6.5.b Unit 6 Homework Assignment

6.5.b Unit 6 Homework Assignment

 

Explain how your item is a cause or a consequence of some event.

Explain how your item exemplified some trend or movement or ideology.

Explain how your item ties into one of our class themes.

Explain any other way this item is significant.

Here’s a reminder of our class themes:

  • The uniqueness of various cultures and the impact of cross-cultural exchange.
  • The role of religion in shaping world history since 1500.
  • The role of government in shaping world history since 1500.

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This is a standardized coin from the Qin dynasty. It is round with a squarish hole in the middle.

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A picture of thousands of terracotta statues of soldiers at the tomb of the Qin emperor Shi Huangdi.

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A picture of a wooden plank road built on stilts around a rock cliff of a mountain during the Han dynasty.

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A drawing a of wealthy men in silk robes during the Han dynasty.

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A drawing of peasants working in a rice paddy while a landowner standing under an umbrella gives them orders.

” If conformers to law are strong, the country is strong; if conformers to law are weak, the country is weak.” (Han Fei).

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“The means whereby the intelligent ruler controls his ministers are two handles only.  The handles are chastisement and commendation.”  (Han Fei)

“Those who in private life behave well towards their parents and elder brothers, in public life seldom show a disposition to resist the authority of their superiors. And as for such men starting a revolution, no instance of it has ever occurred.” (Kong Fuzi)

9.” The Master said, ‘When rulers love to observe the rules of propriety, the people respond readily to the calls on them for service.’  he Master said, ‘If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame.'” (Kong Fuzi)

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“When the Great Dao ceased to be observed, benevolence and righteousness came into vogue. Then appeared wisdom and shrewdness, and there ensued great hypocrisy.”

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“He who has in himself abundantly the attributes of the Dao is like an infant.” (Loazi)

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Qin Shi Huangdi

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The Five Relationships of Confucianism

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Xiao (Filial Piety)

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Ren (Righteousness)

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Li (Propriety)

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Liu Bang

Han Wudi

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Wang Mang

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Tributary System

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7.5.b Unit 7 Homework Assignment

You may only use class materials for this assignment, which includes the lecture video, the primary source documents, and the Traditions and Encounters text (optional).  You will get a 0 if you use any outside materials or plagiarize on this assignment.

Once you’ve chosen your item from 7.5.a Unit 7 Images, Quotes, and Terms, write one to two paragraphs on the significance of your item.  You may want to:

Explain how your item is a cause or a consequence of some event.

Explain how your item exemplified some trend or movement or ideology.

Explain how your item ties into one of our class themes.

Explain any other way this item is significant.

Here’s a reminder of our class themes:

The uniqueness of various cultures and the impact of cross-cultural exchange.

The role of religion in shaping world history since 1500.

The role of government in shaping world history since 1500.

A picture of an ancient copy of Kautalya's book Arthasastra.

A. Kaelyn Daniels

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A picture of one of Ashoka's rock edict pillars with three carved lions on top.

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A statue of a naked and skinny Mahavira.

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“This, O Bhikkhus, is the Noble Truth of the Cause of suffering: Thirst, that leads to rebirth, accompanied by pleasure and lust, finding its delight here and there. This thirst is threefold, namely, thirst for pleasure, thirst for existence, thirst for prosperity.” (Buddha–Setting in Motion the Wheel of the Law)

“The religious life, Mâlunkyâputta, does not depend on the dogma that the world is eternal; nor does the religious life, Mâlunkyâputta, depend on the dogma that the world is not eternal. Whether the dogma obtain, Mâlunkyâputta, that the world is eternal, or that the world is not eternal, there still remain birth, old age, death, sorrow, lamentation, misery, grief, and despair, for the extinction of which in the present life I am prescribing.” (Buddha–Questions that tend not to Edify).

