WHAP Unit 2 Chapter 4 Reading Guide
Name:
Date:
Read Chapter 4 and Identify the following:
Hour:
1.Confucius/Kong Fuzi:
2.Analects:
19.Buddha:
20.Nirvana:
3.Ancestor veneration:
4.Lessons for Women:
33.Pythagoras:
34.Hippocrates:
35.Plato:
21.Theravada:
36.Republic:
5.Laozi:
22.Mahayana:
6.Daodejing:
23.Bodhisattvas:
37.Aristotle:
38.Jesus of Nazareth:
7. Yin and yang:
24.Mahabharata
8.Vedas:
25.Ramayana:
9.Brahmins:
26.Bhagavad Gita:
40.Martyr:
10.Upanishads:
27.Zoroastrianism:
41.Council of Nicaea:
28.Zarathustra:
42. Theocracy:
39.Paul of Tarsus/St.Paul:
11.Brahman:
12.Atman:
29.Abraham:
43. Jewish Diaspora:
13.Moksha:
14.Karma:
30.Yahweh:
15.Law of Manu:
16.Siddhartha Gautama:
44. Twelve Tables:
45. Judaism:
31.Socrates:
17. Hinduism:
32. Shamanism:
18. Buddhism:
46. Christianity:
47. Edic of Milan:
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Key Concept 2.1
The Development & Codification of Religious & Cultural Traditions
I. Codifications and further developments of existing religious traditions provided a bond among the people and an
ethical code to live by. (SUMMARIZE)
A. Judaism
B. Vedic religions/
Hinduism
II. New belief systems and cultural traditions (SUMMARIZE/Describe)
A. Buddhism
B. Confucianism
C. Daoism
D. Christianity
E. Greco-Roman philosophy
and science
III. Belief systems affected
social roles and structure.
How or in what way did belief systems affect social roles or social structure?
IV. Other religious and cultural traditions continued parallel to the codified, written belief systems in core
civilizations.
B. Ancestor veneration
V. Artistic expressions show distinctive cultural developments (Examples in relation to religions?)
A. Literature and drama
B. Architectural styles
C. Sculpture
Key Concept 2.3
Emergence of Trans-regional Networks of Communication and Exchange
III. More than just goods was exchanged on these networks
C. Religious and cultural
traditions were transformed.
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Chapter 4-5 - Big Questions (Short Answer Responses required)
1. Describe how the codification of the Hebrew Scriptures helped to further develop Judaism as a
monotheistic religion.
2. The writings of the Sanskrit scriptures formed the basic belief structure and set up the caste systems of the
Vedic (later Hindu) religion – it also placed a high importance on Brahma and reincarnation. What is meant
by ‘Brahma’ and reincarnation?
3. How and why did Buddhism change as it spread across Asia? (map pg. 191)
4. What was the core belief in the major Daoist writings? Did the Daoist writings influence the development
of any country?
5. Christianity got a rough start in the world – what person does this religion surround? Describe how it
spread and became a major world religion. (map pg. 191)
6. Which of the religions mentioned in this chapter emphasized filial piety? What is filial piety?
7. How would you support both sides of this statement? “Religion is a double-edged sword, both supporting
and undermining political authority and social elites.”
8. In what ways different ways did religious or cultural traditions define purposes of human life?
9. Why was slavery so much more prominent in Greco-Roman civilization than in India or China?
10. What changes in the patterns of social life in the second-wave of civilization can you identify in
Chapters 4-5? What accounts for these changes?
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WHAP Unit 2 Chapter 5 Reading Guide
Name:
Date:
Read Chapter 5 and Identify the following:
1.Emperor Wu Di:
Hour:
8.Caste System:
14.Untouchable:
9.Varna:
15.Jati:
10. Brahmin:
16.Slavery:
11.Kshatriya:
17.Barbarian:
2.Civil Service Examination:
3.Bureaucracy:
4. Wang Mang:
5.Scholar-gentry:
12.Vaisya:
6.Yellow Turban Uprising:
18.Spartacus:
13.Sudra:
7.”Great Peace”:
19.Empress Wu:
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Key Concept 2.1
III. Belief systems affected
social roles and structure.
The Development & Codification of Religious & Cultural Traditions
How or in what way did belief systems affect social roles or social structure?
Daoism:
Hinduism:
Buddhism:
Christianity:
Confucianism:
Key Concept 2.2
Development of States and Empires
III. Unique social and economic dimensions developed in imperial societies in Afro-Eurasia and the Americas
B. Social Structures of
empires displayed
hierarchies (list the types of
people in these hierarchies)
C. Imperial societies relied
on a range of methods to
maintain the production of
food and provide rewards
for the loyalty of elites.
List examples of these
methods
D. Patriarchy continued to
shape gender and family
relations in all imperial
societies of this period.
Provide some examples of
how.
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