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100

a large, sophisticated city of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization in what is now Pakistan, thriving around 2500–1700 BCE.

Mohenjo-daro

100

A disposition to do good. Someone who is "benevolent" genuinely wishes other people well.

Benevolent

100

This religion has the most followers.

Christianity

100

He was the founder of the Qin dynasty and was the first emperor of a unified China.

Qin Shi Huangdi

100

The consequences of how a person lives.  

Karma

200

Also known as the Yangtze River.

Chang Jiang

200

The practice of children respecting their parents and older relatives.

Filial piety

200

In Mahayana Buddhism, These are the enlightened people who postpone going to heaven to help others.

Bodhisattvas

200

These people were ancient agriculturalists who migrated to the Japanese archipelago from the Asian mainland—primarily the Korean Peninsula and China—beginning around 300 BCE (though some estimates suggest as early as 1000 BCE).

The Yayoi

200

A special reddish clay that is used for pottery and tiles.

Terra Cotta

300

The Yellow River, also known to the Chinese as “China’s sorrow”.

Huang He

300

These were used during the Shang dynasty to predict the future.

Oracle bones

300

These comprise the essence of Buddha's teachings, though they leave much left unexplained.

The Four Noble Truths

300

He became known as the Buddha “The Awakened One”.

Siddhartha Gautama

300

a Hindu caste or distinctive social group of which there are thousands throughout India.

Jati

400

This serves as the natural border between China and North Korea.

The Yalu (Amnok) and Tumen rivers

400

A heavenly law that gave the Zhou king the power to rule with goodness and wisdom.

The mandate of heaven

400

Sacred writings of the Hindu religion.  

The Four Vedas

400

Nomads who lived in the Gobi desert, and were masters at fighting on horseback.

Xiongnu

400

A Chinese philosophy concerned with obtaining long life and living in harmony with nature.

Daoism

500

The forest barrier that the Chinese government has created to help stop the spread of the Gobi desert.

The Green Wall of China

500

Ancient sanskrit texts that contain some of the central and philosophical ideas of Hinduism.

Upanishads

500

This the older of two major Buddhist traditions that base their philosophies on the sutras, or teachings, of Siddhartha Gautama.  The name means “teachings of the elders”.

Theravada Buddhism

500
  1.  She was one of 60 wives of King Wu Ding. She was also a mother, a military leader, a shaman/priestess, and an influential politician.

Fu Hao

500

These were the three kingdoms of the Three Kingdoms period, in Korean history, the period (from c. 57 bce to 668 ce).

Silla, Goguryeo, and Baekje.