Week 5 Flashcards
- gentry
- peasantry
- patriarchy
chinese social order
top class, aristocracy,
confucian exams
China’s scholar-gentry class
introduced social reforms to help out lower class, was executed, parallel Tiberius Gracchus
Wang Mang
peasant revolt against government during Han dynasty
Yellow Turban Rebellion
leader of Yellow Turban Rebellion
Zhang Jue
woman should obey father, obey husband, and obey son once husband dies
Three Obediences
Wei, Shu, Wu states in China, foreign incursion
Three Kingdoms period
only female empress in chinese history
empress wu
leader was Ashoka, ruled over 50 million people in India
Mauryan Empire
initially war-minded, because believer in Hindu, enlightened king
Ashoka
strong infrastructure, traded with Rome and China,
Gupta Empire
Caste
Varna
priests and scholars, highest varna
Brahmin
military varna, second varna
Kshatriya
farmers, third varna
vaisya