Rulers
Mauryan emperor famous for their Pillar and Rock Edicts
Who is Ashoka?
The Mauryan Emperor famous for the Pillar and Rock Edicts practiced this religion and based his rule on its principles.
What is Buddhism?
This strategy board game has its origins in the Gupta Golden Age.
What is chess?
The Gupta Empire began to decline after 467 A.D. because of these.
What are frequent wars?
The government organization with specific structure, rules, and procedures/
What is a bureaucracy?
This ancient Indian religion focuses on achieving spiritual liberation through a path of non-violence.
What is Jainism?
What are peace and stability?
These helped spread cultural ideas and practices to other areas.
What are trade networks?
Where the money to pay government workers and soldiers in the military came from.
What are taxes?
Developed in India by 1500, Sikhism was influenced by two other major religions in South Asia.
What are Hinduism and Islam.
Aryabhata is credited with developing this concept, the numerical representation of an absence of quantity.
What is zero?
Turks who practiced this religion conquered Delhi in the late 1100s.
What is Islam?
These people were often prisoners of war or owed debt.
Who are slaves?
Three core concepts shared by major religions in South Asia concern one's actions, one life, and one's soul.
What are karma, reincarnation, and samsara?
Among the most well known examples of Guptan metalworking are these two things.
What are coins and iron pillars?
This powerful dynasty emerged in southern India after the fall of the Gupta Empire.
The first Mauryan Emperor, Chandragupta Maurya, was paranoid about losing power and took three steps to make sure he was protected (any of three are acceptable).
What are hired spies, food tasters for poison, and female palace/body guards?
Allowing both genders of all castes to participate in devotional practices is a trademark of this Hindu movement.
What is Bakhti?
These Buddhist monuments were carved in to a rock formation in central India.
What are the Ajanta Caves?
A person who as a achieved enlightenment that has delayed nirvana to help others become enlightened.
What is a bodhisattva?