Deck 5: D: Society and Inequality in Eurasia

Question 1

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
The dependent,semi-enslaved class of ancient Sparta whose social discontent prompted the militarization of Spartan society.

A)Wang Mang
B)China's scholar-gentry class
C)Ge Hong
D)Yellow Turban Rebellion
E)caste as varna
F)caste as jati
G)"ritual purity" in Indian social practice
H)Greek slavery
I)Roman slavery
J)Spartacus
K)patriarchy
L)the "three obediences"
M)Empress Wu
N)Aspasia
O)Pericles
P)helots

Answer 1

helots

Question 2

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
In Chinese Confucian thought,the notion that a woman is permanently subordinate to male control: first to her father,then to her husband,and finally to her son.

A)Wang Mang
B)China's scholar-gentry class
C)Ge Hong
D)Yellow Turban Rebellion
E)caste as varna
F)caste as jati
G)"ritual purity" in Indian social practice
H)Greek slavery
I)Roman slavery
J)Spartacus
K)patriarchy
L)the "three obediences"
M)Empress Wu
N)Aspasia
O)Pericles
P)helots

Answer 2

the "three obediences"

Question 3

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
The idea that members of higher castes must adhere to strict regulations limiting or forbidding their contact with objects and members of lower castes to preserve their own caste standing and their relationship with the gods.

A)Wang Mang
B)China's scholar-gentry class
C)Ge Hong
D)Yellow Turban Rebellion
E)caste as varna
F)caste as jati
G)"ritual purity" in Indian social practice
H)Greek slavery
I)Roman slavery
J)Spartacus
K)patriarchy
L)the "three obediences"
M)Empress Wu
N)Aspasia
O)Pericles
P)helots

Answer 3

"ritual purity" in Indian social practice

Question 4

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
A prominent and influential statesman of ancient Athens (ca.495-429 B.C.E. ),he presided over Athens's Golden Age;Aspasia's partner.

A)Wang Mang
B)China's scholar-gentry class
C)Ge Hong
D)Yellow Turban Rebellion
E)caste as varna
F)caste as jati
G)"ritual purity" in Indian social practice
H)Greek slavery
I)Roman slavery
J)Spartacus
K)patriarchy
L)the "three obediences"
M)Empress Wu
N)Aspasia
O)Pericles
P)helots

Question 5

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Literally "rule of the father";a social system of male dominance.

A)Wang Mang
B)China's scholar-gentry class
C)Ge Hong
D)Yellow Turban Rebellion
E)caste as varna
F)caste as jati
G)"ritual purity" in Indian social practice
H)Greek slavery
I)Roman slavery
J)Spartacus
K)patriarchy
L)the "three obediences"
M)Empress Wu
N)Aspasia
O)Pericles
P)helots

Question 6

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
In the Greek and Roman world,slaves were captives from war and piracy (and their descendants),abandoned children,and the victims of long-distance trade;manumission was common.In parts of one of these states,thousands of slaves were employed under brutal conditions in the mines and on great plantations.

A)Wang Mang
B)China's scholar-gentry class
C)Ge Hong
D)Yellow Turban Rebellion
E)caste as varna
F)caste as jati
G)"ritual purity" in Indian social practice
H)Greek slavery
I)Roman slavery
J)Spartacus
K)patriarchy
L)the "three obediences"
M)Empress Wu
N)Aspasia
O)Pericles
P)helots

Question 7

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
The only female emperor in Chinese history (r.690-705 C.E. ),she patronized scholarship,worked to elevate the position of women,and provoked a backlash of Confucian misogynist invective.

A)Wang Mang
B)China's scholar-gentry class
C)Ge Hong
D)Yellow Turban Rebellion
E)caste as varna
F)caste as jati
G)"ritual purity" in Indian social practice
H)Greek slavery
I)Roman slavery
J)Spartacus
K)patriarchy
L)the "three obediences"
M)Empress Wu
N)Aspasia
O)Pericles
P)helots

Question 8

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
The addition of thousands of social distinctions to the caste system based on occupation,which became the main cell of social life in India.

A)Wang Mang
B)China's scholar-gentry class
C)Ge Hong
D)Yellow Turban Rebellion
E)caste as varna
F)caste as jati
G)"ritual purity" in Indian social practice
H)Greek slavery
I)Roman slavery
J)Spartacus
K)patriarchy
L)the "three obediences"
M)Empress Wu
N)Aspasia
O)Pericles
P)helots

Question 9

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
In the Greek and Roman world,slaves were captives from war and piracy (and their descendants),abandoned children,and the victims of long-distance trade;manumission was common.In one of these cultures,household service was the most common form of slavery.

