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Chinese defensive fortification intended to keep out the nomadic

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Great wall

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Originally a vassal family of shang china overthrew shang

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Zhou

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Founder and ruler of the brief qin dynasty

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Shi Huangdi

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400 years beginning in 202 china

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Han dynasty

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5
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Known as king fuzi major chinese philosopher

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Conficious

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Established in 221 bce end of warring statees

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Qin dynasty

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In the zhou dynasty, the mandate of heaven meant that rulers

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Were allowed to keep their power if they ruled justly and wisely

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Confucian social relationships

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Were based on universal love and forgivenesd

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The policy sponsored by the qin dynasty to support its state

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Broke the power of vassals in order to enhance the power of the emperor

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The warring dtates period refers to the disunity in china following the decline of what dynasty

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Zhou

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The brahan later hinfu god of sacrifice widely worshipped

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Vishnu

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12
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Buddhist state of enlightenment

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Nirvana

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Grandson of Chandragupta maurya completed conquests of Indian subcontinent converted to buddhism and sponsored spread of new religion through his empire

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Ashoka

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Mountain region marking the northern border of the Indian subcontinent site of the aryan settlements that formed small kingdoms of warrior republics

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Himalayas

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The caste position ant career determined by a persons birth hindu culture required that one accept ones social position and preform occupation to the best of one’s ability in order to have a better situation in life

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Dharma

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16
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Highest hindu social class

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Brahmans

17
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Central message of the bhagavad gita

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One must carry out the duriws that come with one’s caste

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Major difference between buddhism and hinduism was that

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Buddhism denied the need for caste rites and sacrifice to achieve nirvana

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Over time in classical india the caste system

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Intensified in complexity and began to differ from region to region

20
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In ethiopia, trade and contacts

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Led to the kingds conversion to christianity

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All of these contrubuted to the decline of rome except

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Spread of christianity

22
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At yhe end of the classical age

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There was religious upsurge

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The core or mother civilizations in mesoamerica was the

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Olmecs

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In india during the period after the guptan empire

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Hinduism helped secure india’S cultural cohesion

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Shinto

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Is in westerm