Ancient Asia
Asian Religions
Imperialism in Asia
Modern China
Wild Card
100
The first major Chinese dynasty lasting from about 1750-1120 BCE
What is the Shang Dynasty?
100
The ancient Chinese practice of indirect worship of gods through deceased relatives
What is ancestor worship
100
This entity began the gradual economic take over of India in the 1750s
What is the British East India Company?
100
What was the name of the last Chinese dynasty that collapsed in 1912?
What is the Qing Dynasty?
100
The Chinese religious/philosophical concept of "The Way"
What is the "Tao"?
200
The route by which ancient Chinese goods made their way to the Middle East and Europe
What is the Silk Road?
200
The earliest major religion to emerge on the Asian continent, and the world
What is Hinduism
200
During this 1857 revolt, Indian soldiers in the British army rebelled against British officials in India because they believed the British had greased their bullets with cow and pig fat
What is the Sepoy Rebellion (or Indian Mutiny)?
200
The two groups that fought each other in the Chinese Civil War
What are the Guomindang (GMD) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)?
200
Hindu holy texts
What are the Vedas (also acceptable, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Upanishads)?
300
The idea that the reigning Chinese dynasty had been installed and preserved by the gods
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
300
The sanskrit word for the Hindu, Buddhist and Jain belief in a cycle of death and rebirth
What is samsara
300
Two conditions of the Treaty of Nanjing
What are - it required the Chinese to pay huge reparations to the British, opened 5 treaty ports to British merchants, granted British merchants extraterritoriality, gave Britain "Most Favored Nation Status", handed Hong Kong over to the British
300
The two major Chinese parties united to fight this common enemy from 1937-1946.
What is Japan?
300
The leader of the GMD after Sun Yat-Sen's death in 1925
Who is Chiang Kai-Shek (Or Jiang Jieshi)?
400
The semi-nomadic warriors that entered India from central Asia around 1800 BCE
Who are the Aryans (or Indo-Europeans)
400
This religious philosophy is primarily concerned with civic morality and societal relationship
What is Confucianism
400
Muhammed Ali Jinnah led this organization that advocated home rule and an independent Muslim state
What is the Muslim League
400
Mao's second Five Year Plan to modernize the Chinese economy
What is the Great Leap Forward?
400
This anti-Foreign rebellion of 1899-1900 ended with the European occupation of Beijing and severe weakening of the Qing Dynasty
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
500
The first major Indian empire, established by Chandragupta around 322 BCE
What is the Maurya Empire
500
The Hundred Schools period, which saw the emergence of Confucianism, Taoism and legalism was during the reign of this Chinese dynasty
What is the Zhou (Chou) Dynasty?
500
The Salt March, fasting, and boycotting British goods are all examples of Gandhi's use of non-violent resistance or _________ in Sanskrit.
What is satyagraha?
500
The group of Chinese youths that banded together to publicly criticize and punish liberals
What is the Red Guard?
500
The way to achieve Nirvana
What is the Eightfold Path?
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