Mountains, Rivers and Deserts
This huge mountain range, home to Mount Everest, separates India from China.
What are the Himalayas?
Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro were built along this river.
What is the Indus River?
This religion was founded by Siddhartha Gautama.
What is Buddhism?
This first emperor united China and was buried with the Terracotta Army.
Who is Qin Shi Huang?
This teacher, called Kongfuzi in China, taught respect, education and family duty.
Who is Confucius?
This network of trade routes linked China with India, the Middle East and Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
Chinese civilization began along this river, nicknamed the “Mother River.”
What is the Yellow River (Huang He)?
This was the largest city of the Indus Valley Civilization.
What is Mohenjo-Daro?
Siddhartha Gautama reached enlightenment while sitting under this kind of tree.
What is the Bodhi (Bo) tree?
The name “China” most likely comes from this short-lived dynasty.
What is the Qin Dynasty?
This Confucian idea is the duty of children to respect, obey and care for their parents.
What is filial piety?
This animal could survive the deserts and carried goods for Silk Road caravans.
What is the camel?
These seasonal winds bring heavy summer rains that Indian farmers depend on.
What are monsoons?
Indus Valley streets were laid out in this pattern, with roads crossing at right angles.
What is a grid pattern?
This belief, shared by Hindus and Buddhists, says that every action has consequences.
What is karma?
Shang priests carved China’s earliest known writing on these animal bones and turtle shells.
What are oracle bones?
This philosophy teaches people to live in harmony with nature and follow “The Way.”
What is Daoism (Taoism)?
Invented under the Han, this writing material replaced bamboo strips and silk.
What is paper?
This large, dry region along China’s northern frontier helped block invaders.
What is the Gobi Desert?
These nomadic people from Central Asia moved into northern India around 1500 BCE.
Who are the Aryans (Indo-Aryans)?
This Buddhist goal is a state of perfect peace and the end of suffering and rebirth.
What is nirvana?
This dynasty opened the Silk Road and invented paper.
What is the Han Dynasty?
This philosophy, used by the Qin, said people are selfish and need strict laws and harsh punishments.
What is Legalism?
This Chinese invention was first used for fireworks and later for weapons.
What is gunpowder?
India is called this, a large region separated from the rest of a continent by mountains or water.
What is a subcontinent?
This Maurya king of India became a Buddhist after the bloody Battle of Kalinga and sent missionaries across Asia to spread the religion.
Who is Asoka (Ashoka)?
This Hindu goal is reached when the soul unites with Brahman and escapes the cycle of rebirth.
What is moksha?
The Zhou claimed this belief, which said Heaven gives a good ruler the right to rule.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
This book collects the sayings of Confucius.
What are the Analects?
Gupta mathematicians in India helped develop the decimal system and this number that stands for “nothing.”
What is zero?