Geography
This river valley was a great location for the development of Harappan civilization.
What is the Indus River?
This is the main religion of India.
What is Hinduism?
This empire, founded by Cyrus the Great, stretched from the Indus to the Nile.
This cultural system in India is supported heavily by Hinduism. People are divided in to Varna and Jati
What is the Caste System?
This part of the Harappan city was higher than the rest and possibly used for grain storage.
What is the Citadel?
The tallest mountains in the world are located in this range north of India.
What are the Himalayan Mountains?
What is Buddhism?
The first Emperor of China was obsessed with the afterlife and build an army of Terracotta soldiers to protect him in the afterlife.
Who is Qin Shi Huang Di?
China adopted the moral code of this thinker. He focused on the importance of family, education, and doing what is right.
Who was Confucius?
Chinese innovations and trade goods created a desire for trade. This route developed over time to connect the East and West.
What is the Silk Road?
The biggest delta in the world is located in India, where these two major rivers meet.
What are the Brahmaputra and Ganges rivers?
This nature based religion of China blended well with Buddhist beliefs.
What is Taoism?
The first Empire of India was responsible for building veterinary clinics and free hospitals.
What is the Mauryan Empire?
This religion was founded in Nepal and spread across Asia, blending with the cultures of China and Japan.
What is Buddhism?
This architectural style can be found in China and Japan and is used to build temples.
What is a Pagoda?
This river is also called the "yellow river" and is the location of early Chinese civilization.
What are the Vedas and Upanishads?
The golden age of India was during this empires dominance. They invented the concept of Zero and had advances in science and literature.
What was the Gupta Empire?
This massive construction was designed to protect from invasion - it had mixed results, but stands today as a symbol of achievment.
What is the Great Wall of China?
What is Nirvana?
This is the main island of the Japanese archipelago.
what is Honshu?
This unique ethnic religion of Japan focuses heavily on animism.
What is Shinto?
The leader of the military in the Empires of Japan took this title.
Who is the Shogun?
These writing of Confucius shaped Chinese society and continue to impact the world today.
What are the Analects?
The cities of this civilization was known for developing a very organized grid-like city layout.