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| 5732730833 | Who dominated the society? | Priests/brahmans | 0 | |
| 5732730834 | What were the formative influences? | influenced by Middle East, Mediterranean, persia | 1 | |
| 5732730835 | Who was alexander the great in Clasical India? | invaded india contacted the hellenistic culture | 2 | |
| 5732730836 | What was the impact of the Himalayan mountains? | sight of aryans settlements | 3 | |
| 5732730837 | Who were the aryans? | European migrants Wrote the vedas pastoral- didn't have a permanent home war ]like | 4 | |
| 5732730838 | What were the great epics? | Verdic and epic ages shaped indian society epic age-1000BCE to 600BCE | 5 | |
| 5732730839 | What is sanscrit? | he classical indian language | 6 | |
| 5732730840 | What were the Vedas? | 1200BCE-600BCE Hindus core beliefs were in the vedas hymns and poems religious prayers magical spells lists of gods and goddesses | 7 | |
| 5732730841 | What is Mahabharata? | during epic age in the vedas the great epic of war | 8 | |
| 5732730842 | What is the Ramayana? | during epic age Real and mythical battles | 9 | |
| 5732730843 | What is the Upanishads? | Poems with more mystical religious flavor | 10 | |
| 5732730844 | Where they matriarchal or patriarchal? | Patriarchal | 11 | |
| 5732730845 | What are aryans idea for social and family forms? | tight levels of village organization Village Chiefs-drawn for leadership,help w/ village defenses,reg. property rights | 12 | |
| 5732730846 | What are the varnas? | _social classes | 13 | |
| 5732730847 | What is the order of the social classes? | 1.Brahmans(priests) 2.Kshatriyas(warriors) 3.Vaishyas(traders and farmers) 4 Shudras(common laborer) 5 Untouchables | 14 | |
| 5732730848 | Who were the untouchables? | confined to few jobs( bad jobs) lowest of low | 15 | |
| 5732730849 | Who is indra? | God of thunder, god of strength | 16 | |
| 5732730850 | Polythesistic or monothesitic? | Polythesistic | 17 | |
| 5732730851 | Who was Chandragupta? | mauryan Empire 321-298 BCE unified india Divided empire in to Providences 301 BCE gave up throne to nephew Asoka | 18 | |
| 5732730852 | Who was Kautilya? | Chandraguptas advisior Wrote book to guide people on how to govern royal power single society is needed to apply force when needed | 19 | |
| 5732730853 | Who was Asoka? | 304-232BCE grandson of Chandragupta dedicated life to buddhism controlled alll but southern tip of india | 20 | |
| 5732730854 | What is Dharma? | law of moral consequences | 21 | |
| 5732730855 | Who were the kushans? | invaded india | 22 | |
| 5732730856 | Life of Chandra Gupta 1 and 2 | 320-335 BCE 375-415CE | 23 | |
| 5732730857 | What is the Gupta Empire? | traded with Mediterranean hinduism revival Huns invaded 450CE Political stability No individual ruler Taxation system Uniform law codes | 24 | |
| 5732730858 | What were the gurus? | mystic holy men, seeking communication with souls | 25 | |
| 5732730859 | What is reincarnation? | Souls don't die when bodies do but pass to another human | 26 | |
| 5732730860 | What is nirvana? | The buddist afterlife, people could put life towards this without huge cerimonies | 27 | |
| 5732730861 | What is schloar-gentry | civil servants appointed by the emperor of China to perform day-to-day governance | 28 | |
| 5732730862 | What is a shiva? | god of destruction,and reproduction | 29 | |
| 5732730863 | What is vishnu? | God of sacrfice | 30 | |
| 5732730864 | What were the political institutions? | Kings and emperiors Mauryan-depended on large armies, Gupta-chosen by the gods on who rules, favor more towards hinduism than buddhism -Did not stress importance of politics | 31 | |
| 5732730865 | What was the caste system? | ~ initial classes ~marriage was impossible to outside classes ~Could move up and down pyrimid | 32 | |
| 5732730866 | Hinduism | brought variety no founder or holy figure can adapt to to different needs of people important on prayers Extreme spirituality Reinforced caste system | 33 | |
| 5732730867 | Buddhism | Created by tensions in hinduism, people were rebelling Stressed self control Denied spiritual value(caste,rituals,priests) monks ,monistaries | 34 | |
| 5732730868 | Buddha | 563 BCE after 6 years found truth about life Founded buddhism | 35 | |
| 5732730869 | Education | Gupta had a college calculated astronomy (Aryabhatta was the astronomer gupta) | 36 | |
| 5732730870 | Medicine | Bone setting and plastic surgery medications for sicnesses | 37 | |
| 5732730871 | mathamatics | Numbering system negative numbers created the decimal system | 38 | |
| 5732730872 | What are suptas? | Tall pieces of art that honored buddha | 39 | |
| 5732730873 | China and india compared differences | India-More mathmatical findings China-pracitical findings | 40 | |
| 5732730874 | China and india comparisons | Patriarchal | 41 |
