Geography
These are the two main rivers in Ancient China.
What are the Huang He (Yellow) River and the Yangtze River?
This is the first major empire to unite Ancient India.
What is the Mauryan Empire?
This social system in India organizes people based on their birth and their job. It is very rigid.
What is the caste system?
This modern-day Wonder of the World was built in the north of China to prevent invasions.
What is the Great Wall of China?
This group of people migrated from central Asia to India.
Who are the Aryans?
These are the two rivers associated with India.
What are the Indus River and the Ganges River?
This Japanese prince promoted principles of peace and salvation and spread Buddhism throughout Japan.
Who is Prince Shotoku?
These goods (name 2) were traded along this route from China to Europe.
What is:
Silk
Paper
Porcelain
Ideas like Buddhism
Silk Road
What is the silk road?
These are two early cities established in the Indus Valley.
What are Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
These two mountain ranges bordered India to the Northeast and Northwest and protected them from invasion.
What are the Hindu Kush and Himalayas?
This Chinese emperor is responsible for the Great Wall of China, introducing legalism, and creating a uniform language and currency.
Who is Qin Shi Huangdi?
This is a test that people in China took to get jobs working for the government (bureaucracy).
What is the civil service exam?
There were many important inventions in Ancient China. Name two of them.
What is:
Paper
Porcelain
Silk
Civil Service System
This Tang-dynasty policy facilitated the spread of Buddhism to Korea and Japan, spreading cultural influence from China along various trade routes.
What is open foreign trade/active trade policy?
This mountain pass allowed for migration into India.
What is the Khyber Pass?
This Chinese dynasty is responsible for unification. This later dynasty is responsible for re-unification.
What is the Sui and the Tang dynasties?
These two concepts in Ancient India came out of Hinduism and helped form the social system in India that lasts to this day in some form.
This concept is related to organizing society by skill, while this one is based on birth.
What are the varnas and the jati?
This is the philosophical belief that humans are motivated by self-interest and require strict laws and punishments.
What is legalism?
BONUS: Name the four main islands.
What is an archipelago?
What are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku
These are the six bodies of water (not rivers) associated with China & India.
What are:
Bay of Bengal
Arabian Sea
Indian Ocean
Pacific Ocean
East Sea (East China Sea, Sea of Japan)
South Sea (South China Sea)
What is the process by which dynasties rise & fall with the will of the gods in China?
(accept appropriate response)
This Chinese policy distributed land fairly so the wealthy couldn’t create a monopolization on the land.
What is land redistribution/Equal Field System
The two major empires of India each had significant cultural contributions. Name one from each empire AND the empire they are from.
What are the Mauryan and Gupta Empires?
Mauryan: free hospitals, vet clinics, roads, Buddhism
Gupta: Math (0), medicine, astronomy, textiles, literature
This is China's influence on Japan.
What is the spread of language, religion (Buddhism), culture (with description)