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| 2353559866 | Indus River | Supported many civilizations located in Western Asia by the Thar Desert and Mauryan and Gupta empires (Indian empires) | 0 | |
| 2353559867 | Harrapa/Mohenjo-Daro | Civilizations along the Indus. Alphabet has yet to be deciphered. Emerged around 2500 BCE. | 1 | |
| 2353559868 | Huanghe (yellow) River | Isolated River prone to floods and home to the Huange civilization started by P'an Ku | 2 | |
| 2358509049 | Shang Dynasty | Shang kings ruled over the Huange valley and built impressive tombs and palaces | 3 | |
| 2358511598 | Zhou Dynasty | Took over from Shang around 1000 BCE | 4 | |
| 2358514040 | Himalayas | Mountain range north of India that provided passes that linked India to civilizations in the Middle East | 5 | |
| 2358516938 | Mahabharata | India's greatest epic poem written sometime between 1000 and 600 BCE. Reflected on a more settled agriculture and better organized political units | 6 | |
| 2358521958 | Chandragupta | Ruler of Mauryan Dynasty as a young soldier around 322 BCE and was first of the Mauryan dynasty rulers | 7 | |
| 2358525133 | Monsoon | Very windy and rainy weather | 8 | |
| 2358526160 | Ramayana | Another of India's epic poems | 9 | |
| 2358527475 | Mauryan dynasty | First ruled by Chandragupta and located along the Ganges River that borrowed from Persian political models | 10 | |
| 2358531245 | Aryan | (Indo-European) originally from Central Asia | 11 | |
| 2358536407 | Upanishads | Epic poems with more religious flavor during the epic age ( 1000-600 BCE) | 12 | |
| 2358539340 | Asoka | Chandraguptas grandson (269-232 BCE) was a governor of two provinces and engaged in a study of nature | 13 | |
| 2358543479 | Sanskrit | First literary language of the new Aryan culture | 14 | |
| 2358545178 | Varnas | Aryan social classes. Established a social period that determined where you work, who you marry, etc. | 15 | |
| 2362087123 | Dharma | The law of moral consequences. what Asoka believed in | 16 | |
| 2362095422 | Vedas | First Sacred books written in Sanskrit. | 17 | |
| 2362098507 | Untouchables | People confined to certain jobs such as transporting dead bodies or hauling refuse | 18 | |
| 2362106221 | Gupta Dynasty | Established a large empire beginning in 320 CE two centuries of Gupta rule gave classical India it's greatest stability. Overturned in 535 CE by the Huns | 19 | |
| 2362118809 | Rig-Veda | The first epic-poem containing 1028 hymns dedicated to the Aryan gods and composed by various priests. | 20 | |
| 2362125875 | Nirvana | A world beyond existence itself. People could regulate their lives and aspirations toward this goal without elaborate ceremonies. | 21 | |
| 2362136867 | Gurus | Mystics- a spiritual teacher in Hinduism and Buddhism | 22 | |
| 2362146512 | Stupas | Shrines Asoka sponsored for Buddha along with statues for him. | 23 | |
| 2362153453 | Reincarnation | The belief that people didn't actually die when they died, but their soul would go on to live in another human or animal. | 24 | |
| 2362160204 | Polytheism | The belief in or worship of more than one God. | 25 | |
| 2362161976 | Buddha | Siddhartha Gautama who is more well known as Buddha or "the enlightened one". Lived as a Hindu mystic, fasting and torturing his body and after 6 years felt he had found the truth and traveled to spread his ideas | 26 | |
| 2362175452 | Dao(ism) | The philosophy that every feature is balanced by an opposite (yin and yang) and to relate to this harmony, one should seek a way called Dao. | 27 | |
| 2362187286 | Qin | Imperial dynasty ruled by Shi Huangdi that promised to bring an end to strife. He was thought to be a tyrant. | 28 | |
| 2362203948 | Middle Kingsom | Expanded settlement from the Huange to the Yangtze became China's core. | 29 | |
| 2362208739 | Shi Huangdi | Brutal ruler of the Qin, builder of the Great Wall. Rules until 210 BCE | 30 | |
| 2362213775 | Mandate of Heaven | Zhou rulers asserted that heaven had transferred its mandate to rule China to the Zhou emperors. This concept of Mandate of Heaven remained a key justification for Chinese imperial rule from the Zhou onward. | 31 | |
| 2362220840 | Great wall | Built under the rule of Shi Huangdi by peasants. Built to guard against invasions and protect Shi Huangdis own expansionist drives. | 32 | |
| 2362226050 | Han Dynasty | Lasted over 400 years (until 220 CE) rounded out China's basic political and intellectual structure. | 33 | |
| 2364329936 | Confucious | Undertook a lifelong quest to become the chief advisor to a ruler who possessed the vision and skills to restore centralized control, peace, and order. Named Kung Fuzi | 34 | |
| 2364361885 | Laozi | Lived in the 5th century BCE and stressed that nature contains a divine impulse that directs all life (Daoism) | 35 | |
| 2364367598 | Patriarchal | Relating to a system of society or government controlled by men (Confucianism). Men were superior | 36 | |
| 2364377151 | Great Silk Road | Roads used to trade silk and other luxury products through Central Asia. Under the Han, the Chinese gov. Actively encouraged this trade with regions in the west | 37 | |
| 2364384601 | Bodhisattvas | Doctrine of people that held that some people could attain nirvana through their own meditation while choosing to remain in the world as saints and to aid others by prayer | 38 | |
| 2364396440 | Mahayana | The East Asian form of Buddhism (also called the greater vehicle) that retained the basic Buddhist beliefs. The emphasis on Buddha being a savior was greater. | 39 | |
| 2364404462 | Chan/Zen | Another variation of Buddhism that stresses on meditation and the appreciation of natural and artistic beauty while Zen had a great appeal for the educated classes of China | 40 | |
| 2364409826 | Empress Wu | (690-705) supporter of Buddhist establishment (woman) who once tried to elevate Buddhism to the status of a state religion. | 41 | |
| 2364418427 | Chinese Orthodox | Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism | 42 | |
| 2364425776 | Confucianism | Advocates rule by highly educated exclusively male groups. Sought to establish norms for all aspects of Chinese life from relationships within families that stressed respect for ones elders, male authority, etiquette for rulers and subjects and the importance of art, music, and elegant calligraphy | 43 | |
| 2364456374 | Legalism | Human nature for legalists was evil and required restraint and discipline. The army would control and the people would labor. The idea of pleasures in educated discourse or courtesy was dismissed as frivolity. | 44 | |
| 2364473287 | Daoism | World of balanced nature. Yin and yang represented the balance between opposites, and one should appreciate this balance. | 45 |
