Hinduism
The perfect understanding of all things and the goal of Hinduism
What is Moksha?
He was the founder of Buddhism.
Who is the Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)?
the rigid inflexible class system of the Aryans
What is the caste system?
This belief system influenced the Han Dynasty.
What is Confucianism?
What is the Great Wall of China?
Cycle of life, death, and rebirth into a new body
What is reincarnation (samsara)?
This represents the final liberation from the cycle of suffering, death, and rebirth.
What is Nirvana?
The Gupta Empire made advancements in this area, including the performance of surgery and early vaccinations for smallpox.
What is medicine?
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 dynasty unified China and took control after the Warring States Period
What is the Qin Dynasty?
Results from good deeds and helps to end the cycle of reincarnation
What is good karma?
The goal of Buddhism is to _______.
What is break free from the cycle of reincarnation or end suffering?
This Mauryan Emperor of India spread Buddhism to places like China and Sri Lanka in Asia.
Who is Ashoka?
An achievement of the Han Dynasty
What is paper, iron tools, plows, and water-powered mills, silk road?
The first emperor of unified China under the Qin Dynasty
Who is Qin Shi Huang?
This is the "world soul" in Hinduism and the force from which all gods are manfested.
What is Brahman?
This is the main teaching of Buddhism.
What is the 4 Noble Truths? (Everything suffers, desires cause suffering, & suffering can be ended by ridding oneself of desires.
This mathematical breakthrough was developed during the Gupta Empire.
What is started modern numerals, the concept of zero, decimal system, or pi (3.14)?
This Han emperor expanded China’s territory and led it into a Golden Age.
Who is Emperor Wu?
This is how critics and Confucian scholars of Qin Shi Huang were treated.
What is jailed, killed, or sent to work on the Great Wall of China?
These are the sacred writings of Hinduism and were brought to India by the Aryans.
What are the Vedas?
He was influenced by his advisor Kautilya who encouraged strict and strategic rule through using of spies and assassinations against opponents in his empire.
Who was Chandragupta Maurya?
This was the controversial intervention of the Han government into the economy
What are government monopolies on silk, iron, and salt?
These were the belief systems of the Qin Dynasty and Han Dynasty? (two different ones)
What is Confucianism and Legalism?