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The Gupta Empire made advancements in this area, including the performance of surgery and early vaccinations for smallpox.
What is medicine?
This belief system influenced the Han Dynasty?
What is Confucianism?
This form of currency was first used during the Song Dynasty, marking a significant economic innovation.
What is paper money?
The Japanese name for Japan, 日本 (Nippon/Nihon), translates to this phrase.
What is "Land of the Rising Sun"?
The primary importance of the Silk Roads lay in their role in enabling the trade of these valuable goods.
What is silk, spices, precious metals, etc.?
This mathematical breakthrough was developed during the Gupta Empire.
What is created modern numerals, the concept of zero, decimal system, or pi (3.14)?
The Han Dynasty established this system to ensure that officials were qualified for their jobs, based on Confucian teachings.
What are Civil Service Exams?
This group conquered the Song Dynasty and established the Yuan Dynasty.
Who are the Mongols?
This was the name given to the traditional warrior class in Japan.
What are samurai?
This belief system emphasizes the presence of spirits (kami) in all things
What is Shinto?
He created a bureaucracy in India, divided the empire into 4 provinces, hired district officials who assessed taxes and imposed laws, and taxed citizens heavily to raise an army of men and elephants
Who is Chandragupta Maurya?
An achievement of the Han Dynasty
What is paper, iron tools, plows, and water-powered mills, silk road?
This was the impact of improved rice farming techniques.
What is a doubling of the population in China?
This type of farming, used on steep mountainsides, was developed in Japan to grow crops efficiently.
What is terrace farming?
Buddhism was introduced to Japan through travelers from this region.
What is Korea?
This emperor converted to Buddhism after being horrified by the violence of his conquest of Kalinga.
Who is Ashoka?
This Han emperor expanded China’s territory and led it into a Golden Age.
Who is Emperor Wu?
This woman was the only female to take the title of emperor in Chinese history.
Who is Empress Wu Zetian?
This code of the samurai emphasized sincerity, courage, loyalty, and honor until death.
What is Bushido?
A key aspect of Zen Buddhism in Japan, it focuses on achieving enlightenment through this practice.
What is meditation?
This ancient treatise, written by Kautilya, influenced Chandragupta Maurya's strict and strategic rule through its support of spies and assassinations.
What is the Arthashastra?
This was the controversial intervention of the Han government into the economy
What are government monopolies on silk, iron, and salt?
This weakened the power of the nobles in the Tang Dynasty.
What is a revival of the Civil Service Exams?
He was a military dictator who truly ruled Japan
Who is the shogun?
A revival of an important Chinese thinker began during the Tang Dynasty and became prominent during the Song dynasty. It emphasized reason.
What is Neo-Confucianism?