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Chapter 3 Flashcards

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Vishnu

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Preserves the universe

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Brahma

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Create the universe

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Shiva

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Destroyer of the universe

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Reincarnation

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The process by which a soul is reborn continuously until it achieves perfect understanding

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Karma

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The good and bad deeds performed by a person, which is believed to determine his or her fate after rebirth

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Enlightenment

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A state of perfect wisdom in which one understands basic truths about the universe

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Jainism

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Values all life

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Siddhartha Gautama

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Founder of Buddhism

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Vedas

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Means knowledge, written to educate priests about rituals

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Caste system

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Division of social ranks and tasks developed by Aryans durning conquest

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Brahmins

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The priests

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Kshatriyas

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The Warriors

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Aryans

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White

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Vaishyas

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The merchants

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Shudras

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Unskilled workers and peasants

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Moksha

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Detached state of being

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Buddha

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Teacher

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Dharma

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Teachings

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Sangha

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Community

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Nirvana

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An awakening to the truth

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Buddhism v.s. Hinduism

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Buddhism:
Founder- Buddha (quite prayer, karma, reincarnation)
hinduism:
Sacred animal-cow (polytheistic,oldest religions, yoga)

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Indo-Europeans

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A group of people began to migrate to the Indian subcontinent(white)

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Asian steppes

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Dry, grass-covered plains

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Ganesh

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God of wisdom and good luck the son of shiva

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Canaan

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Eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea

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Torah

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The first five books of the Hebrew Bible

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Covenant

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A mutual promise or agreement

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Moses

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The man who led the Israelites out of slavery

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Israel

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A kingdom of the United Israelite last from about 1020 to 922 bc; now the Jewish homeland

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Tribute

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A payment made by weaker power to the stronger power to obtain an assurance of peace and security

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Abraham

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To be father of the Hebrew people

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Solomon

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Build the temple

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King David

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Establishes Jerusalem as the capital

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Confucius

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China’s most influential scholar

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Daoism

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Taught that people should be guided by a universal forced called the dao (the way)

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Legalism

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Qin shi hanugdi
Strict
Great Wall of china
Burns the analects

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Warring States period

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Zhou falls: Confucius, daoism, legalism

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Shi Huangdi

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First emperor

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Qin Dynasty

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Replaces the Zhou dynasty in the third century BC

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autocracy

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Government in which the ruler has unlimited power and uses it in an arbitrary manner

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bureaucracy

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System of departments and agencies formed to carry out the work of Government

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filial piety

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Respect shown by children of their parents and elders

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yin and yang

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Chinese thought, the two powers that govern the natural rhythms of life

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Laozi

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Founder of Daoism

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Dao

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The way

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Upanishads

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meaning of the Vedic hymns. The teachers’ comments were later written down

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Varna

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Skin color of the four major groups of the caste system

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4 noble truths

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Life is suffering
The cause of suffering is desire
Cure for suffering is to remove desire
To remove desire follow the eight fold path

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8 fold path

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Know the truth
Say nothing to hurt others 
Practice meditation
Control your thoughts
Resist evil
For your mind from evil
Work for the good of others
Respect to life
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Saul

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the first of the three kings, was chosen largely because of his success in driving out the Philistines from the central hills

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The Ark of the covenants

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contained the tablets of Moses’ law

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Exodus

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“Let my people go” and they remember it every year during the festival of the Passover and Moses led the Israelites out of slavery

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Analects

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Confucius spent the remainder of his life teaching. His students later collected his words in a book called the Analects (Confucius book)

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Name 4 hindu gods

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Ganesh
Shiva
Barmah
Visha

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Name the caste system

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Brahmans
Kshatriyas
Vaishyas
Shudras

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Desas

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Dark skin

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Civil service exam

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To serve in the government

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Yin

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Evil
Cold
Unclear
Mysterious

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Yang

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Clear
Good
Warm

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