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The first empire in India founded by Chandragupta Maurya.
What is the Mauryan Empire?
When the mother is head of the family.
What is matriarchal?
When the father is head to the family.
What is patriarchal?
The route used to bring Silk from China to Asia to Rome.
What is the Silk Road?
The second empire in India founded by Chandra Gupta I.
What is the Gupta Empire?
An Indian religion based on the teachings of Buddha.
What is Buddhism?
Government jobs which were obtained by taking examinations.
What is civil service?
When the central authority controls the running of a state.
What is a centralized government?
Chinese Dynasty that ruled from 202 B.C. to A.D. 9 and again from A.D. 23 to 220.
What is the Han Dynasty?
A religion of South Asia based on the way of life.
What is Hinduism?
The acceptance of people who held different religious beliefs.
What is religious toleration?
When a group has exclusive control over the production and distribution of certain goods.
What is a monopoly?
The founder of the Han Dynasty.
Who is Liu Bang?
The preserver of the world.
Who is Vishnu?
The creator of the world.
Who is Brahma?
The process of making conquered peoples part of Chinese culture.
What is assimilation?
The people of the southern India spoke this language.
What is Tamil?
The destroyer of the world.
Who is Shiva?
Chandragupta's grandson who brought the Mauryan Empire to its greatest heights.
Who is Asoka?
Stone structures built over holy relics.
What are stupas?