FINALS PEOPLE Flashcards
(35 cards)
Who is Hammurabi?
Dynastic monarch of the Babylonian Empire (which he established) and the writer of one of the world’s first legal codes, the Code of Hammurabi
Who is Confucius?
A popular tutor in the Zhou Dynasty of China whose followers collected his teachings and wrote them in The Analects, forming the ideology Confucianism, which he was the first teacher of
Who is Han Fei? Where is he from?
One of the important philosophers and writers of the ideology of Legalism
China
Who was Nicolo Machiavelli?
Author of “The Prince” who argued that the ends always justify the means and it is better for a ruler to be feared than loved
Who was Petrarch?
Inventor of the sonnet and one of the first people to write using vernacular instead of Latin
What did Galileo Galilei do?
His telescope innovations enabled him to make some adjustments to previous ideas about the universe, creating the heliocentric theory
Who was Dante Alighieri?
Author of “The Inferno” (a guidebook to Hell)
Who was Laozi?
A possibly mythical figure who wrote the Daodejing and encouraged people to abandon society, forming the ideology of Daoism
Who was Angelina Grimke?
A white woman born into a slave-owning family in South Carolina
What did Angelina Grimke do?
With her sister, she abandoned her family, converted to Quakerism, and began speaking out against slavery
Who was Nat Turner?
A self-emancipated prophet who believed God had told him to slay his enemies, leading him to start his rebellion
Who was Phillis Wheatley?
The first published African American poet in the US
What was Phillis Wheatley’s social status (enslaved/free/etc.) and how did she get to that point?
She was kidnapped from West Africa and enslaved by a wealthy Bostonian family, but was then emancipated after her poems were published
Who was Siddharta Gautama?
The pampered prince in Nepal who was prophesized to be a wonderful leader or a religious teacher and who eventually became the Buddha
How did Siddharta Gautama become the Buddha?
Left his house for the first time
Saw an old man, a sick man, a corpse, and a religious man
Began to seek “the Middle Way” by avoiding overindulgence and self-deprivation
Meditated under a tree for days and became enlightened
Define Buddha
The enlightened one
Who was Martin Luther?
A German man who became a Catholic priest and vocally condemned the Roman Catholic Church’s practice of selling indulgences before before leading the Protestant Reformation
Who was Katharina Zell?
A pamphleteer and public speaker who focused on refugees, the poor, the need for clerical marriage, and the importance of female theology and literacy
Who was Booker T. Washington?
The founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and one supporter of accomodationism
Who was Ida B. Wells?
One of the founders of the NAACP and a supporter of confrontation
Who was W. E. B. Du Bois?
One of the founders of the NAACP and a supporter of confrontation
Who was Marcus Garvey?
The leader of the Back to Africa Movement and a supporter of separation
Who was Harriet Jacobs?
A female writer who wrote about her experiences as an enslaved child, especially the psychological violence she experienced from her enslavers
Who was Robert Smalls?
A self-emancipated man who stole a Confederate gunboat and delivered it to Northern forces during the Civil War; also one of the first black Congressmen in America as a representative from South Carolina
