People
Largest continental empire in history led by Genghis Khan
Largest and tallest mountain on earth
Mount Everest
A ruling family
Dynasty
Oldest surviving religion in Japan
Shinto
What practices are involved in Hinduism?
Reincarnation, karma, nirvana
What family was the longest ruling dynasty in China?
The Chou Dynasty
Lowest landmass on earth
Dead Sea
When a culture isolates itself to where it’s only ever around its own people and has no outside influences
Cultural isolation
What is ethnocentrism?
Thinking your culture is the best and only seeing things from your cultures point of view.
Because of India’s size, what is it sometimes considered as?
A subcontinent
Who taught his followers the practice of respecting tradition, the importance of learning, and the practice of worshiping one’s ancestors?
Confucius
World’s oldest living civilization
China
Chain of islands
Archipelago
Longest hereditary rulers over China, 1600+ years
The Yamato dynasty
What is this system called? Brahmans, princes/warriors, landowners/ merchants, farmers/servants, laborers/outcaste, untouchable
The caste system
Founder of Japanese civilization
Prince Shotoku
What river is called “China’s Sorrow” because of the disastrous floods that took many lives over the centuries?
The Huang He or Yellow River
Social arrangement of India
Caste system
Why Japan isolated itself from the world in the 1600s
They feared Jesuit activity would destroy traditional Japanese culture and that extensive trade with foreigners would result in foreign domination
Who ruled an empire longer than the Roman Empire?
Genghis Khan
Started the religion of Buddhism, was Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama
Indian civilization first arose in 2000 BC on the fertile plains of this valley
Indus River Valley
Monotheistic religion of the Hindus, a distinctive cultural feature
Hinduism
Three great river valleys of Asia and the ancient cultures that made their homes there
Tigris-Euphrates-Mesopotamia, Indus-India, Huang He-China
Who were the fierce barbarians who invaded India from the northwest?
The Aryans