Who invaded India and made possible important Indian contacts with Hellenistic culture?
What is Alexander the Great.
100
What were Aryan social classes called?
What is varnas.
100
A new line of kings, the ______, established a large empire, beginning in 320 C.E.
Fill in the blank.
What is Guptas.
100
According to Buddha, what was the world beyond existence itself where suffering and decay are no more called?
What is nirvana.
100
As agricultural societies, both civilizations relied on a large _________ class, organized in close-knit villages with much mutual cooperation.
Fill in the blank.
What is peasant.
200
What northern mountain ranges partially separates the vast Indian subcontinent from the rest of Asia?
What is Himalayas.
200
What was the fifth group that gradually evolved in the social pyramid called?
What is untouchables.
200
What group of nomadic warriors invaded and overturned the Gupta empire in 535 C.E.?
What is the Huns.
200
What was the university center supported by the Guptas, which is one of the world's first?
What is Nalanda.
200
What group of people dominated the Indian civilization?
What is brahmans.
300
Along what two great rivers are the most important agricultural regions?
What is the Indus and the Ganges.
300
Who was the religious leader that created what became Buddhism?
What is Gautama Buddha.
300
What was the religion of India's majority?
What is Hinduism.
300
What were the spherical shrines Ashoka sponsored to Buddha called?
What is stupas.
300
India's population has been second only to that of ______ through much of human history.
Fill in the blank.
What is China.
400
Summer also brings torrential _________ rains, crucial for farming.
Fill in the blank.
What is monsoon.
400
The Indian rulers of the ________ dynasty were the first rulers to unify much of the entire Indian subcontinent.
Fill in the blank.
What is Mauryan.
400
What principle did Hindus stress in which souls do not die when bodies do but pass into other beings, either human or animal?
What is reincarnation.
400
The Indian economy remained firmly _____________ at its base.
Fill in the blank.
What is agricultural.
400
Chinese merchants played a greater role than their Indian counterparts. True or false?
What is false.
500
What were the sacred books (literary epics) developed by the Aryans called?
What is the Vedas.
500
What was the law of moral consequences called?
What is dharma.
500
What meditation and self-discipline was allowing the mind to be freed to concentrate on the divine spirit?
What is yoga.
500
Hinduism converted many ____________ people.
Fill in the blank.
What is upper-class.
500
The period dominated by the ________ in between saw the rise of Buddhism.