What commodities were in circulation in the Indian Ocean?
Textiles (clothing), sugar, and spices.
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What is Nalanda and Xuanzang?
Nalanda is an institution of learning in India, and Xuanzang was the first international student. He traveled (walked) from China to India to study at Nalanda.
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Who were the Mandarins?
They were civil servants. They made up the Mandarin class.
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What was the population of ancient China?
100 Million.
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What is the "Periplus of the Erythrean Sea"?
It is the earliest Greek record of sailing in the Indian Ocean.
(This meant that there was regular contact between Ancient Greece and India)
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What fabric were the textiles? Where did they originate from and how were they produced?
Silk Textiles - From China, made from silk worms
Cotton Textiles - From India, produced on land.
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Who were the ancient mariners?
The Malayo-Polynesians.
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What was paper currency called?
Fe'chi'en.
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What is Kichri?
Lentils + Rice + 3 cups of water.
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What are monsoons and what is yoga?
A monsoon is wind that blows in opposite directions, and brings rain water to SE Asia and South China.
Yoga is when the mind, body, and spirit come together. It helps with concentration and stress.
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What was the medium of exchange?
African gold
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True or False: The Malayo-Polynesians connects two oceans, the Atlantic and the Pacific.
False, they connected the Indian and the Pacific Oceans.
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What is Buddhism and what does tea have to do with it?
Buddhism is a religion that is largely practiced, and it focuses on mindfulness and self-awareness.
Tao Monks (who are buddhist) are the ones who discovered tea. Tea is used greatly amongst the monks, as it helped monks meditate for long amounts of time.
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Who is Pi Sheng?
The original creator of the printing press.
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What is a monsoon?
Basically when wind brings rain and dumps it over S.East Asia and South China.
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True or False: Prime numbers (including 0) and the decimal place value were created in India.
Who mentions them in a book dated 499 CE?
True, this revolutionized mathematics, and made making models possible.
Aryabhatta (an Indian mathematician and astronomer) mentions the numbers.
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I want to give up istg I hate studying.
What is Briana's motivational mind set and will to go on?
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At this point please just look at your notes Im so tired whyyy
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what should i eat for dinner
crack. thats where im at rn.
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What is panchatantra? Importance?
The idea that animals can speak our language. (The human language.) It taught lessons with the usage of animals as the main characters.
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Fill in the blank. "[Blank] clothed the world."
What was the effect of this?
"India clothed the world." Because India was the largest exporter of textiles in the world. The effect of this was India became the richest civilization of the time.
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What is the significance of the Battle of Talas?
The significance is that that is how paper production spread throughout the world. Chinese soldiers were captured by Muslin soldiers, and to appease them for release, they offered to teach them how to make paper. TRANSFER OF KNOWLEDGE.
It is the belief that everything created was created by "white man," and that those who are not white must be ruled by white people.
This is a myth because it has been proven that many of the worlds innovations have been created by those who are not white.