Week 5 Flashcards

1
Q
  1. gentry
  2. peasantry
  3. patriarchy
A

chinese social order

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2
Q

top class, aristocracy,

confucian exams

A

China’s scholar-gentry class

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3
Q

introduced social reforms to help out lower class, was executed, parallel Tiberius Gracchus

A

Wang Mang

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4
Q

peasant revolt against government during Han dynasty

A

Yellow Turban Rebellion

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5
Q

leader of Yellow Turban Rebellion

A

Zhang Jue

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6
Q

woman should obey father, obey husband, and obey son once husband dies

A

Three Obediences

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7
Q

Wei, Shu, Wu states in China, foreign incursion

A

Three Kingdoms period

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8
Q

only female empress in chinese history

A

empress wu

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9
Q

leader was Ashoka, ruled over 50 million people in India

A

Mauryan Empire

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10
Q

initially war-minded, because believer in Hindu, enlightened king

A

Ashoka

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11
Q

strong infrastructure, traded with Rome and China,

A

Gupta Empire

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12
Q

Caste

A

Varna

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13
Q

priests and scholars, highest varna

A

Brahmin

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14
Q

military varna, second varna

A

Kshatriya

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15
Q

farmers, third varna

A

vaisya

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16
Q

unskilled laborers, slaves

A

Sudra

17
Q

occupations, restricted to varna, indicated by surname

A

Jatis

18
Q

idea that higher Indian castes must adhere to strict regulations

A

Ritual Purity and pollution

19
Q

perfume seller

A

Gandhi

20
Q

ruler

A

Gupta

21
Q

village chief, mayor

A

Patel

22
Q

did not enslave due to race, slaves allowed to be freed in Greek society

A

Greco-Roman Slavery

23
Q

entire population became slaves by Spartans, routinely terrorized by Spartans, freed in 371 BC

A

Helots

24
Q

sending away with the hand, ceremony to make slave free

A

Manumission common

25
Q

popular in late republic, similar to modern pro-athletes

A

Gladiators

26
Q

leader of revolt at Capua, initially successful

A

Spartacus

27
Q

beat Spartacus

A

M. Linicius Crassus

28
Q

famous high class prostitute

A

Aspasia