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Sister cities connected by an integrated economy and a chain of smaller cities.
Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro (11)
Yogi is considered a precursor to what term?
Lord of Creatures (11)
These Greeks were a product of the Lycurgan Constitution.
Spartans (15)
A military tactic that resulted in the blurring of class divisions.
Hoplite Phalanx, or Phalanx (14)
This series of events is considered the first lesson in impermanence within Buddhism.
Four Encounters (12)
This collection includes the "Diamond Sutra" and "Heart Sutra."
The Jewel of Buddhism (13)
The term for "noble" or "freeborn" and shares linguistic ties with Celtic.
Aryo (11)
Individually, these are unsustainable, but together they construct the "self."
Skandhas (13)
These two systems reflect an integrated economy that resulted in significant and widespread affluence.
Sewage and bath systems in the Indus/Harappan Civilization (11)
This change in governance resulted in the simultaneous localization of power and break up of traditional social relationships.
Ten Demes (14)
The site of the penultimate existence of a bodhisattva before becoming a buddha.
Tushita Heaven (12)
This concept reflects the tension between the maintenance and contestation of power, often resulting in antagonism, turmoil, conflict, and agony.
Agon (14)
Holistic excellence as a means of attaining honor and a method of affirming individual accomplishment to inspire communities.
Arete (14)
What form of transportation "upset the balance world affairs?"
The Persian road connecting Susa to Sardis (15).
A demagogue during the Persian Wars, this individual used rhetoric and ruses to combat the Persians and organize the Greeks.
Themistocles (15)
The ____ is one's cherished way of life and must be experienced in the _____ as the defensive and political power and the _____ as the commercial, social, and political center.
Polis, Acropolis, and Agora (14)
The existence of Dyaus Pitar and Zeus reflect what socio-historical event?
The movement of Aryans and Indo-European language and cultures around the Mediterranean and Asia (14).
These ruins demonstrate a cultural emphasis on habitual cleanliness, strong urban design, and ritual hygiene.
The Great Bath of the Indus/Harappan Civilization (11).
The simultaneous conceptualization and applied practice of freedom.
Eleutheria (15)
Considered proof that Mahamaya would give birth to a chakravartin or a buddha.
The Dream of the White Elephant (12)
Significantly different from the contemporary river-based civilizations, Hellas cultures shared five general characteristics. Name three of them.
Absence of absolute power
Lack of large, centralized beauracracies
Less social stratification
Lack professional standing army
No reliable source of taxation
(14)
This tradition is characterized by rule of consensus and celebration of the individual.
Homeric Tradition (14)
If private and public life were two circles in a Venn diagram, there would only be one circle.
To Koinon (14)
A custom amongst many cultures, this act can lead to extreme social stratification and distinct political ideologies.
Ritual (11, but really any lecture that discusses ritual in relation to conspicuous consumption, segregation, use as a religious tool used for political ambitions, etc)
A theological perspective that is similar to the mathematical concept of transitive property of equality: A=B and B=C, then A=C.
Dependent Arising (13)