Chapter 5 Flashcards
Siddhartha Gautama. In Indian ascetic who founded Buddhism.
Buddha
A people who lived in what is now northern Peru from 1400 to 200.
Chavín
Influential teacher, thinker, and leader in China we develop a set of principles for ethical living.
Confucius
He believed that coercive laws and punishment would not be needed to maintain order in society is many following his ethic rules.
Confucius
He taught his philosophy to anyone who is intelligent and willing to work, which allowed me to gain entry into the ruling class through education.
Confucius
School of thought developed at the end of the Warring States period that focused on the importance of following the natural way of cosmos.
Daoism
The natural way of the cosmos.
Dao
Emphasized the need to accept the world as it was rather than trying to change it through politics for the government.
Daoism
Unlike Confucianism, this scorned rigid rituals and social hierarchies.
Daoism
“Wisdom lovers” of the ancient Greek city states, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and others, who pondered such issues as self-knowledge, political engagement and withdrawal, and the order of the world.
Greek philosophers
Along with Buddhism, one of the two systems of thought developed in the seventh century B.C.E. set themselves up against Brahmanism.
Jainism
Founder of Jainism who taught that the universe obeys it’s own everlasting rules that no God or other supernatural beings could expect.
Vardhamana Mahavira
Taught that the purpose of life was to purify one’s soul in order to attain a state of bliss which could be accomplished through self-denial in the avoidance of harming other creatures.
Jainism
Ancient kingdom in what is today’s Sudan. It flourished for nearly 1000 years, from the fifth century BC E to the fifth century CE.
Meroe
People who are merged around 1500 B.C.E. and lived in Mesoamerica.
Olmecs
