Some Lasting Ideas Unit 6A

Some Lasting Ideas

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​Steps taken by the first emperor of a united China to unify the country:

• built network of roads and canals

• standardized currency and system of writing

• forced nobles to move to the capital

• built the Great Wall

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​Caste System

• social class division developed by Aryans who believed they were superior to others

• the separation of people into religious and social groups based on their birth

Buddhist Beliefs

• The essential self of a living being never dies.

• How one is reborn has nothing to do with caste.

• Suffering is caused by desire and greed.

• People progress toward Nirvana by pursuing the Eightfold Path.

• Nirvana is a state of freedom from suffering, fear, and pain.

• "Right living" through meditation and compassion for others can free a person of desire and greed.

​Where is Buddhism practiced today?

Mongolia

Laos

Thailand

Cambodia

Japan

​Influence of Confucian Thought

• A country can be successfully governed only if the government has the support of the people.

• Children who respect their parents become good members of society.

• Government officials should be well educated.

• People should treat everyone they meet with the utmost respect.

• Family is where people learn respect, cooperation, and good habits.

• believed the family was a good model for society

• taught the earliest version of the Golden Rule.

• worked to bring order to society and government.

​Confucius

• seeker of truth

• he became the Enlightened One and taught people the path to end their pain and suffering and reach Nirvana.

• Gave us the Four Noble Truths and Eightfold Noble Path 

​Siddhartha Gautama

Religious Leaders

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• Filled with remorse about his life of cruel conquest, he converted to Buddhism and sent Buddhist missionaries throughout eastern Asia.

• Built hospitals, roads, and places of worship.

​Asoka

Religious Leaders

Hinduism

• traces its sacred writings to early Aryan poets who wrote hymns called Vedas

• Vedas - sacred writings

Achievements of the Han Dynasty

• the first civil service based on merit

• a perfected method of making paper

• Scholars advised the emperors how to govern.

• The Imperial University was founded to teach the Confucian classics.

• export of silk, spices, ivory, jade, and ceramics on Silk Road

• smart, virtuous men in government administration

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