India
Chandragupta, not to be mistaken for Chandra Gupta, established this empire in Northern India
Mauryan Empire
Liu Bang created a ___________ government to ensure that one central authority ran the state.
Centralized
Who claimed that he received a vision in a cave that said he was a prophet, thus starting Islam?
Muhammad
The art of beautiful writing
Calligraphy
The belief that the key to happiness is accepting life as it is would be a teaching of this belief system.
Daoism
Chandragupta's grandson Asoka took over the empire. What event prompted him to convert to Budddhism?
A war to expand the empire where he was responsible for killing 100,000 people.
Han records were very well kept which allows us to know as much as we do about them today. What allowed them to keep these records?
Paper
The Islamic holy book is called the ____________.
Qur'an
A follower of Islam
Muslim
Han China is credited with many technological inventions. What invention did we talk about that we still use today?
Seismograph
The southern tip of India was known as the _______ for the language the people of the area spoke.
Tamil
What product of China was so valuable to the rest of the world because of the Chinese secrets around how to make it?
Silk
Why did Islam split into 2 separate sects?
Differing views on who should be allowed to be the leader of the Islamic world.
An Islamic house of worship
Mosque
Aladdin is story that was part of this book in ancient Arabia
The Thousand and One Nights
Gupta Empire
The extensive trade routes that ran from Europe to Eastern China is known as the _____________.
Silk Road
What was the capital of the Abassid caliphate?
Baghdad
House of Wisdom
Buddhism split into two different sects. What were they called?
Mahayana and Theravada
The Silk Road was an important part of the spread of many goods and ideas from India to other areas of the world, including Buddhism. How else did Asoka ensure the spread of Buddhism to the rest of the world?
He sent out Missionaries towards Asia
The official religion of China was __________.
Confucianism
What are the 2 sects of Islam called?
Sunni and Shi'a
Government administrative jobs that could be obtained by civilians by passing examinations.
Civil service
When Muslims conquered an area did they force conversion? What were non-Muslims required to do in Islamic territory?
They did not force conversion, but all non-Muslims were required to pay a tax and were restricted what they could do.