SS India/China Flashcards
Caste system
*divided Indian society into groups based on a person’s birth
*created social and political order
Rivers and Oceans (In India)
*assisted with trading
Buddhism
*Started by Siddhartha Gautama
Associated with:
- Eightfold Path
*Four Noble Truths
*Nirvana
Gupta Empire
- Reigned during the Golden Age
Achievements Include:
* concept of zero “0”
*decimals
*Buddhist cave paintings at Ajanta
Sudra Caste
Responsible for farming and acted as servants
Eightfold Path
focusing on good rather than bad
Chandragupta Maurya
introduced currency/coins that increased trade and made it easier to do business
Ashoka’s Edict
People treated the same with trial and punishment
legalsim
people were naturally bad and needed to be controlled
Taklimakan
Desert that separated early China from other countries
Confucianism
basis for social order
Gobi desert
kept invators from entering china
Great Wall of China
protection from northern nomadic invaders
mental warfare
getting in your head/ and attacks you mentally
Zheng He’s voyages
Promote trade and collect tribute