Name (3) historically significant cities in both China/India and explain the importance of one.
What is ...answers may vary
100
What are the (2) main rivers in China? In India?
What is Yangtze, Yellow, Indus, and Ganges Rivers
100
What were the two main trade routes that connected India and China?
What is sea routes along Indian Ocean and the Silk Road.
100
What religion was said to have been, “a step too far” for early Hindu societies of India? What was the reason?
What is Buddhism. "Gods are a form of attachment."
100
What high culture form of art was perfected under the Mughals? Evidence?
What is Mughal architecture (mix of Persian/Hindu/Islamic) The Taj Mahal or the Red Fort..
200
What steps were taken to move early civilizations from pastoral nomads into permanent and semi-permanent city dwellers?
What is specialization and farming (agriculturalism)
200
What are some of the positives and negatives of unpredictable flooding?
What is +... silt (confidence) -... loss of house/food (insecurity)
200
List at least (5) items that were traded between Rome, India and China?
What is... answers will vary... Gold, silver, silk, tin, copper, spices, peacocks, gems, wine, etc.
200
What are syncretic religions? What were the two most famous of India?
What is a blend or mixture of religions. Sufism and Sikhism.
200
While China use paper and silk to print on, what medium did India use?
What is palm leaf manuscripts
300
What reasons do historians cite for the movement of the early Indus/Harappan civilization away from the Indus River Basin and into the Ganges?
What is the shift of the monsoon or climate change (also could include a population too large to be supported by the Indus)
300
Differentiate between or draw a clear distinction between the value of rivers for China and India.
What is trade and travel vs. spirituality
300
During the reign of King Kanishka and the Kushans, the city of Peshawar was known for pouring “endless cups of green tea.” Given that the Kushans were relatively resource-poor, how did they amass such great wealth?
What is cultural openness, tolerance, trade-focused, hosts, also followed relatively benign Buddhism.
300
Before Buddhism entered China, what were the two central ideals regarding morality and ethics through which society and government was managed? Explain a tenant of each?
Bonus: Filial Piety?
What is Confucianism and Legalism.
Confucianism: stressed the morality of: kindness, respect, duty, ritual, ethics and loyalty
Bonus: respect for ones family and elders
300
What text entered India and set the stage for ALL society and religion thereafter? How was it passed along before print? Where did it come from?
Bonus: Who ironically “saved” a large portion of India’s history?
What is Rig Vedas or Vedas. Oral tradition. Aryan's.
Bonus: Fa Xian - Chinese Monk
400
China focused heavily on the healthy defense of its cities, partitioning its citizens using districts and fortifying them using walls and gates. India focused on several different types of health – including trade, physical well being, and society/community – give evidence to support these (3) developments.
What is
Trade - roads/routes/streets
Well being - plumbing/irrigation
Society/community - courtyards/markets/public spaces
400
How did early civilizations use water to their advantage? List at least (3) technologies or innovations that led to an increase in efficiency or effectiveness?
What is irrigation, ship building, ports, canals, plumbing, terracing (rice), natural barrier, etc...
400
Expanding China to its largest point to date, which dynasty ushered in an unprecedented “golden age” of prosperity, trade and power? What did their expansion aim to connect to and how did they accomplish this?
Hint: Known for the infamous Empress Wu and Mr. Park’s favorite tool: The Flame Thrower
What is Tang Dynasty. Used their military, improve government systems and payment, expansion of the Great Wall and established/conquered new cities such as Dunhuang to the NW.
400
How was Islam spread to India in the absence of the sword? How was Buddhism brought to China? Where might one find the Islamic faith in China?
Bonus: What countries were created post 1947 to settle Muslims after India’s Independence?
What is traveling Sufi saints. Monks traveling along the Silk Road. NW China: Uyghur/Kashgar
Bonus: Pakistan and Bangladesh (Burma/Myanmar)
400
Citing specific examples, what forms of literature could be used to generalize the aims of Chinese scholarly aspirations? How did the aims of Indian writings differ?
Bonus: Which leader tried to put an end much of China’s scholarly writings?
What is ethical or moral thought: Philosophy. Poetry. India tended to put heavy emphasis on story-telling. Creativity.
Bonus: Emperor QinShiHuangdi (book burning)
500
During the Warring States Period China came under a feudalistic period (Zhou/Qin). What is Feudalism and how did it work within China?
Bonus: Is there anything similar to this in India?
What is Feudalism: decentralized political system during the Warring States Period (Zhou) that was managed by land-owning lords (city-states) who exercised autonomy or resources and their population.
In China this was a series of clans or tribes that fought each other through dominance to gain hegemony or control.
Bonus: Raj/Rajputs (lazy princes)
http://blogs.singapore.edu.hk/yipchoikay/files/2013/12/Feudalism-Diagram-181opna.png
500
What famous port city of India was nicknamed the “Great Emporium or Wal-Mart” by early Greek and Roman sailors? What was unique about its residents? What spice(s) it most famous for?
Bonus: Home to this minority population from Iraq?
What is Muziris. Residents were very diverse. Pepper and Ginger.
Bonus: Iraqi Jews
500
Explain the significance of coins and to historians and archeologists. What do they tell us about trade? Belief systems? Interconnectivity? Cultural openness? Are there any others items besides coins that can act similarly in investigating?
Bonus: What system of currency brutally failed in China during the Song and Tang?
What is proof of trade relationships. Gods and Kings. Borrowing of others ideas. Any resource that isn't available elsewhere.
Bonus: Paper currency.
500
How did Hindu/Muslim relations change after the fall of the Delhi Sultanate? Cite specific examples that show improved relations. When and why did this eventually come to an end?
What is tolerance during the Mughal Empire. Answers may vary... Ended: Jahan (Taj) and Aurangzeb (Laws)
500
The stories of India have often been used to provide a justification for cultural identify, violence and even historical semblance. What are the titles of these texts and how did they facilitate these outcomes?
Bonus: What book eventually ended the life of one Mughal prince?
What is The Mahabharata (The Story of India, often personalized or adapted) and The Ramayana (Brave prince that fought evil invaders) or even the Rig Veda (validated by real places and objects). Answers may vary..
Bonus: The Meeting of Two Oceans (Dara)