World Civilizations Chapter 3 Flashcards

950143772	Chandragupta.	The first ruler of the Maurya Dynasty was	0
950143773	it ruled a larger territory.	The Maurya Dynasty differed from the Gupta Dynasty in that	1
950143774	an array of regional political cultures.	Classical India's political climate was characterized most by	2
950143775	enforcing rules about social behavior.	The Indian caste system functioned as a political institution by	3
950143776	in the caste system.	Buddhism differed from Hinduism by not believing	4
950143777	False	T/FClassical Indian civilization emerged without any type of historical foundation.	5
950143778	True	T/FThe Epic Age also saw the creation of the Upanishads, epic poems with a mystical religious flavor.	6
950143779	False	T/FIn 322 B.C.E., a young soldier, Ashoka, seized power along the Ganges River, becoming the first of the Maurya Dynasty of Indian rulers.	7
950143780	True	T/FThe Maurya Dynasty was a territorially more expansive than the Gupta Dynasty.	8
950143781	False	T/FClassical Indian civilization was defined by its centralized state administrations.	9
950143782	False	T/FIndian social structure was characterized by its fluidity and promotion of interaction across different cultural, political, and economic divisions.	10
950143783	True	T/FClassical Indian civilization was able to accommodate a number of religious belief systems.	11
950143784	False	T/FIndia's religious traditions ruled out the emergence of other forms of cultural production.	12
950143785	Himalayas	The vast Indian subcontinent is partially separated from the rest of Asia, and particularly from East Asia, by northern mountain ranges, most notably the __________ .	13
950143786	Aryans	During the Indian formative period, called the Vedic and Epic ages, the __________ conquerors impressed their own stamp on the culture and social structure of India.	14
950143787	Sanskrit	Most of what we know about the preclassical period in Indian History comes from literary epics developed by the Aryans, initially passed on orally and only later written down in __________ .	15
950143788	Ashoka	handragupta's grandson, __________ , constitutes one of the greatest figures in early Indian history.	16
950143789	Gupta	It remains true that the Maurya and __________ dynasties constituted the most successful political regimes in India.	17
950143790	Brahmins	The priestly caste, or __________ , stood at the top of the caste system.	18
950143791	Hinduism	Unlike all other world religions, __________ had no single founder, no central holy figure from whom the basic religious impulse stemmed.	19
950143792	Upanishads	t was in the __________ that the Hindu idea of divine force informing the whole universe first surfaced clearly.	20
950143793	Dharma	The Hindu ethical concept of __________ was far less detailed and prescriptive than the ethical codes associated with the most other world religions, including Christianity and Islam.	21
950143794	Tamils	Southern Indians, __________ , were active in trading networks all over the Middle East.	22
950143795	the sum of mertis accumulated by a sould at any given point in tiem; determined the caste to which the sould would be assigned in the next life.	karam	23
950143796	stone shrines built to house pieces of bone or hair and personal possessions said to be relics of the Buddha; preserved Buddhist architectural forms.	stupa	24
950143797	rigid system of social classification first introduced into indian subcontinent by aryans	caste system	25