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List two things ancient India developed that was well before other civilizations:
1. Great city layout
2. Sewage control
3. Pools
Name either of the two earliest civilizations discovered in India:
Harappa, Mohenjo Daro
Explain the relationship between the main religion of Japan, Shinto, to that of the Kami.
Shinto is the national religion, whereas Kami are the divine beings or gods associated with worship.
About how many years back does Chinese civilization stretch?
About 5,000 years
Confucius encouraged the use of an early type of "merit system" in China .... describe what this means:
Selecting workers based upon their qualifications and abilities, not who they are or what family they came from (like with nepotism).
Define: stupa
Buddhist temple of worship found throughout Inida
From which nation is it believed the Japanese borrowed heavily from early in their development as a cicilization?
From the Chinese
What was the method ancient Chinese used to send questions to the gods?
Oracle bones
Give at least two reasons (we believe) contributed to the decline of Harappan civilization in India:
1. Deforestation
2. Civil war
3. Climate change
4. Earthquakes
5. Flooding
What language is considered the "sacred tongue" of India?
Sanskrit; Prakrit is the everyday language
The first military family or group in Japan was begun by what family?
Minamoto Clan
Define the "Mandate of Heaven":
Chinese belief that Heaven gives a ruler the right to govern.
Which Empire below was located (mostly) in Cambodia, but also Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam?
*Khmer Empire (802-1440 AD/CE)
*Burmese Empire (900-1300 AD/CE)
*Dai Viet Empire (939-1407 AD/CE)
Khmer Empire
The first, united Indian Empire was called the:
Mauryan Empire
What does it mean, that Japan is an "archipelago"?
It is a group or chain of islands, chiefly four large ones.
Which Chinese philosophy was called "the way that cannot be spoken"?
Daoism
Besides the Tang Empire in China, which other empire also controlled the northern most part of the Silk Road in its heyday?
Han Dynasty
List any 3 of the 8 "Eightfold Paths" mentioned in Buddhism that pertain to the "right way" of doing things:
The right: idea, thought, speech, action, living, effort, consciousness, meditation
From the lecture! What percentage of Japanese land is arable, or good farm land?
10 %
Who, very bloodily, conquered the warring tribes in China, uniting the nation for its first time ever?
Qin Shi Huang-di