100194084 | Kushan Kingdom | many wars happened and there were many rulers; the people benefitted from the trade that passed through their land, mostly from Romans and Chinese on the Silk Road | 0 | |
100194085 | Kanishka | Greatest of the Kushan emperors | 1 | |
100194086 | Silk Road | an ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean (4,000 miles) | 2 | |
100194087 | Fa Xian and Xuan Zang | Chinese Buddhist monk visited India, a chinese monk who brought back thousands of Buddhist scriptures and made Buddhism widely known | 3 | |
100194088 | Pataliputra | The captial of both Muryan and Gupta empires | 4 | |
100194089 | Gupta | a dynasty of N India (a.d. 320-540) whose court was the center of classical Indian art and literature. annnnnd under which the arts flourished and a unified code of laws was promulgated. | 5 | |
100194090 | Chandragupta I and Chandragupta II | A Hindu ruler who started the Gupta Empire, Encouraged aesthetic traditions, and started the Golden Age - advances in art, literature, medicine, math, and science | 6 | |
100194091 | Bamiyan Buddhas | Ancient Buddhist monestary; blown up by Taliban; only one religion | 7 | |
100194092 | Nirvana | any place of complete bliss and delight and peace | 8 | |
100194093 | Theravada | one of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing personal salvation through your own efforts | 9 | |
100194094 | Mahayana | one of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing a common search for universal salvation especially through faith alone | 10 | |
100194095 | Hinayana | an offensive name for Theravada Buddhism | 11 | |
100194096 | Bodhisattva | Buddhist worthy of nirvana who postpones it to help others | 12 | |
100194097 | Avalokitesvara/Guan Yin | a male Bodhisattva, famous Chinese female bodhisattva | 13 | |
100194098 | Bhakti | (Hinduism) loving devotion to a deity leading to salvation and Nirvana | 14 | |
100194099 | Mahmud of Ghazni | Third ruler of Turkish slave dynasty in Afghanistan; led invasions of northern India; credited with sacking one of wealthiest of Hindu temples in northern India; gave Muslims reputation for intolerance and aggression. | 15 | |
100194100 | The Sind and Punjab | Indus Valley region of Pakistan. Taken over in 711 C.E., a historical region on northwestern India and northern Pakistan | 16 | |
100194101 | Rajputs | Members of a mainly Hindu warrior caste from northwest India. The Mughal emperors drew most of their Hindu officials from this caste, and Akbar I married a Rajput princess. (p. 537) | 17 | |
100194102 | Tughluq | of north India started in 1321 in Delhi when Ghazi Tughlaq assumed the throne under the title of Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq. | 18 | |
100194103 | Delhi Sultanate | A Muslim leader of Ghur who defeated Hindu armies made Delhi, the third largest city of India, his capital. | 19 | |
100194104 | Tamerlane | Mongolian ruler of Samarkand who led his nomadic hordes to conquer an area from Turkey to Mongolia (1336-1405) | 20 | |
100194105 | Samarkand | city in southern Uzbekistan | 21 | |
100194106 | Purdah | a screen used in India to separate women from men or strangers | 22 | |
100194107 | Devi | mother goddess | 23 | |
100194108 | Sati | a ritual that required a woman to throw herself on her late husband's funeral pyre or burn herself. This was done gladly and if a woman didn't comply with this she would be disgraced. | 24 | |
100194109 | Nanak and Sikhism | Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism in dissent from the caste system of Hinduism, the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam | 25 | |
100194110 | Parsis | Persian Zoroastrians who fled to India, they became a major economic force in Mumbai (Bombay) | 26 | |
100194111 | Jains | religious group that believed in non-violence | 27 | |
100194112 | Deccan Plateau | A high area of land at the center of the Indian subcontinent. | 28 | |
100194113 | Ajanta Caves | caves in central India; site of marvelous early frescoes inspired by Buddhism | 29 | |
100194114 | Ellora Rock Temples | means heaven of Siva or Mahadeo | 30 | |
100194115 | Temple of Kailasantha | is s one of the 34 monasteries and temples, extending over more than 2 km, that were dug side by side in the wall of a high basalt cliff in the complex located at Ellora, Maharashtra, India, and represents the epitome of Indian rock-cut architecture. | 31 | |
100194116 | Mamallapuram | is a town in Kancheepuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. | 32 | |
100194117 | Sun Temple at Konarak | the 13th century Black Pagoda, built in Orissa red sandstone and black granite by King Narasimhadeva I of the Ganga dynasty. | 33 | |
100194118 | Khajurao | located in Madhya Pradesh, is a city with unique temple architecture. | 34 | |
100194119 | Kalidasa's The Cloud Messenger | ... | 35 | |
100194120 | Nada, Raga, and Sitar | a quantity of no importance, In Indian classical music, a complete and self-contained melodic system that serves as the basis for all the melodic materials in any composition or performance created in that raga., a stringed instrument of India | 36 | |
100194121 | Dandin's The Ten Princes | an epic written by Bharavi | 37 | |
100194122 | The Irrawaddy, The Salween, The Chao Phraya, and The Mekong | major rivers | 38 | |
100194123 | Malay Peninsula | a peninsula in southeastern Asia occupied by parts of Malaysia and Thailand and Myanmar | 39 | |
100194124 | Bay of Bengal | an arm of the Indian Ocean east of India | 40 | |
100194125 | Pagan | a person who does not acknowledge your God | 41 | |
100194126 | Srivijaya and Majapahit | A state based on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, between the seventh and eleventh centuries C.E. It amassed wealth and power by a combination of selective adaptation of Indian technologies and concepts, and control of trade routes. (192), 13th-16th C. central Java, rose in the wake of mongol invasions. biggest and most powerful SE Asian island state in history. control almost all of what is today indonesia. golden age of Java culture. | 42 | |
100194127 | Strait of Sunda and Strait of Malacca | narrow waterway located between the islands of Sumatra and Java, Body of water connecting the Indian and Pacific Ocean near Singapore | 43 | |
100194128 | Thai and Burmans | a branch of the Tai languages, people who established Pagan kingdom | 44 | |
100194129 | Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat | built by buddhist ruler, new city district founded by Jayavarman VII to provide religious protection for Khmer capital 5 gates temple at center. railing represent churning of the sea of milk or rainbow linking human and divine worlds, a temple complex built in the Khmer Empire and dedicated to the Hindu God, Vishnu. | 45 | |
100194130 | Kampongs | Malay villages | 46 | |
100194131 | Borobudur | the largest Buddhist temple in the world, located on Java, built in 800s | 47 | |
100194132 | Borobudur Temple | is locally known as Candi Borobudur | 48 | |
100194133 | Wayang Kulit | shadow puppet | 49 |
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