1. Caste- A term, which is used to specify a group of people having a specific social rank and dates back to 1200 BCE.A social class which every Indian is born into. There are a few thousand castes in India and each has their own traditions and customs. Once a person is born into a caste they cannot get out, or marry someone from a different caste. The caste system tells people which jobs they can have and with which people they can have contact.
2. Dharma- religious and moral rights and duties of each individual; it commonly refers to religious duty, but may also mean social order, right conduct, or simply virtue. Sacred law is the written language of dharma, and Hinduism itself is also called Sanatana Dharma.
3. Siddhartha Gautama- Siddhartha …show more content…
Qin Shi Huang Di- he ruled as the First Emperor of the Qin dynasty, in China from 220 to 210 BC. In 221 BC , for the first time, all of China was unified under one dominant ruler. In that same year, King Zheng proclaimed himself the "First Emperor". The emperor was tyrannical, ordering the burning of books to remove all evidence of any earlier dynasties. His tight control of China allowed him to have massive labor forces, allowing him to construct ambitious projects like the Great Wall of China.
7. Confucius- A fifth-century BCE Chinese thinker whose impact upon East Asian intellectual and social history is immeasurable.One of the deepest teachings of Confucius may have been the superiority of personal exemplification over explicit rules of behavior. His moral teachings highlight self-cultivation, emulation of moral examples, and the attainment of skilled judgment rather than knowledge of rules.
8. Asoka-an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from circa 269 B.C.E to 232 B.C.E.He embraced Buddhism after witnessing the mass deaths of the Kalinga War, which he himself had waged out of a desire for conquest.
9. Wu Wei- means non-action or non-doing. The highest form of ethic, one that is in no way deliberate , but rather arises
2. Dharma- religious and moral rights and duties of each individual; it commonly refers to religious duty, but may also mean social order, right conduct, or simply virtue. Sacred law is the written language of dharma, and Hinduism itself is also called Sanatana Dharma.
3. Siddhartha Gautama- Siddhartha …show more content…
Qin Shi Huang Di- he ruled as the First Emperor of the Qin dynasty, in China from 220 to 210 BC. In 221 BC , for the first time, all of China was unified under one dominant ruler. In that same year, King Zheng proclaimed himself the "First Emperor". The emperor was tyrannical, ordering the burning of books to remove all evidence of any earlier dynasties. His tight control of China allowed him to have massive labor forces, allowing him to construct ambitious projects like the Great Wall of China.
7. Confucius- A fifth-century BCE Chinese thinker whose impact upon East Asian intellectual and social history is immeasurable.One of the deepest teachings of Confucius may have been the superiority of personal exemplification over explicit rules of behavior. His moral teachings highlight self-cultivation, emulation of moral examples, and the attainment of skilled judgment rather than knowledge of rules.
8. Asoka-an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from circa 269 B.C.E to 232 B.C.E.He embraced Buddhism after witnessing the mass deaths of the Kalinga War, which he himself had waged out of a desire for conquest.
9. Wu Wei- means non-action or non-doing. The highest form of ethic, one that is in no way deliberate , but rather arises