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AP world Tong Unit 2
AP world Tong Unit 2 Review
Question | Answer |
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Confucius | The first Chinese thinker who addressed the problem of politicl and social order in a sraightforward and self-conscious way |
Confucius personal qualities | Ren, Li, and Xiao |
Ren | courteous, respectful, diligent, and loyal |
Li | treat others with courtesy, and show respect to elders |
Xiao | Children must show respect to parents and other family elders, look after their welfare, support them in old age and remember them after death |
Daoism | refelction and introspection, in hopes that they could understand the natural principles that governed the world and could learn how to live in hormony with them. |
The Dao | "the way", "the way of nature", "the way of the cosmos" |
Legalism | devote attention exclusively to the state, which they sought to strengthen and expand at all costs. |
The first emperor | Qin Shihuangdi |
Qin Dynasty | 221-210 BCE |
Burning of books | In an effort to reassert his authority, Qin Shihuangdi demanded the burning of all books |
Caste sysetm | the social order in India |
The Dharma | the four noble truths and the noble eightfold path consitute the Buddihist Dharma |
Four Noble truths | theaches that all lif involves suffering; that desire is the cause of suffering; that elimination of desire brings an end to suffering; and that a disiplined life conducted in accordance with the Noble Eightfold Path brings the elimination of desire. |
The Eightfold Path | demands right belief, right resolve, right speech, right behavior, right occupation, right effort, right contemplation, and right meditation. |
Nirvana | a state of perfect spiritual independence |
Pericles | Athenian leader |
what did Pericles do?? | transformed Athens into a democratic state |
Socrates | A philosopher that posed questions that encoraged reflection on human iddues, particularly on matters of ethics on morality. |
What happened between 264 and 146 BCE? | The Punic Wars |
What happend in 46 BCE in Rome? | Julius Caesar made himself master of the Roman state and named himself dictator. |
What did Agustus do? | He fasioned an imperial government that guided Roman affairs for the next three centuries. |
Jesus of Nzareth | A charismatic Jewish teacher whom christians reconized as their savior. born about 4 BCE |
What did Jesus do? | He was a peaceful man who taught devotion to God and love for fellow human beings. |
What happened in the early 30's CE? | Roman administrators excuted Jesus by fixing him to a cross. |
Silk roads | trade routes that linked most of Eurasia and North Africa. |
Fall of the Roman Empire | A combanation of internal problems and external pressures weakened the empire and brought the end to Roman authority in the western portion of the empire. |
Muhammad | Born about 570 CE. was a prophet. who spoke the word of the God Allah |