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10th Grade
09/26/2012

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Pater Familias
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Roman term - "father of the family"
male = unlimited athority
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Cicero and Stoicism
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Philosophers who led virtous lives
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Jesus of Nazereth
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The Lord and Savior of the world according to Christianity.
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Paul of Tarsus
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Principal figure in the expansion of Christianity
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Shang Yang
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Helped to spread Confucianism
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The Mayan Calendar and Writing
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Very organized system of writing. The calendar predicts the end of the world. All very advanced and took much studying.
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Mayan Bloodletting Rituals
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Mayans sacrificed people to their gods. They cut off their limbs to increase the amount of blood flow.
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Confucious
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The first Chinese thinker who addressed the political and socia order in a straight-forward and self-concious way.
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Siddhartha Guatama
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The founder of Buddhism.
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Laozi
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Wrote a very important book on Daoism.
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Mahavira
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Started jainism.
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Ashoka
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Indian emperor who supported Buddhism.
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