Baird SS INDIA EMPIRE Flashcards
What is an tribute?
Taxes
The art and science of designing buildings
Architecture
He was an emperor of India who converted to Buddist religion
Asoka
Asoka spread the religion of Buddist religion through India. He was also the ruler of the ____________ _______________
Maurya Empire.
Asoka was the grandson of __________
Chandragupta
Who began the Maurya Empire and how long did it last?
Chandragupta Maurya 140 years
Stupas are__________
shrines
Tell about Chandragupta
he founded the Gupta Empire. It became the Golden Age of India. Peace and Prosperity reigned. He fostered arts and learning throughout the empire. The Gupta Empire reached its height during his reign.
Name two achievements during the Gupta Empire
architecture and mathmatics
Kalidasa was_______________
poet and playwright
It is a large landmass that is geographically separated from the rest of the continent.
Subcontinent
Give an example of a subcontinent
the Himalayan Mountains seperate from the rest of Asia
Name the bodies of water that surround India:
Bay of Bengal, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean
What mountains seperate India from the rest of the continent of Asia?
Himalaya
What is a problem for agriculture?
wild animals eating their crops and floods
The economy of early India was based on __________
agriculture
Tell about their agriculture
They had two growing seasons. They grew wheat, barley, beans and sasame. They also grew mustard, bananas, rice and black pepper and cotton
A ______________is seperated from Asia
subcontinent
Why is it called a subcontinent?
Because it is seperated from Asia
How did the Indus river help farmers?
The farmers were able to irrigate the crops
A set of intersecting lines
grid
lines that run east to west and measure distance north and south
latitude
Lines of longitude are known as
meridians
How are lines of latitude and longitude measured?
degrees
lines of latitude are known as
parallels
Parallel are the _______________distance apart and never meet
same
lines of latitude and longitude cross to form a
grid
The prime meridian goes through____________
Greenwich England
A walled fortress that protects a city
citadel
Moheno-Dara means
mound of the dead
what ancient language does “mound of the dead” mean Moheno-Daro?
sanskrit
Aryan means
nobel one
Is one of he worlds oldest religions that began with the Aryan invasion of India.
Hinduism
How did hinduism begin?
with the invasion of Aryan
Today what two countries are the larges of Hindiusm?
Nepal and India
What contains the basic beliefs of Hinduism?
vedas
Vedas are also known as the
books of knowledge
This organizes all of Indias Hindus into hundreds of groups
Caste System
Who is at the top of the Hindu caste system?
Priests
Who is at the bottom of the Hindu Caste System?
Servants
What is the group who lived outside the caste system?
outcasts or untouchables
Agril
God of fire
It is the continuing circle of birth, death and rebirth.
reincarnation
Reincarnation is a ___________or_____________________of a life lived before
reward or punishment
When did India make the caste system illegal?
1950
What consists of hundreds of rules that tell Hindus each caste how to live?
dharma
Brahma
supreme godhead
name two aspects of Brahma
vishnu and shiva
Vishnu means
preserver and the protector
Shiva means
destroyer of the world
A man who gives up all he owns and gives his life to his religion
monk
A force caused by a persons good and bad acts
karma
In buddhism, the principles that rule life and promise an end to suffering
Four nobel truths
A set of instructions of on the proper way to live
Eightfold Path
In buddhism a way of life, neither too strict nor too easy that results from the following eightfold path
Middle Way
Who introduced the world to Buddhism?
Traveling Monks
