World history unit 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 oracle bones | priests scratched questions for gods on these |
| Mandate of heaven | the right to rule comes from heaven |
| Shang Di | supreme being, ansestor worship |
| confucius | person who organized 5 relationships, had a desire to restore order |
| fillal peity | respect for parents and ansestors |
| Bureaucracy | system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials |
| legalism | a ruler should give rewards to people who did a good job |
| autocracy | government has all power and can do anything |
| ying/yang | chinese idea that two powers represented rhythms of life. helped people understand how to fit in the world. |
| civil service | government jobs that civilians obtained by taking tests |
| centralized government | central authority controls the running of a state |
| monopoly | one group has exclusive control over the production of certain goods |
| taoism | A Chinese philosophy in which people live a simple life in harmony with nature. |
| Great Wall of China | a fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC |
| aryans | indo-european people, noble ones |
| brahmins | priests in India |
| castes | groups in a social higharchy |
| hinduism | common worldview, religion mainly in India |
| dharma | manor of being, how to live |
| moksha | liberation from suffering |
| atman | your own individual soul |
| Respect for self Respect for others religion | rules for living in hinduism |
| brahmin | universal soul |
| reincarnation | life after death, cycle of rebirth |
| karma | good deeds and bad deeds follow you through lifetimes |
| enlightenment | wisdom |
| nirvana | buddha's word for release from selfishness and pain |
| Dharma (buddhism) | beliefes of buddhism |
| Asoka | chandragupta's grandson, king of Mauryan empire, followed buddhism |
| untouchables | lowest level of people in india's caste system |
| siddhartha | founder of Buddhism, also called budda |
| four noble truths | name of buddha's teachings |
| Muhammad | prophet, symbol of muslim religion |
| Hijrah | migration that was a turning point for islam, mecca to medina |
| 5 pillars | duties all muslims must follow |
| hajj | pilgrimage to mecca |
| shari'a | body of law that told muslims how to act |
| bedouins | tribes who lived in the arabian peninsula |
| house of wisdom | library, academy, and translation center. texts were translated into arabic |
| calligraphy | art of handwriting |
| aryabhata | indian scientist who created pi,calculated length of solar year, modern numbers. |
| mecca | the holiest city of Islam; Muhammad's birthplace |
| caliph | leader in a muslim government |
| oral tradition | pass down from one generation to another by word of mouth |
| griot | a West African storyteller |
| ghana | a republic in West Africa |
| mali | landlocked empire in west africa |
| timbuktu | a city in central Mali near the Niger river |
| sundiata | the founder of Mali empire |
| Mansa Musa | most powerful king in west africa, Mali |
| ibn Battuta | Moroccan Muslim scholar |
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