Places
The Highest Mountain in the world
What is the Himalaya?
The nomads from China
Who are the HUNS
Around what b.c., Did the Aryans start writing in Sanskrit?
What is 1000 b.c.?
What is Sanskirt?
What is an Indo-European language?
The social groups that ranked people from high to low.
What is Varnas,?
What is the route between the Indian Empire and China?
What is the silk road?
The greatest ruler in the history of India?
Who is Asoka? (uh•SHOH•kuh
The Zhou dynasty collapsed, after how many years?
What is almost eight hundred years?
The earliest known Indian literature ?
What are the Vedas?
The force generated by a person’s actions that determines how the person will be reborn in the next life.
What is Karma?
What is the silk road known for?
What is famous fabric SILK?
The first Chinese teacher
Who is Confucius?
The monopoly on silk production was maintained by China for how long?
What is several hundred years?
Caste determined what three things?
What is jobs people could have, whom they could marry, and what groups they could socialize with?
The belief that the individual soul is reborn in a different form after death.
What is reincarnation?
The Romans knew China as ______?
What is Serica?
which means “Land of Silk.”
Introduced the concept of zero and used a symbol (0) for it.
Who are the Indian mathematicians ?
The Kusha–n kingdom came to an end in the _______, when invaders from Persia overran it.
What is third century a.d.?
The longest poem in any written language?
what is The Mahabharata?
ninety thousand stanzas, or lines of poetry
The religious chants and stories of Indian literature
What is the Vedas?
The _____________, stretches across China for more than 2,900 miles (4,666 km), carrying its rich yellow silt all the way from Mongolia to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Huang He (HWAHNG•HUH), or Yellow River?
The most famous mathematician of the Gupta Empire, one of the first scientists known to have used algebra.
Who is Aryabhata?
The Shang dynasty which ruled over China from ________ was primarily a farming society ruled by an aristocracy whose major concern was war.
about 1750 to 1045 b.c.
One of ancient India’s most famous authors from the Gupta era was ________?
Who is Kalidasa?
The earliest known Indian literature which contain religious chants and stories.
What is are the Vedas?