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18 Cards in this Set
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legalism |
also called statism; system of thought about how to live an ordered life. based on the principle that people, being inherently inclined towards evil, require authoritarian control to regulate behavior |
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untouchables |
caste in system whose jobs usually in the more unsanitary aspects of urban life rendered them ritually and spiritually impure |
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four truths |
teachings by the buddha |
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chavin |
people who lived in what is now northern peru. they were united more by culture and faith than by a unified political system |
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olmec |
people who emerged around 1500 bce and lived in mesoamerica lived in the land of the rubber society was composed of decentralized villages members spoke the same language and worshiped the same gods |
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meroe |
ancient kingdom in what is today sudan flourished for nearly a thousand years |
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peloponnesian war |
war fought between two of greece's most powerful city states, athens and sparta |
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chattel slaves |
form of slavery that sold people as property, rise of which coincided with expansion of city states. eschewed by the spartans who also rejected the innovation of coin money |
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agora |
athletic contests in ancient greece |
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bodhisattvas |
in mahayana buddhism, enlightened demigods who were ready to reach nirvana but delayed so that they might help others attain it |
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palmyra |
roman trade depot in modern day syria part of the network of trading cities that connected various regions of afro eurasia |
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mahayana buddhism |
school of buddhist theology that believed that the buddha was a deity unlike previous groups who considered him a wise human being |
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alexandria |
a port city in egypt named after alexander the great model city in the hellenistic world built up by a multiethnic population rom mediterranean world |
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mauryan empire |
dynasty extended mauryan from indus valley to northwest areas of south asia a region previously controlled by persia. first large scale empire in south asian and was to become model for future empires |
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kushan empire |
northern nomadic group that migrated into south asia unified tribes of the region and set up kushan dynasty empire embraced a large and diverse territory and played a critical role in forming the silk road` |
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pax romana |
roman peace refers to period between 25 BCE and 235 CE in which condition in the roman empire was peaceful |
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emperor wu |
chinese leader known as martial emperor because of his many military campaigns during the han dynasty |
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ashoka |
emperor of the mauryan dynasty, great conqueror and unifer of india embraced buddhism at the end of his life |
