The collection of Confucian sayings and teachings were known as this.
What were the Analects?
100
The name of the Indian social class system.
What was caste system?
100
The Greek city state.
What was the polis.
100
The Ptolemaic system that put a motionless Earth at the center of the universe was called this.
What was geocentric?
100
This period of European history, from the 1680s to the 1770s, saw some of the most world changing revolutions in modern world history.
What was the Enlightenment?
200
The philosophy of Confucius centered on the proper ordering of social relationships which led to this.
What was political and social harmony?
200
During the period dominated by this ethnic group, India was characterized politically as a series of small kingdoms.
Who were the Aryans?
200
This Greek leader forged a compromise between Athenian social classes by allowing aristocrats to keep their land while providing representation for the commoners.
Who was Solon?
200
The author of "On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres."
Who was Copernicus?
200
These French thinkers used reason as their guide.
What were the philosophes?
300
The "way."
What was the dao?
300
The main adviser to Chandragupta Maurya was this great political thinker.
Who was Kautalya?
300
Under the leadership of this most Athenian of leaders, Athens became the most sophisticated of Greek poleis.
Who was Pericles?
300
The theory of gravity is associated with this Cambridge scholar.
Who was Isaac Newton?
300
Philosophes believed in the goodness of people and that things were generally improving, which they called...
What was Progress?
400
This was the school of philosophical thought which in the end was most responsible for the unification of China.
What was legalism?
400
These networks were key to India maintaining ties with China and greater Asia.
What were the silk roads?
400
Who offered that "the unexamined life is not worth living"?
Who was Socrates?
400
This astronomer proved the laws of planetary motion.
Who was Johannes Kepler?
400
This Englishman was one of the first to theorized natural rights in his "Second Treatise on Government."
Who was John Locke?
500
This was the philosophy in ancient China which criticized social activism and instead proposed a life of reflection.
What was daoism?
500
The name of the ancient political text which explained a grand strategy concept known as the mandala principle.
What was Arthashastra?
500
The reign of Augustus in Rome ushered in which phase of Mediterranean peace?
What was the Pax romana?
500
He was put on trial by the Catholic Church, was made a martyr through his less than convincing convictions, and they named a a high school after him.
Who was Galileo?
500
The notion that God did not play a role in everyday life was promulgated by which sect of believers?