Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, 2 e.
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Glossary Terms for letter: D
Daoism A school of thought contemporary with others at the end of the Warring States period, but with a great emphasis on the Dao, or the natural way of the cosmos. It did not have the same emphasis on ritual as Confucianism.
Darius I After Cyrus's, death, Darius I (521486 BCE) put the emerging unified Persian Empire onto solid footing.
Dear Boy The nickname of an early human remain discovered in 1931 by a team of archaeologists named the Leakeys. They discovered an almost totally intact skull. Other objects discovered with Dear Boy demonstrated that by the time of Dear Boy, early humans had begun to fashion tools and to use them for butchering animals and also, possibly, for hunting and killing smaller animals.
Delhi sultanate The Turkish regime of northern India, which lasted from 1206 to 1526.
Democritus Thinker in ancient Greece who lived from 470 to 360 BCE; he deduced the existence of the atom and postulated that there was such a thing as an indivisible particle.
Demotic writing The second of two basic forms of ancient Egyptian writing. Demotic was a cursive script written with ink on papyrus, on pottery, or on other absorbent objects. It was the most common and practical form of writing in Egypt and was used for administrative record keeping and in private or pseudo-private forms like letters and works of literature. See also Hieroglyphs.
Devshirme System of taking non-Muslim children in place of taxes in order to educate them in Ottoman Muslim ways and prepare them for service in the sultan's bureaucracy.
Dhamma A moral code espoused by As'oka in the Kalinga edict, which was meant to apply to all—Buddhists, Brahmans, and Greeks alike.
Dhows Ships used by Arab seafarers; the dhow's large sails were rigged to maximize the capture of wind.
Diogenes A Greek philosopher who lived from 412 to 323 BCE and who espoused a doctrine of self-sufficiency and freedom from social laws and customs. He rejected cultural norms as out of tune with nature and therefore false.
Djoser This ancient Egyptian king reigned from 2630 to 2611 BCE. He was the second king of the Third Dynasty and celebrated the Sed festival in his tomb complex at Saqqara.
Dong Zhongshu Emperor Wu's chief minister, who advocated a more powerful view of Confucius by promoting texts that focused on Confucius as a man who possessed aspects of divinity.
Double-outrigger canoes Vessels used by early Austronesians to cross the Taiwan Straits and colonize islands in the Pacific. These sturdy canoes could cover over 120 miles per day.
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