Geography
What mountain range separated Ancient China and India? Its name means “home of the snow.”
Himalayas
What is the term for when a person fulfills their moral duty in Hinduism?
DHARMA
Name 1 invention of Ancient India
Chess, Vaccines, Elephant war, chutes and ladders...
What Macedonian leader caused the destabilization of India and thus made it possible to create empires?
Alexander the Great
Written by Sun Tzu, this is still considered one of the best books ever written on warfare.
Art of War
What is the main river of Indus River Valley civilization?
Indus River
Who was the founder of Buddhism? ( need his real name)
SIDDHARTHA GAUTAMA
What is the term used to describe when a person has more than one wife?
Polygamy
What Chinese civilization is credited with the commissioning of the Great Wall of China?
QIN
What is the most important relationship according to Confucius?
FATHER TO SON
Two parts. What are the mountains in the north of Ancient India AND what is the name of the path that people used to cross through the Hindu Kush mountain range and into India?
HINDU KUSH AND KHYBER PASS
Two parts. What is the term for the whole reincarnation process in Hinduism, and what is the release from that process called?
SAMSARA, MOKSHA
Why do we think that the people of the Indus River Valley were peaceful?
NO WEAPONS
What dynasty of China began to adopt Confucianism as its main governmental teaching?
Han
What part of Daoism represents female, dark, cold, passive, dead parts of life?
Yin
What are the two major cities of the Indus River Valley?
HARAPPA AND MOHENJO-DARO
What is the term used to describe when the founder of Buddhism got rid of everything materialistic and worldly in his life and dedicated his life to finding truth?
NIRVANA
Name all 4 of Ancient China’s Great Inventions.
Paper, Compass, Printing, Gunpowder
Who conquered the Kingdom of Kalinga and saw violence so bad that convinced him to end violence in his empire and convert to Buddhism?
Ashoka
According to Confucius, a man’s goal is to become a superior man called what?
JUNZI
What are the four things (geographic features and otherwise) that led to China’s isolation?
HIMALAYAS, JUNGLES, GOBI DESERT, AND OCEANS/SEA
Name the four noble truths?
Name the four noble truths?
1. Life includes suffering and sorrow
2. Desire for pleasure and material items causes sorrow
3. Renouncing pleasure frees one from suffering on the way to peace or nirvana (the state of wanting nothing)
4. 8 fold path leads to such a renunciation
The Indo-Aryans most likely influenced India by giving them what language?
SANSKRIT
Including the potentially mythical dynasty, name in order the 5 dynasties of Ancient China.
XIA, SHANG, ZHOU, QIN, HAN
Who was the founder of Daoism?
LAOZI