Notorious People
A Chinese emperor that used forced labor and high taxes to complete the Great Wall of China.
Qin Shi Huangdi
A public figurehead at the top of the Japanese social structure.
The Emperor
Autocratic / Empire
Hinduism
This invention from the Han Dynasty in China used natural fibers to create a portable media that could be used to spread information.
Paper
The Martial Emperor. Probably the most important emperor in Chinese History.
Han Wudi
The top "caste" in the Indian social structure.
Brahmins
The way any man in China (theoretically) could get a government job.
Civil Service Exams
The Japanese religion that places emphasis on nature and worships natural things such as mountains, the moon, the sun, and water as gods.
Shinto
Today we still use numbers that were invented here.
India
China's greatest scholar, whose ideas shaped governments for hundreds of years.
Confucius
In both the Chinese and the Japanese social structures, who was above slaves, merchants, and artisans?
Peasants / Farmers
In China, this group could not work in the government.
Women
Originating in Nepal, this religion which puts emphasis on self improvement, was eventually spread to China and Japan.
Buddhism
This Chinese invention allowed food and material to be easily transported on the battle field.
Wheelbarrow
Ruler in India who created a bureaucracy, divided the empire into 4 provinces, and created an army of 630,000 men and 9,000 elephants.
Chandragupta Maurya
What the different castes in India are called.
Varnas
The practice in Japan of having the wealthy, landowning leaders of the warrior class be the leaders of society. This same practice was used in much of Europe in the middle ages.
Feudalism
The religion based on Laozi's teachings of balance in the relations between all living things.
Daoism
Indians created a vaccine or inoculation for this disease.
Smallpox
Indian leader who used Buddhist teachings to rule fairly and humanely after experiencing the horrors of war.
Asoka
The Indian word for the "Untouchables".
Dalit
Kautilya's guidelines for rulers.
The Arthrashastra
The Japanese blend of Shinto and Buddhism
Zen Buddhism
The concept of no quantity or number that was discovered in India
Zero