile in Babylon; occured in the sixth century b.c.e. |
| Delian League | An empire of satellite Greek states under Athens in the fifth century b.c.e. |
| Dharma | Hindu and Buddhist term for moral conduct. |
| Helots | State-owned slaves of the Spartans. |
| Hinayana Buddhism | A form of Buddhism; it deemphasized the monastic life and abstruse philosophy in favor of prayer to the Buddha and saintly and helpful bodhisattvas to attain nirvana. |
| Marathon | The battle in 490 b.c.e. in which the Athenians defeated the Persians. |
| Messenian Wars | Conflicts between the neighbors Sparta and Messenia that resulted in Sparta's conquest of Messenia around 600 b.c.e. |
| Metics | Resident foreigners in ancient Athens; not permitted full rights of citizenship, but did recieve the protection of the laws. |
| Monotheism | A religion having only one god. |
| Nirvana | Buddhist concept; the final liberation from suffering and reincarnation. |
| Ostracism | In ancient Athens, the expulsion of a citizen for 10 years. |
| Parthenon | The classic Greek temple to Athena on the Acropolis in Athens' center. |
| Peloponnesian War | The great war between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies in ancient Greece; fought between 431 and 404 b.c.e. and eventually won by Sparta. |