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
unskilled laborers, slaves
Sudra
occupations, restricted to varna, indicated by surname
Jatis
idea that higher Indian castes must adhere to strict regulations
Ritual Purity and pollution
perfume seller
Gandhi
ruler
Gupta
village chief, mayor
Patel
did not enslave due to race, slaves allowed to be freed in Greek society
Greco-Roman Slavery
entire population became slaves by Spartans, routinely terrorized by Spartans, freed in 371 BC
Helots
sending away with the hand, ceremony to make slave free
Manumission common
