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Chapter 3
The flowering of great faiths and philosophies
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History
10th Grade
05/28/2009

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David's son reigned from 965-928 BCE, What was his name?
Definition
Soloman
(p.82)
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Around what year did the Israelites suffer from opression and mass exodus in Egypt?
Definition
1300 BCE
(p.81)
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What Childean king conquered Judah in 597 BCE?
Definition
Nebuchadnezzar
(p.82)
Term
What monotheistic body of literature is known to Christians as the Old Testament?
Definition
Tanakh
(p.82)
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What is a Perioiki?
Definition
a non-full blood Spartan
(p.86)
Term
What does polis mean?
Definition
Greek city-state
(p.85)
Term
What were two characteristics of Sophists?
Definition
skepticism and relativism
(p.92)
Term
Who founded the Academy?
Definition
Plato
(p.94)
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Which Greek city-state had the largest population?
Definition
Athens
(p.87)
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When was the Buddha born?
Definition
around 566 BCE
(p.99)
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What were the two orthodoxes of Buddhism?
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Theravada and Mahayana
(p.100 & 102)
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What is the "religion of the conquerors"?
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Jainism
(p.103)
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Who, after their deaths were honored as China's first and second sages?
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Confucius and Mencius
(p.106)
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What does "tao" mean?
Definition
the way
(p.107)
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What was the last philosophy to emerge from the Hundred Schools period?
Definition
Legalism
(p.109)
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