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Chandragupta Maurya kept control of his government by:

  1. “Having regard to your own duty also, you ought not to falter, for there is nothing better for a Kshatriya than a righteous battle. “

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“After the Kalingas had been conquered, Beloved-of-the-Gods came to feel a strong inclination towards the Dhamma, a love for the Dhamma and for instruction in Dhamma. Now Beloved-of-the-Gods feels deep remorse for having conquered the Kalingas.”  (The 13th Rock Edict of Ashoka)

“Now it is conquest by Dhamma that Beloved-of-the-Gods considers to be the best conquest.”

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Magadha

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Chandragupta Maurya

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Ashoka and the spread of Buddhism

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Greco-Batrian Kingdom

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Kushan Kingdom

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Tamil Kingdoms

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17.Ahisma

The Eight-fold path

Mahayana Buddhism

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20.Theraveda Buddhism

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8.5.b Unit 8 Homework Assignment

You may only use class materials for this assignment, which includes the lecture video, the primary source documents, and the Traditions and Encounters text (optional).  You will get a 0 if you use any outside materials or plagiarize on this assignment.

  1. Once you’ve chosen your item from 8.5.a Unit 8 Images, Quotes, and Terms, write one to two paragraphs on the significance of your item.  You may want to:

Explain how your item is a cause or a consequence of some event.

Explain how your item exemplified some trend or movement or ideology.

Explain how your item ties into one of our class themes.

Explain any other way this item is significant.

Here’s a reminder of our class themes:

  1. The uniqueness of various cultures and the impact of cross-cultural exchange.

The role of religion in shaping world history since 1500.

The role of government in shaping world history since 1500.

  • A mural from Minoan society which features many boats pulling in and out of a port with many shops and businesses.
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A clay tablet with the Greek language of Linear B.

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A painting of Greek Hoplite soldiers with large circular shields.

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  • A cup painted with a Spartan soldier and his horse.
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A picture of the ruins of the Partheon in Athens.

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” It is true that we are called a democracy, for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few. But while there exists equal justice to all and alike in their private disputes, the claim of excellence is also recognized; and when a citizen is in any way distinguished, he is preferred to the public service, not as a matter of privilege, but as the reward of merit. ” (Pericles) Trent Vinyard

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“And we have not forgotten to provide for our weary spirits many relaxations from toil; we have regular games and sacrifices throughout the year; our homes are beautiful and elegant; and the delight which we daily feel in all these things helps to banish sorrow. Because of the greatness of our city the fruits of the whole earth flow in upon us; so that we enjoy the goods of other countries as freely as our own.” (Pericles)

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“If then we prefer to meet danger with a light heart but without laborious training, and with a courage which is gained by habit and not enforced by law, are we not greatly the better for it? ” (Pericles)

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“Men regard its nature and cause as divine from ignorance and wonder, because it is not at all like to other diseases. And this notion of its divinity is kept up by their inability to comprehend it, and the simplicity of the mode

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“But let me remind you: through your courage and endurance you have gained possession of Ionia, the Hellespont, both Phrygias, Cappadocia, Paphlagonia, Lydia, Caria, Lycia, Pamphylia, Phoenicia, and Egypt; the Greek part of Libya is now yours, together with much of Arabia, lowland Syria, Mesopotamia, Babylon, and Susia; Persia and Media with all the territories either formerly controlled by them or not are in your hands; you have made yourselves masters of the lands beyond the Caspian Gates, beyond the Caucasus, beyond the Tanais, of Bactria, Hyrcania, and the Hyrcanian sea; we have driven the Scythians back into the desert; and Indus and Hydaspes, Acesines and Hydraotes flow now through country which is ours. With all that accomplished, why do you hesitate to extend the power of Macedon–yourpower–to the Hyphasis and the tribes on the other side?”

11.Mycenaeans

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Greek Dark Ages

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Polis

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Archilocus

A. Kaelyn Daniels

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Sappho

Herodotus

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Persian Wars

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Delian League

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Peloponessian War

Socrates

Aspasia

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Philip of Macedon

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