China
What did Korea do to maintain good relations with China?
From time to time, they would visit the Emperor and acknowledge that China had the biggest and the tastiest popsicle.
What is Theravada?
A form of Buddhism that escapes the cycle of birth and death
How did China become commercialized?
They had a large production of Iron and Steel, their agricultural innovation, and their transportation innovations.
What were the three main belief systems in 1200 BC?
Hinduism, Islam, and Buddhism.
What is Sufism
A more mystical, spiritual experience-based version of Islam.
The practice of honoring ancestors
What is filial piety?
What religion has Four noble truths and an Eightfold path?
Buddhism
What were some of the agricultural innovations of China?
Iron Plows and Rakes, and Champa rice
What is Hinduism?
A polytheistic belief system (believes in many gods)
What is Angkor Wat
The most magnificent Hindu temple in existence.
True or False: Footbinding was adopted by Vietnam, Korea, and Japan.
False - Only China did it.
What is Mahayana?
A form of Buddhism where they believed that Buddhist teachings were available to all, not just a select few. It emphasized compassion, and made Buddha into an object of devotion.
What was so great about Champa rice?
It was drought resistant, and it gave two crops per year.
What is the ultimate goal in Hinduism?
It is to reunite their individual souls to the world soul known as Brahman, which takes many reincarnations to achieve (when you die, you are reborn again, as something/one else)
What is syncretism?
When 2 religions blend together.
How did the Song Dynasty maintain and justify its power? Name 2 reasons
1. Confusionism
2. Imperial Bureaucracy.
What did Buddhism adopt from Hinduism?
Karma and Rebirth
What were their transportation innovations?
The grand canal was expanded, which connected the yellow and yangtze rivers, and made trade among different regions much cheaper. Another transportation innovations was the magnetic compass, and new ship building techniques.
What is the Bhakti movement in Hisduism
Encourages believers to worship one particular god in the Hindu pantheon of gods.
Rejected the hierarchy if Hinduism
Encouraged spiritual experiences to all people regardless of social status.
What is Tibetan Buddhism?
It is another form of Buddhism that involved lying prostrate, elaborate imaginings of deities.
What is the Hindu Cast System in India?
From bottom to top: Dalit, Shudra, Vaishya, Kshatriya, Brahman.