Chapters 6 and 7

Question 1

Monsoon

Answer 1

Seasonal Winds which benefited India

Question 2

Vedas

Answer 2

Religious Texts; main sources of information about the Vedic Age`

Question 3

Varna

Answer 3

"Color"- came to indicate class 
Priests and scholars
Warriors and officials
Merchant, Artisans, Landowners
Peasants and Laborers
Untouchables

Question 4

Karma

Answer 4

Deeds of the atman in its previous incarnations

Question 5

Moksha

Answer 5

“liberation”- release from the cycle of reincarnations

Question 6

Buddha

Answer 6

Siddartha Gautama

Question 7

Mahayana Buddhis

Answer 7

“Great Vehicle” embraced new features, newest buddhism

Question 8

Therevada Budhism

Answer 8

Flollowed most of the original teachings…OLD

Question 9

Hinduism

Answer 9

Religion of hundreds of millions of people in South Asia

CASTE SYSTEM

Question 10

Mauryan Empire

Answer 10

India’s first centralized empire

Question 11

Ashoka

Answer 11

Chandragupta’s grandson, outstanding figure

Question 12

Mahabharata

Answer 12

Indian Epic, eightfold of the ole Illiad et Odyssey

Question 13

Bhagavad-Gita

Answer 13

Self-contained episode of ja boi Arjuna

Question 14

Tamil Kingdoms

Answer 14

repping Cholas, Pandyas, and Cheras in Southern India

Question 15

Gupta Empire

Answer 15

Tagalong, copied Mauryan Empire and grew out of kingdom of Maghada

Question 16

Theater state

Answer 16

collects luxury goods and profits from trade and redistributes them to its dependents through gifts and such, GUPTA

Question 17

Malay Peoples

Answer 17

became dominant population in SE Asia

Question 18

Fuman

Answer 18

First Major SE Asian Center

Question 19

Silk Road

Answer 19

popular trade route reppin in from mesopotamia to china 24/7

Question 20

Parthians

Answer 20

Poeple originally from east of the Caspian Sea, founders of the Silk Road

Question 21

Sasanid Empire

Answer 21

Located on eastern part of Silk Road, in Iran

Question 22

Stirrup

Answer 22

most impotant invention in China, gave riders far greater stability in the stable

Question 23

Indian Ocean Maritime System

Answer 23

Trade Network across Indian ocean and South China Sea

Question 24

trans-African Caravan Routes

Answer 24

signifiant Stream across Sahara

Question 25

Sahel

Answer 25

farming people of “the coast,” played important role in trade

Question 26

Sub-Saharan Africa

Answer 26

portion of Africa south of the Sahara with a few external contacts

Question 27

Steppes

Answer 27

spiarid steppes of the sahel region

Question 28

savanna

Answer 28

covered by long grasses and scattered woods

Question 29

tropical rain forest

Answer 29

on lower Niger and in the Zaire Basin

Question 30

“Great Traditions”

Answer 30

typically include a written language, common legal and belief systems, ethical codes and other intellectual attitudes

Question 31

“Small Traditions”

Answer 31

local customs and beliefs, less dominant than “Great Traditions”

Question 32

Bantu

Answer 32

word meaning “people” in most languages, more than three hunna languages spoken

Question 33

Armenia

Answer 33

Served recurrently as battleground between Iraninan states to s and e and Mediterranean states to the west

Question 34

Ethiopia

Answer 34

Constantinople sent missionaries along red sea to seek converts here