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FALSE-In 322BC Ashoka seized power along the Ganges River, becoming the first ruler of the Mauryan Dynasty.
FALSE-Wu Ti and other Han rulers were able to generate peace throughout the continent of Asia by halting the pattern of Chinese territorial expansion.
Short Answers: Compare and Contrast Confucianism, Taoism, and Legalism.
Compare and constrast Mauryan and Gupta Dynasties.
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| 214995950 | Gupta | During this dynasty, India enjoyed a golden age because the government promoted peace and prosperity | 0 | |
| 214995951 | Egypt | China most closely resembles this country in the influence of geography upon culture | 1 | |
| 214995952 | Confucianism | According to this philosophy, social relationships are established in a hierarchy but insist in reciprocal duties between peoples. | 2 | |
| 214995953 | Brahmans | This is the highest Hindu caste in India and represents priests and scholars | 3 | |
| 214995954 | Han | As this empire collapsed, large landowners and warlords dominated the governments in the Chinese states. | 4 | |
| 214995955 | Qin | This dynasty alienated Confucian scholars through banning and burning texts, peasants through conscription and excessive labor projects, trained bureaucrats, who no longer administered government offices, and traditional aristocrats, who lost their land and positions. | 5 | |
| 214995956 | Confucious | Han rulers based many of their policies on the teachings of this man. | 6 | |
| 214995957 | Great Wall of China | Qin dynasty decreased power held in regional rulers and independent armies, built this, incorporated Hong Kong into Chinese Empire, and had a national census. | 7 | |
| 214995958 | larger political structures | This characteristic differentiated classical civilizations from earlier river-valley societies. | 8 | |
| 214995959 | centralized government | Qin and Han dynasties both were characterized by this. | 9 | |
| 214995960 | Mesopotamia | Cuneiform, city-states, and Hammurabi's Code describe this culture | 10 | |
| 214995961 | Era of Warring States | This period refers to disorder in China before the establishment of the Qin dynasty. | 11 | |
| 214995962 | Ashoka | This man's most important accomplishment is keeping Buddhism from dying out. | 12 | |
| 214995963 | Wu Ti | This man set up an imperial university for all who wished to take the entrance exam for the state bureaucracy. | 13 | |
| 214995964 | Aryans | During the Indian formative period, called the Vedic and Epic Ages, these conquerors impressed their own stamp on the culture and social structure of India. | 14 | |
| 214995965 | Hinduism | Unlike all other world religions, this religion had no single founder, no central holy figure from whom the basic religious impulse stemmed. | 15 |
