Chapter 4: Other Asian Cultures Flashcards
What is the largest continent?
Asia
What are Asia’s three great fertile river valleys?
Tigris-Euphrates, Indus, and Huang He
What is the highest place on earth?
Mt. Everest
What mountain range is Mt. Everest located in?
Himalayas
What is the lowest point on land?
the Dead Sea
What is the land of India known as?
a subcontinent
What are the three major land regions in India?
Himalayas, Northern Plains, and the Deccan Plateau
Where did the Indian civilization first settle?
Indus River Valley
Who were the fierce barbarians who invaded India?
Aryans
Who were the indigenous people of India?
Dravidians
What were the two distinctive cultural features during the time of the Arayans?
caste system and Hinduism
what is the universal spirit of the Hindu religion?
Brahma
what is known as rebirth?
Reincarnation
What is a strict division of social classes?
A caste
what group of people were at the top of the Indian social ladder?
The Brahmans
Who are beneath Brahmans?
The princess and warriors
Who were beneath the princes and warriors?
Landowners and merchants
Who are beneath the landowners and merchants?
The farmers laborers and servants
what was the name given to a person who broke the rules of his cast?
An outcast
Who drove the Greeks out of India?
the Mauryas
Who was the Mauryas’ greatest leader?
Asoka
What religion arose in India around 500 B.C.?
Buddhism