10700640434 | Provinces | Segments of land | 0 | |
10700640435 | Council of Ministries | Assisted the Prince to help maintain order | 1 | |
10700640436 | Districts | Divided sectors in provinces governed by Ministries | 2 | |
10700640437 | Ashoka Maurya | Caused great peace, ruler of the Mauryan Empire 268-232 BCE. Used to be a brutal warrior. | 3 | |
10700640438 | Kalinga | Eastern Indian kingdom brutally ruled, and took over Ashoka's empire | 4 | |
10700640439 | Ceylon | Modern day Sri Lanka | 5 | |
10700640440 | Bactria | Kingdom west of the Indus River | 6 | |
10700640441 | Pataliputra | Capital city of Mauryan Empire; near the Ganges River | 7 | |
10700640442 | Ganges River | River in India, and housed Pataliputra | 8 | |
10700640443 | Rock and Pillar Edicts | A policy that informed people of the law; similar to Hammurabi's code | 9 | |
10700640444 | Kushan Empire | Alongside Bactria, ruled India from 180 BCE-180 CE | 10 | |
10700640445 | Gupta Dynasty | 2nd/last dynasty in Classical India | 11 | |
10700640446 | Mauryan Dynasty | Emerged during 4th century BCE | 12 | |
10700640447 | Chandragupta Maurya | Conquerer who made Magdha kingdom expand to Mauryan Empire | 13 | |
10700640448 | White Huns | Nomads from the Northwest, brought downfall to the the Gupta in 550 C.E. | 14 | |
10700640449 | Han Dynasty | Rebel Qin general and his family started it; lasted 400 years | 15 | |
10700640450 | Pax Sinica | Chinese peace | 16 | |
10700640451 | Shihuangdi | First emperor of China | 17 | |
10700640452 | Xiongnu | Nomadic peoples raiding Chinese villages. Defeated by Han Wudi | 18 | |
10700640453 | Civil Service Examination | System under the Han Dynasty; People hired based on test taking skills rather than by blood | 19 | |
10700640454 | Yellow Turban Rebellion | Peasant uprising during the Han Dynasty. Killed millions. | 20 | |
10700640455 | Vedas Upanishads | Hindu texts that talked about Brahma | 21 | |
10700640456 | Mahavir Jain | ●Born in 500 BCE ●Founder of Jainism | 22 | |
10700640457 | Ahisma | Non-violence | 23 | |
10700640458 | Siddhartha Gautauma | Taught Buddhism (Founder), also known as Buddha | 24 | |
10700640459 | Ascetic | Someone who rejects worldly pleasures, lives life of self dignity | 25 | |
10700640460 | Enlightenment | Several realizations | 26 | |
10700640461 | Four Noble Truths | Doctrines by Buddha: 1) Life= Suffering 2) Suffering comes from desires for pleasure and material things 3) Eliminating suffering = ending one's desires 4) Follow the Eight Fold Path | 27 | |
10700640462 | Bhagavad Gita | Part of the most important writings in Mahabharata | 28 | |
10700640463 | Mahabharata | Emphasized book that said one's duty is from birth, and to separate from attachment | 29 | |
10700640464 | Nirvana | Peaceful state of afterlife | 30 | |
10700640465 | Reincarnation | Being born again, and living life once more | 31 | |
10700640466 | Monasteries | Religious buildings by the Buddhist | 32 | |
10700640467 | Ramayana | Epic poem that told of Vedic lessons through heroism, romance, and adventure | 33 | |
10700640468 | Gandhara Buddhas | Statues uniquely combining Greek and Roman artistic traditions with Indian arts | 34 | |
10700640469 | Inoculations | Infecting people with with mild forms of viruses to build immunity (vaccinations) | 35 | |
10700640470 | Arabic Numerals | Numerical symbols: 0-9 which was introduced in Europe by Arab peoples | 36 | |
10700640471 | Nalanda | An ancient university in north eastern India | 37 | |
10700640472 | Sarnath | North Central India, where there are universities for buddhist teachings. | 38 | |
10700640473 | Confucius | 551 BCE, founder of Confucianism | 39 | |
10700640474 | Dao de Jing | teachings of daoism compiled by its disciples | 40 | |
10700640475 | Caste System | System of social hierarchy in India | 41 | |
10700640476 | Varna | Color | 42 | |
10700640477 | Brahmins | People of priestly class of the Caste System | 43 | |
10700640478 | Kshatriyas | Warrior Class of the Caste System | 44 | |
10700640479 | Vaishyas | Merchants/artisan class | 45 | |
10700640480 | Shudras | Peasant class of the Caste System | 46 | |
10700640481 | Untouchables | Lowest in the Caste, given the work that no one wanted to do | 47 | |
10700640482 | Dalits | Another name for Untouchables | 48 | |
10700640483 | Jatis | Subcasts within the regular classes to house complex society | 49 | |
10700640484 | Deccan Plateau | Land in Central Asia | 50 | |
10700640485 | Indian Ocean sea lanes | Sea route that connected India, East Asia, and Indonesia | 51 | |
10700700363 | Casta | Portuguese word meaning class | 52 | |
10700733147 | Brahma | a larger soul that all creatures are a part of | 53 | |
10700748829 | Buddha | "the enlightened one" | 54 | |
10700757115 | Eight-fold path | practices to end desires by meditating, reflecting, and restricting to detach one's self from the world. | 55 | |
10700770696 | Karma | What Hindus believed determined one's caste | 56 | |
10700840654 | Monasticism | Monkhood (life in the monastery) spread with the spread of Buddhism | 57 | |
10700858464 | Regionalism | Regional, not central rule/authority | 58 | |
10700869224 | Analects | A book of Confucius's teachings compiled by his students | 59 | |
10700873267 | Selected Sayings | Another name for Confucianism's analects | 60 | |
10700878506 | Lunyu | person who said the quote "in a good government, a ruler is a ruler, a minister a minister, a father a father, and a son a son." | 61 | |
10700892171 | Golden Rule | Do unto others as you would have them do unto you | 62 | |
10700896787 | Fillial Piety | family must direct their needs and desires to correspond to that of their father | 63 | |
10700908926 | Daosim | Yin and Yang, harmonize with nature religion Developed in Zhou dynasty (late 500s BCE) | 64 | |
10700930842 | The Classic Way and Virtue | Another name for Dao de Jing | 65 | |
10700936172 | Laozi | aka "Old Teacher" Founder of Daoism. | 66 | |
10700954686 | Han Fei Zu and Li Si | led legalism during the Qin Dynasty chaos | 67 | |
10700964847 | Qin Shihuangdi | overthrew the Zhou dynasty. made a very strict, centralized government. | 68 | |
10700975717 | Shihuangdi | means "first emperor" | 69 | |
10700982435 | Had Wudi | Most significant emperor of the han dynasty. ruled 141 - 87 BCE. made govt positions based on knowledge over status. | 70 | |
10701008391 | Chang'an | capital of the Han empire, connected to the silk road | 71 | |
10701014693 | Wang Mang | Han ruler who tried to redistribute land, but caused unrest instead | 72 |
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