Chapter 7 Flashcards
Who were the warlike people who migrated to the Indus Valley from Asia sometime after 1500 BC?
Aryans
What is the physical features is a land called?
Topography
The Aryans established a language in India called _____.
Sanskrit
Vedas (a collection of religious literature) means what?
Knowledge
Want members of the family were included in the joint family?
Children, grandchildren, wives, and close blood relative of a common ancestor
What is the name for the social class in India?
Castes
What determined where you lived, what you did (job), what you wore, what you ate and who you could eat with, as well as whom you can marry
Castes
How many castes and sub castes were there in India?
Between two and three thousand
What religion believes that all religions are equally true and equally false?
Hinduism
What are the philosophical assays explaining the Vedas?
Upanishads
What is the name Hindus give it to the “spirit” they believe it is every god (world soul)?
Braman
According to the Vedas, what is the purpose and goal of man?
To reunite his soul with the world soul
What did the Hindus believe about moving castes?
Good in life = up
Bad in life = down
Who was the founder of Buddhism?
Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
According to Buddhism, what is the state of absolute peace and happiness where one loses himself into nothingness?
Nirvana
What were the 2 “holy books” of Hinduism?
Vedas and Upanishads
What did the Buddhists believe were just “guidebooks” rather than “holy books.”
Vedas and Upanishads
Who was Chandragupta Maurya’s grandson?
Asoka
What is significant about Asoka?
He was the most important leader of the Mauryan Empire; he extended the empire; he became a Buddhist; orgaanized the government
What happened soon after Asoka’s death?
the Mauryan Empire collapsed
What was perhaps the greatest era of prosperity and achievement in India?
the Gupta Empire
Who was the foremost Indian poet and dramatist of the Gupta Empire period.
Kalidasa
Who is known as the “Indian Shakespeare”?
Kalidasa
In ancient days the Chinese named their land _____.
the Middle Kingdom
What is one of the worlds oldest civilizations?
China
What became the leading religion in China?
ancestor worship
Name the two important rivers in China.
Huang He River (aka Yellow River)
Yangtze River
How many characters does the Chinese language have?
over 65 thousand