Ancient India
He is generally considered to be the greatest ruler in Indian history.
Asoka
Historians traditionally date the beginning of Chinese civilization to the founding of this dynasty over four thousand years ago.
Xia Dynasty
Legalism proposed that humans were completely ________ by nature.
evil
This term refers to the government currently in power.
Regime
This massive army of clay figures was discovered near Xian.
terra-cotta figures
A buddhist monk , and chinese traveler who traveled to India and admired the Gupta Empire for using Buddhist ideas to rule.
Faxian
Under this dynasty, China was a mostly farming society ruled by an aristocracy whose major concern was war.
The Shang Dynasty
Name the three major schools of thought about human nature and the universe that emerged toward the end of the Zhou dynasty.
Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism
This Chinese concept expected the king to rule according to the proper "way".
Dao
These specific types of natural, geographic barriers isolated the Chinese people from other parts of Asia.
What are mountains and deserts
In the late fifth century, this nomadic group invaded the Gupta Empire and reduced its power.
the Huns
Paper was developed and steel was invented using iron casting technology under this specific dynasty.
The Han Dynasty
Confucianism was a system of ideas based on the teachings of___________.
Confucius
This branch of the central government had special inspectors who checked on government officials to make sure they did their jobs.
Censorate
This technology, which directly led to the invention of steel, was mastered during the Han dynasty.
iron casting
He was the most famous mathematician of the Gupta Empire and one of the first scientists to use algebra.
Aryabhata
Lasting for almost eight hundred years, this was the longest-lasting dynasty in Chinese history.
The Zhou Dynasty
Followers of this philosophy believe that the true way to follow the will of Heaven is not action, but inaction.
Daoism
This refers to an upper class whose wealth is based on land and whose power is passed from one generation to another.
aristocracy
This was the main purpose of creating and burying the terra-cotta figures.
to protect Emperor Qin Shihuangdi on his journey to the next world
This famous author lived during the Gupta Dynasty and wrote some of India’s most celebrated literature.
Kalidassa
During this short but fierce dynasty, the existing system of walls was strengthened to keep out nomadic invaders.
The Qin Dynasty
___________ ___________were strictly concerned with the immediate, material world and creating political order in it.
Chinese Philosophies
This duty requires family members to subordinate their needs and desires to those of the male head of the family.
filial piety
List at least three of the five major inventions developed during ancient Chinese civilization mentioned on your exam.
bronze casting, the crossbow, paper, the iron plowshare, or silk, rudder, fore and aft.