Vocab testing AP WORLD

Question 1

Vedas

Answer 1

translate to seeing or knowledge, contains rituals, hymns, prayers, and thoughts, the earliest scriptures of Hinduism

Question 2

Dharma

Answer 2

duties and obligations for your level of caste existence

Question 3

Moksha

Answer 3

escaping cycle of rebirth in Hinduism where your atman rejoins the Brahman

Question 4

Varna

Answer 4

refers to your skin color, darker Dravidians were the lowest caste of the Shudras, lighter skins were Aryans compromised the three top castes

Question 5

Harijan

Answer 5

untouchables, outside caste system

Question 6

Siddhartha Gautama

Answer 6

Hindu prince, spiritual quest of enlightenment and meditation, becomes Buddha

Question 7

Nirvana

Answer 7

Buddhist version of moksha

Question 8

Four passing sights

Answer 8

old age, sickness, death and an ascetic monk

Question 9

Dukkha

Answer 9

suffering, a key to understanding the noble truth

Question 10

Eightfold path

Answer 10

the duty of a buddhist

Question 11

Confucius

Answer 11

believed in the proper ordering of human relationships in order to achieve political and social harmony

Question 12

ren

Answer 12

the supreme virtue in bringing harmony to society represents love, kindness and humanity

Question 13

Cangue

Answer 13

inflict corpral punishment in China, wore wooden device around neck

Question 14

Peloponnesian war

Answer 14

431-404 BCE war between Athen and its allies and Sparta and its allies, resulted in defeat in Athens

Question 15

Mare Nostrum

Answer 15

out sea/our lake - Rome identity to control all land, surrounding Mediterranean

Question 16

latins

Answer 16

first settlers of land near Rome

Question 17

roman republic

Answer 17

The period from 507 to 31 B.C.E., during which Rome was largely governed by the aristocratic Roman Senate.