The Caste System
Caste System was
established by the Aryan
peoples nearly 3000 years
ago.
Divided people into social
classes based on Dasas or
skin color…darker your
skin the lower your caste.
The higher your caste, the
more that was expected
from you, and your
contribution to society.
Vocab terms:
Karma
Moksha
Reincarnation
Confucianism
• 5 Relationships
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Ruler to Subject
Husband to Wife
Father to Son
Older Brother to
Younger Brother
• Friend to Friend
Confucius felt that education
was the best method to end
crime
Filial Piety- respect for your
elders
Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
felt that the reasons why we
suffer is due to selfish desire. In
order to overcome this desire is
to follow the Eightfold Path
The Eightfold Path
Code of Justinian
• -combined 400 years of Roman Laws and legal
opinions
• Justinian’s Code consisted of 4 works:
• Helped preserve Greek and Roman Culture
and Law
Laws were applied differently depending on social status
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Earliest attempt by the Romans to create a CODE OF LAW
The most significant Contribution the Romans gave the world!!!
Golden Age of Islam
Islam's Golden Age• Massive translation and copying projects made Greek,
Roman, and Sanskrit knowledge available to Arabicspeaking scholars- House of Wisdom
• Medieval Europe received the Hellenic classics that
made the Renaissance possible mostly through Arabic
translations. Preserved Greek and Roman culture
•Building on Hellenic, Persian, and Hindu
sources, physicians within the Islamic
Empire advanced medical knowledge
enormously.
•Perhaps their most significant single
achievement was the establishment of
medicine as a science based on
observation and experimentation.
• Islamic scientists developed the
rudiments of what would later be called
the scientific method.
Golden Age of Greece
•In the Golden Age of Greece the Grecian states
in the peninsula achieved a high status in culture
and political constancy.
•This Age is sometimes called the "Periclean
Age," after the honorable Pericles who was the
leading statesman of the Athens' at that time.
•During this period Greece achieved tremendous
success in the arenas of government, art,
philosophy, drama and poetry.
•This Era showed the birth of democracy in
Athens.
•The Greek theater had promoted some of its
renowned playwrights, and globally famous
philosophers such as Socrates and Plato who
almost terminated the conventional thought
processes of men.
Law
Rome's greatest achievement was its system of laws.
•features of this system include, men being equal
under the law, having the right to face their
accusers, and being considered innocent until
proven guilty.
•Later, these laws were written down and named the
Laws of the Twelve Tables. Many aspects of this
system of justice survive today in law codes around
the world.
•Art & Architecture
Roman art and architecture is a blending of
Greek and Roman elements. In art, Rome
copied many Greek statues, but also produced
a more realistic style of portraiture
•In architecture, Rome used Greek columns, but modified them to be more
elaborate, as well as using the arch and dome quite extensively, something
the Greeks did not do.
• An example of Roman use of arches and domes can be seen in the
Pantheon
Science and Medicine
As with Hellenistic civilization, Alexandria, Egypt remained a center of
learning under the Romans.
• Astronomer - mathematician Ptolemy proposed that the earth
was the center of the universe. The geocentric model offered by
Ptolemy was the accepted view until
•Copernicus offered the heliocentric, or sun centered theory of
the universe.
•In medicine, the Greek physician Galen compiled an encyclopedia
that became the standard medical text until the Islamic doctor Ibn
Sina wrote his Canon on Medicine.
The Silk Road is a historically important international trade route
between China and the Mediterranean. Because silk comprised a large
proportion of trade