Miscellaneous 1
The origin of Hinduism.
What is the Indus River Valley?
To make land a desert, not on purpose.
What is desertification?
Chinese belief that as long as a dynasty is doing what’s right, they will remain in power, but if they do wrong, they will be overthrown
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Group that had no place in the caste system.
What is the Untouchables?
The meaning of "The Buddha"
The two rivers that flow through China.
What are the Yellow and Yangtze?
Reason Sub-Saharan Africa was divided culturally from North Africa.
What is little contact due to the vastness of the desert?
Four beliefs of Daoism.
Nature, “Dao” = the path, Retreat from society, Yin and Yang - balance
Two major religions that originated in India.
What are Hinduism and Buddhism?
The belief that whatever you do in this life will affect the next one.
What is Karma?
Religion that follows the Four Nobel Truths.
What is Buddhism?
Three causes of the decline of the Kingdom of Axum.
What are:
Deforestation, trade, the rise of Islam
The main theme of Confucianism.
political and social unity
hierarchical/ harmonious relationships, orderly society, Encouraged traditional religious practices and rituals
Definition of monsoons and the effect of their patterns on trade in India.
Definition: winds that bring the rain
They knew when crossing water would be dangerous because of monsoon patterns.
The Christian East African country that was a prominent trading center between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean trade routes in classical times.
What is the Kingdom of Axum?
Four geographical features that insulated China.
Gobi Desert (north), Pacific Ocean (east), Himalayan Mountains (southwest), Taklimakan Desert (west)
The four things Bantu migrations spread across Sub-Saharan Africa.
What are:
Language, culture, religion, agriculture
The significance of Ying and Yang and the belief system it comes from.
What is BALANCE and DAOISM?
The beliefs that Hinduism and Buddhism share and the Hindu beliefs that Buddhism dropped.
Share: Reincarnation, karma
Drop: Caste system, inability to reach nirvana
Respect, honor, not necessarily worship as we use the word, for the family in classical China.
What is Ancestor Veneration?
The significance of the introduction of bananas to Sub-Saharan Africa (4 reasons)
Well-adapted to African climate, Increased food supply, Nutritious, Enabled Bantu to expand into heavily forested regions where others crops did not grow
The five things the Bantu migrations diffused throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.
What are:
Iron Metallurgy, cattle raising, farming, disease, religion
The importance of the Han Dynasty.
MAJOR IMPACT: Civil Service Exams - Confucian schools
Pax Sinica - Chinese Peace, Silk Road Trade flourishes, Roman Times, Long-lasting, Buddhism, Decline: disease, nomadic invaders, land distribution
Some math or science achievements of the Gupta Empire.
MATH: “Arabic” numerals, Negative numbers, Decimals, Zero,
SCIENCE: Earth is round & rotates on its axis, Gravity (before Isaac Newton)
The time that two religions emerged from Classical China and the reason.
Period of Warring States.
Method of dealing with feelings from war.