Chinese Innovation
Dynastic Trends
It's all about the Indus
Delhi Potpouri
A touch of the Divine
100
This style of printing brought literacy to the masses?
Wood Block Printing
100
This mandate helped explain the removal of poor leaders and the accession of righteous ones..
Mandate of Heaven
100
These were the first two major cities of the Indus River Valley?
Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
100
This can bring you to the Middle East and back effortlessly if timed right..
Monsoons
100
This religion believes in MANY gods..
Hinduism
200
For communication with those already passed, one should consult the guidance of ..
Oracle Bones
200
The Rise and Fall of dynasties can be explained through this process..
Dynastic Cycle
200
After the Indus dried up, what site helped project India's growth as a civilization?
The Ganges River
200
This tea produced a reaction that could explain the ramblings of thousands of poets, writers and scholars?
Soma
200
Practice of EXTREME austerity and devotion - patronized by Chandragupta Maurya..
Jainism
300
During the Han Dynasty, this state run institution granted education to those deserving?
State Academy or Imperial Academy
300
Explain the link between roads, measures, and weights.. how can this help fund an empire?
.. Taxation System
300
The Aryans brought this important collection of Hymns ...
Rig Vedas
300
These (still-standing) values-based architectural relics are testament to the Mauryan Empire and its ability to project ideas across India..
Stupas (Religious) or Edicts (Ethic/Moral)
300
Ashoka convererted to this native Indian religion?
Buddhism
400
The Song Dynasty provided diplomacy when possible but this hand of "diplomacy" could also turn to a slap, provided water was closely present..
Naval Power
400
This link to the Western World provided a vast expansion of ideas and Chinese culture..
The Silk Road
400
Early Aryan citizens were literate and kept records of their culture and lifestyles, why are they not useful to Historians?
They are not translatable or understood
400
The Oral traditions of early Dravidian and Southern Indian populations closely mimics the sounds of?
Bird Song
400
Brought to India by Mahmud of Gazni.. Peaked during the Mughal Dynasty?
Islam
500
The Tang Dynasty played with flame... List at least two of their innovations dealing with FIRE...
Flame thrower/Alcohol/Natural Gas
500
Merit over heredity permanently changed the landscape of Chinese politics, what was reason for this?
Power was removed from the Aristocracy of China and it prevented familial corruption.. It put those qualitified in positions of power..
500
Upon closer inspection Early Indus cities had all major "civilized" structures EXCEPT for?
Royal Buildings
500
list the Occupations and ordering of the caste system?
Untouchables (functioning poor) - Shudras (laborers) - Vaiyashas (merchants) - Kshatriya (Warriors, land owners) - Brahman (Priests)
500
The Kushans primarily patronized this religion..
Zoroastrianism
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