Landforms & Bodies of Water
The vast ecoregion of Eurasia in the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome.
The Great Steppe
This divides Hindus into four main categories - Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and the Shudras
Caste System
Was founded in 322 BCE by Chandragupta, who had overthrown the NandaDynasty and rapidly expanded his power westward across central and western India in order to take advantage of the disruptions of local powers in the wake of the withdrawal by Alexander the Great 's armies.
The Maurya Empire
The world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population. It encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs and spiritual practices largely based on original teachings and resulting interpreted philosophies. Founder is Siddhartha Gautama.
Buddhism
The Golden Age of India
The third-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. It is bounded by Asia on the north, on the west by Africa, on the east by Australia, and on the south by the Southern Ocean or, depending on definition, by Antarctica
Indian Ocean
Was the largest of the four great ancient civilizations.
Indus Valley Civilization
This empire initiated a period known as the Golden Age of India, marked by extensive inventions and discoveries in science, technology, engineering, art, dialectic, literature, logic, mathematics, astronomy, religion, and philosophy.
The Gupta Empire
The most ancient sacred texts of this religion are written in Sanskrit and called the Vedas.
Hinduism
An ancient network of trade routes, formally established during the Han Dynasty of China, which linked the regions of the ancient world in commerce between 130 BCE-1453 CE
The Silk Road
A trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh. The river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, and flows south and east through the Gangetic Plain of India and Bangladesh, eventually emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
The Ganges River
An extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress.
Empire
Also known as the Achaemenid Empire in 550 B.C. The first under Cyrus the Great soon became the world's first superpower. It united under one government three important sites of early human civilization: Mesopotamia, Egypt's Nile Valley and India's Indus Valley.
The Persian Empire
An Abrahamic, monotheistic religion teaching that there is only one God, and that Muhammad is the messenger of God. It is the world's second-largest religion with over 1.8 billion followers or 24% of the world's population, most commonly known as Muslims.
Islam
Name 3 modern countries in Central and South Asia
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Form a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has many of the Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest.
The Himalayan Mountains
A logistical network identified as a series of pathways and stoppages used for the commercial transport of cargo. The term can also be used to refer to trade over bodies of water.
Trade route
The Empire of Alexander the Great
Belief in one God, called Ahura Mazda (meaning 'Wise Lord'). He is compassionate, just, and is the creator of the universe.
Zoroastrianism
First emperor of the Roman Empire
Augustus
A large plateau in western and southern India. It rises to 100 metres in the north, and to more than 1,000 metres in the south, forming a raised triangle within the South-pointing triangle of the Indian subcontinent's coastline.
The Deccan Plateau
The action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.
Colonization
Qin Shi Huang centralized the power of the empire after he took the throne and set up a system of laws. He standardized units of weight and measurements, as well as the writing system. It was the first and shortest imperial dynasty in China.
The Chinese Empire
Name the central principle of Hinduism
Name on religion that was promoted along the Silk Road.
Buddhism