A)Wang Mang
B)China's scholar-gentry class
C)Ge Hong
D)Yellow Turban Rebellion
E)caste as varna
F)caste as jati
G)"ritual purity" in Indian social practice
H)Greek slavery
I)Roman slavery
J)Spartacus
K)patriarchy
L)the "three obediences"
M)Empress Wu
N)Aspasia
O)Pericles
P)helots

Question 10

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
A term used to describe members of China's landowning families,reflecting their wealth from the land and the privilege that they derived as government officials.

A)Wang Mang
B)China's scholar-gentry class
C)Ge Hong
D)Yellow Turban Rebellion
E)caste as varna
F)caste as jati
G)"ritual purity" in Indian social practice
H)Greek slavery
I)Roman slavery
J)Spartacus
K)patriarchy
L)the "three obediences"
M)Empress Wu
N)Aspasia
O)Pericles
P)helots

Question 11

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Born into an upper-class family in China during troubled times (283-343 C.E. ),his efforts to balance Confucian service to society and his own desire to pursue a more solitary and interior life in the Daoist tradition reflected the situation of many in his class.

A)Wang Mang
B)China's scholar-gentry class
C)Ge Hong
D)Yellow Turban Rebellion
E)caste as varna
F)caste as jati
G)"ritual purity" in Indian social practice
H)Greek slavery
I)Roman slavery
J)Spartacus
K)patriarchy
L)the "three obediences"
M)Empress Wu
N)Aspasia
O)Pericles
P)helots

Question 12

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
A Han court official who usurped the throne and ruled from 8 C.E.to 23 C.E. ;noted for his reform movement that included the breakup of large estates.

A)Wang Mang
B)China's scholar-gentry class
C)Ge Hong
D)Yellow Turban Rebellion
E)caste as varna
F)caste as jati
G)"ritual purity" in Indian social practice
H)Greek slavery
I)Roman slavery
J)Spartacus
K)patriarchy
L)the "three obediences"
M)Empress Wu
N)Aspasia
O)Pericles
P)helots

Question 13

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
A massive Chinese peasant uprising inspired by Daoist teachings that began in 184 C.E.with the goal of establishing a new golden age of equality and harmony.

A)Wang Mang
B)China's scholar-gentry class
C)Ge Hong
D)Yellow Turban Rebellion
E)caste as varna
F)caste as jati
G)"ritual purity" in Indian social practice
H)Greek slavery
I)Roman slavery
J)Spartacus
K)patriarchy
L)the "three obediences"
M)Empress Wu
N)Aspasia
O)Pericles
P)helots

Question 14

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
A Roman gladiator who led the most serious slave revolt in Roman history from 73 to 71 B.C.E.

A)Wang Mang
B)China's scholar-gentry class
C)Ge Hong
D)Yellow Turban Rebellion
E)caste as varna
F)caste as jati
G)"ritual purity" in Indian social practice
H)Greek slavery
I)Roman slavery
J)Spartacus
K)patriarchy
L)the "three obediences"
M)Empress Wu
N)Aspasia
O)Pericles
P)helots

Question 15

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
A foreign woman resident in Athens (ca.470-400 B.C.E. )who was famed for her learning and wit,and was Pericles' partner.

A)Wang Mang
B)China's scholar-gentry class
C)Ge Hong
D)Yellow Turban Rebellion
E)caste as varna
F)caste as jati
G)"ritual purity" in Indian social practice
H)Greek slavery
I)Roman slavery
J)Spartacus
K)patriarchy
L)the "three obediences"
M)Empress Wu
N)Aspasia
O)Pericles
P)helots

Question 16

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
The system of social organization in India that has evolved over millennia;it is based on an original division of the populace into four inherited classes.

A)Wang Mang
B)China's scholar-gentry class
C)Ge Hong
D)Yellow Turban Rebellion
E)caste as varna
F)caste as jati
G)"ritual purity" in Indian social practice
H)Greek slavery
I)Roman slavery
J)Spartacus
K)patriarchy
L)the "three obediences"
M)Empress Wu
N)Aspasia
O)Pericles
P)helots