Babur is not an Elephant (Mughals)
founder of Mughal dynasty in India; descended from Turkic warriors; first led invasion of India in 1526; died in 1530.
Babur
a political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source
Mandate of Heaven
A record of this wise man's words and acts
Analects
The long sword of a Samurai.
Katana
The practice of Confucianism
Ren
Emperor of the Mughal Empire in India. He is considered to be their greatest ruler. He is responsible for the expansion of his empire, the stability his administration gave to it, and the increasing of trade and cultural diffusion.
Akbar the Great
The first centralized dynasty of China that used Legalism as its base of belief.
Qin Dynasty
The proper way Chinese kings were expected to rule under the mandate of heaven
Dao
A Japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of samurai
Daimyo
a modern term that encompasses the ideology of Hindu nationalism
Hindutva
Later Mughal Emperor (1658-1707). Less-tolerant than predecessors: under him, Islamic law because state law. Destroyed Hindu temples and banned music in court.
Aurangzeb
The earliest known Chinese writing is found on these from ritual activity of the Shang period, the bones were used by shaman to tell the future
Oracle Bones
The opposite of Confucius, this group of Chinese scholars who devised the rules of Legalism
School of Law
code of conduct for samurai during the feudal period in Japan
Bushido
Spanish Jesuit missionary; worked in Japan 1540s among peasants; made little headway in Tokugawa Shogunate
Francis Xavier
a local official in Mogul India who received a plot of farmland for temporary use in return for collecting taxes for the central government
Zamindar
focused on Confucianism and education instead of Legalim.
The Han Dynasty
"not doing" in the sense of taking no action contrary to the natural flow
Wu Wei
Founder of the Tokugawa dynasty, the last Shogunate in Japan; won control of the Daimyo
Ieyasu
The Mughals who employed cannonry and gunpowder to advance their military causes leading to overextension, vulnerability to outsiders (i.e., the British) and collapse
Gunpowder Empire
He is an aggressive British Empire Builder, and chief representative of East India company
Robert Clive
Neolithic society sometimes identified by its painted pottery
Yangshao
Disciple of Confucius, he argued that human nature was generally good.
Mecius
The time from 1467-1600 where the samurai seized control after brutal civil war
Segoku Period
Defined by rule of law and civil rights, the promotion of democracy and capitalism NOT MODERN DAY BIG GOVERNMENT
Liberal Constitutionalism